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Project One: Working within our year group
Project Two: Working within our school community
Project Three: Visit to the Orphanage and Old Folk's Home
The term had just started and we found out that this CA was
still going to be one of our subjects. We were really looking forward to see
what we were going to do this term.
Project One: Working within our year group
'Project 1' started off with careful brainstorming and
probing about the possibilities of artwork we could create. We saw a lot of
different types of art, mainly site specific art and performance arts. When we
had done all our research we were divided into two groups. The two groups were
led by Bilal and Sarah.
Group 1: Bilal, Chelsea, Justin, Razif, Darren, Kamil, Tiffany and Tanisha
Group 2: Sarah, Katrina, Armani, Max, Sofea, Hatim, Aishwarya and Keen
Project Two: Working within our school community
This was to work with the younger students of our school. Year 4 and Year
6 students were ours to work with this time around. We conducted an art
workshop in which these students would make greeting cards for people at the
orphanage and the old folk’s home, and vice versa.
Working with younger students isn’t that easy. Plenty of preparation had
to be done and disciplining them was tough as they decided before-hand that
they knew way better than us:)
Our sessions began with an introduction
and a few short stories about some under privileged children and old people who
have been neglected by their loved ones, just so they could understand what it
was like living in those conditions. Right after that we did a short
interactive presentation in which we showed them slides of what is an old folk’s
home, why the elderly people go there and introduced what we were going to do
for them. After that they started making the cards, with our help and
motivation of course! We sat beside the kids and encouraged and helped them
finish up their cards. Finally after all that fun, we managed to get them to
sit down together in a group and we joined in for a group photo.- Kamil
Project Three: Visit to the Orphanage and Old Folk's Home
Visit to Agathians Shelter
Art Group: Sarah, Aishwarya, Hatim, Razif,
Max, Armani, Darren
On the 1st of March, we
buckled up and got ready for the trip to the Agathians Shelter. The news of the
unexpected number of children present pretty much ruined our mood, but we still
stuck to our plan. We provided a few boxes of art materials such as colour
pencils, crayons and paper and told the children to make drawings for Year 4
and Year 6 students of MIGS. They started to become slightly hyper
seeing all the colorful art materials and they started off with their drawing. Some of them drew flowers, fishes or even just
scribbles, which was their own perspective of art. In the end, we gave them
greeting cards prepared by the students of MIGS for the children to keep. Although the children at the orphanage may
not have understood the cards, they still greatly appreciated it and likewise
the Year 4 and 6 classes felt as though they had communicated with them.- Hatim, Razif
Music Group: Daniel, Ian, Emyl
The visit to the orphanage was very educational. After a
lengthened bus ride of about 30 minutes, we arrived at the orphanage, with
several children running up to meet us, or at least to see what we had brought.
Since their school was yet to be over, there were only a few children, so it
was easy to organize and control them. First, we had a tour of the orphanage,
and it was sad to see their poor living conditions. We began to prepare when we
realized that the CDs we brought did not work, and we had a difficult time
playing the music, but eventually we got one of the CDs to work for a short time.
When we were teaching, it was a struggle at first, but soon
they picked up the moves quite fast. Some of them were quite skilled at
performing their moves, and did all sorts of backflips, front flips &
cartwheels. Most of the kids were very interested, and had fun practicing on
their friends. Finally we played a short game with them called “Hot Potato”. We
also donated money from a fundraiser in school, which was made by selling
pizza. Overall, the kids had fun, and we left them smiling. Some kids were so
sad to see us leave; they tugged on our shirts, wanting us to stay longer.- Ian
Visit to Poh Link Nursing Centre
Art Group: Katrina, Tanisha, Keen, Sofea, Chelsea, Kamil, Justin, Bilal, Tiffany
Music Group: Meassa, Enisa, Rebecca, Zuha,
Mahnoor, Nifal, Raina
At first, we were told that some of us couldn’t go to the
orphanage, due to transportation reasons; therefore we were assigned to another
workshop, which was to entertain the old people from a nearby old folks home.
It was sort of a shock for us because we’ve never really had
any experience working with the elderlies, but we ended up with several useful
ideas. We thought of singing to them and then playing board games with them.
When we reached our destination, we were so excited to meet
them. We greeted them immediately as we reached. They were so lovely. It was
sorrowful to see these old folks being abandoned by their own families and yet
they are still happy.
We preformed to them. We sang songs like “Count on me” by
Bruno Mars. They seem really happy. They were smiling and clapping. When we
were done preforming, we started playing board games and they liked it a lot!
One of them even won in “Connect Four”.- Enisa and Rebecca
