Junior School Athletics (One Off Reflection)

This week myself and the other prefects were involved in the Junior School Athletics Day. This involved helping teachers set up activities, joining the activities with the kids, and being there to support them. It was an awesome chance to get to know some younger children – and develop skills to work with them – as some can be quite the little handful! I also had to work with other prefects and the Sports Comittee to decide how best to help out in the activities, and also dressed up for the fun of it as well, as seen below

This One Off was Action and Service and Learning Outcomes a,b,d,h

Barbershop Reflection #9

This week, I’ve got a video to show you.

It shows a reduced group (everyone else had meetings), singing our main song – Goodnight Sweetheart.

I am absolutely ecstatic with our progress – and this week just wanted to show you this video, as I feel it’s the best we’ve ever done.

There are a few areas we need to improve on – mainly the final “Well it’s 3 o’clock in the morning” which we had sung for the first time for this video!

(Learning Outcomes – a,b,d,e,h)

Barbershop Reflection #8

What an awesome practice! The Barbershop group sung ‘Goodnight sweetheart’ again today – and it was AWESOME. I’m ecstatic – we all sung perfectly, kept in tune and key, and were beaming by the end of it. I’m finally learning how to stay in key and not get distracted and fall out again. I’m going to take my video camera in this week so you can see us at work!

KFS Reflection #2

I mentioned in my last reflection that this week we are interviewing for the Junior Producer position – what this means is that, for each year, the current Producer has a Junior Producer that they train and mentor. Once the Producer (2nd Year IB) leaves, the JP becomes the Producer. I was technical JP last year, and this week have been interviewing for my own JP!

I must say the interviewing process has been really interesting, as I’ve never really interviewed someone before. It’s certainly odd to see someone talking, and knowing they have NO idea what you have written about them. Despite the fact I have known from the outset which person I want for the role, I must give every applicant a fair chance to talk to me, ask questions, and tell me why they’d suit the role. Interviews finish early next week, and then the decision is made!

(This post shows how KFS is covering criteria a,b,c,,h)

Barbershop Reflection #7

There is a Barbershop performance coming up soon – and today’s practice went really well! Mr Richardson and Mr Senior both commented that we sung the songs today the best we ever had – and it shows how all our morale and attitude problems have subsided. As the people causing the issues have simply stopped attending, we don’t have to deal with their negativity anymore and can now focus on the singing!

So this week we song ‘Honey’ and ‘Aura Lee’. We all moved around the various singing levels (so we couldn’t rely on our partners to stay in key). This is a challenge because in a Barbershop group there are a variety of notes that each singer must keep to – I must say today’s practice was a real confidence booster for me because I managed to stay in key each time!

KFS Reflection #1

This week with Fashion Show we have decided on a theme – and I can’t say anything about it just yet, except that, the year will be 2010 – a big year. A HUGE year. It’s really all I can say!

We are also conducting interviews for the Junior Producer roles this week. Not too much going on as yet, but there are plenty of ideas popping around and we’re all working together nicely.

Liaison Reflection #1 – Summer Jam

While I have not been involved with my role much as yet, as explained in my introductory post, I was still keen to attend the Year 11’s Summer Jam event, during which they raised money for the Samoan tsunami, sold Bandanna’s in awareness of child cancer, and also put on some nice summer music and things for the students to unwind and relax a little, if only for one lunchtime.

I’ve been really impressed with the team so far, and I’m sure next years group will be fantastic to work with.

Year 11 Liaison Introductory Post

As a Prefect, one of my roles is to work in a leadership role somewhere in the school. I’ve been selected as the Year 11 Liason, along with Stephanie. Our job is to mentor Year 11 students and oversee their leadership team, the Community Council. It’s a great opportunity for us to mentor and work with those younger than us and give them some of our experiences in the Senior School – because it’s a pretty scary place at first, it must be said.

The Community Council is like a miniature prefect team. The group works with their year and conducts fundraising activities, charity work, work in the community and also holds fun events for their year group. I’ll be helping them out with all their activities, getting involved myself and also being there for the students if they have any concerns or questions.

While the role doesn’t truly begin until Term 1 next year, this gives you an idea of what I’ll be doing and you can expect learning outcomes of – a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h.

Barbershop Reflection #6

It’s been over a month since I last reflected – due mainly to our study break and exams, during which Barbershop practices did not occur. Last time I talked about attitude problems, luckily (as I will explain) these have subsided. Unfortunately our first performance was cancelled. The Music HOD decided we weren’t ready for a public performance. While this damaged morale it is good to know our weaknesses and what we need to do to overcome them – which is basically focus more in our practices. As such, the first rehearsal this term, we were all ready to go and happy to start a new song.

The new song is called “Goodnight Sweetheart”, and a link to it is at the bottom of this page.

It’s a really bouncy song (we sing it at a higher speed than the video at the bottom) and we’re all feeling it and becoming really enthusiastic about it. I’ve also attached an image of my part to sing, and since I’ve never received music tuition, I’m learning new skills understanding musical notation! Which is really exciting I’m also learning to control my voice and stay in key. We’re all working together to make this really great – and we might be performing in a few weeks.

My part :

Song :

Mr Berry’s Farewell (One Off Reflection)

This term I was asked to produce a video for a longstanding Kristin principal who was retiring. As Mr Berry had mentored me all through the Middle School, I was keen to get involved and worked with Mr Haslam, Mr Gurney and Sean Topham to create the video. The video took several weeks of planning, data collection and several late night editing sessions. A difficulty arose when my computer decided to crash halfway through editing, requiring me to learn new data recovery skills (and consume copious amounts of energy drink). We however got the video finished for the farewell and it was incredibly well received by all. The video is included below.

This One Off was Creativity and Service and Learning Outcomes b,c,d,e,h