Projects	C/A/S	What exactly have I done	Hours
1. Social advertisement	C/A	Project development, the newspaper wall, acting as a model	20
2. Tulips’ flowerbed	A/S	Cleaning the territory, tulips upsetting	2
3. Cleaning of the Lyceum’s territory	A/S	Cleaning the territory from the dead grass	1
4. Exhibition “Art-vinyl”	C/A/S	Project development, data preparation, hall decoration, project presentation, making a final presentation in the Microsoft Power Point	20
5. Meeting with veterans	C/A/S	Pie cooking, hall decoration, responsibility for music	8
6. “Love’s bridge” (individual project)	S	Help to children from needy families with studying	22
7. Orphanage visits (with Artyom Stepanov)	C/A/S	Drawing and handmade stuff creation	4
8. English lesson, Turkish project	C/A	Preparation of the materials for lessons, the lessons’ leading itself	3
9. Kinder garden (with Olesya Cheremukhina)	C/A/S	Help with the material selection, preliminary visit of the kinder garden, lesson leading with Olesya and other girls	3
10. Debates (with Artyom Nuriev)	A	Audience	2
11. Yoga	A	Overcoming of the body and mental limits, self-development	23
12. Helloween and NY parties’ organization	C/A/S	Hall decoration, fund raising	4
13. Help for Ksusha Kiseleva	S	Development and realization of different variants of help to the small girl with cancer	1
14. Movie about our class	C/A	Brainstorming of different ideas for the movie about our class, our activities, our CAS projects	1
15. Posters	C/S	Drawing of posters for the Lyceum’s Beauty contests, etc	2
16. Orphanage	C/A/S	Sewing of bear toys for children, playing and drawing with children	5
17. Halloween for children	C/A/S	Organization of some parts of the project, making decorations, the contest leading, communication with children	9
18. 14th February	C/A	Project development, making hearts and posters, involving Lyceum’s students and teacher to write a wish or smth on the wish poster	4
19. Swimming activity	A	Body development	10
20. Translation work & observation	A/S	Communication with medicine students from Italy and Croatia, introducing Russian culture, traditions, etc. Help with translation. Explaining the process of operations or some other manipulations in hospital, also observation of patients and some help with care	20
21. Model activity	C	Acting as a model in different appearances and roles at photo sessions	7
Total			171

Planning:

1. Activity: Swimming activity
2. Date: April 2012
3. C/A/S: A
4. Aim(s): to develop my body, swimming skills and lungs capacity
5. Description: I am going to visit the swimming pool 2 times per week (so have about 3 swimming hours per week). I want to acquire knowledge about correct swimming and breathing, also I would like to develop skeletal muscles and posture
6. Duration + Hours spent: about 12-15
7. Regime: individual
8. Skills & Qualities developed: knowledgeable, principled, risk-taker, balanced
9. Learning Outcomes:increased awareness of areas for growth, undertaken new challenges, planned activities

Reflection:

1. Activity: Swimming activity
2. Date: April 2012
3. C/A/S: A
4. Aim(s): I think all my expectations came true, as the activity had been planned quite well
5. Description:as I anticipated I developed my muscular system, studied the right swimming and breathing during this activity, and my posture became much better
6. Duration + Hours spent: 15
7. Regime: individual
8. Skills & Qualities developed:knowledgeable, principled, risk-taker, balanced
9. Learning Outcomes:increased awareness of areas for growth, undertaken new challenges, planned activities

I enjoy swimming but unfortunately due to the shortage of time it was almost impossible to go to the swimming pool. Nevertheless I found some time and really happy that I decided to undertake this swimming activity. First of all I have some problems with respiratory system and swimming developed my lung capacity and lungs in whole, so I feel much better now. Secondly, I developed muscular system, especially back muscles, and now I can work on my posture, actually it also become more correct after the month of swimming. What is more, now I feel myself more confident in the water and I don’t afraid to swim along, before I had a kind of fear..

Now I have to prepare to exams, however after the summer I will continue visiting the swimming pool, probably I will try special classes with a coach.

Planning:

1. Activity: Translator work
2. Date: August 2011
3. C/A/S: A/S
4. Aim(s): to improve my English, to get some knowledge about the hospital work (especially about the doctor profession), to meet new people and to establish good relationships with foreign medical students
5. Description: I’m going to be a translator helping foreign medical students from Croatia and Italy with understanding of the processes of operations, giving births, medical examinations, etc. Also I want to know about the doctors work from the inside
6. Duration + Hours spent: 20
7. Regime: individual/group work
8. Skills & Qualities developed: Inquirer,Knowledgeable, Communicator, Open-minded, Caring, Risk-taker, Balanced, Reflective
9. Learning Outcomes: awareness of the areas for growth in English, undertaken new challenges like observing operations, engaged with issues of global importance, considered the ethical implications of actions

 Reflection:

1. Activity:Translator work
2. Date: August 2011
3. C/A/S: A/S
4. Aim(s): Iimproved my English, made new foreign friends
5. Description: So I got the whole picture about the doctor profession and the work in hospital, it engaged me and I eventually decided to be a doctor. Also I took part in the medical care and helped with bandaging up and some other simple work
6. Duration + Hours spent: 20
7. Regime: individual/group work
8. Skills & Qualities developed: Inquirer,Knowledgeable, Communicator, Open-minded, Caring, Risk-taker, Balanced, Reflective
9. Learning Outcomes: awareness of the areas for growth in English, undertaken new challenges like observing operations, engaged with issues of global importance, considered the ethical implications of actions

All in all I got a huge experience during this short period of time! I was looking on the patients from the position of doctor what was highly unusual, nevertheless soon it became normal for me. Also I knew a lot about medicine in Croatia and Italy and even in Russia. Then I improved my communicative skills, and what was really great all the communication was in English, so I also enhanced my speaking English. Then I became aware about some traditions in Croatia and Italy, also I tried traditional cuisine prepared by girls. We spend all the evenings preparing some traditional food of one country (Russia, Croatia and Italy) and playing different games (for example UNO, table tennis, cards, pool, etc.) so we had nice time all together. And finally I decided to be a doctor, I had so much doubt about this, but after the August I was 100% sure in my decision.

What is CAS for me

First of all CAS for me is a development. You care not only about yourself, but about peolpe whom you've never see.

Then CAS for me is a thinking process. What can you do? What can you do more? Trying to make everything possible.

CAS for me is an expansion of personal views on the world.

In future I want to become a doctor. I suppose due to our CAS activities I want to work in such an organisation as MSF. I want it indeed.

Orphanage

We visited children in the orphanage.
You may see the movie, made by Nastya Ryabova, following this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu8y0MYXOfo&list=HL1326304841&feature=mh_lolz


Planning:

1.     Activity: visiting children in the orphanage

2.     C/A/S: C/A/S

3.     Date: 6th January 2012

4.     Aim(s): to speak with children about Christmas and New Year, to show them a sketch, to play, to give presents

5.     Description: firstly we are going to sew some toys and cook biscuits for children, then think up a scenario of the sketch and make some repetitions

6.     Duration + Hours to be spent: approximately 5 hours

7.     Regime: group work

8.     Resources: human

9.     Skills & Qualities to be developed: thinker, comunicator, open-minded, caring, balanced, reflective

10.   Desirable Learning Outcomes: enhanced comunicative skills, abilities to talk to childrend and to play with them, undertaken challenges, work in group

Self-evaluation:

1.     Description: almost everything was as we expected, i sewed 4 bears. my classmates prepared a scenario and distributed all the roles and activities. I played and drew with children

2.     Duration + Hours to be spent: 5 hours

3.     Regime: group work

4.     Resources: human

5.     Skills & Qualities to be developed: thinker, comunicator, open-minded, caring, balanced, reflective

6.     Desirable Learning Outcomes: enhanced comunicative skills, abilities to talk to childrend and to play with them, work in group, there was a challenge to communicate with disabled children and organize some spontaneous activities 

Halloween

Planning:

1. Activity: Halloween
2. C/A/S: C/A/S
3. Date: 28^th October 2011
4. Aim: to organize a Halloween holiday for Lyceum’s primary school pupils (3^rd form)
5. Description: we’ll make a scenario, which we are going to follow; on the holiday there will be several groups of children and several stations with special competitions on them. Children should pass all the tests at these stations.
6. Duration + Hours to be spent: 10-12 hours
7. Regime: it will be partly a group work and partly an individual on
8. Resources: human, in-school
9. Skills & Qualities to be developed: all the skills and qualities from the IB profile will be developed
10. Desirable Learning Outcomes: I want to try myself as an actress (new role => challenge), want to communicate with children (I have some experience in this area and I know how it’s difficult to work with them => challenge), want to make some decorations (my drawing skills are not good actually, so I’m going to develop them as well as my creative side)

Reflection:

1. Activity: Halloween
2. Aim: to organize a holiday for children, to introduce a piece of English culture to them, to make children a bit happier.
3. Description: we gathered children in groups and showed the beginning of the fairytale, then carried out a set of small competitions and finished our fairytale with sweets. It might seem quite easy to undertake, but I must to tell you it wasn’t.
4. Skills & Qualities developed: I tried myself as an organizer and as a kind of actress (a was a cat), it helped me to feel more comfortable in large groups, also I become more confident in myself.
5. Learning Outcomes: be prepared for everything, be ready to entertain children, wait from children unpredictable reactions, and be careful in words.

Yoga

Planning stage

Project/Activity: Yoga (A)

Date: February - May 2011

Goals: To put in order my thoughts, to improve physical mention.

Personal Challenge: To achieve a harmony between body and mind, to clean my mind from unnecessary thoughts.

Learning Outcomes: Harmony and calm.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? Yes, I’ve never tried myself in yoga.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, but not very clear yet.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? Only for me, probably my mind will change.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? I want to learn my body possibilities and the theory of yoga.
5. How can this activity benefit other people? No how.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? Self-knowledge.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? I do yoga at the special centre.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? I want to learn my body possibilities and the theory of yoga.
3. How successful have I/we been? Firstly it was very hard to do yoga, cause I wasn’t physically prepared.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? I wasn’t able to make my head free from the thoughts.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people? Yoga suits me, I want to continue do it.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? I got interested in Buddhism, understood the value possession of relaxation techniques.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? Only my coach.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? No how.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? Nothing.

Kinder garden

Planning stage

Project/Activity: Kinder garden (C/A/S)

Date: 28^th March 2011

Goals: To make a contact with children, to conduct an informative and interesting lesson for little boys and girls, to act as a teacher.

Personal Challenge: To overcome myself and be very patient and attentive, to monitor literacy of speech.

Learning Outcomes: Applications by heart, good reminiscences, oratory.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? There were some similar roles, but work in a kinder garden is definitely new.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, there is a plan, which we should follow.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? For children, we hope they will get new impressions.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? Can I make a contact with children? Is it interesting for me? Can I make them interested?
5. How can this activity benefit other people? Children will knew something new, acquainted with students.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? I can understand to what extend I get on with children.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? We conducted a lesson with children in a kinder garden.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? We wanted to learn children’s skills, ways of thinking, imagination.
3. How successful have I/we been? This lesson was conducted very well, there were some problems, but all in all everything was good.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? All children are different with different temperaments, everybody has a special execution speed. It was hard to entertain children with a high execution speed, to make them still interested in a task.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people?  I understand that children with me wondering.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? Even at the age of 6 everyone is a personality, we shouldn’t treat all alike.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? We were working together, under Lesya’s managing.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? It was a new form of work, which children have never been faced with, but they liked it and worked productively.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? I think we should focus on children with a high and low execution speeds, offer extra tasks for the fastest.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? I can open a craft club in a “Love’s bridge” and I can use my skills there.

English lesson, Turkish project

Planning stage

Project/Activity: English lesson, Turkish project (C/A)

Date: 19^th March 2011

Goals: To conduct a lesson about Russian and English cultures, comparing both with each other using such aspects as traditions, tastes, fashion, cultures, languages, behaviors and etc. To collect enough material for later analysis.

Personal Challenge: To conduct a lesson, acting as a teacher, to make a free chat with pupils, to be on a wave with them.

Learning Outcomes: Material for analysis, feedback (reflection), new personal skills, group work.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? Yes, I will be acting as a teacher, and a lesson will be in a form of dialog.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, there is a determined aim, which should be reached and a plan, which we should follow.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? There will be no consequences as such, cause it is a research project.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? Breadth of vision and depth of thought today's children.
5. How can this activity benefit other people? It is a research project.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? I want to compare us and today's children in this age.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? We conducted an English lesson in the school №50.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? Breadth of vision and depth of thought today's children.
3.  How successful have I/we been? I think we were quite successful, cause lesson with our group of children was very interesting and active. I felt myself comfortable.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? Not all children were interested in discussions and games, so we should tried to find a way to involve them too.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people? I work in a group especially with children well, actually work in “Love’s Bridge” help me, I think.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? Value of learning English.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? We were working in a little group of my classmates.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? It was the research project, but probably somebody got interested into a deeply studying of English language.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? There were some problems in organization.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? Good organization is a base of success.

“Love’s bridge” (self-initiated project)

Planning stage

Project/Activity: “Love’s bridge” (S)

Date: February - May 2011

Goals: To help children from unfortunate families with their lessons, to attract volunteers to this project, to bring real benefits to children, to motivate children to study.

Personal Challenge: To change my attitude to these children, to be useful, to act as a teacher, to overcome myself.

Learning Outcomes: Teaching skills, feedback from children.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? Yes, it’s a new role for me. It is a first time I am acting as a tutor, surely as a volunteer.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, it is. Cause there is a determine aim to help children with determine problems in studying.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? For me I think it is a sense of the significance and usefulness of my work. For children consequences are: firstly - knowledge, then, a sense of that there are people who care.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? I want to know how volunteers organizations work, its aims and objectives.
5. How can this activity benefit other people? I think due to it children can get necessary knowledge, communicate and develop
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? Probably I’ll think how I can help these children more, than in this organization.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? I was acting as a tutor (volunteer) in a little premise with children of different age.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? I wanted to know how volunteers organizations work, its aims and objectives.
3. How successful have I/we been? I think I was successful, cause children understudied the material I explained.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? Some children didn’t know even bases of subjects, like multiplication table, etc. When I tried to explain something, it was very hard to move on. Some of them understand it is a must to know and tried to learn, but not all the children were so conscious.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people? I learned I can explain clearly and can tolerate.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? I tried myself in the role of tutor, my attitude to children from dysfunctional families changed (appearance does not always correspond to the content), I started to value my family more.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? Nobody helped me, I just interacted with children and with the head of this centre.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? It is beneficial only for children, cause they get new knowledge.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? Nothing.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? Volunteering is congenial to me. I’m ready to spend time, forces and emotions for other people.

Art - vinyl

Planning stage

Project/Activity: “Art-vinyl” (C/A/S)

Date: February 2011

Goals: To organize a unique exhibition of vinyl covers as of artworks, to construct a picture of the origins of the modern music, to present students  the information in clear manner about the most popular rock bands of the last century.

Personal Challenge: To find, process and learn all the information about popular bands of the last century (plus knew knowledge), to act as a guide of this exhibition (new role), to develop my oratory.

Learning Outcomes: Interesting facts about vinyl covers and music, feedback, oratory, overcoming the fear of appearances.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? Yes, definitely new. I’ve never been acting as a guide in an exhibition.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? It is a real task, which will be very interesting, I think; I’ll learn many new things, which I want to know.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? Sure, it will be an entertaining and informative project aimed at expanding students' horizons.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? Firstly, new information about rock bands of the last century like The Beatles, Pink Floyd and etc, whose music I love, then new skills like communication with different groups of students, acting as a guide, design skills.
5. How can this activity benefit other people? Expanding horizons again, new information, new music, new images.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? I can understand the nature of music flows and types of that time, how they interact with each other, how changed. Also I may understand the vinyl cover destination and propose of its creation and image represented.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? We made an exhibition of vinyl’s covers in one of the lyceum rooms.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? I wanted to learn new information about my favorite groups, wanted to learn from the inside, how such exhibitions are held.
3. How successful have I/we been? I think I was quite successful, cause a curator, estimating the depth and the extent of my knowledge of the subject, allowed me to narrate students about histories of different groups, about histories of cover’s creation.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? At the beginning I was making some mistakes in facts, but I tried to do my best and read more information about these groups. Also firstly it was very difficult to tell the information to the large audience, but then I got used and everything was ok.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people? I understand this theme is very interesting for me and probably in future I’ll study Modern art. 
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? I became more confident in speaking to audience, also I improved my oratory. As for attitudes, I’ve always respected the work of The Beatles, but after the exhibition I got interested in it more and now it is one of my favorite groups.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? At the stage of planning there were three girls and one of them – me, Aleksey Ivanovich was a curator. But then at the stage of performance nobody helped me, escape Alexey Ivanovich.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? I think, it expanded the horizons of Lyceum students, also the got new information, learn something about new music and new images.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? I don’t want to change anything, cause I enjoyed what we got, I am glad that I took part in this exhibition.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? Now I am holding with more confidence in public.