Back to school

It's back to school for real now with a full week of classes and lots of goals to be met in the last year of the IB for the grade 12 students. Interviews will take place the week beginning 8th September.  

CAS continues and must continue right up until May for it to be 'completed'.  When you begin your exams I will take my last look through your folders and click the 'completed' button before sending a message to the IB co-ordinator who then sends a message to the IB.

What do you have to do to make sure that your folder gets that final 'completed'?

• Make sure you have a good balance between Creativity, Action and Service - approximately 50 hours of each but remember it's not the hours that count but the quality!
• Make sure you have at least one 'project'.  This must be an activity you did in a group and it has to combine at least 2 of creativity, action and service.
• Make sure that you have activities right up to the end - you cannot finish CAS early. At least one activity must be continue into May.
• Keep up with your refections.  Once again it's quality not quantity that counts but if you have only one reflection for an activity that is long term, it had better be a very good one!  For short term activities (one day or a few hours) the CAS questions are enough.
• Make sure you have supervisor reports for any finished activities.  try to get these as soon as you finish - don't wait 6 months.  Your supervisor might change jobs, email address or not remember you etc.
• Make sure you have covered each of the 8 outcomes.

This week in school

Most of you will have your CAS interviews this week.

Amnesty Group is meeting at break on Monday.

Other groups are meeting look at the pink board for updates.

Still looking for service activities?

Have your tried http://www.volontarbyran.org/eng/for-volunteers/ ?

They now have a lot more in English as well as a long list of opportunities in Swedish.

This week you can find volunteer work as:

•  'Dungeon Masters' leaders
•  people to take pens and paper to places in need when they travel
•  the American Football league is looking for help - no need to know anything about football (16 August) 
• people with communication/computer skills to work with an organisation in Ghana (distance)
• all kinds of jobs with 'Shockholm' a group organising a Halloween celebration in Stockholm
• translators are needed for a Christian organisation (English and Swedish fluency)