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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Guiding Visiting Applicants

Throughout the whole of the two year period of doing the IB, my school was providing tours around the Sixth Form for students who were looking to apply to the Sixth Form the following year, and of course, who else better to give a tour than an actual student? Whenever a prospective IB student came for a tour, I would guide them through the Sixth Form building and answer any questions which they had about the course, the subjects i was doing and the school. This was useful for CAS because I had increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth in touring the people around the building. I had to work collaboratively with others in order to fulfil the visitors' questions like providing them with someone who did a subject that I do not do if they were interested in it. I also considered the ethical implications of my actions as this could be the children's future school and had to answer the questions honestly so that they could make the right decision for their future. This helped me to become a thinker, a communicator, principled, open-minded, caring, a risk-taker.

My aims were to give  an appropriate tour of the building and answer any questions which the visitors had about the school and the IB. 

This was a challenge for me because I had a lot of pressure to answer questions and make sure that the visitors understood me and had a good and honest impression of the school through my tour. 

This was of SERVICE because I had to give tours of the whole school to the Visiting prospective students. 

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Great Ashcroft Bake Off- Part 2

The time finally came for the second Great Ashcroft Bake Off of my lifetime at Ashcroft Technology Academy. I was feeling great about having an opportunity to redeem myself after the delicious-but-a-bit-less-beautiful cake from the year before so my main priority was to amend the design aspect of the cake. I still wanted to make the cake fun and pretty so I wanted to make a rainbow cake again, only with a twist of a tie dye effect and a pretty disguise. This is useful for CAS because I was able to increase my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth in baking and plan and initiate activities. It also allowed me to show perseverance and commitment and develop the skills I had previously acquired in baking from the past Great Ashcroft Bake Off whilst becoming an inquirer, a thinker, open-minded, caring, a risk-taker, balanced and reflective.

My aims for this activity were to improve upon the cake which I had made last year, but keeping the same kind of idea flowing. I wanted to still do a rainbow cake, however i tried a different recipe so that it would be a different kind; rather than very neat and stacked colours, these would be mixed together, like those in a tie die. Then, in order to make the cake more aesthetically pleasing, I wanted to disguise the colours so that they surprised the judges when they opened it up. My main aim was to gain points for my house and have fun in making a cake and competing with my peers. 

This was a challenge for me as I was trying to improve my last recipe and, of course, I had a lot of pressure of making a cake even better than the one I had made in the previous year which had seemed very difficult before I made it.

This was Creative because I redesigned and remodeled last years recipe in order to create a new and improved cake. It was also Service, again because the cakes which were entered into the competition were sold in order to raise money for charity.

I found this activity very amusing and i was really pleased with the result and met all my aims and goals. I managed to make a very pretty silver melted frosting coating topped off in delicious and sugary pink strawberry candy with a wonderfully colourful inside which made mouth water at its sight (and not only because of my famous baking skills).