Fitness Club

Shaun Lehane, Mark Ongemakh, Stefan Filpovich, Peter Torok and me have created a fitness club this term. Firstly we concentrated it on working with metal and basketball, however not many people came. We decided to rebrand ourselves and created an image of the club concentrating on abs workouts and bar exercises acompanied by weightlifting. We use the Insanity Asylum and P90X programms. The club is aimed at building up body mass of the people who want to become stronger and look good, after all summer is close. After readvertising ourselves we have had about 20 people turning up on the first day and roghly the same amount on the next day. The club takes place at the balcony in the gym but beacause we are growing we might take the lower floor of the gym soon. Photos will be published soon.
The following CAS objectives are met:

Making awareness of my streangths and weeknesses

Showing percevierence and commitment in my actions

Developing new skills

Working collaboratively in a team.

Football Club

Every week on thursdays, after school the school football league competition takes place. The best players of the school have been selected and acompanied by teachers three teams of six players have been formed. The teams are called: Galacticos(greens), Maestros(blues), Maestros(reds). We play with one substitute, however everyone except the goalkeaper rotates. There are 4 players in field and a goalkeeper at a time. The football matches are very competitive, as we play for points, where a win is 3 points a draw is 1 point and a loss is zero respectively. Each team plays 10 games and the points are then added on and hung on the notice board of the club. The number of goals scored by each player and the number of clean sheets obtained are also displayed on the board. At the end of the year awards to the best goalkeepr and striker will be awarded, which will be called the "Golden Glove" and the "Golden Boot".
When I started playing I was in the Maestros team but because there was team unbalance Mark Ongemakh(goalkeeper) and I were transferred into the Galacticos team. At the moment I have 83 goals on my score.The top is about 125 which is by Stefan Filipovich. EAch team has scored about 300 goals and are about even. After todays game I am not sure, but I guess that The Maestros are first, Galacticos second and Dynamos third. Althiugh the games are competitive friendly relationships are maintained between players.
The following CAS objectives are met:

Developing new skills

Working collaboratively in a team

Making awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses

Showing percivierence and commitment in my actions

Weather Club

The year twelves and thirteens have been continuing on running the weather club. The weather club is involves pairs of allocated students to take reading off the stevenson screen. We measure the maximum and minimum temperature for each day, the current temperature, snow fall(mm), cloud cover and atmospheric pressure. In order to achieve accuracy the devices are reset every time readings are taken and the readings are taken at the same time every day( at 11 am). Running the weather club will allow us to graphically display our values on a chart and analyse the temperature in moscow, write down some records, calculate averages and also compare the chart that will be drawn this year with the charts from previous years.By running the weather club and using the data obtained and comparing it with previous years we could even perhaps make some conclusions about global warming, as last year the winter in russia was extremely cold, but if global warming would actually exist temperatures would not really fall to minus 30.
The CAS objectives achieved are as follows:

 show perseverance and commitment- commitment is shown by concistently obtaining readings.

 engaged with issues of global importance- engaging with weather analysis

develop new skills- using instruments for measuring weather conditions

Winter Activity Day

On the 13th of March the IB students have organised a winter activity day, which involved the entire school to take part in different indoor and outdoor winter sports or other activities. We were split into groups and each group was allocated a task or activity to be prepared. My group consisted of Stefan, Mark and Me.
We decided to build an obstacle course and build it entirely out of snow and some other obstacles like barriers to be taken from the school gym. We started the building proces a week before the activity day, to ensure that everything will be ready by then.
The obstacle cource started with deep holes in the snow which were to be jumped into by students. There were 5 of them. After that the students had to crawl under the net, run around a snow hill and go through a tunnel. After entering the tunnel they had to take a U-turn an accelerate in order to jump over the snow hill, after that again under the net and arount a high heap of snow. Here came the most interesting part where the participants had to crawl ot jump over barriers depending on the barrier height after that they ran straight and hat to finish on the top of the big heap of snow, which was about 2-2.5 metres high. We timed the students and for each mistake added 3 seconds to their time. The teachers also took part and also everyone was allowed to shoot snowballs at the person running through the obstacle course in order to slow him down.Strangely enough the best time was achived by Stefan and Me which was 31 seconds.
It was great fun and everyone enjoyed this activity alot, as it was perhaps the most challenging activity where you had to be flexible and creative in terms of strategic planning in order to acheive the quickest times.
We have met the following CAS objectives:

-Undertaken a new challenge(building an obstacle cource and organising the event)

-Planned and initiated activities(building in advance and maintaining it in good condition)

-Developed new skills(shovel skills and organising a grop of children exceeding 20)

-Worked collaboratively with each other( building the course was a great tem effort)

-Shown percievierence and commitment in my actions( worked 5 lunch times in a row)