The main points of the project is to bring a group of about 30 students ranging from grades 7 and 9 to OSC. They would stay in the school where we would provide mattresses and bedding. The project would be a duration of 3 days where the kids arrive on a friday and leave on a sunday evening as not to interrupt school schedule too much
We plan for this project to take place in November. This is our planned schedule for the weekend
Schedule:
Friday
15:45- Kids arrive at OSC
16:30- Welcome introduction + Tour
17:00- Football activity 1
18:00- Break
18:15- Football Activity 2
19:00- Dinner
20:00- Reflections
20:30- Prepare for sleep
21:30- Lights out
Saturday
7:00- Wake up
7:30- Breakfast
8:15- Introduction
8:30- Volleyball activity 1
9:30- break
10:00- Volleyball Activity 2
11:00-Volleyball Activity 3
12:00- Lunch
12:50- Volleyball Match
14:00- Break
14:30- Basketball Activity 1
15:30- Basketball Activity 2
16:30- Break
17:00- Basketball Activity 3
18:00- Basketball Match
19:15- Dinner
20:00- Social/Relaxation Time
21:30 – Lights out
Sunday
7:00- Wake up
7:30- Breakfast
8:15- Introduction
8:30- Football Match
9:30- ?
10:00- ?
11:00- ?
12:00- Lunch
12:50- Cricket Activity 1
14:00-Break
14:30- Cricket Activity 2
15:30- Cricket Activity 3
16:30- Kids pack up
17:30- Kids depart OSC for train station
We chose these activities as they are the major and basic sports that these schools will be involved in. We plan to hire officials and coaches to come in and assist us in teaching the kids technique which they can take back up north and share with their peers. We thought it would be a good learning opportunity for them to come here and use our facilites. In order to finance the bedding, food, coaches, officials, transportation, we have planned various fundraisers ranging from bake sales to elementary movie nights and pool parties. We also thought perhaps we could work together with the PTA for another fundraiser which would involve an event for the parents maybe a barbeque or lunch or dinner. We were quite successful raising money for our first project so we feel like that will not be a problem. Rukshan, from the cafeteria, has agreed to cater breakfast lunch and dinner for the kids in simple packets.
Finally, two people in the service group have formulated a rough draft of an invitation letter for the school in Killinochchi which we will improve and send:
Dear _____,
The Overseas School Of Colombo Gecko Inc Service group would like to invite 30 kids from your school to an eventful weekend on the week of *date* at the OSC campus to teach them different techniques of several different sports. We want to take this time to be able to have the students from OSC and the students from *name of school* have a chance to interact with different communities. We also want the kids from *name of school* to be able to remember the skills taught during this weekend so they can go back home and teach their peers. We will be providing sleeping arrangements in the school campus for all the students and teachers during the 3 days.
During the course of the three days we will be taking the students through different sport workshops to help them understand the different sports better. The four different sports that we will be teaching them will be football, volleyball, cricket and basketball. Transport, food and accommodation will be provided, if there is anything in which you could help us with, such a blankets or pillows for the students please let us know! Do not hesistate on asking any questions about the trip and we hope to see as many cheerful faces as we can!
Best Regards and hope to hear back from you soon,
The Gecko Inc Service Group.
