No Shame November

Mr. Jehan De Silva, our marketing director, had a great idea for No Shame November. Following the tradition of No Shave November or Movember, where men don’t shave for a month to raise awareness for men’s health issues, Mr. De Silva wanted our help creating another social awareness campaign that promotes kindness and understanding. He…

Yearbook 2019-2020

This year, for creativity, I have joined the Yearbook Committee. The reason behind this choice was pretty simple, I want to be in touch with my creative side throughout the year and since I had done visual arts as an ASA last year, I wanted to try working on something on the artistic side digitally….

CAS goals DP 2

DP1 was most definitely not a smooth sail, but I managed to achieve every goal I set for myself. This year is my last year of school, as exciting as that sounds, I still have a lot of things that I want to do before I graduate. This year, I wanted to strategically set some…

DP1

This year was a great learning experience, both inside and outside of school and academia. Looking back on the first ever CAS blogpost I made, I know that I’ve come really far but this is not the end 🙂 Creativity This year, my main objective was to get in touch with my creative side- something…

Semester 2 Service Reflection

This semester, the Peer Helpers wanted to work on magnifying the impact we wanted to create on the OSC community. We figured that we should be addressing to our school community as a whole, and not only high school students. So we started working towards our new objective by participating in the Tech Talk in…

SMALL BITES 2019

“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together.”  – Guy Fieri I’ve always been passionate about food. Well, the art of cooking the food more than eating it, of course. From the beginning, I was keen on expanding my knowledge and learning…

PYP 1 Advisory

After receiving a positive response from the MYP1 advisors, our service group decided should go back for one more. But this time, PYP5. We came up with this idea when we got to know that the students of PYP5 had to do the exhibition. So, we thought that this would be an appropriate time to…

MYP 1 Advisory

“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler As a service group, we wanted to lead an Advisory on April 3, 2019 for MYP1 on Empathy and Communication because we collectively concluded that it is one of the most…

Week Without Walls 2019: Jaffna

For my first and final WWW, I chose to go to Jaffna and Anuradhapura. I made this choice because of my interest in History. Also, being an Indian and having seen one side of the effects of the War, I wanted to witness the other side and see how it is different in both the…

SEMESTER 1 SERVICE REFLECTION 2019

Peer Counselling was a new service that OSC had introduced this year. I joined this service solely because of my interest in Psychology and the passion to learn something new. When we started off, our objective was to help our peers with issues like stress, anxiety and depression- issues that have been on the rise…