Activity #1: Impromptu babysitting

Babysitting corner during Parents Welcoming Evening

Upon Dr Schoolman's request, NHS and StuCo worked together to organize a relatively simple babysitting corner during the Parents Welcoming Evening on Friday, August 16th, from 19h00 to 21h00. Overall, the evening seems to have gone smoothly, without any major problems.

Summary of planning out:

The entrance was in front of the gym, in the cafeteria, where parents had to drop off their children and pay. In addition to receiving money, this post was used as a check-in place, because we also put name tags of some sort to keep track of the children better. The name tags were masking tape with name and grade of the child written in pen. The children stayed in the gym for fifteen minutes, after which we began proceeding to the individual rooms at 19h15. We began the movies at by 19h30.

We set up two movies, "Despicable Me" for younger children in Mrs Vocale's room and "Alice in Wonderland" for older children in Sylvia's room. We also decided to leave the gym open, with two to three people in charge, in case the children grow restless or do not want to watch the movie. In the end, no one wanted to watch "Alice in Wonderland". Children either watched "Despicable Me" or went to the gym. 

Food-wise, girls brought popcorn and boys brought drinks. We kept the food preparation going almost from beginning to end (two people in charge). The food was put on a couple of tables in front of the movie rooms. The people making food brought it to the table, and the people with the children gave it to the children.

At 21h00 the parents picked up their children. We stayed for about thirty minutes cleaning up and putting things in order. 

Date: Friday, August 16th.

Financial matters: 
We charged 50 pesos per child. We split the profit 50-50 between StuCo and NHS. 

People who helped:

Jin Kyu, Jade, Francisco, Se Jeong, Kun Hee, Juanma, Nico, Lucia D, Lucia P, Josefina, Nina, Mrs Vocale.

Notes and things to keep in mind:

If we are going to give popcorn, let's consider using a room without a carpet. Mrs Vocale's room is great as a movie room, but the carpet killed us as we were trying to clean up. The kernels got stuck, and we had to manually pick them up because the brooms were not much help. Plus, although we did find a vacuum cleaner, the school's is very weak and doesn't work that well.

Also, if we ever have a babysitting corner again, I think we agreed that we will definitely charge more than 50 pesos.