Time for a change!

Since last week,we changed our playing strategy by beginning to play half court. It was a bit difficult to get the hang of it at first but after that,we all really enjoyed it. The basic idea is that we have 2 teams on each side of the court who all score in the same hoop (obviously). If the ball goes out or if the other team scores,then we have to take it back around the green line before we can score again. I only managed to score 1 goal so far as this strategy requires quick thinking and sometimes I buckle under the pressure and just throw the ball to get people away from me. This is entirely my fault but I definitely plan on perfecting my tactics. This week my teams passing skills weren't as swift as they were last week but hopefully,next week we'll be able to communicate better and pass the ball around quickly in order to build team-working skills. Practice makes perfect!   

Rainbows and Ponies

It's been a long time coming but here is the silent movie :)

Thus the students became the teachers.

The Year 11's and Year 10's will soon have to begin their exams and our Psychology teacher thought it would be a great idea for the Year 12's to give a few tips on how they got through all their extremely stressful   exams. Then we stuck them onto the board and made them look pretty. Now all we can do is hope that they take our advice into consideration

Let's Dance!

This is our latest dance that we came up with and plan on teaching our VERY few students. The song is "4 My People" and it's still a working progress :) enjoy :)

International Day!

International Day turned out to be a success! We had year 8's first and they proved to be..uh....very active. We began all our classes with a presentation containing the most basic facts about Namibia then we proceeded to play "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" based on the presentation which was very straight forward. After the questionnaire ,the students were given 'vet koek'...one of the staple foods found in Namibia as well as other Southern African countries. After this the children gave us feedback on the entire lesson and most of them were pretty positive! :D Even though we had to put in a lot of extra time into the decorations,I think it all went pretty well. Not to mention the fact that I learned to have A LOT of patience but perhaps next time it would be better to time and practice the presentation before hand because at time were very quick and then the class was left with nothing to do and we had to improvise :O

A few samples of the feedback

The 'vet koek'

The Namibian flag in all it's Glory

The African flag

"shitenges"

Lights! Camera! ACTION!

For our CAS assignment,we have to produce a SILENT 3 minute film in groups of 3. Ours is going to be extremely juicy...if all goes well. We haven't started filming yet but if things go as planned,we should be finished by tomorrow. We have all our props,our 'scripts' and I THINK we have a cameraman :P All I can say for now is that our short film will contain a little bit of violence but hey,it's all in the name of entertainment :)

Can you see a pattern forming here?

KNITTING CLUB! The latest patch added to my  CAS activities. Every Friday,there'll be a knitting club at lunch time. The first one was last Friday and unfortunately,I couldn't take any pictures...I was too busy trying to tangle all the wool up :P Soon we'll knit scarfs (decent-looking scarfs,I hope) and sell them to charity. Let's hope they won't knit any frowns on anyone. :D