Finishing Experiences

A lot of you have come a long way with your CAS portfolios and even have experiences that are finished with.  Here are some instructions about what to do when you complete an experience.  If you do not follow these within a month of completion, you will risk having the experience deleted.  Don't let all the work go to waste.

1. Check that you have enough evidence to show that you have participated in the experience
2. Check that you have reflected about the experience - possibly in the beginning, middle and end, depending on how the duration of the experience.
3. Make sure that your reflections and evidence clearly show how you met EACH of the learning outcomes that you chose.
4. Fill in the CAS questions to show how you met the learning outcomes.
5. Request a supervisor review.
6. If you do not have a supervisor or the supervisor cannot respond on Managebac, speak to me about how to upload this part of the experience.

Once your have a review, your experience will be marked with at big green tick like the one to the right here.  Your worksheet for that experience will then lock and you will not be able to make and additions or changes.  

Falling behind with CAS

A few people are falling behind with CAS.  You should have all started and be well on the way to completing the CAS project.  You do not want to have to do your CAS project in IB2.  Some of you have started but are behind with documentation.  I have asked people to come to an extra session on Weds next week to get some help in getting up-to-date.  If you want some help but were not asked to join you are welcome to come along.  We will be in C9 periods 3 and 4.

MUN

Next week if SIS MUN and a lot of you are involved in the organisation as well as participating in it.  Make sure you collect evidence of what you do.  Photos, documents you work on, recordings, films.  You are welcome to write an article about what you experience for the newspaper.  The QQ will be featuring articles for the whole week.  All contributions are welcome and can be used for creativity.  

I look forward to seeing and hearing you all at the conference next week.

Term 2 - Projects time!

It is great to see that so many of you have green flags now.  Red flags have been given to people who do not have a project or have an idea but have no evidence of having started the project.  It is essential that you all get your projects finished before the end of this term.  Preferably, by spring break. 

Project documentation

A note on documentation for the project.  You must have the CAS stages document - you will find it here.  Take a copy and fill it in.  The instructions for how to upload it were in the blog post on 17th November.  Please make sure that I can comment on these - do not make then view only!  Do not upload a Pdf.

Stage 2: Preparation

You will see the following question:

What roles and responsibilities will you or others take? 

It is important that you mention the other people you are working with.  You cannot just write - we will all do everything!  Sometimes, I cannot tell who the other people on the project are.  You must make roles and responsibilities with every group member's name appearing.  It is a requirement that the project is collaborative. Even if you are running the group - you must delegate roles to others and say who they are.  If you do not do this, you will not have a project that qualifies and in the end you will not complete CAS.

Creative Opportunity

Stockholm Junior film festival 

You can submit films for the junior film festival.  Submissions due by April 1st.  Your film needs to be between 1 and 3 minutes long and you need to be between 15 and 19 years old.  There are also categories for younger children.  We have had students enter before, so why not give it a go.

Read about it in English here or Swedish here.  You can enter individually or as part of a group. There are film making workshops during the sports break.