Creative writing

In our CAS sessions, we are trying to find ways to become more involved in activities that cover the service aspect of CAS and at the moment, we are thinking of sponsoring an animal from the Moscow Zoo.  Reading the articles about the animals at the zoo, Mr. Gray has asked us to write a poem regarding what we've read so here’s mine:

Small, black and hairy

I’m small, black and hairy

With fangs that look kinda scary

Even though I bite

It’s usually when I’m out of sight

I know that’s hard to believe

But trust me, it should be a relief

I’ve got eight hairy legs

With claws that stick to clothes like pegs

But I’m still small, black and hairy

Before you criticize it, please keep in mind i don't write poems.

DoubleD C

Our dance club is still going strong and we are showing signs of improvement when it comes to teaching the dance moves as we are realizing that every member has a dancer inside of them, it’s just a matter of unleashing them.  Every week, we learn a new technique of teaching the moves as not everyone responds to the same teaching style and if they can’t learn a specific move, they know they've tried their best and we try a different approach.

The process of teaching is a working progress and not only do we teach the routines, but they also gives us moves that we can use and sometimes they are better than the ones we've thought of.

Basketball and more Basketball

I've started monitoring my participation in the games we play during basketball club and I’m starting to realize that more input is required from me if we are going to have more successful games.  Also, even though I've been practicing my free throws, I have noticed that I don’t take advantage of the opportunity on the court, which is something I need to work on.

In the next games to come, I’ll be making more of an effort to take more shots and collaborate with my teammates to make the game more structured.

Mission Statement

Last week, Mr. Parker expressed his concern about the IB criticizing the schools mission statement and asked us if we could write our own mission statement which incorporated the IB program and the schools diversity, so here is mine:

Our culturally diverse community of students and teachers, work together like a well-oiled machine to shape every individual who enters our community into becoming the perfect IB student by acquiring the necessary characteristics, so that their potential can be accepted and recognized internationally.

Study Tips

Mr. Giddens asked us if we could help him by providing simple ways that will help students when studying for the exams- which we were more than happy to do.  We each gave a study tip that we thought would be useful and placed them all on one of the boards in the hall so that the students can see the advice whenever they pass the board and use it when they study. Not only do these tips help other students, but we can use them ourselves when we have to study.

International Day =)

Being part of this year's international day proved to be both challenging and interesting as we had to organise the events that would take place in the 30-40 minute sessions.  Since we were divided into countries, Yarubbi and I represented Namibia and decided to give a brief presentation of the country as we noticed how little people knew about our country and its culture.  To make the presentation informative as well interesting , we designed a quiz in the style of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" to test the children's knowledge and gave prizes to the winners.  We also provided them with a taste of what Namibia had to offer when it came to cuisine (Vet Koeks) and most of them seemed to enjoy it.

After our presentation, we asked the children to give us feedback so we could analyse the strengths and weaknesses of our presentation. The problem was that almost all of the feedback was positive which didn't really help us in finding out what we did wrong...but overall the day was enjoyed by most people...myself included =)

Shakin' things up in Dance Club

For the past two-three weeks, we have taught the same dance routine to make sure our members know the dance like the back of their hands. The fact that we were able to do this shows our commitment to teaching them the dance even when some of the moves seemed impossible to teach.  Last week we came up with a new routine, which might be more difficult to teach as it has more technical moves than the previous dance. We plan to involve the members when it comes to adding new moves to the routines.

Hopefully, with perseverance we will be able to successfully teach the moves to the members and if we don't, it will give us a chance to see where we went wrong and improve on our mistakes.