Prom Preparations!

Planning this year's prom was quite the challenge but it turned out to be very rewarding in the end. This was a CAS activity that the whole class was a part of, therefore I feel the most important aspect of it was teamwork. I feel  as though this was hard at first for the whole class, especially when it came to deciding on the theme, everyone had their own opinions which caused some conflicts at times. Luckily, this was resolved quite quickly and the theme that everyone agreed upon was 'The Godfather'. After that was sorted, we then divided ourselves up into 4 teams-Finance, Venue, Entertainment and Decorations. I was part of the decorations committee along with 4 other girls. We were all involved in the fundraising aspect of prom, during the ice-cream sales, I helped take orders as well as sell the ice-cream during lunch times. We also sold breakfast to teachers and students, I was more involved with this fundraising activity as it was particularly for our decorations committee, I helped take orders and made pancakes as well as delivered the breakfasts, this fundraising activity was quite successful in my opinion as it had never been done before in school. This helped achieve one of my learning outcomes which was plan and initiate activities as it was the decorations committee who led this fundraising activity. Getting back to the actual decorations bit, we first wanted to use a designer to help us with all the decorations, we met with one but in the end it did not work out, so we ended up doing everything ourselves which I feel worked out for the best. When we first started throwing around ideas for the whole design aspect of the event, it was quite challenging as all of us had very strong ideas on what we wanted which sometimes caused arguments, however, we all managed to come to an agreement on everything which is very important as this whole activity was based on teamwork as I said earlier. When we all agreed on everything, things became much better and easier as we were all on the same page. We managed to divide the tasks between ourselves, I was in charge of getting all the seat covers and table cloths, getting all the flowers (I managed to get the flowers for free which was quite helpful as our budget was limited) and getting musical instruments. On the day of prom, we were all there early in the morning to start setting up, there was a lot of running around that day and it was pretty hectic but by the end of the afternoon, everything came together quite nicely. All in all, this was a huge task and it required a lot of planning which took us a few months, at times it was very difficult but I feel as though we all learned how to work as a team and that really made things much easier. In my opinion, prom was very successful this year and even though it was challenging, it was all worth it in the end. 

Spray painting top hats

Decorating on prom day

The final outcome