Painting fence for national park

   On 29th of September, I went to a city called Dankin. There was a national park called the Prioksko-Terrasny National Park and on that day, my father's company had decided to go there and helped them as it was their Clean-Up Day. At the park, there were several activities that I could have taken. Transferring timbers to another place, painting fence and etc. My family went there and my mom and I went to paint the fence but my d ad went to transfer timbers.

   I and others who volunteered for painting the fence got a basket of green paint and a brush for each. It was my first time painting fences so at first, it came to me as a hard work. But as I was working more and more, I had a know-how to paint fences. The time went so fast and after I and others finished the work, it was already 4 hours past since we started painting. After I finished the work, I was confident that I took part in the Clean-Up day in Proksko-Terrasny National Park. Few days later, I also got a certificate which confirms that I actually spent 4 hours of volunteering works in the park.

• Developing new skills
• I developed my painting skills which I had never had before. As I already mentioned, it also allow me to obtain a know-how of painting.
• Working collaboratively with others
• I worked with other my father's acquaintances and their family. To finish the work faster everyone who attended for the work should have worked collaboratively with others and it also made us work easily since painting was not as easy as it was seen.
• Undertaking new challenges
• It was my first time that I took part in a national park's work and painting fence was also the first opportunity in my life. I, at first, thought that it would be interesting and easy but it was not as easy as I thought but I thought that I would be easier if I have another chance that I can actually take part in painting work.
• Showing perseverance and commitment
• I almost worked for 4 hours to finish the work that I and others were given. I couldn't have a rest while everyone was working. So I needed to bear the pains that I have until everyone decided to have a rest.

Skeching

I was always interested in sketching so I thought that it would be a good idea if I draw some sketch over the summer holidays and so on. I at first focused on the landscape and then focused on a backside of a ballerina. When I was doing IGCSE art, I always had problems to draw a person realistically. Therefore my desire to focus on a person was really high. I had completed two pieces of art works which are not focused on face yet. I was satisfied with my works so I decided to focus more on face next time.

• Developing new skills
• I felt that I have developed my skill through the these works. I looked up the internet so as that I can understand my problems and develop my new skills.
• Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth
• I have also increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth through this activity. I want to work on more drawing so that I can increase more strengths of art.
• Showing perseverance and commitment
• While I was completing these works, I spent about 1 hour to 2 hours. Moreover, I needed to erase a lot so that I could make satisfied works

Tabloid Newspaper Front Page

   In Mr Parker's English class, we have deconstructed the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid's general features were red top with its name of the newspaper, some ears which are represented shortly about news, bold title so that it can easily catch the attention of the audience. Tabloid newspaper's average reading age is said to be around 7 thus the news titles are usually all simple or catchy.

   I spent time to think about the name of the newspaper and I eventually got 'Bracing news' which may remind of 'breaking news'. Moreover, for the contents of the newspaper, I tried to find sensational articles from BBC and also from the other newspaper web page. Those articles are mostly from the UK except the woman - 'Paris Hilton' who are from the USA. I put the article about her so that the newspaper can be more international.

   However, Mr Parker has recommended me that I can develop this front page by abashing the number of words for the titles of news articles. He said that tabloid newspaper article does not really have 'verb' in their articles and also said that the actual article will not appear on the front page rather the journalist would like to say 'see pg 11' or 'continued pg 11'. Therefore I decided to develop the weaknesses that I have it now so that I can be satisfied myself and also develop my skills.

From this activity..

• Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth
• It was the first time that I heard that there are two main types of newspaper - tabloid newspaper and broad sheet newspaper. From this activity, I realised the differences between two types of newspapers and singularly, it was a chance to learn about the stucture of a tabloid newspaper in detail.
• Developing new skills
• During making the front page, I used photoshop for layout and putting pictures that I needed. From this activity, I learned to delete the background of a picture like shown for the summary of the article about Paris hilton.
• Planned and initiated activities
• In order to make a front page, I needed to make sure what kind of articles should go and where they have to be located. So it was a planned activity.
• Undertaking new challenges
• It was the first time that I attempted to make a newspaper front page therefore, I was also hard to me to figure out the general structure of the tabloid newspaper. But I googled a lot about the tabloid front page and it helped to get a satisfied result even though it was a new challenge.