Locker Labeling and Lock Replacing (part 2)

See part one of my reflections HERE

5) Shown perseverance and commitment in my activities
The task took two days (note the change in shirt color) , which shows my commitment to the activity, as I was only one of two people who returned on the second day to work on the locker keys.

On that day, my job was to check that each locker had a master key, ticking the locker number and student name off of the list.

One page of the master book of keys

Since about 40 or so lockers were being moved from the fourth floor to the third floor (lots of Year 10 and 11's this school year since they were born in the year 2000, which was also the year of the dragon), I had to make sure that the keys had the new 3000 locker number and not the old 4000 locker number so that all of the students would have a key

Checking with the master key list

Taking out wrongly labeled keys from the master book

Then we moved onto the student keys, with my classmate reading out the numbers on the loose keys and me double checking the keys with the ones in the book.

After that, we had to put the keys on the metal loop in order of number (for example 4030-4039 on one loop in order etc) for all of the student keys, double checking that we had a key for each locker for all four floors.

Just some of the student keys for the 2nd floor...

After 2 days and several hours of hard work, we finished with all of the keys! And every student had a locker for on the first day of school!

(well there were about 10 that didn't work, but 10 out of the several hundred isn't bad! Plus it is better than not having keys for the first week of school, which is what happened last year :P)

-Rebecca

Locker Labeling and Lock Replacing (part 1)

Activity: KCCIS Locker Labeling and Lock Replacing
Date: August 26 - 27
Time: 2 days (10 am - 5pm)
Type: School Activity
Organization: School

Hours: 10 hours - Service  

A few days before the start of the school year, I helped out with getting the lockers ready for the new school year.

This involved 2 days of work replacing the locks for lockers where the previous owner lost or didn't return their keys, matching new and loose keys to the locker number, labeling the keys, making sure each locker had one key in the master book and one for the student (this took the longest time, since we had to make sure the keys matched each other and the locker we assigned it to), ordering the keys by number and homerooms and finally making sure that each student had a key on the right floor with the rest of their classmates.

Suffice to say there was quite a bit of work involved! And without further delay, here are my reflections for the day!

2) Undertaken new challenges or an extension of an existing one

This was my first time working the locks on the locker, so it took some practice to get the hang of changing the locks quickly but accurately. 

On the day, we were giving 2 keys (a red key and a blue one) a box full of new locks and a pen. A white label was stuck on all of the lockers that needed their lock changed. To do that, we needed to use the two keys

The keys + a new lock

Red Key:  Tumbler replacing key. This one was the key that took out the tumbler portion of the lock, so a new one could be put in its place. 
 Blue Key: Master Key. We used the blue key to unlock all the lockers to remove anything inside and so we could then use the red key to take the tumbler of the lock out.

Then after we switched the locks,we would take the white label off and stick it with the keys for the new lock.

Here is me in action!

See the row of white labels in the back? Yup, lots of people lost their keys...

 
Here is the box of locks after just one floor:

4) Worked collaboratively with others

After we replaced the locks (and labels to the lockers that would be moved to a different floor or whose old label was falling off), we moved to labeling the master and student key for all them!

In order to speed the process along, I worked collaboratively with my class mates, with each person taking over a different part in the locker key sorting process.

Laughing due to our IB coordinator's attempt to hide from view :D

 These steps included:
1) Printing the locker numbers using the label maker.
2) Sticking the labels on to the matching set of keys. (my job for most of the day)
3) Checking the keys for duplicates and making sure the two newly labeled keys are for the same locker.
4) Attaching a keyring and tag to the keys.
5) Putting the keys on to the metal loop

One half of the process

Every so often, we would switch roles so that everyone could try their hand at a different role.

But that still wasn't the end of the task at hand...

I'm cutting off this post here since this one is getting long. See the work I did on the second day HERE! (< link to other post when I am done with it)

- Rebecca

Update 7

First day of Y13 today!
Still a bit behind on some of my reflections (specifically the music ones), though hopefully I will be able to catch up (in the middle of all the craziness that goes along with the second year of IB. 4000 word Extended Essay in History, I'm looking at you)

• I have enough action hours now due to first aid, though I might want get more since there are a lot less than the Service and Creative hours.
• I need to get a form signed for prefect duty, since I had so many hours of it last year, but it didn't count due to the form not being signed.
• My main priority this month (since I am trying to ease myself into school work) is to get the old music updates and reflections uploaded and posted.)

- Rebecca 

Update (17/9/15):
I forgot to mention that I will not be getting Flute hours for a while since my flute teacher has graduated college and is getting an internship, so won't be able to teach me, thus there might be fewer if any hours for flute as I look for a new teacher.  I'm still practicing flute by myself at home though! (maybe now I will finally get around to posting the reflection for music in May...)