Danaj's CAS Journey

Final CAS Reflection

14 years… It has been 14 years since I have first entered these school walls, which I consider to be the walls of my second home. It also has been 2 years since I have started to properly balance my creativity, activity, and service. To be honest, it was probably what I needed, I wasn’t…

CAS Project: HelpAge

For the past 6 months, I have been working with HelpAge Sri Lanka. It is a charitable non-governmental organization that is working on behalf of the senior citizens in Sri Lanka. Their mission is to ensure that people in Sri Lanka understand how much senior citizens can give to society and enjoy their right to…

IB Friday Wellness Day

Coronavirus has once again spread across the country, causing schools around the country to once again close. Our school was no different and we went back to the distance-learning plan and where we once again constantly stare at our laptops many hours on top of that the immense workload that keeps me stuck staring and…

DP2 CAS goals

Due to COVID-19 the the final push in our DP1 has continued by doing the distance-learning program (DLP). We had to go through this by doing Zoom calls, google meets for the remaining three months. After the end of DP1, I have moved on to a new year DP2 2020-2021 which will be my senior…

Quarantine: CAS Edition

It has now been 2 1/2 months since the school closed down due to COVID-19. Since I can’t leave the house, and now have more time on my hands due to the Distance Learning Plan (DLP). I decided to use the extra time I have to still work on my Creativity, Activity and Service while…

Quarantine

Ever since school closed in the middle of March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to resume our academic year by going through the Distance Learning Plan (DLP). This change made me change my normal school daily routine, and had me adapt to a whole new daily routine. A Rocky Start The 18th of…

Week Without Walls: Highlands

Day 1 On the 19th of January all the students that were participating Highlands including myself departed from OSC in 6 in the morning. We went at the same time as the Anuradhapura group and soon met them on our first destination which was the Yapahuwa Rock. We had with the Anuradhapura and then went…

Piano

Preparing for Examinations My goals are to finish the John Thompson books, and to make 2 minute piano piece. I have been playing piano for 9 years, I started playing piano when I was in Grade 1 starting off with the first book of the John Thompson courses, then there was a year where I…

Badminton training

Improving my skills One of my CAS goals for the Activity area was to participate in SAISA Badminton, and the other being to improve my skills for badminton and get it up to a decent level. So in order to do that I needed to train in another club. So I joined a group that…

Recycling and Sustainability: The Bio Gas Experiment

October 31st As usual in our service we start off by being separated 4 groups to do different areas in our school. However today was different, we were separated into groups but one group went to work on the Bio gas plant collecting the canteen food waste and putting that waste into the bio gas,…