Summer Fair

    On the 21st of June our school had a great experience of running its first (I'm pretty sure it was the first one ever) summer fair. For the whole day students had a chance to go around and participate in different activities that were organized, such as nail art, face painting, different outside games, football game as well as try out numerous kinds of food that both the teachers and the students brought for the fair that day.
    Karina and I initiated and organized our own activity that combined a few different aspects together - nail art and face painting. We had people come to us to paint their nails in fun colours as well as draw small patterns, while the face painting included us drawing butterflies, flowers, angry birds, sweets, fruits and even flags on other people's faces.
    The other thing we had to do the day before was to bake cupcakes and cookies for the summer fair "food court". We got many compliments for our chocolate chip and strawberry cupcakes and cookies with nuts, which, as we were told, were quickly sold out.
    Overall, I believe that the day was really successful, the kids were having a lot of fun participating in all the presented activities and we didn't seem to have any problems. Maybe for next time it would be a better idea to think of an activity that would be suitable for guys as well as girls (even though we had boys come to us asking to draw angry birds on their faces!).

The following learning outcomes were met as a result of participating in the Summer Fair:
- Increased awareness of strengths and areas of growth
- Planned and initiated activities
- Worked collaboratively with others
- Considered ethical implications of your actions
- Developed new skills

Summer Fair: Planning

    In the end of June, our school is going to have a Summer Fair organized for all the students and teachers. We were given an opportunity to organize an activity that would be creative, fun, entertaining and suitable for different year groups. A couple of Yr 12 girls and I have decided to think of an activity, that would be fun and enjoyable. For now, we have a couple of ideas, because it is still the planning stage. Some of them include nail art, face painting, painting small clay sculptures, cooking summer salads etc. Sometimes it can be hard to choose just one thing, so we are thinking about combining several activities together, so that the students will get a chance to try new things and not focus on doing the same thing for the whole day.
    We have written lists of things we would have to buy for different activities, so that we would have an idea of what we would need to get in each case.
   As well as organizing an activity, we are planning on participating in the baking competition that is going to be on for the whole day. It is a usual thing for Karina, Polina and I to participate in these kinds of things as we are fans of cooking, so we are thinking about baking cupcakes for the competition, however this time we might try baking something else just to try something new.

Creativity Day

    As the summer gets closer, more people can't sit quietly during lessons as they become too distracted. In order to give everyone a chance to show their creativity and have a nice little break from lessons, our school decided to organize a Creativity Day. Our class couldn't miss this opportunity to provide a service for school as well as showing creativity, so our year group has been divided into groups and each group could choose an activity they want to help and supervise.
    Karina and I chose to help and run the activity that involved decorating the empty walls of our school. A week before the creativity day, we had a meeting with the year group that was going to participate in our activity. They were given instructions to design a drawing that would represent the spirit of our international school.
    During the Creativity Day, we had to supervise the kids while they perceived to draw their designs on the walls. We had to mix the paints for them to use, make sure that no one has paint all over their clothes and hair and in between when people had breaks we went around, taking pictures of all other activities that were going on at the same time, for example - organizing an eco-fashion show, making sculptures our of reusable materials, drawing comics etc.
    Overall, I think the Creativity Day was a great success - the kids seemed to be enjoying all the activities and everything went smoothly - the things produced by the students looked amazing!

 

The following CAS outcomes were met:

- Undertaken new challenges

- Planned and initiated activities

- Worked collaboratively with others

- Considered ethical implications of your actions