Mali's CAS Journey

5th to 4th: SAISA Basketball 2024

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, we landed in Oman, Muscat for SAISA Girls Basketball 2024. This year SAISA girl’s basketball was hosted in Muscat Oman at The American International School of Muscat (TAISM). This competition was alongside a total of 8 schools from around South Asia who all traveled to Oman for these days. Our…

Culture to Canvas: SAISA Arts 2024 in Bangaldesh

From March 20th to March 24th, 2024, I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the American International School of Dhaka (AISD) for SAISA Arts. This is an annual event that brings students across 10 international schools in South Asia to participate in workshops on learning new artistic expressions. I have been in several other SAISA sports…

COMUN Photography

As of the 30th session of COMUN, I was asked by the EXCO to help out throughout the planning and session with photography. I took on this role, as it would benefit me in several ways. Firstly, this form and field of photography that I would capture is not one of my stronger suits, so…

TRACK CHAMPIONS!!!

SAISA Track and Field 2024 was such an amazing experience, and to top it off, OSC won the whole competition!!! This championship didn’t just come to our hand so easily though, it came with lots and lots of hard training. We started season 3 of sports back in November, and four months of training prepared…

Two Wheels for a Week: The Middle Path Cycling Trip

Week Without Walls is an annual off-campus trip that every grade in secondary school goes for, apart from the seniors in grade 12. That means, that as an 11th grader, this would be my last ever Week Without Walls trip. Therefore, I wanted to end it with a trip that I heard lots of good about,…

DP Science Collaborative Trip

To complete the IB Programme, a mandatory component is the DP Collaborative science trip, also known as the Group 4 project. This year, the trip focused on the concept of Citizen Science, which is “when the public voluntarily helps conduct scientific research.” Thus, the trip was located in the Sinharaja rainforest in Sri Lanka, from…

November 2023 to January 2024 Service Updates!

We started November by having a bake sale while SAISA Boys Volleyball was hosted here at OSC. We were able to make a decent amount of funding from this, due to the wider community we were selling to on this day, as the students from 10 other schools in South Asia were here too. Later…

Props Designing for Musical!

I started Art Club this year to focus on my goal of exploring various art media and techniques. However, as I joined this after-school activity, I was allowed to help create the props needed for this year’s high school musical, ‘The Little Shop of Horrors.’ I accepted this offer and used my weekly Tuesday art…

October Service Updates

As for the month of October, as a service group, we had quite a few successes that we accomplished. Firstly, October 4th, was World Animal Day, an annual tradition we gave the OSC community an opportunity to sign the Animal Welfare Tourism Pledge. This pledge encourages the community to educate themselves and do their part…

Unity In Diversity Day 2023

An annual celebration that OSC has been following for several years has been a day dedicated to honoring all the nationalities of the students, teachers, and staff members of the school. This day has been named ‘UN Day’, yet it has been renamed Unity in Diversity Day (UD Day) this year. This is because it…