Today was the day when we were introduced to our passports.

Your passport is documentation that you make yourself that shows how you have progressed at the Alpine School. You get to choose in what form you make it and how so you could do it as a PowerPoint, a scrapbook, an art portfolio, a book or anything else that you think of.

There are 9 sections to the passport, your personal profile, beliefs and values, role models, thinking and learning, knowledge of teams, understanding of leadership, management of self, personal and professional development and future goals.

We are supposed to have this completed by the end of our 9 weeks. We get a little passport like book that gets stamped every time we finish a section. If we finish all sections before we leave, Mr. Shem will stamp the last page with a very ‘special’ stamp. The teachers give us due dates for different sections but it is up to us to complete it. Basically, everything is up to us. We have to make all of our own decisions and we are the ones that have to think. All of our classes are strongly asking us what we think, if you have a question the teacher will simply say, “Well what do you think?”. It really is all about us finding out the answers, using our initiative and growing as a person.

Anyway back to the passport, personally, I find it fun to be making something like this. I can’t wait to get started. 

Lily C-P