Key club

 KEY CLUB JOINS OSC !

 Key club is the oldest and the largest service program for high school students. they are all led by student leaders. Key Club tries to offer a range of services to its members: leadership development, study-abroad opportunities, vocational guidance, college scholarships, a subscription to the KEY CLUB magazine, service-learning, personal enrichment and many other programs. Key club mainly focuses on children and service more, it promoted all the global issue in the world and supported them. So, RCCI wan an important CAS they were interested in. For the first time in Sri Lanka, Key Club joined with OSC to help us with the CAS programs. Joining this CAS can be very challenging as it requires us to work collaboratively with other and show a lot of perseverance. It will help us in fund raising and all other programs to improve our CAS. We have different student leaders for this club in OSC. The Key Club members voted for the different leaders and were given our positions and responsibility in the induction ceremony.

President- Damien Martin

Key Club members of OSC

Vice President- Harini Liyanage

Treasurer - Terunaga Tamura
Chief Editor - Heesoo Kim

Secretary- Annie Gillstedt 
Directors:Aparna Iyer, Maheshi Dharmasiri, Sandushi Pathirage, Keisha Gani, Avindhya   Koralagamage.

Week Without Walls in Hambantota!! :D

WWW :)
Children at the school: Picture credits Camie Raguin

Grade 11 had their trip to Hambantota. This was our final WWW, so we wanted to make sure we have lots of fun during this trip. This time, our trip mainly focused on service unlike the last year WWW where we had camping. We stayed in the Peacock Beach Hotel. We divided our grade into two sections, the Sha group and the She group. I was in the sha group, we worked in the school which was one hour away from the hotel. We already planned our activities. This was planned in the WWW committee meetings before the trip. We were in different groups so that we can all work on what we are good at. We had a group for maintenance, mural , playing with children group and so on. I was in the mural group. This was when I could show my creativity by painting. This activity requires a lot perseverance and collaboration. I worked with Harini, Charity and Toni in one of those walls of the school. I later painted the plain sides of the wall. We even interacted with the children, talked to them, played with them and watched them dance and have fun. It was a really good experience. It is good to see how the school looked  prettier and neat after all the week of hard work we had put in. The children were also really happy with our visit. It was really nice to see their happiness when they saw the newly painted school. At the last day of our service, we performed for the children. We also learned a Sinhalese poem which they knew so that they can enjoy it. They also performed for us. I felt happy that I could help these people in some way. We saw the Hambantota port and we went on a safari to Yala National Park. It was great fun. The port was really good and the safari was also fun. We saw lots of birds and animals. We were divided in to our science groups. I went in with my Physics group. The trip went really well. This is probably my last school trip, so I made sure I enjoy a lot and have fun!! I will miss WWW trips !! :)

Spreading awareness about our CAS to OSC parents

Different CAS leaders were responsible of putting up a display board about their respective CAS. This was done to increase awareness about different CAS activities taking place in OSC. The leaders were in charge of explaining what their CAS is about. This activity made me work collaboratively with other member in RCCI, we all planned this activity and worked on how this board will be.

Explaining about RCCI during the activity

This activity was quite challenging as parents asked various questions about our CAS and we had to make sure that we had thorough knowledge on RCCI. We also had a power point presentation showing pictures of the kids from RCCI so that they can visualize what it means to be a part of this CAS. We were helped by Alice, former RCCI leader, who gave us prior knowledge about RCCI and helped us with the presentation. I think we did a good job with this presentation, this was my first minor achievement in this CAS activity. 

RCCI Leader :)

The supervisor of RCCI, Ms.Nyriz chose me and Uthpala as the next RCCI leaders. Last year it was Alice who was the leader of the CAS. This year she chose two leaders as we can help each other during all the RCCI sessions. Alice and the teacher explained us all the responsibilities we have as the leader. Later, we even elected the Treasurer (Nadeera) and the secretary (Kuval Dutta) of the RCCI. I feel that our CAS is more organised now, we all divided the works among ourselves. This time we wanted to concentrate more on fund raising compared to the last year. S we decided to raise money in all possible events. We also planned goals to achieve. We wanted to build a new center for RCCI. These were our initial plans for the RCCI.