• Specific: Which service you would like to do? What exactly are you going to do in this chosen challenging activity?

• Measurable: How often can/would you attend the chosen service? How will you measure this activity to know if you have achieved your goal?

• Achievable: Is there somewhere you know about where you could do this activity? Is it a goal that can actually be achieved? It is great to be ambitious, but there is no point set yourself a goal that may not be achievable in 3/6/12/18 months, due to external circumstances or time.

• Relevant/Realistic: Are you able to commit to what is required for the whole time needed? Are there any barriers/reasons that can stop you from achieving this goal? If these barriers/reasons completely prevent you from achieving the chosen activity, then the activity needs to be changed.

Examples of types of barriers/reasons why your goal may not be realistic:

• Time‐bound: Will this be completed in required timescale? What timescale/dates are you giving yourself to achieve the goal?

Examples of SMART goals:

• Glass painting: I am a beginner at glass painting. I will produce one glass painting every two-three sessions after practice and challenge myself by doing harder levels each time (harder designs ).There are beginners, middle and intermediate. I will upload pictures of each painting and will be able to complete this challenge by going once a week for 3 months to the Glass painting CCA in school.

• Piano: I am currently pursuing my Grade 8 Piano exam. My goal is to pass it with a distinction. I have already completed Grades 1‐7 and am now preparing for the final one. I have passed most of them with a distinction and the others with a merit. I have been playing the piano for 10 years and I hope to attain my goal. Additionally, learning the piano will enable me to excel in my GCSE Music course, which will help me obtain the highest grades possible.

• Language: Over the course of the 26 weeks, I aim to improve my ability in Arabic. I, with the use of the internet, aim to go from having no knowledge of Arabic at all to being able to read and write a small amount of Arabic that a native Arabic speaker can understand. I aim to be able to produce a short essay about myself, in Arabic, that can be understood by my assessor, who is a native Arabic speaker.

• MUN: I will attend the Model United Nations for the next 13 weeks. By week 3 I want to have an understanding of the MUN meeting procedures. By week 6 I want to have an understanding of all basic documents-position papers, resolution papers, etc- and be able to write them. By week 13 I want to be able to talk confidently and competently to a crowd with a prepared speech in hand, and be able to have a moderate improvisation.

• Online training: I will improve my skills in creating animations and short films on Adobe after effects and Premiere. This will be done through online courses on udemy.com. I will spend at least one hour per week for the next 26 weeks and my assessor (an I.T. teacher in our school) will review my progress on a regular basis. If I complete the course in less than 26 weeks, then I will start a follow-up course in consultation with my Award leader and Assessor.

• Guitar: I would like to continue playing guitar, and achieve a high distinction in my grade 4 exam, which is in May 2016 I also need to be confident in playing the C minor chord which is common in one of my chosen songs, as well as in my theory work.

• Rugby: To improve all aspects of my rugby skills including passing, tackling, positioning, fitness, planning and organising during my weekly training. My goal is to help my team secure the U.A.E. and Abu Dhabi league championships for the U16.

• Swimming: I have been swimming since I was eight years old, but I only started to swim competitively and seriously when I was eleven. My aim is to (1) improve my time for backstroke (50 m) from 75 seconds to 60 seconds, (2) improve time for butterfly stroke (50 m) from 80 seconds to 65 seconds. This will happen at Nemo Swimming Academy during my 1 hour session each week.

• Power walking: My aim is to walk 8,000 steps a day. At the moment I take 3,000 steps a day. In 26 weeks, I will be able to walk approximately 5km/hour. I will be using the heath app on my iPhone to check and record my steps. Ms. Farah- a certified fitness coach who works in California gym, Kuwait - will be assessing me. I will spend an hour weekly either at home or on the walking tracks to achieve my goal. I will provide her with evidence (date stamped photos and videos) and post my evidence (including ms Farah's feedback) on the ORB.

• Running: Over the course of 26 weeks, I aim to improve my running ability through practice and through the use of the internet. I aim to be able to run 7.5km in one hour by the end of the 26 week time period.

• Yoga: To learn at least 15 asanas (poses) and to be able to do 35 surya namaskars (sun salutations) at the end of 6 months. I will set a time once a week to practice yoga, for at least 1 hour a week.

• Football: My aim is to improve my own footballing ability, especially my attacking play including my passing and shooting ability, and also become fitter in the process, and I aim to achieve this by April 2016. In order to achieve this I will partake football training once every week.

• Badminton: I will attend the school's badminton club once a week for the next 26 weeks. I am a beginner and have no knowledge or sills in this sport. At first I want to learn the basic rules of badminton and as I gain skills I want to learn how to serve (short and long serve) and also how to smash and how to drop a shot. I will provide video evidence of me doing these 3 moves by the end of this course.

• Cardio: I am an amateur at working out and have only done some workout when I was younger. Over the next 26 weeks, I aim to do more sets of some particular workouts. These include (but not limited to) pushups, sit-ups, pull-ups, cycling sit-ups, and planks. I can do a 1-minute plank and my aim to do a 2-minute plank, I can do 10 pullups and my aim is to do 20 pulls ups, I can do 3 sets of 20 sit-ups and my aim is to do 3 sets of 30 sit ups, I can do 2 sets of 15 cycling sit-ups and my aim is to do 3 sets of 15 cycling sit-ups, I can do 3 sets of 15 leg raises and my aim is to do 3 sets of 25 leg raises. If I complete my goals before the 26 weeks I will be adjusting my goals. I will do these various amounts of workouts 5 to 6 times a week at my house for 1 hour. My PE teacher Mr. Francis will assess me during the 26 weeks. I will be providing evidence such as video clips, date-stamped pictures every Friday, and I will be also providing before and after pictures of me by the end.

• Tutoring/ help to others: I am going to be helping out in the primary by listening to year 5 students read and helping them develop their higher reading skills. I have received training on this. When helping the students, I will ask knowledge, comprehension and application questions to the struggling students and I will ask analysis, synthesis and evaluation questions to the higher level students. Through this I will aid the students' reading and comprehension skills. I’ll be able to achieve my goal by going to an hour a week (3 or 4 times a week to complete an hour ). I will know I achieved this goal if the teacher is satisfied by the progress the children are making and indicates this on the assessor's report.

• Mentoring/ Coaching: My aim is to help the under‐8's improve their footballing ability, including teamwork, attacking and defending and to build relationships with the young children playing at the club by March 2016. In order to do this I will attend the club and work with the kids once every week.

• Environmental/ Working a Clean‐up Campaign: I will join the school's environmental club . I am a beginner and I am going to collect all of the bottles and papers from the first two floors of block C in my school .Then , I will add them to the recycling bins (I will squash the bottles first so that they take up less space ) After adding the bottles to the recycling bins, the recycling company will collect them(the actual recycling is not my duty ). My assessor will be Ms. Armstrong . I will provide a minimum of 6 photos and 1 video as evidence.

• Food bank/ Soup kitchen: My goal is to help at the soup kitchen in my town, to volunteer my time to help those less fortunate than myself. To start with I’ll help preparing the food in the kitchen, but by the end of three months I would like to have grown in confidence in working in the soup kitchen to progress to serving the food and interacting with the vulnerable people.

• School Yearbook: The Oasis: To assist in the managing, planning & publishing of the school's Yearbook. This will include page design, content planning as well as weekly meetings and the gathering of information & photographs with a team of journalists to set tasks for the week ahead. Our aim is to publish the Yearbook by April next year. Throughout the process I will upload examples of the pages that I will be designing.

• School Magazine: The Print: I will help with the publishing of the school's magazine (published once a month). I will provide thoughtful articles which I will do in my free time, free lessons and breaks. The editorial team will meet once a week to plan the next issue and to distribute tasks. I will also help with the photography and video footage of interviews and events. I will provide the photos, articles and videos as evidence of my commitment and service.

The Adventurous Journey objective should give the journey a purpose – such as studying the impact of humans on the environment or noting types of fauna and flora, rather than just completing it as a team, using map reading skills, cooking etc.

• Example 1: We aim to explore the flora and fauna in the Akamas mountains of Cyprus. Also, we would like to investigate the level of pollution by people in the area.

• Example 2: Our aim is to visit Fujairah (U.A.E) to collect information about the historical events that happened in the area and to document this in our presentation

• Example 3: To investigate the impact of humans on the environment in Wafra over 3 days and 2 nights by foot for 6 hours each day. This will allow us to learn how the farming taking place Wafra is affecting the surrounding environment and create possible future improvements.

• Example 4: To understand and interpret the human impact in the Akamas mountains of Cyprus and how much humans have affected the wildlife, flora and the man‐made monuments. Also to work well within our team and efficiently cover the required distance while taking appropriate and necessary pictures and notes for our project over 3 days.