Final CAS blog – end of the DP years

It has been a year and a half since I joined OSC, at the start of the Diploma Programme. Sri Lanka to me was a brand new place, and I wasn’t eager to come here. Now when I look back at the time that I spent here, it has been the best two years of…

DP2 CAS Goals

 I achieved all of my CAS goals last year, and I am looking forward to some more things this year. Also, I am not satisfied with the grades that I got last year, so I definitely am going to work on that. Besides that, some of my other goals are: Creativity: This year I want…

Semester 2 Reflection

The end of the year is approaching, and I feel like I have accomplished all the goals that I had set for myself at the beginning of the year. Firstly, I have not only made a game in C++, but I also taught myself how to code in Java. The game took a lot of…

WWW 2019: Highlands

Week Without Walls (WWW) is an educational trip outside of school which is not only aimed towards exploring the host country, but also providing the students opportunities for service learning and outdoor education. For our WWW we have four choices: Highlands: A hiking oriented trip designed towards exploring the ecology of the Sri Lankan Highlands….

DP-1 Orientation: Borderlands

29th August 2018, I woke up at 5 am, sleepy and exhausted because of the traveling in the last few days. It was my second day at OSC, and I was already struggling to get out of bed. I remembered that it was Wednesday, which meant that I was going on a trip to Borderlands….

CAS Goals

CAS is a crucial part of the IB DP program, which creates a balance between the rigorous academics and a student’s daily life. It stands for Creativity, Activity & Service. As I am transitioning into the final years of high school, I have set some goals for myself. Here are some of them:   Creativity:…