Holiday CAS

During these holidays I decided to stay active and do some CAS work which I shall divide into different sections to show that I haven't isolated any of the criterion of CAS.

Creativity and Service

I decided to do some more work on the organisation of Sports Day even though it is in about 2 months time. I created several pages of notes on the different activities and what will be needed, what are the rules, who should supervise it and so on. I made some adjustments to the previous plan I had since after going through it I noticed some problems which may arise which has made me a more thoughtful person since I wanted everyone to have fun and I could see that with this issue not everyone would. I decided to dismiss the idea of having a teachers against Year 12 group, however, there will be a relay like this. As a result of the large numbers in Year 12, I decided to make them in one group and divide them in 4 teams so that everyone has something to do during that day since the initial idea was to divide Year 12s into organisers and participants however there was no point in having organisers since there were enough teachers to do this and it wouldn't be efficient to have so many people organising. I assigned teachers to do certain roles such as looking after year groups to make sure they make their way to the right activity and so on and made sure to make notes on what I would need to give them so that the teachers also know what they are doing. I will need to have a meeting with teachers or something of the sort to make sure that they are alright with doing the tasks I assigned them.

I also had the idea of having some people in Year 12 doing photography ( max. 3 ) so that we could sell photo albums at a profit to students and that money would go to charity however I would need to create a questionnaire that I would give out to students the next school year to see if they would buy this album so that I know it will be worthwhile. 

Action

I went swimming 4 times during the holidays as a way to work out and relax at the same time. I have found this to be very productive since I feel like my stamina in swimming has increased since the first time I went, however, I need to improve my speed over a short distance since there has been no real improvement in the 25m crawl that I did in 16/17 seconds before. In order to change this, I will try to go twice a week and if not at least once a week in order to try to get that number up to 15 at the end of the month.