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!
So this year I have decided to do my Passion Project on baking! I really like baking and I find it super fun. I've done baking for quite a few years and I'm not sure why I like it, I just find it very fun! Marguerite and I are doing this project together. So far we have already made a recipe book with all of the recipes we want to do. We have found some recipes which sound delicious! Some of the recipes we have are Ore truffles, chewy chocolate cookies, raspberry white chocolate brownies, marshmallow slice and more! I'm really excited because we start baking this weekend and we are starting with the marshmallow slice.
Marguerite and I are very organised, we have a roster for what recipes we make each week, who's house it's at and we have also made our recipe book. We designed a fabulous cover which has a pig with a donut on it!
That's it for today's post, thanks for reading. Bye!!
Walking down to Nairnville park Room 12 was very talkative. Everyone was excited for our school athletics which rolls around every year in Term 4. In our school athletics we have multiple events such as discus, vortex, long jump, shot put, 100 metre sprints and 200 metre sprints. Last term we also did high jump.
Unfortunately athletics is really not my thing. I didn't do very well in any of the events but I gave them all a go and had fun. My favourite event was probably discus and my least favourite would have to be sprints. I love cross country but then I really don't like sprints.
The EPIC value which I showed was perseverance. Although I'm not good at the sports I did them and I didn't give up. I also showed perseverance in the 1500 metres which I will talk about now.
We had a choice if we wanted to do the 1500 meter race. At first I wasn't to keen and I wasn't going to do it but I made a very last minute choice and ran the race. We had to run 3 laps and 3/4. I showed perseverance in this race as well since that's quite a few laps to run and it gets boring since there are no hills or anything, we just run around the track. Although I found it slightly boring it was still another favourite event of mine.
There were only 2 year 8 girls participating in this race so I automatically go through to Northern Zones since they took the top 2.
Overall the athletics day was really fun. I enjoyed my self and had heaps of fun participating in the events and when not competing, hanging with my friends.
Ballet Grade School
On the second Monday of the holidays I walked into the dancing studio feeling pretty excited. I had never done Grade school before so I didn't know what to expect. The other dancers and I stepped into the studio with our character skirts and shoes in our hands. We practiced introducing ourselves then went to the barre. We performed all of our dancers just how we would in our exam.
The same thing happened everyday until Friday, the last day of grade school. Our class split in half. Half went to a different studio while my half stayed in the same studio. We treated it like a proper exam. We didn't stop between our dances for corrections, we just carried on if we made a mistake. Once we had done all of our dances about 45 minutes later my teacher gave us corrections for us to apply in our exams. We then went over the dances which had the most mistakes.
Grade school was really fun and I hope that I get to do it again next year!
Thanks for reading, bye!
