Mali's CAS Journey

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,…

Ecological Exploration: DP Collaborative Science 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…

Fundraising Feats: 11/23 to 01/24 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…

Artistry in Action: Props Designing for HS 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…

Sterilization Success: 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…

Prompting Peace: 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…

Brushstrokes and Blending: Art Club ASA Update

It has been around 4 sessions of Art Club that I have attended, in which I think so far, I am aiming to accomplish my overall goal quite well. For instance, to specify I wanted to get into exploring more media of art, which is what I have been focusing on for the past couple…

Service Spotlight: ‘Care for Paws’ in September

As for the first couple weeks of the service group Care for Paws to be running for the 2023 – 2024 year, as a team, we have made quite a few highlights in progress so far. Firstly, to begin this year of service, as one out of the three service leaders, alongside Lara and Maya…

Back in Borderlands: DP Orientation Trip

It was time to be back in Borderlands Kithulgala! Having gone here back in 9th grade, and having a round two again for my first year of DP allowed me to compare the two trips and realize how much more fun this recent one was! (don’t get me wrong, 9th grade was really fun too)…

DP 1 Goals

Creativity: My goal for joining the Art Club ASA is to broaden my artistic creativity. I plan to do this by specifically exploring various art media and techniques for the time of the next couple of months. Some examples of these different art media are watercolors, acrylics, ceramics, pastels, digital art, etc. I aim to…