The 27th of September was a special Saturday - OPEN DAY @ CIS!
A week ago on Friday, we were given badges and informed that our class would be representing our school tomorrow as Tour Guides (being the senior students). Thus it was a chance to transform the task into a CAS Activity which benefits us!
As a class, we commenced a brainstorming session to organise ourselves accordingly for the following day. After a productive discussion, we concluded with a time-table dividing our class into groups of pairs for each half-hour shift and exchanged phone numbers in-case back up Tour Guides will be required. Along with wearing the badges, we decided to dress in matching white tops and black bottoms or vice-versa, an attempt to unite our class and to give a diplomatic ambiance!
We decided that this would be a purposeful activity because it will be challenging to engage with many visitors and to be friendly to potentially new students. Moreover, we will be the role models of our school and so must be persevered and committed to invite others to do the same. It will also have improved my communication skills in both English and German for I should be flexible in either languages to introduce the school environment to outsiders. The Learning Outcomes which we will have achieved include: ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ and ⑧.
As soon as the day began on Saturday, everyone was excited to begin, including the teachers and the parents who helped out! After half a day at school, and two of my shifts, the successful day came to an end.
I believed that even only after a short time, the full one-hour shift pushed my people skills to its best! I am aware that I attain a generally good amount of the communication skill, however I do need improvement in the language area; i.e. my German and French. I lack confidence at times as I introduce visitors in languages other than English which might come across as nervous and unnatural I hope to work at it every time I am outside of school, so that I will be forced to communicate in German with others. Nonetheless I was successful at the job and managed to invite many visitors into our school that day.
My class really did undertake a new challenge as we were bustling around for brochures to hand out, explaining to the visitors about our school system along with the IB and showing them around to the various sample classes that were being held. Our co-ordination skill was also tested and it turned out that we had time-tabled our times perfectly! Additionally, we helped one another by encouraging them what to say when at the entrance welcoming others and what to do in order to attract their attention.
This short project benefitted my classmates as well as my school because it was a day to invite and interact with students outside, into our international school. If my class is required to tackle this task once more next year, we would be more experienced in how to behave towards others and perhaps help organise for Open Day more by decorating and cleaning etc. I would be thrilled to attempt at this CAS activity once again!
I think this was a truly beneficial task that my classmates can apply to all areas of learning. It showed that we must be confident in order to be communicators; persistent in order to be risk-takers; open-minded in order to be unbiased and considerate in order to be caring principled thinkers.
As a class, we commenced a brainstorming session to organise ourselves accordingly for the following day. After a productive discussion, we concluded with a time-table dividing our class into groups of pairs for each half-hour shift and exchanged phone numbers in-case back up Tour Guides will be required. Along with wearing the badges, we decided to dress in matching white tops and black bottoms or vice-versa, an attempt to unite our class and to give a diplomatic ambiance!
Activity Planning
We decided that this would be a purposeful activity because it will be challenging to engage with many visitors and to be friendly to potentially new students. Moreover, we will be the role models of our school and so must be persevered and committed to invite others to do the same. It will also have improved my communication skills in both English and German for I should be flexible in either languages to introduce the school environment to outsiders. The Learning Outcomes which we will have achieved include: ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ and ⑧.
As soon as the day began on Saturday, everyone was excited to begin, including the teachers and the parents who helped out! After half a day at school, and two of my shifts, the successful day came to an end.
Reflection
I believed that even only after a short time, the full one-hour shift pushed my people skills to its best! I am aware that I attain a generally good amount of the communication skill, however I do need improvement in the language area; i.e. my German and French. I lack confidence at times as I introduce visitors in languages other than English which might come across as nervous and unnatural I hope to work at it every time I am outside of school, so that I will be forced to communicate in German with others. Nonetheless I was successful at the job and managed to invite many visitors into our school that day.
My class really did undertake a new challenge as we were bustling around for brochures to hand out, explaining to the visitors about our school system along with the IB and showing them around to the various sample classes that were being held. Our co-ordination skill was also tested and it turned out that we had time-tabled our times perfectly! Additionally, we helped one another by encouraging them what to say when at the entrance welcoming others and what to do in order to attract their attention.
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| Seniors at work! |
This short project benefitted my classmates as well as my school because it was a day to invite and interact with students outside, into our international school. If my class is required to tackle this task once more next year, we would be more experienced in how to behave towards others and perhaps help organise for Open Day more by decorating and cleaning etc. I would be thrilled to attempt at this CAS activity once again!
I think this was a truly beneficial task that my classmates can apply to all areas of learning. It showed that we must be confident in order to be communicators; persistent in order to be risk-takers; open-minded in order to be unbiased and considerate in order to be caring principled thinkers.
Evita ☺
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