Book Week Celebrations

This year’s book week celebrations were held from February 17th to 21st. Book week is celebrated to show appreciation for literature and as a part of book week, 21st February is Mother Language Day. This is celebrated to appreciate the plethora of languages spoken around the world. After watching people share beautiful prose and poetry…

Semester 1 Service Reflection

This semester, the OSC Ambassadors 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. And we also wanted to start working on making any new student’s transition into the…

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….

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…

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…

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…

Trinity College London Keyboards Theory

I took upon the challenge of learning music theory, something I’ve never done before. The group 6 subject I’ve chosen for my DP years is Chemistry and this way, I wasn’t completely in touch with my creative side. So, I decided to do music outside of school. Starting theory was a bit of a challenge…

VISUAL ARTS 2018

“Creativity takes courage” -Henri Matisse For Semester 1 Creativity- I had chosen to do Visual Arts. The reason why I chose to do it was because it has always intrigued me but I’ve never been good at it and also, I do Chemistry. I really wanted to learn and explore the creative side of me….

DP 2020 ORIENTATION

Before diving head first into our DP years, we went on an orientation trip to Borderlands, Kitulgala. The objective of this trip was to get to know each other better and also have fun. I remember being really nervous and excited at the same time before leaving for the trip. At one point, I even…