Log Sheet

Activity	Area	Learning Outcome(s)	Evidence
Wobulenzi project	Creativity, Action & Service	-Work collaboratively with others -Consider the ethical implications of your actions -Show perseverance and commitment in your activities -Engage in issues of global importance	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Mtn Marathon	Service & Action	-Engage in issues of global importance -Undertake new challenges	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
IWO Bazar	Service	-Engage in issues of global importance -Work collaboratively with others	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
House flag design	Creativity & Service	-Increase awareness of your strengths and areas of growth -Undertake new challenges -Consider ethical implications of your actions	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Basketball	Action & Service	-Show perseverance and commitment in your activities -Work collaboratively with others -Develop new skills	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Volleyball as a new sport	Action	-Develop new skills -Work collaboratively with others	Reflections, supervisor comment
Volleyball for the school Team	Action & Service	-Increase awareness in your strengths and areas of growth -Show perseverance and commitment in your activities	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Backstage (Lion & the Jewel)	Creativity & Service	-Show perseverance in and commitment in your activities -Work collaboratively with others -Undertake new challenges	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Backstage (Macbeth)	Creativity & Service	Increase your awareness of your strengths and areas of growth	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
IB option evening	Creativity & Service	-Undertake new challenges -Plan and initiate activities	Reflections, Supervisor Comment
Student council	Creativity & Service	-Increase your awareness of your strengths and areas of growth -Show perseverance and commitment in your activities -Plan and initiate activities	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Prom (Fundraising and organization)	Creativity & Service	-Plan and initiate activities -Work collaboratively with others	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment
Toy Distribution	Service	-Undertake new challenges -Consider the ethical implications of your actions	Reflections, Pictures, Supervisor Comment

We did not even make it to finals.

Final Reflection

This is my last reflection regarding the volleyball season of 2013. Of all the sports I have done so far in the school, I think volleyball and basketball are the ones that I have enjoyed the most. From the training in the first term, to the ISSAK league competition in the third term, volleyball was truly an enjoyable experience for me. I was really proud to participate in the first ever volleyball ISSAK league competition. There is nothing much I can say about the sport and the learning outcomes because it is the same as every other sport I have written about in my blog. Although we didn't make it to the finals, I really look forward to playing volleyball. Either this year during my last year of High school or in University. This was definitely not a one time thing. I spent too much time learning this sport! :)

Creative much?

Designing flag


It is always a problem being creative and smart at the same time. When you are a kid, it is easy to draw, it is easy to say what you want to become when you are older without any prior judgement. I remember when I was a kid, I loved drawing but as I advanced through my education, I lost that part of myself. So when I had the opportunity to design a flag for my sports house (Bwindi) I though that it would be a good opportunity to tap into my creative self. These were the achieved learning outcomes:

• Increased awareness of strengths and areas of growth. As I mentioned earlier, I used to love drawing when I was a kid. So doing this activity, it was an opportunity for me to awake my "creativity." You never know when you might need to be creative in life.
• Consideration of ethical implications. Making a flag always involves ethics. You have to make sure that nothing put on the flag is seen as an insult towards a society or religion.

The Bwindi Flag

The Tale of Macbeth

Backstage

The Macbeth production was a project that lasted almost one months. The production was divided in two stages. Rehearsals and the final production. Unlike the Lion & the Jewel, this was not a school production. It was meant to show for a whole week at the national theater. What appealed me in this project was the fact that this was not a school production, which meant that I could work with actual professional actors and this was a first for me. Although at first I had signed up to do backstage work just like in the Lion & the Jewel, over time, the director decided to give me a small non-speaker role in the play. Although it was out of my comfort zone, I decided to take up the challenge.

The backstage work involved taking care of the lighting and sound effect. My job was to take care of all the props and operating any backstage machines, like using the smoke machines in some scenes. Overall, I believe that I achieved the learning outcomes I had projected in my proposal form which are:

• Increase your awareness of your strengths and areas of growths. Since this was not the first time I was doing backstage work for a drama production, I knew what was to be done and the timing was very important. 
• Work collaboratively with others. Just like a team sport, a drama production is not something which is done by one person but by the efforts of a group of people. The people in the backstage are just as important as the actors acting on stage
• Show perseverance and commitment in your activities. Although this is one of the most common leaning outcome, it cannot be ignored. During the preparation of this project, we had to work late at night way over time, from 4pm even up to 10pm at night. There were moments when I felt like giving up, but all I had to think about was the final outcome of the project and that would keep me going, and the fact that it would give me community service.

That one night (PROM)

Fundraising and decoration for prom

There is not a single teenager that does not look forward to prom. Not a single one. Prom is one of those nights that we never forget our entire lives. Sadly in KISU, we attend 3 proms. In year 11, year 12 and year 13. Even though, prom is still a special night. So who organises prom? In KISU it is the year 12 students that organise prom for the year 13 students and we have to make sure that it is a night to remember. The problem is, they just don't hand us money to set up the prom. It is our choice if we want to have the prom or not. So we have to find that money or we would be the most hated class in high school history. So every year, year 12 students brainstorm fundraising ideas for prom that will cover almost all costs for prom, because prom is not free. The year we organised it, we set up basketball games, called the Dream Team event where students play against the basketball coaches and every year, year 12 students get a lot of money because students never win! These were the achieved leaning outcomes:

• Plan and initiate activities. We had to come up with different ideas to raise money for prom before we landed on the dream team event idea. So this took a lot of planning and initiation in order to make the games happen, because that year coaches did not want to play. So it took a lot of convincing.
• Work collaboratively with others. Since we only had a few months to organise prom on our own, we had to divide the class into different groups. The fundraising group, marketing and decoration. We needed coordination in order to complete the tasks on time
• Consider ethical implications of your actions. Since KISU is an international school, basically any parties thrown have to be considered ethical before they happen. Prom is no exception.  

You think you can run 10km? Non-stop?

MTN Run for Clean Water 2013 Marathon

MTN, a mobile network company in Uganda, organises a marathon every year for a charity. This year it was organised to build wells and purification centres in northern Uganda, a region of Uganda hit by desertification. This was probably the first time in my life I run for more than 3km. This had to be a challenge I had to take. We had 3 options. Run the 10km (the people's run), the 21km (the show-offs' run) and finally the main event, the 21km (the pro run). Since this was my first time running more than 3km, I decided to run the 10km, just like most people in Kampala. There were more than 10,000 people running the 10km, which means that there was a human traffic jam. I am proud to say that I finished in the top 1000, trying my best without any prior training. These were the achieved learning outcomes:

• Engage in issues of global importance. This was the main learning outcome. I find it genius that you can look after your health while at the same time, doing it for the good cause. That is what a charity run is all about. 
• Undertake new challenges. I had to know if I had it in me to run 10km, that was one of the reasons why I decided to run. On top of the fact that I had to run 10km for the first time in my life, the race started at 7a.m on a sunday. If this is not undertaking new challenges, then I don't know what is!

Aren't we too old to be dressing up for Halloween? No!

Student Council: Organising halloween dance

The Student council is a year long commitment. In my first year of IB1, I volunteered to act as the class representative on the student council. It is not as exciting as in the movies where the student council holds power over the school board, but we are not completely useless. "In KISU, the student council is better known for throwing mediocre parties than in lending a hand to change the vomit looking uniform." Words of a classmate. So since my seat on the student council was extended to 6 more months, I helped in the organisation of the annual Halloween party. These were the targeted learning outcomes:

• Plan and Initiate activities. Everyone knows that Rome was not built in a day and neither are parties, even school parties if your wandering. First we had to find the decoration. Finding any kinds of theme parties in a country has always been a challenge. That took a whole week. Selling the tickets was another problem. Most teenagers find that it is not cool to attend school parties, so making them buy the tickets was a bit of hustle. Most of them bought the tickets but did not show up.
• Consider the ethical implications of your activities. One of the many duties I had the night of the party was selecting the music. KISU is an international school of different cultures and ethics. So while choosing the music, I had to make sure that no culture was insulted. 

Mini Steps to adulthood

IB option evening 

The aim of this activity was acting as ambassadors for online courses in school. The Option evening happens every year and it is when students in Year 9 and Year 10 learn about the next steps in their education. In DP1, I was one of the very first students in Kampala International School to do online IB courses. So since I was one of the first people, I was asked to explain to the coming IB students about learning on the internet. These were the targeted learning outcomes:

• Undertaking new challenges. Once in a while, they encourage us IB students to undertake new challenges and to get out of our comfort zone. Setting up an information board and explaining almost anything necessary about the online course was challenging because I had to be clear and short because I only had limited time. It was like kind of being in court, only your arguments and your proof matters.
• Plan and Initiate activities. Talking in front of parents and students you barely know really needs preparation. My partner and I had to work on an information board and prepare in advance what we were to talk about during the one hour the activity took place.

I feel like this was a success because the following year, 5 students we talked to decided to take online courses.  

What team? Lions! What Team? Lions! Go KISU Lions!!!

Basketball Team Reflection (Year 1)

Basketball is one of the sports I play for the school team and every year, everything is different. Some things don't change like the fact that I am always looking forward to improve my skills or some of the team members. This year it was different because it was something I could do for CAS. Basketball is always a sport I look forward to every year because it is basically my favourite sport to play and every year, there is always room for improving. Before playing basketball this year, I had targeted the following learning outcomes:

• Show perseverance and commitment in your activities. When playing for the school team, a person needs to sometimes fully commit to it. Over the years, commitment was not a big issue. This year it was kind of different because of IB. IB is time consuming and sometimes, you have to sacrifice activities in order to complete projects, and it is hard sometimes to attend trainings when I have projects pending. So commitment was a big issue this year.
• Work collaboratively with others. Basketball is one of those sports where the final outcome fully depends on the team work, on team chemistry. Without working collaboratively with others,  a sure loss is assured.
• Develop new skills. I have always been told that you never stop learning, even when you live school. Life is a life long education, that no one can escape. So on this matter, no matter how long you have been playing a sport, no matter how good you think you are, there are always new skills to learn and I believe this year I have learnt a lot. From perfecting my shooting stance to ameliorating my long passes.

IWO Bazzar

The activity was voluntary work for the International Women Organization day at Sheraton Hotel. From the start, the expected learning outcomes were engaging with issues of global importance and working collaborately with others. My work at the Bazaar was to sell raffle rickets to who ever came to visit the tents or anyone in the activities at the bazaar. I believe I met those outcomes because, first we had to sell those table tickets in groups of 3s. We had to work as fast as we could in order to sell the raffle tickets quickly. It was kind of a challenge to sell the tickets because we had to have good communicative skills in order to encourage people to buy the tickets. We needed to convince people that what we did was for a good cause. I met the outcome of engaging in issues of global importance because all the money that was got from the raffle tickets went towards a women's charity. The activity was done over a 3 hour period.

Lion and The Jewel reflection

The lion and the jewel was a 4 week activity that involved backstage work during rehearsals and the final shows. The learning outcomes were, showing commitment in my activities and working collaboratively with others. Working backstage for the lion and the jewel needed commitment because we had to come 3 times a week during the four weeks of the drama production and it was the first backstage work that I was doing in my school years. The rehearsals were happening after school, and it was kind of tiring because we had to come on Sundays sometimes. Doing backstage for the lion and the jewel also involved working collaboratively with others because there were 6 of us working backstage and everyone one of us was charged with a specific task. Failure of one person to complete their task would result into confusion. Working backstage had a lot of benefits, like improving my creativity and it felt good being part of something successful.

Wobulenzi Week Two reflection

Saturday 27th marked the second week of our Wobulenzi project. We were more prepared this time and we knew what we could do better, compared to last time. This week, we taught the students simple conversations like 'how are you' and what you like or dislike. There were more students this time, meaning that students in wobulenzi have taken an interest in the French classes. Our workshop today run from 10a.m to 1p.m, just like last time.

The learning outcomes this week were working in collaboration with others, planning, developing new skills and like last time, engaging in issues of global importance. Why working in collaboration with others? Teaching today require d a lot of working in collaboration. We as the teachers would do demonstrations among us, showing the students what to do. Today also took a lot of planing because last time we noticed that without planning the activities for the workshop before presenting them to the students. We included games to keep the students more interested in the workshops.

As last time, we played a game of basketball with the students at wobulenzi, this is our way of breaking the ice and making the students more comfortable with us. We left Wobulenzi at 3p.m. We hope that next time, they come to KISU instead of us coming to wobulenzi.

Volleyball team training reflection Week 1

Volleyball team training reflection one

Volleyball is a new sport in school never done before as a competitive sport at Kisu. I joined the team after training during the after school club during the first term. Playing during the first term allowed me to acquire basic skills that would help me try out for the school's team in third term. During this 10 week training, we shall play games against other schools and during that time, I expect to improve my serving, my passes, blocks, and spikes which are smashes. The learning outcome I can think of right now is working in collaborations with others because in volleyball, to be successful, you need to good at communication.

Wobolenzi Project Week One Reflection

Saturday 20th is the first week of our long project with the wobolenzi town academy. Our group consisted of four people and once we arrived on site, we divided ourselves into two groups of twos to increase the efficiency. We alternated the work. While one group was doing the alphabet, another would do the numbers. Our goal for the first week was to break the ice and get comfortable with the groups of students because we would have the same students during these four weeks. Our equipment included notebooks, card boards, French work books for the beginner. Today, we taught the students the alphabet and counting from one up to twenty. The students were quit shy at the beginning but after breaking the ice, most of them were quite eager to raise their hands after some time. We worked  from 10a.m to 1p.m. During that time, the students were given tests to show how much they understood during each lesson.

Something we could have done better, was to make an action plan before the lessons started, it could have made the lessons run more smoothly. After lunch we played a game of basketball with the students at Wobolenzi Town Academy. I was pretty satisfied with the progress the students made this Saturday. We left them words and sentences to remember for next week's lesson. For today, I can say that everything went as expected. The main outcome today was engaging in issues of global importance because all the students come from different places in uganda, some where there is still war, so we have to avoid some jokes and be as most politically correct as possible by avoiding controversial issues.
We officially left Wobolenzi at 3p.m.