During our C.А.S. lesson today, a group of us decided on taking the responsibility of planning and organising this year's sports day and took on the burden of making it as successful as it was the previous years. We considered other possible projects of doing but this one seemed like the funnest and the one closest to our reach.
We talked about what would need to be done i.e. co-ordination, sports, timing, participants, scoring etc. We figured that since only 4 year groups would be participating, since years 11 and 13 would be having their exams, we would need 4 sports in order to make rotations more convenient, however, from the sports we came up with: dodgeball, basketball, football, running and volleyball we didn't want to exclude one so we decided that it would be nice to have some of the Yr 12s be against teachers just like Yr 9 are against Yr 9 and Yr 8 are against Yr 8 since it would involve the teachers a lot more (last year some of them joined in our sports so it would be more convenient for them to have a team of their own) and there would be more activities to do. As a final activity and a tradition to some extent, a relay will be held like previous years after lunch involving every year group one by one and the final race will be Yr 12 against teachers.
But to do all this, people would have to be divided into different houses therefore we asked for a list of every year so that we would put people into different houses for that event. We did this with systematic selection to make it easier and if the houses were unfair we would move things around but as it was things seemed pretty even.
To advance in our progression of this project we will need to talk to teachers and Yr 12s to see who will be operating and supervising what so that there is no confusion and we will also need to construct a scoring system to announce winners. We will have several months to prepare everything but we aren't going to let one day slip by without contributing in some way to the preperations.
We talked about what would need to be done i.e. co-ordination, sports, timing, participants, scoring etc. We figured that since only 4 year groups would be participating, since years 11 and 13 would be having their exams, we would need 4 sports in order to make rotations more convenient, however, from the sports we came up with: dodgeball, basketball, football, running and volleyball we didn't want to exclude one so we decided that it would be nice to have some of the Yr 12s be against teachers just like Yr 9 are against Yr 9 and Yr 8 are against Yr 8 since it would involve the teachers a lot more (last year some of them joined in our sports so it would be more convenient for them to have a team of their own) and there would be more activities to do. As a final activity and a tradition to some extent, a relay will be held like previous years after lunch involving every year group one by one and the final race will be Yr 12 against teachers.
But to do all this, people would have to be divided into different houses therefore we asked for a list of every year so that we would put people into different houses for that event. We did this with systematic selection to make it easier and if the houses were unfair we would move things around but as it was things seemed pretty even.
To advance in our progression of this project we will need to talk to teachers and Yr 12s to see who will be operating and supervising what so that there is no confusion and we will also need to construct a scoring system to announce winners. We will have several months to prepare everything but we aren't going to let one day slip by without contributing in some way to the preperations.
A school sports day is a great example of a project which will allow you to meet a number of the CAS outcomes. Your next step will be to ensure that you have to day confirmed in the calendar and enough support to make it happen (as you mentioned). As you probably know there are a great deal of elements to consider when organising such a large event and so identifying these elements will also be important in your planning. This is a nice idea and I look forward to seeing how your plans progress. Please keep me updated.
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