GSIS 10 Year Anniversary Yearbook: Memories | Page 40

Explore After School
Activities

Worn out
from the seven-hour school
days, students
often choose to
balance academics
with after-school
activities. One such
activity is Banner
Design, a club initiated
by several teachers who
came together and decided that the IB Learner
Profile banners around the
school should be updated.
“We realized that

Banner Club, Chess Club, Papier Mache

the banners don’t actually reflect our school in
the sense that they don’t
have personal contributions from our students,”

Ms. Mast, the PYP Coordinator said.

“We wanted to change this by
having input from students in the PYP,
MYP and DP. So we decided that the
students in our PYP after-school activity
would focus on drawing the images
used.”

The club has been quite successful.
Fourth grader Evelyn Anderson said that
she loves designing so much that she likes
“coming to school to work on the [designs].”

Evelyn explained the current club agenda.
She said, “We are practicing drawing facial expressions and I’m choosing different emotions,
particularly anger. I use a pencil to show these
emotions.”

Club members also look forward to the results
Mrs. Kim paints the mache with Jake Jang. The class used a mix of
of their hard work. Second-grader Jimin Son exnewspaper and glue to form the base of the paper mache. 
pressed that she was “excited that other people are
going to see [her] art.”

The elementary students’ drawings, however,
constitute only the first step in the alteration of the
banners. After Banner Design has completed the sketches, they will be passed on to the
1. Mrs. Kim helps Jimin
MYP students, who will add colSon choose worksheets to complete in class.
or, and to the DP students, who
Asahi Hasui chose a worksheet to dp with her classmates next class.
will digitize and format them.
2. Philip Cho plays chess against his friend and he is happy because he got a pawn. Mr.
Tirkey, the chess teacher, gave students time to compete against themselves to practice their chess skills.
Ms. Mast concluded, “We
3. Aiden Harding and high school student David Lee play each other in Chess Club. Aiden challenged him to play.

hope that students will
take closer note of [the
banners] as they themselves, or their peers,
helped design them.”

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Raiki Sodeoka
Grade 4
Papier Mâché

The players thought about every move that they would make and how they can checkmate. One way chess club
differs from all other clubs in the school, is that is allows students of all grade levels to be a member and compete
together in KAIAC competitions. 4. Robyn Kim watches as Mrs. Lee demonstrates how to color her box house.
With Mrs. Lee’s help and the exemplar in front of her, Robyn was able to make her own house with markers.
5. Kent Takamiya selects a yellow maker to color his box house. After school activities are usually mixed with
students of varying grade levels and allow students to participate in multiple activities on different days.
6. Using colored pencils, Shravya Etlam and Trisha Palli work on their drawings in Banner Club. Each meeting students were given a different medium to use, such as ink, water color, markers, and color pencils.
7. Yuto Kumano, Nathan Ryu, and Yamato Kitabayashi look at the box houses that they made. They were
very happy about the work that they had done, especially considering that they had been working on this
for two weeks. 8. Harry Kim paints his Papier Mâché sculpture with blue acrylic paint. He tried to apply
the right amount of paint, as too much paint may cause the sculpture to drip. 

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