Student Council

Learning Outcomes: 
-Undertake new challenges
-Plan & Initiate activities
-Work Collaboratively with others
-Develop new skills 


This year, I was part of my school's student council as I was my class representative. I had never been part of student council but it had always been something that I was interested in doing. Meetings were held twice a week in order to discuss what we were going to do, I feel as though during these meetings I expressed and voiced my  ideas or opinions which I normally don't do that often but being in student council I felt as though it helped me be more expressive of my thoughts and opinions on matters. During the course of the year, we organised several events such as the valentine's dance and selling food & drinks at sports events. For the valentine's dance, I helped sell tickets which was actually more challenging than it sounds as it took a lot of convincing to get people to go to the dance. I also helped out with decorating, this involved working with others and we all had to do our part if we wanted it to be successful. For the dance, we decided to have games so I was in charge of beer pong, in this case soda pong. I had to plan this activity out and in the end it seemed as though the young kids enjoyed it as it was something that we had never done at a dance before. Another event that we held was the dodgeball tournament, this required collaboration between all of us as it went on for a week and since we were dealing with large groups of people it required us to put in work in terms of getting people to sign up and donate. I feel as though throughout the experience, I gained skills such as communication skills, I definitely didn't realise how much time and effort went into being a part of student council as it requires an immense ammount of planning, organisation and more importantly teamwork. Overall, it was a good experience and I am glad that I got to work with others in the school especially kids from the younger years as I don't normally get to work with them, I think that I was able to work collaboratively with everyone which is important aspect of being in student council.

Rotary Cancer Run 2014!

Learning Outcomes: 
1. Undertake new challenges
2. Engage with issues of global importance 

On the 31st of August, I participated in the Rotary Cancer Run; it is an annual event and all of the funds go towards cancer research. I participated in the 5km which started early in the morning. When I first signed up I was pretty nervous as I had never taken part in any sort of run/marathon, so I didn't know what to expect. I'm not much of a runner, so I definitely felt like this was something I wouldn't usually do. However, once I got there I didn't feel as nervous as there were many other people and during the run everyone was very supportive of one another and I ended up enjoying it quite a lot. After I finished, even though it was just 5km, I felt proud of myself as I did something that was outside of my element. This experience taught me that sometimes it is good to try something that you are not comfortable doing, no matter what it is and it will surprise you just how much you might like it. Moreover, it felt even more gratifying knowing that it was for a good cause being cancer research. When I first heard about the run, I thought it would be a small event, but when I actually got there I realised that it was actually quite a big event in which thousands were participating, this helped me put things into perspective and realise the actual cause of why we were doing the run. Overall, I am happy that I took part and it felt good to step outside of my comfort zone.