This is my final year of high school. As much as I want to enjoy my senior year, I’d like to set some goals to keep me on track so that I would have a balance between my academics and extra curricular activities. This is my CAS breakdown: Creativity Concert Band- The Concert Band is a…
CAS Reflection
This semester has been very busy with the Spring Gala, school assemblies, SAISA Music, and service activities. As a member of the school concert band I got the opportunity to perform in the annual Spring Gala concert which was a fun musical evening filled with different performances from students in different grades. This semester I…
Graduation ’19
I have been playing in the concert band for almost a year now and I enjoy it a lot. We meet up on Monday afternoons and play a lot of fun music from different genres and I get to learn different types of playing techniques in these genres of music. The concert band plays for…
Just dance!
Zumba this semester has been great! It felt good to move around again and break a proper sweat after some time, and especially since I’m doing it with my friends, it made Zumba become much more entertaining. We have been working out to more South American music this semester and the instructor taught us some…
Spring Gala ’19
On the 4th of April we held our annual Spring Gala concert. It is a musical evening organized by the music department of our school for solo performances, voice and instrumental ensembles and bands. As an IB Music student and a member of the school concert band this was a great opportunity for me to…
One year of service is not enough!
This semester we organized a party for the temple school kids. Every year our service organizes two parties for the children and all the service members, to be held at the end of each semester. The service leaders planned the party and asked the service members to bring treats for the children. On the day…
SAISA Band and Choir ’19
SAISA is an organization which brings together international schools from across South Asia and West Asia to compete against one another in sports, music and other non-core curricular activities. SAISA events enable students to represent their schools at other schools abroad. They also provide students an opportunity to visit other international schools in the region and…
WWW Jaffna-Anuradhapura
Week Without Walls (WWW) is a co-curricular programme which challenges students to get out of their comfort zone, think critically, communicate effectively and bond with the rest of the group. We could choose to go on 1 trip out of 4 interdisciplinary micro trips. Each of these trips focus on one area: Highlands– hiking, photography, environmental…
Zumba
Zumba is a fitness class that combines dance and fitness moves inspired by latin dance and music. It is a great way to get fit ! The school Zumba teacher Ms. Jade Jiggens has taught us some intense Zumba workouts but it’s fun because we dance to up beat music. Zumba has helped me to…
Fun Basketball
I am not a sporty person and I say this because I have tried many sports at my previous school but I haven’t been good at any. I was in the school table tennis team for two years but I wasn’t very good so I played for sometime and got selected to the team.So I…