Hi everyone!
I have only got a few more weeks as a year 8 and being at St Benedict's. I can't believe that I'm going to college next year!
The college that I have chosen to go to is Wellington Girls College. A few years ago my sister went their and now I will be joining her.
Some things that I would like to achieve/do next year are:
-trying new activities (e.g. sports)
-improving in my academic work
-get a distinction/prize in at least one of my subjects.
I'm excited to be starting college though. It will be interesting to have a change. For example not having all of my classes in one room.
The main thing that I think will be challenging is getting from each classes without getting lost and getting to my next class in time. Wellington Girls has 5 times the amount of students that St Benedict's has. Each year group has the amount of pupils in our whole school! Between each class there is 5 minutes to get to your next class and there are 3 different blocks, each with many levels!
Overall I'm excited to be starting college but it's going to be so different from all of my years at St Benedict's.
Thanks for reading, bye!
Hi everyone!
For today's blog we could choose our own topic to write about and I didn't know what to do so I just decided to do book character day.
Each year for book week on Friday we have a book character day. On book character day you can dress up as any character from a book. Betty, Marguerite and I went as a trio. We were some of the characters from the Wizard of Oz. I dressed up as Dorothy, Betty as the scarecrow and Marguerite was the wicked witch of the west.
We started the day off with a parade. All of the classes walk around the courts and show off their costumes to the rest of the school. Since I'm a House Captain I got to judge with the other House Captains. For each year group we chose 'The Most Eye Catching', 'Most Creative' and the 'Best Group'. It was very hard to decide since some year groups had some really cool costumes but we could only give out 3 prizes
In the afternoon we had the Book Quiz. The House Captains had prepared quizzes for all of the year groups.
I had a pretty good day and enjoyed my last ever Book Week!
Bye!
Hey guys!
When I was younger my favourite books were Lettice: the dancing rabbit books. These books were obviously about a rabbit called Lettice who loved dancing and dressing up. Each book had a different problem and then Lettice finds a solution. What I liked about these books was that Lettice liked dancing like me and she got to go to fun places where I would have liked to go when I was younger like fairyland! I was about 5 years old when I read these Lettice books.
Thanks for reading, bye!
Hi guys, today I'm going to be reflecting on three topics that I have learned this term.
Ancient Egypt Pyramids
I have learned lots about pyramids recently like how they built, why they were built and some different pyramids. What helped make this information stick in my head was the note taking and then turning those notes into paragraphs. To improve my knowledge of pyramids I can find out new facts about them on the internet or in books.
German
Every year we learn two different languages and for the past term and a half we have been learning German. German has been really fun to learn and I think that the main thing that helped it stick in my head was doing duolingo. What helped me learn the words and revise for our test which we had today it really helped to write the words down as well as the translation in English because that helps you know what the word means and how to spell it.
Essays
Last week we wrote an essay about pyramids. Earlier on in the year we also did essay writing and I think that I have improved a lot. I now include more formal and interesting words and I am better at writing introduction sand conclusions which I usually find quite hard. To improve in writing essays it helps to write essays more.
That's all for this week, bye!
