Second CAS Interview

Second CAS interview (october 2019 )

Student’s name: Jan Malicki

1.    What has been most enjoyable and beneficial for you thus far in CAS?

      I think the most enjoyable and beneficial experience in CAS so far were the activities I took part in together with my classmates. Not only did they give me the possibility to discover what skills each of them has, but also gave the opportunity to learn a lot about cooperation.

2.    What has been a highlight of creativity? Activity? Service?

      For creativity it was without a doubt the start of my RPG campaign during which I think I’ve learned a lot. As far as activity is concerned, it really made me understand the importance of a healthy diet and a fit lifestyle. This way I just began to feel better about myself. With regards to service, I think it was the philosophy night in our school that really showed me how an event can bring different people from the whole school together.

3.    What do you hope to achieve most from CAS? How can you do this?

      I hope to learn how to find entertainment in different activities, how to earn satisfaction in the area of service as well as creativity or activity. I think I plan to further evaluate on my CAS reflections they really do show what is the most important in CAS and give the opportunity to find some satisfaction.

4.    When have you investigated, prepared and taken action so far in creativity, activity and/or service, or with your CAS project?

      I have done all of the actions on daily basis, as far as my CAS project is regarded, I took the opportunity and did it during the first class of DP.

5.    What have you developed for your CAS project—your goals, who are you collaborating with, whether the project involves creativity, activity and/or service, your roles and responsibilities, and your progress to date?

      For my CAS project, together with a group of friends from class, we’ve collaborated with a group “Lublin w Siecie Życzliwości”, which is a voluntary group aimed at spread of positive attitude and feeling of support. We’ve came up an idea to organize workshop for kids from the primary school. This way, we were not only on peak performance of our creativity, but also we found ourselves able to actually teach the small participants of our projects some vital skills.

     

6.    What have been the biggest challenges for your CAS involvement, and how have you overcome them?

      My biggest challenge for my CAS involvement was without a doubt organization. I overcame it through use of specific apps on my mobile phone which allowed me to remember about many different tasks I have planned.

7.    What difficulty has been hardest to overcome? Where might you need support at this time?

      Hardest to overcome, was the consistency of updating my CAS blog. Luckily I found help in  my classmates and most importantly my coordinator, who up till today are motivating me to keep my blog updated.

8.    Have you ensured an equal balance across the three CAS strands? If not, how will you rectify this?

      I think I have achieved an equal balance, although sometimes I am lacking a bit of Service, this due to the fact that usually when I participate in such activities I do not take the opportunity to document it in a way like photos or videos. To rectify it, I will need to assure more evidence.

9.    What have you learned from your involvement in CAS?

      I have learned how to combine different part of CAS into a single event. Furthermore, it taught me to actually find different bonuses from different areas in one activity.

10.  How have you used reflection to gain insights or understandings?

      I think I have answered the question in my mentions before.

11.  In what ways have you especially enjoyed and learned from reflecting?

      I think I especially learned from reflecting as far as activity is concerned. Making sure of my healthier lifestyle was actually crucial for my everyday life. Not only did I learn a lot because of that but also at some point I began to enjoy it.

12.  Do some of your reflections include the four elements—what happened, how you feel, ideas and questions?

      I think some of them do, although I must state that I will need to focus on the four elements included in the future, as some of my reflections do not really include it.

13.  Can you describe a situation where reflection happened very naturally and easily? Did you have a guided reflection opportunity that was helpful?

      I think, it was very natural and easy when I went out of the newly released ‘Joker’ movie. The structure of the film imposed some reflections on me. Furthermore the reflections have flown even more as many of my friends had seen the movie too, what resulted in us just commenting on the movie and discovering its further aspects.

14.  Does your collected CAS evidence show ongoing CAS involvement? Are there ways in which this could improve?

      I think they do, my blog actually develops and the posts get more interesting, at least in my opinion. Nonetheless, I think I could improve by more consistency as far as posting is concerned.

15.  In what ways have your CAS experiences, including your project, assisted you in achieving one or more learning outcome?

      It can be stated that the healthy lifestyle I took up as a result of my CAS, made me learn a lot about the influence of different things on my health. Firstly, I learned how to cook in a manner that could benefit my health in a number of ways and secondly I became more aware of what to do and what to avoid.

16.  Outline a skill that you have strengthened or developed from engaging in a CAS experience.

      I think I have strengthened and developed my skill of organization. The consistency needed during the regular posting, taking evidence and so on and so forth was a real flashpoint for me to focus more on the organization in my pursue of knowledge and everyday life.

17.  Explain something that has happened in CAS that provoked some strong emotions (“I was really excited when …”; “I was sad when …”; “I was really happy when …”).

      I was really excited and happy at the same time when I could develop a very complicated and very emotional campaign in the online RPG games together with some of my friends. Although it was not a single event but a very large sequence of those meetings, actually it gave me a sense of achievement and pride.

18.  Choose a learning outcome and discuss your evidence of achieving it, and what stands out as most significant and memorable.

      I think the biggest learning outcome was a change to my lifestyle, meaning the already discussed development of my more healthy attitude. As far as evidence is concerned, I have posted many different dishes and recipes that were very crucial for my change. The outcome however, was very important for me in a way that I began to feel better about myself and gained more energy I can spare each day. Most significant and memorable was this improvement in my health, I feel more energetic less sluggish or simply better.

19.  Five years from now, describe what is likely to stand out as a highlight from CAS.

      I hope I will be able to keep my fit and healthy lifestyle for longer. Actually, I am persuaded at the moment that it is something very important, as it has an extremely positive outcome on one’s health. Therefore, I think that Five years from now, I still want to be as healthy and actually keep my attitude towards fit food and regular activity. It would be best, if I actually was able to futher develop this attitude.