Meeting for Community Service Leaders

Today we had our first meeting to kick off the Service activities for the academic year 2011-2012.

All student leaders were able to meet up with our supervisors and plan ahead for the Service sessions of this year.

The teacher supervisor for the Alzheimer's group for this year is Ms. Rossana Favero, who was in fact responsible for first introducing establishing this project at our school. Through her good relations with the Lanka Alzheimer's Foundation Founders Mr and Mrs Tamitagama, I feel that this year holds a lot of potential for us to work as a group in order to move our activity forwards.

All students were given a copy of the school calendar on which to plan the activities for the coming year.

So far, for the first semester from August - December, we have planned to sell raffle tickets, the remaining cards and pens from last year, take part in the annual Alzheimer's walk, visit the Center regularly; at least once a month, and finally attend the christmas party held for the patients in December.

Grade 12: Goals for CAS

During this final year in the IB, I plan to focus particularly on the Creativity aspect which was slighlty overlooked last year. I plan to join the year-long activity of Yearbook, as I've wanted to join this several times in the past year but have not managed to get a place.

I think the Yearbook committee is a great example of a team working together collaboratively. The aspect of time management is also of the utmost importance. I think by joining this, I will be able to enhance these aspects in the CAS criterion.

For Action, I plan to continue Tennis, as I have been doing throughout the summer holidays as well, in the International Club in Bangladesh. I am also looking forward to participating in a friendly tournament that my coach is organizing for all his current students. This will be a challenge for me, as I have never taken part in a Tennis tournament since joining the sport.

For the Service part of CAS, as a co-leader of the Alzheimer's group, I plan to initiate more activities than last year for the group to work on. This would be made possible more easily, due to the opening of the new centre in July.
Our group has been invited by Mrs. Lorraine; the co-founder of the Lanka Alzheimer's Foundation to take part in interacting with the patients by organizing and taking part in various activities such as Art, Music, Cooking, etc.
These activities and visits to the centre will take a lot more careful planning and involve enthusiasm in engaging the entire group, as well as working collaboratively with my co-leader Heesoo.

I hope this will be a successful year of CAS, and by the end of it I will be able to feel proud of what I plan to achieve.