Week Without Walls - Planning

During Week Without Walls, each grade group spends one week devoted to CAS activities. Grade 11 is going to go to Hambantota to paint two pre-schools. We have divided the grade into two groups, one for each school. The groups are "The Sha Group" and "The Hoonas" (my group). Each group has two leaders - ours are Christina and Raj. Both of them speak Sinhala, which is important because no one at the pre-schools will speak any English. The plan is to spend 3 days painting the walls and play equipment of the school. Each morning we will spend 1/2 and hour playing with the kids to make a direct connection with the schoool and people we are helping. We will also have concert at the end of the week, in which both us and the pre-schoolers will perform.

There are 3 other 'sub-leaders' within the group:

• Saba is Games Leader (to organise what we will do with the kids each day)
• Young Jun is Performance Leader (to organise what we will do for the performance)
• Tara is Gifts Leader (to organise gift packs for the kids)
• and I am Mural Leader (to design the mural to be painted on one of the walls)
  

I have collected some images that will help me design the mural. I want to have a silhouette of a person, standing on a stack of books, reaching for the sky. I thought some subliminal education messages would be appropriate :D




We have collected 1,000 rupees from each of the Grade 11s to pay for gift packs for each of the 50 kids at both of the pre-schools. Christina and Thishakya went to Peta markets and bought t-shirts, dolls (for the girls), stickers, pencils, tennis balls, back-packs and much more. I think we may be giving them about a trailer load of stuff, but kids really enjoy receiving presents, and these kids probably don't receive many so it's a good thing.