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…
Category: Service
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…
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…
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…
Venture North
Cycling Trip- Week Without Walls is an OSC annual off-campus program, where the students of OSC from grades 10 & 11 are put into 5 groups that have different activities or tasks to do. The 5 groups are; Cycling Trip (Dehigaha Ela) Housing and Habitat: Janoda Foundation (Hambantota) Photography Trip ( Anuradhapura Trip Jaffna Trip…
Housing and Habitat Introduction
Housing and Habitat- This was the first year of joining the Housing and Habitat service group, I have been in other service groups like Gecko Inc. and RCCI where I have been mainly interacting and teaching children or students from local schools. I first experienced what the service group Homerun does through Week Without Walls…
UN Day 2019
Every year OSC celebrates UN Day or the United Nations Day, this is the day in OSC where every student in the school comes dressed in their countries traditional clothes. Every year there are different themes that are discussed, for example, last year was the theme about Renewable Energy and this year the theme was…