Pinhole Photography

Since the second block of after school activities have started, I am no longer doing Pinhole Photography as it is not offered any longer by Mr. Lockwood. However it was a great activity, which taught me new skills such as how much light the "camera" should be exposed to and how long it should be held there for. Below is one of the pictures I was able to take, which is of myself (it has been inverted):

I am quite proud of this photograph since i managed to get it quite focused. There are quite a lot of details in the photo which means the time I disposed the camera to light was quite efficient. This after school activity has been part of my creativity for CAS which means that now that it is over I have to come up with something new to do for creativity. I was thinking about maybe learning the basics of playing guitar, since this would be a development of new skills.

Goals and Involvement

What will I learn from the goals that I have set for the year?

1.       By taking part in a SAISA I will increase my awareness of my own strength and areas for growth, work collaboratively with others, show perseverance and commitment in the activity and develop new skills. I have decided that I will definitely do football this year again as I really enjoyed it last year. This way I can improve the skills I have already learnt.

2.       By practicing motocross riding I will be involved in action but also develop new skills and increase my awareness of my strengths as a rider.  I might also be able to develop new skills by practicing.

3.       As a leader in Bethlehem Crèche I am undertaking a new challenge since I have to help members in the CAS to understand what is going on. To do this I, along with the other leader have to work collaboratively with each other in order to plan and initiate activities for our CAS activity. Our community and service program is engaged with issues of global importance since we are helping out children less fortunate than us.

4.       I was going to practice playing the guitar but instead of doing this for creativity I have decided to join pinhole photography as I thought this would lead to undertaking a new challenge and showing perseverance and commitment in the activity.

So far for the year I have been involved in:

Bethlehem Crèche:  We have only had the community and service activity twice so far, but I and Maheshi have worked collaboratively with each other and planned and initiated activities. When we first met we discussed what the goals were for the whole year and they were as follows:

·         Paint the walls/equipment at the Creche

•   Make a garden for the school 
• Plan to raise money throughout the year if needed
• Have a Christmas party with the children
• Teach them some nursery songs and dance moves 
• Donate things that they might need at the Creche.

We have already raised some money from selling “spirit bags and ribbons” on sports day (September 7^th) which was a way of increasing awareness of our service program. We did this through planning and initiating what we had to do in order to get results. We sold ribbons in the house colors and bags which consisted of balloons, scrape paper, rope and ribbons. It was quite a success but we are going to sell the left over’s when the primary has their own sports day in order to increase spirit!

I have also been involved in Pinhole photography for the past 2 weeks which is held every Tuesday after school by Mr. Lockwood as our supervisor. We are only 5 members involved in this activity but we have already been able to work collaboratively with each other, undertaken a new challenge, and developed new skills. It is a great activity which helps us with photography as a whole. During the past two lessons we were able to take our own shots by using a can and exposing it to light towards an object or person or whatever we want. It is quite difficult to know how much time you have to expose the can to light; however this is something we will practice and learn as time comes. I managed to take quite a good shot of myself, I will upload a picture of it as soon as possible.

Sports Day

We had a school sports day on September 7th, and I, as a member of the Red house and a senior, tried to participate in all the sports that I enjoyed. I played football mainly. Of course, our main goal was to win the tournament to enjoy the tournament itself too.I personally interacted with everyone possible, not only within the red house, but also with inter-house members. I belive sports always bring people together much closely :)

Also during sports day Maheshi, Joyce and I were selling spirit bags for the primary students in order to make the day more cheerful. Below is a pictures of us preparing the bags for each house color. Each spirit bag contained balloons, ribbons, cloth and small length of rope. 

We didn't make a lot of profit but we will also be selling the spirit bags during the Primary Sports day which is coming up after December holidays sometime. The money will be used to help the children at the Bethlehem Creche. By doing these spirit bags I showed commitment to the community service I take part in