– Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth & demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process – This learning outcome has become important to me personally especially during these past two years, the effect of COVID-19 has really made it a struggle. From the beginning of the DP year,…
Service 2021 Reflection
As the pandemic is still going on, there is still the use of the COVID-19 rules of social distancing from one another. Following the rules of social distancing has been a tough act to do as it has made attending and contributing to the Housing & Habitat service group. It is challenging to follow these…
Service during COVID-19
Housing & Habitat- Service started on November 12th, because of COVID-19 everyone at school has been attending their service via zoom calls. This change in attending our services through zoom is a strange and interesting way of doing service as for the Housing & Habitat service, we would always first have our introduction and set…
Exercise and Mediation during covid-19
This year I had started a plan where I would do a short 30 min exercise before I would sleep if I was in a day where I was stressed or had anxiety, and also with the 30min exercise I had started meditating more often, these were my plan in order to manage my mentality…
Zoomathon (Covid-19 Fundraiser by OSC)
During our Distance Learning Program, the last year’s DP1 economics teacher, Mr. Rossberg, suggested for us DP1 (currently DP2’s) to do a project to fund the people who were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. In the finalization of the brainstorming of this project our economics grade last year, we decided to run…
DP2 CAS Goals
As everyone knows Covid-19 has really affected everyone’s daily lives and as summer break has come to an end the next school year is here with a different feeling, with all the Covid-19 safety precautions in school. The pandemic has changed the IB program as well as the school activities, in order for the school…
Drum Practice during Quarantine
I have been attending drum classes every Saturday at 1:30pm to Music Matters, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. I have been practicing my drums by having the teacher sending photos of pages from a drum practice book, where I have to practice on my weaknesses. These weaknesses I have are mainly confidence…
Exercise during Quarantine
I have been part of a swimming club called “Shark in Wave”, where swimmers from other schools and I would borrow the swimming pool at the Isipathana College Swimming Pool Complex, ever since quarantine has happened my swim coach, Sir Don has been every week sending either different youtube swimming-related land exercises or sending personally…
Homerun 2020
The service I have been part of is called “Housing and Habitat”, a student-led organization that has been supporting and helping the Janoda Foundation in Hambantota by providing school resources, furniture, and each year visit to help rebuild/redecorate their environment. In order for the service group to be able to do these service activities, housing…
SAISA Art 2020
This year SAISA Art and Music 2020 was combined and was combined hosted by the American School of Bombay (Mumbai), the schools that were in SAISA Art and Music were, OSC, ASB, AISC, AISD, LS, and TAISM. In SAISA Art you are put into different groups, media groups, I signed up for the paper art…