Interview Week and starting your experiences

This week I will start interviewing all grade 11 students.  Interviews should be finished before we go on our break next week.  Please check the previous post or managebac for what you need to bring to the interview.  Interview times are up in the pink notice board.  Make sure you have ticked your time if it works for you or that you see me if you need to change.

First experience and continuous participation

Hopefully all of you have started or planned to start you first experience for CAS.  On Friday I showed you how to add an experience to ManageBac.  If you can add one before our meeting that would be great.  Don't worry if you are not sure what to do - we will look at it in the interview.  You need to get started with CAS experiences as you must participate in CAS for at least 18 months.  That means if you start now you will be able to finish around the end of February next year.  You have up until the end of April to complete all your CAS.  It is important that your participation in CAS is continuous - that is you are always participating in a CAS experience throughout the 18 months. 

CAS stages

For some of your CAS experiences you will need to plan using the CAS stages.  I hope to explain them more in Advisory after the September break.

Some CAS ideas

The Stockholm  Film Festival is still looking for volunteers.  http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en/about-us/work-volunteer  It is rather intensive but is a fun way to get to meet more people around Stockholm and participate it a great festival.  

Refugees You cannot have missed all the talk about the refugee crises in Europe over the last few weeks.  Many organisations have started collections - money and goods.  If you are interested in working with this issue come and see me and I can tell you about the opportunities available.

Volontörbyran - don't forget there are many opportunities in Stockholm listed at this site - even more if you try the Swedish version.  At the moment they are still seeking helpers for the Halloween Festival and people to illustrate articles about human rights in Africa amongst other things.

Kindergarten Assistants: If you are interested in helping out in the kindergarten this term please see me and I can see if there are times that work out for you.  You need to be available at some time during the school day - that is when you have a study period.