Founders Day Performance

Founders Day Performance (Creativity)

On founders day we asked Ms niederman if me and daisy could perform a song in the founders day assembly. We decided to do our own version of Call me maybe by Carley jepson, it is originally kind if a pop song and we decided to make an acoustic version of it and that took a lot of time as i had to figure out what kind of a strum pattern would go with the melody of daisy voice and I worked Collaboratively with Daisy to figure out what to do. And in the end we were not informed about a rehearsal and we couldnt get a time for a sound check and we had little problem with the sound but it was fixed instantly so it was not a big problem. We did a mini sound check in the morning but the mics were not on so we didnt do a proper sound check.

Saturday Football

Saturday Community Football (Action)    29th september 2012

Every saturday Pascal and Duncan organises football matches where anyone can join and a lot of people show up to play football. Every week this is what i look forward to as a lot of very taleneted football players show up and it is a very good opportunity to Develop new skills. I showed up an hour early because i wanted to improve my skills in shooting the ball, my stamina and also ball control. I played by myself for an hour, i took shots at the goal i tried to improve my aim towards the goal as well as how hard it goes. also i did some ball control drills. I also Worked collaboratively with others as i worked as a team to achieve a similar goal which was to win. 

 

Band Practice

Band Practice (Creativity)

I have a band that I had from last year and the band consists of Mr Riehm, Bryce, daisy and me, where i play the guitar, mr riehm plays the bass, daisy sings and bryce plays the drums. We had band practice on the Wednesday the 26th of september. In band practice we mainly practiced Hysteria by muse and we noticed that we had to do a lot practice sessions as we just needed more practice on the songs. On that day we also decieded to play a instrumental song which is either going to be Your betrayal by Fasy live or Canon rock. In band Practice i worked collaboratively with my other band members and it also really improved my skills and developed my skills in playing guitar, as we jammed and played some original stuff when we jammed.

Sports Day

Sports Day (Action)

In sports day i tried to be as engaged in the acitivities as possible, there were a variety of different sports happening such as football, basketball, sprinting and tug of war. I participated in sprinting, football and tug of war. Out of this tug of war was new challenge for me as i have never really done this acitvity before in my life i have always seen other people playing this sport but i have never really participated this and it was a very good experience for me as i found out about how painful it actually gets in your hand as you get friction burns. I didnt participate in basketball because while i was playing football my knee started hurting and it was impossible for me to run and i knew i wouldnt be an asset to the team.

For football i gave in everything i could, i played in every match and i think i was a very good asset for the team. By playing football i noticed my own strengths and areas for growth. I noticed that i needed to work on my stamina and i knew i needed to work on sprinting as i noticed i was getting slower. What i plan to do is go do more cardio in the gym and as well as on saturdays when i have saturday footbal just come ine maybe an hour early and work on sprinting and changing direction quickly as running fast and chaging direction with the ball is very important in being a good football player. By playing football i also worked collaboratively with others, as i tried to play more as a team.

Joining back to Habitat for Humanity

Joining back to Habitat for Humanity (Service)

Mr Lockwood suggested in doing both the CAS's, the football CAS James is organizing and also Habitat for Humanity. Mr lockwood suggested this because the school james tried to bring to the school didn't respond so Mr lockwood thought it would not happen so he said to be safe to be in habit for humanity and also because Habitat for humanity is something that is recognized all around the world and it is better for the universities if i have this as well.
After joining Habitat for humanity i have had a meeting and in the meeting we talked about having another fund raiser and we thought of doing another more well planned movie night for the primary because that time we actually made a lot of money and we thought it would be a good idea. This time we would know better to be prepared for the movie night by learning from last years experience. We also did a little bit of reflection.

Try out run for the Service project

Try out    (Action/Service)

Before we actually begin the service project Mr lockwood wanted to see how we are going to progress with the project and he suggested us to carry out a practice run through of how exactly we are going to run the whole service project so on Thursday the 30th, we asked couple of people in 9th grade to come after school for us to coach them, although not many people showed up we started off the project with a 5 minute warm up where we ran for about 2 minuets and then  we stretched for the next 3 minutes, and then we went warmed up by passing and then shooting at the goal. By doing this it improves there skill in shooting as well as in accurate passing, it almost becomes a stimulation for that in the real game and it really helps because you get a sense of the environment and how it is going to be like in a real game situation. After this we divided into two teams and we went into a more real life situation where we played 4 a side. We played for about one hour, and this counts as action as well as service.

Goals for this year

Goals for this year for CAS

For this years CAS i decided to try out a new CAS activity, so instead of Habitat for Humanity this year i am going to participate in the CAS James is conducting. In this CAS we have to do is every Thursday a local school will come to our school to play football and what me and james have to do is coach them to play football and try to improve there skills in playing football. Since these kids are underprivileged and they do not have a nice field like ours, so they can not practice football or play football that much so I think that we are doing a very good Service for the local community. At the moment the local schools are still out for there summer break so we cannot get any schools into the school for us to coach but as soon as the schools open we are going to start our CAS program.

The main goal for this yeah is to be more active in the CAS project, this is why i chose to change into the football CAS, it was because the builds were very irregular and as much as i like to go for habitat for humanity i think that i will gain more if i do the football activity, because as SAISA football is coming up it would be a very good pre season practice for me and it would also count as Action for CAS. Another goal that i want to achieve by the end of this year is being more active by playing in more concerts and i will try to concentrate in our band more this year which would count as Creativity.

Football   (Action)
I hope to get into the SAISA team and travel for the team and represent the school. I am already thinking about starting an after school activity where we just pre season train for SAISA. To get ready for SAISA i am also coaching football for my CAS project which would be a new experience that i would learn a lot out of. At home and also at school i have been trying to develop my skills to even better so that i would be able to give a valuable contribution for the team. Also this is my first time being the oldest in the team which automatically brings in a huge pressure because i always was in a team where there is someone else who is older than me and carrying out this new "leadership" would be a new experience for me and i hope to learn a lot from this.

Service Project     (Service)
For my service project my main goals are to be more involved in the service project and take part in more of a leadership role as it would be a new task for me and it would be a very good learning experience. I hope to help james in anyway i can to run the Service project and i wish to start coaching the kids as soon as possible.

Guitar (electric, acoustic and bass)        (Creativity)
My goals for guitar is that i want to develop my skills in playing guitar and also another goal that i have set is playing more shows mainly because this is going to be my last year. I am also planning on increasing my skills in playing guitar by learning a lot of new songs and also by learning new different techniques such as sweep picking, pull offs and harmonies. I am also planning on learning new chords and also new scales to improve my knowledge in music.

Academics
My goals for academics for this year is at least get a 5 in all of my subjects and also  mainly concentrate in maths and physics because those are the two lowest grades that i got. To improve my grade in physics and math i am planning on taking math and physics tuition so that it would be a push for me to put extra concentration on these subjects. I am also planning on doing a little bit of physics and math everyday because these subjects are subjects you get good at when you practice it a lot.