Creativity, Activity and Service have been apart of my everyday life for the past two years. If I’m being honest, at first it was challenging and it felt unnecessary but along the way I realized how important it was to keep me sane with the insane workload and I truly looked forward to some of…
This is how I’ve been coping with the lockdown..
It’s a hard time for everyone and the best that we could do to help stop the spreading of COVID-19 is to stay at home. School still takes place as usual with online classes yet, I have a lot of free time after school gets done in the afternoon so I thought to myself, why…
Service update
This semester we have a small service group with only five girls. Since there are only ten children from the Temple School, each service member was put in charge of two children this makes it easier for us to spend time with the kids and give them more attention. Service this semester started off with…
Concert Band Semester 2
The Concert Band have been preparing for the Spring Gala concert in April 2020 since the start of the school year. We are to perform two pieces and they are: The Pirates of the Caribbean medley and Superstition by Stevie Wonder. I found Superstition hard to play in particular as it has complex rhythmic patterns….
Music IA- Solo performing
IB music course has three components. They are: musical perception, creating and solo performing. In the performing component, students must submit a programme of contrasting pieces in any style of music that is 20 minutes in length. I have been preparing fo this since December 2019 and my performance will be on the 18th of February…
Reviewing the Situation
The school arts department decided to produce “Oliver!” as the secondary school musical for the year 2019. It was a great opportunity for both the middle school and the senior school students to show case their talents in singing, theatre, dancing and in many other ways. This production was quite special to me as it…
CAS Project
As the service leader of the Temple School service group which primarily focuses on helping less fortunate children from the local Temple School in Thalawathugoda to help teach children aged 3-5 learn English. This year, I decided to change the goals of our service. Instead of only focusing on improving only the English knowledge of…
Should I have mentally prepared for this trip?
All IB geography students have to do an Internal Assessment (IA) related a topic discussed in class. To do so, students have to come up with a research question and gather primary and secondary data, analyze this data and come up with a conclusion to the research question. Our geography teacher, Mr. Lockwood, takes the…
Service Update
My service is the Temple School service group and we help children from the Temple School who come from less fortunate families to have experiences that a child their age from the overseas School fo Colombo would have. We meet every Thursday afterschool for an hour and we play, teach and celebrate with around 15…
Concert band and playing percussion in the band for Oliver
I have decided to continue with concert band in my final year of high school and this after school activity counts as a creativity activity for CAS. The school Music Department organizes two annual events, the Spring Gala which is held in April and the Winter Gala which is held in December. But this year,…