What I need to improve

This week few more people came along. There were about 10-13 people and actually I thought it was an ideal number to play basketball. We played in two teams and kept subtituting people, so that everyone could play equally. I was chosen as a captain and I picked people who I used to play with and the teams were balanced, but there were more people who are good at lay up and fast break in another team. In fact, I don't know how I play and on Sunday I just watched the video edited by Han and it was awkward to watching me playing, actually I didn't know I played like that.
I found several things I need to improve.
- don't hesistate when shooting.
- move around to find spaces.
- pass accurately
- stronger defense

We allowed lots of scores another team just by simple pass misses and awkward defense. When I play on this Wednesday, I should bear in mind those and attempt to improve them.

Thanks Han for editing :)

 

2013 CAS Plan

Action

 

Basketball (wednesday 4:00-5:30/ saturday 2:00-4:00)

I've played basketball regularly and it becomes one of the expected things in a week. I played basketball constantly, but still there are things I need to improve to be a good player.
aim -to enlarge my shooting range (3pt)
       -to be a more accurate shooter
       -to be able to dribble with two hands naturally
       -to learn the fakes which are useful (e.g. cross over)
       -to do more pass plays

Possible project

During lunch time of Monday and Tuesday, gym is for peope who want to play basketball, but actually no one who wants to play basketball, so the juniors use it to play football. I can manage with other friends to set a basketball tournament. However, I haven't decided yet I will make this or not.

 

Creativity

Band

After International day, we have had a short break for our band and we are planning to start it again.
I am lack of skills and I still can't play the guitar properly without looking at it, so I need more self practices not to harm the band.

Project

We haven't decided what songs we are going to play, but we will have a mini concert one day at school. Since now, we pratice and collaborate with each other, so we can be as good as being able to play in the concert. Actually, I thought if we sell the tickets with cheap prices for our concert and  the money we make will be used for a donation, but we are not that good and I am pretty sure that they won't come if they need to pay. So we are just having a mini concert for free later :)
 

Composing a song

When I play the guitar, I play some codes randomly and I accidently find some fine melodies. I am not musically talented, but I've wished to compose a song and CAS gives an opportunity and encourages me to challenge myself. I am not sure when I can compose a complete proper song, but I will have a go.

Service

 

 Washing up/ announcement

 

In church, when it's our turn to do wash ups, I help mothers to do wash up sometimes. But still I can help when it's not our turn. Moreover, I am responsible for making announcements for church. I ask to the priest or other elders what kinds of new things will be put in announcements and write it down. I do this once a week.

 

 

 

 

the first basketball club after holiday

On wednesday, I regularly come alog to the school basktball club. For 2 weeks, I haven't played basketball ,so I needed make my body get used to it. Although it was the first school day after holiday, I also went to the club as usal. I guessed there wouldn't be enough people for full corts, but I thought at least 10 people would come. Only 4 people(including the teacher) came, which meant we even couldn't play half cort. However, we practiced our lay up skills and shooting skills through many kinds of games suggested by Mr.Harper and we could check what skills we would need to focus to improve. 2 weeks were enough time to lose the sense of shooting and as I expected my shooting rate was awful (about 30%). 2:2 game was better than shooting, because at least I could pass to another person and he could score instead of me who was just awful. Next time, I will do some individual practices on shooting before matches.

Exam tips?

We have taken tests for several times and especially last year we took IGCSE which I thought hard, but it was nothing compared to IB. Anyway in psychology class we decied to give one exam tip per person, for y10 and 11. On post-it I wrote 'Read the question at least more than twice!' It was the most significant advice as a person who missed lots of scores just due to not reading questions properly. I hoped the advices we gave will help them not to lose socres which they can gain and spend time wisely following by our tips.