concerns raised after minisportsday

assalamualaikum to all..
i hope all is in good health in the guidance of Allah.

i'd like to address the concerns raised during the debrief after the sportsday. (i'm still referring to the notes written by huda on the pink tissue. thanks for the tissue.)

btw, there are some concerns abt the weaknesses of the organising of the minisportsday. as according to huda:

organising is weak in:
1) informing people of their tasks and roles esp to the asatizahs and facis
2) consent forms for children and parents
3) admin side- planning everything in papers so should one be down, others can take charge.

It's not a one man do one job in the commitee. Every one must knw the whole story to be able to help.

(i copied word for word from the tissue)

i might sound like finding excuses to make these mistakes but lets take it as a reason to why the organising is weak.

1) abt informing everyone abt their roles- not all in the comm are present during the meetings. i was expecting all to turn up during the week before i flew to thailand but in the end only 3 did. i wanted to make everything clear to all. nvr had the chance to. anw i can't blame anyone. we all have other commitments. so i'm trying to make the best of what we have.

2) abt consent form- i suggest that we form a commitee tt writes letters to parents rather than ask ustaz to. i knw more of u are more proficient in the language than ustaz is.

3) abt planning everything on papers- i did. but again nt all turned up for meetings. hw to pass the papers?? ok i remember only 1 had the initiative to ask for it.

btw, it wasn't that easy to assign task on the day itself. i really2 didn't expect afif, ilham and adib to turn up. the store i/c, nafiz didn't even turn up so i had to take charge of the stores and concurrently coordinate the activities.

one person had at least one primary task to do didn't they? anw i was expecting more initiative from the commitee to at least interact with the paricipants than lay idle. i myself was occupied with maintaining the stores and coordinating.


anw ikhwan had briefed the asatizahs on their roles during the last meeting.
the ustazahs did their fair job and so did the ustazs like ustaz hanafiah and ustaz saifuddin. we need to understand that they might not have enough strength to run abt like ustaz jo and ustaz abduh. their presence are much comforting. at least they ensured all are safe till the end.

i personally would rate the event 8.5/10. all went well in the eyes of the supervisors like ustaz jani and ustaz johari.

i'd like to extend my appreciation to:-
1) IKHWAN- did a great job in covering my job in my absence.
2)JANNAH- the prizes was beyond my expectation.
3) HUDA- food was great. great estimation by huda. none was put to waste. the sandwhich pon habis.
4) the MOTIVATOR who suddenly turned up
5) the ASATIZAHS- esp ustaz rasman for the support.

i'm sure all enjoyed themselves like i did. have a great day. salam.

MiniSportsDay Report By FARAHAIN

8am:
berkumpul di pusat

8.15am:
bertolak ke Pasir Ris Park
(zzz)

8.50am:
Warm up

Participants find it
-helpful
-important
(so that they won’t like injure themselves and whatnot during the whole thingy)

9am:
Eat breakfast
Got into groups – mix gender and class so that there’ll be more interaction amongst students from different ages.

6 groups in total. Each group, around 8 people

9.20am:
Put coloured tape around their wrists for easier identification of groups

9.30am:
1st game – potato sack race

10am:
2nd game- shuttle run

10.25am:
3rd game- egg spoon race thingy

10.40am:
Rest, drink water etc

11.05am:
Briefing on Captain’s Ball
(some might not know how to play)

11.12am:
4th game- Captain’s Ball

This is when the kids had a lot to comment on:
- It’s sort of draggy (1hr plus)
- it gets boring (for those who just sat one corner, not their turn to play)
- ‘tak fair tak fair! Dorg tinggi. Mane boleh!’ –I was like… uhh… okaayy…whatever...

Anyways,

12.20pm:
Lunch
(baek sey huda! The nasi ayam is love, really.The sambal extra pedas = I liike~)

Everybody loves this part I bet.
Shagged and all den dpt makan. Fuhh, best.
So yeah.

1.00pm:
Prize presentation
Winners (3 groups) received hampers.
The rest, since there were no prizes for them, they got some tidbits

1.30pm:
Back to pusat



IMPORTANT things to note:

(comments taken from the de-brief after sports day as well as during the event itself)

~ Comments from the kids

-They would want more games.

-Some said that they don’t mind spending more time
if there are fun games after we said that there’s
a time limit and all.


~ We sort of exceeded our time limit

-Should finish at 1pm If I’m not wrong. But we finished
at around 1.30pm. The first 3 games really followed the
time limit but the Captain’s ball took very long.

-Affected the quiz we wanted to carry out. I find the quiz
questions interesting, really. Also, the quiz is really
something else. It’s not physical. It’s using the brain kind.

-So I guess next time, we really have to work on this.
The time limit that we have and the time taken for each
activity as well so we don’t need to cancel out any of our events

~ Next. Prize giving

-It’s really very sad to see those kids who didn’t win,
didn’t get anything much. So next time, we should give them
some gifts too la.

*Anyway, I’m still not sure about the certificate of participation
Ustaz Rasman wanted to do.

~ Moving on. Ice-breaker games

-We were supposed to have this part –which was removed.
This is an important part actually. It’s like an Introduction!
So that the kids know one another and that’s when the bonding, the interaction and the teamwork comes in.


-Without this ice-breaker games, those kids would feel awkward
with the rest of their group members throughout the games, really.

~Lastly, wet weather programme

- It’s really risky ah just now.
It was raining in the East side.
So I reaaally think we have to have a wet
Weather programme if we’re carrying out an outdoor activity.


-All in all, the sports day was really great.
We hit our expected target of 50 students.
The participants really enjoyed it.
Rating : 8/10 for the whole thing.
And what can I say kan… The hampers simply looked preeeetty 

I've literally cut and paste the report given by Farahain(well done!). I've thought through about the issues raised during the debrief and I will try to address them here.