Paper plane

Paper Plane

Group Members

·     Suthesana
·     Sakuna
·     Yashiru
·     Sivakajan
·     Chamod
·     Sehara
·     Sithara
·     Suthesana



Paper plane is the first work that we did in our PPD session in this year. All the students of our class were separated into two groups. There were eight members in our group. First madam gave our team to 6 blue papers and others to 6 yellow papers. The task was, we were asked to do as many planes as possible by using those papers. She gave 3 minutes time to make a plan and balance time to make planes, however 20 minutes we had to do the first task.



We took a new same size white paper and tested it by making a sample plane to determine the size of the plane. We decided to make 6 planes in each paper. Finally we made although 36 planes in 6 papers. Our opponent team made only 29 planes in the timeout.


After the timeout two members of each group wants to throw the planes over the boundary line to get points. We selected the appropriate 2 persons there were Yashiru and Sivakajan.


Firstly our opponents started to through planes to over the line they made some bad through and also foul through too. Finally they made 18 planes to over the line and got 18 points. Now our turn and our teammates started to through the planes they also made some bad through and foul through too but it was less than our opponent made. Finally we made 24 planes to over the line and won this overall task.


Reason of our win




We selected right persons to through the planes to over the line. We had use well that 3 minutes she gave us to make plan.


Mistake that we made


Unfortunately we made some bad through and foul through.


Lessons

·         Time management.
·         Team Corporation is highly wanted skill.

Looks Back

Looks Back

This is the interesting session in my carrier. we learn lot of think through this lesson. I  need to give big think thank for our Madam Sarasi Seanadheera. because she spent lot of time with us for our career. in this session we did indoor activities and outdoor activities.

We started PPD sessions also in the first semester. At the first day we had to come in front of the class and introduce ourselves for about 4 minutes. On that day we got to know about every body. From that day onward we did various activities.

In every week, we had a new experience.
Paper Tower

lava river

Egg Protector

barter puzzle

Life goals

 week by week, we had improve our skills to work in a proper manner. 

Most interesting moment of the ppd session was out bound training program in navy camp trincomalee. In that beautiful environment we had our most unforgettable ppd session. Working with a group is more difficult than working alone.

What we have learned from PPD

• A good leadership.
•  How to work as a team.
•  Follow a good strategy.
•  How to take necessary decisions in unexpected situationssituation.
•  Respect others' opinions.
•  Punctuality.
•  Good communication with each other.
  

  

Outbound Training Program

Outbound Training Program

On the 9th and 10th ,we went to Outboud training to Trincomalee Navy camp.

On 9th morning ,we started travelling at 3.30 am .Our bus stopped in Kandalai river.There we could see the beautiful river in one side of the road .There we took some fresh air and then started our journey back.


We reached Trinco at 10.30 am.Then we were given time to get ready. then we got ready and took our lunch there. After that our training activities were started.

We devided for 04 groups and we have different tasks to acheive.
 
First activity



There is a wood frame were hanged and 8 members have to go from one side to other side without any touching on that frame. So when one of us pass the square other members help to pass the square to him.So we learn how to work as a term through this activity.

Second activity

In this activity,we had to pass a marble through a PVC pipe.We had to join the PVCs ending to prevent it from falling down.We did our best in this activiy and finished before five minutes.From this task we learnt work with strategy and coordination.

Third activity
In this game they gave us bricks and each of every one in the team wants to keep the brick in their stomach and the person who in front wants to keep that brick without falling down by pushing it with his back and also the other condition was every one wants to keep their hands on the back side of the head then the group asked to move to the boundary line without fall down any bricks if any brick fall down then the team wanted to start from the beginning. But this time we didn't finished it correctly.


Fourth activity
In this time we were asked to fill the tube with holes.what we did was we asked one of uur team member to remove his t-shirt and then he lay down and we kept the tube on his stomach and all we hurry to fill that tube and we all ran to sea and get the water into our mouth and in both hands and ran back and poured the water into the tube. like wise we did it repeatedly and we made a huge success from our team work that means we filled it just in 2 minutes then the Navy officer took a photograph of our group.

Fifth activity
Its like a volley ball game.four of us keep a cloth and we have to throw the ball over the net and another one in other side of the net has catch the ball.This is really challenging game.we learnt Team Work from it.

Sixth activity
The last activity is tug war. In the first round our team won and the second round we lost it.because our boys got tired.

Camp fire and Dinner
Near 6pm we return to accommodation and get ready for dinner in formal dress.after that we returned the same place and make a camp fire and do some activities like drama,singing songs and dance.
after that we had our dinner .

Second Day
On second day we got ready at near 7.30am and had our breakfast. After that we were divided into four groups.and the task is we have to go through the forest by using compass.it's really amazing and interesting.inside the forest one of the officer acted as a injured man so we have to act how to help him.that is very interesting also. finally we reached the destination and had a Tea.


After that we visited to the Navy Museum. that is very nice and interesting place.one of the officer explain all the things in there.That's a very nice experience to us and it helped us to know something about ships and other some sea related things.

BARTER PUZZLE

Last PPD session was an amazing  session. First we were divided in to 3 groups and was given a picture.We have to keep that picture in our mind.Then the team leader had tear it in to 100 pieces. After that Miss Sarasi took 10 pieces from each group and mixed them all and divided them among groups. What we had to do was to make the picture with a given time by using any strategy. We were given the opportunity to get the pieces through negotiations or through trading team members. We wanted to decide it as a group.

First we tried to separate pieces according to the picture and see what we can make.So we divided in to small groups and did it.

We solved the puzzle very well, but only one piece we missed. The second group lost 6 pieces to connect the puzzle, the third group lost 3 or 4 pieces.

Finally she decided that our team was successful.

What we have learnt from this session

Working as group.Planning before working.Time management.Situations handling.Decision making.

Life Goals

In the last PPD session, all of us shared our future goals.
We devided our goals into 3 categories. Those are

1.  Academic Goals
2.  Personal Goals
3.  Professional Goals.

Sarasi madam asked us to represent our goals in a Bristol board  & paste them on the wall. Everyone of the class came one by one and described their goals. Sarasi Madam put marks for our presentations.
When my turn came, I went to front & told about my future goals.
My
Academic goals

• Attend lectures daily & study well
• Improve the english knowledge 
• Participate in atleast 1 game
• Finish the university studies within 4 years

Professional goals

• Get a good job after finished my studies
• Create innovative software

Personal goals

• Build a new house
•  To Get married

The egg protecting cover

The egg protecting cover 

This time our activity is to make a protecting cover for the egg.When we throw the egg the cover should prevent it from breaking.
First the whole class was devided into three groups and then madam gave  1egg,five A4 papers and and cellotape for each team and told us to make the protecting cover within the time period of 45 minutes.
After the  given time was finished the eggs were thrown from the top.
Unfortunately 2 teams eggs were broken and one team made it successfully.

The lessons we got from this activity

• Plan before you do anything
•  Working as a team.
• Winning and losing is just a part of the game.Participation matters a lot.  

Stand on the paper&lava river

   STAND ON THE PAPER

To each of our groups a large paper was given. The objective of the game was for everyone to keep their feet on the paper and have no part of their body touching the floor. In this game everyone of our teams had to squeeze as much as together.For each round that was successfully ended, we had to fold the paper in half and attempt to stand on it again and kept folding the paper in half again and again until we were unable to successfully stand on the paper as a group.



From this game also we learn many things. Some of them are mentioned below.


How to work as a team.How to manage our given materials to reach our target.How to work in co-operation.How to maintain a good communication.How to balance the thingsTeam compatibility.




 THE LAVA RIVER

First we were devided in to 3 groups and each group had 8 members.To play the game lava river four plates were given as our materials.What we had to done was we had to use those plates and go across the lava river. The river was filled with lava so none of as cant touch the river.these plate can be placed on the river as stepping stones and can be moved around.If anyone makes contact with the river then that person was considered as fell in to the lava river and had to go back to the starting point.The team that got its team members across in the minimum time won.on the lava river there were some special point and on those point there were marks and that marks were added to our final marks.


From this game we got an idea about


How we can work as a team.How to communicate with others to achieve our received target.To work in co-operation.How our leadership skills should be improved.In which way we can use our ability in problem solving phase and etc.