Term 4 highlights

This term has gone soooooo fast! I can't believe I only have 1 week left at school before I go to college. This term has been really fun and I will have so many memories from St Bens that will stay with me forever. My 6 highlights for this term areeee.......

Year 8 assembly

This week the year 8s have been planing the year 8 assembly... i would say more but i don't want to give anything. Although it has been really fun planning it :)

Retreat

Today the year 8s went on our last St. Benedicts retreat ever! It was loads of fun and we played lots of great activities. I really enjoyed the activity where we had to write our name on a piece of card and then it got passed around the circle and everyone had to write something nice about you. I got a lot of gymnastics and flexibility comments.

Talent Quest 

The real contest hasn't happened yet but as a house captain, I got the opportunity to watch the auditions and decide who gets through or not. It was really fun.

Zone Athletics

This year i made it to zones for athletics, because i came second in long jump out of the year 8 girls. It was fun because it was a really nice day and i just basically hung out with me friends the whole time and I think i came last or something in Long jump but it was still fun.

Tech

This term I have been in electronics for tech and we've been making an electronic car thats wheels spin so it drives around. I made mine a turtle.

T-ball

This term we've been playing cricket and t-ball for sport. I enjoyed playing t-ball because i play softball outside of school, so i wasn't half bad (normally i'm not very good at most school sports, like dodgeball).

So that was my 6 highlights. It will be really sad leaving St. Bens because its been such a great year.

What is your most fun experience you've had this year at school?

College

Next year I'm going to college and I'm really excited but super nervous at the same time. Something I want to achieve next year at college is to try get into a good netball team and hopefully make a good first impression on my new teachers. I'm looking forward to be able to make new friends as well as keeping I touch with my old ones. Something I think will be a bit challenging is all the extra homework that I will be getting, but I think I will be alright.

If your going to college next, where are you going?

Cyber bulling

Today (thursday) I finally did my speech! My topic was cyber bulling and what we can do to prevent it. I chose this topic because everyone knows how cyber bulling effects people, but i just wanted to try get the message out the a bit more that its not ok. 

While I was doing my speech, i was reallyyyy nervous but i managed to get through t with out any major mess ups. I fumbled a couple of times on my words and i think next time i could have maybe learned my speech a bit better so i wouldn't need cue cards. I don't really want to get into the next level of reading out my speech to the whole school so i don't mind so much that it wasn't perfect. 

I enjoyed listening to all the people in my class' speeches, and i think they were all pretty good. So i can't really say who i enjoyed the most. Anyway, thanks for reading :) 

What do you think you could have improved on while doing your speech?

THE SCORCH TRIALS!!!!!!

This is like the most amazinggggggggggg book i have ever readddddd. The scorch trials is book 2 of of 4 in the maze runner series written by James Dashner (best series in the world). I have read the whole series but my favourite book is The Scorch Trials. This book is about a group of teenage boys from 'The Maze' forced to travel 2 weeks across a desert named the scorch in Mexico to reach The Safe Haven by W.I.C.K.E.D (World in catastrophe killzone experiment department). They have to survive by trying to not to get killed by the Cranks (people all over the world who have a disease called The Flare, caused by the Sun Flares). Thomas (the main character) faces many challenges, including his best friend Thersea... (I won't continue otherwise i will spoil the book).

Have you read a book from the series the maze runner?

Thanks for reading :),

Wicked is good.

Speeches

This term is the annual speech competition. I am a bit nervous but i am prepared, i have finished my speech and practised it a couple of times. My topic is about cyber bulling, i finished writing it a couple of weeks ago. I don't think that i will get through to the next level to read my speech in front of the school because i have never gotten through before. This year i'm going to focus on making lots of eye contact and use some more hand gestures. 

What are you doing your speech on?

Space

This term we have started the topic about space. I have only been back at school now for a week after being away on holidays for a month, so i haven't learnt as much as some other people have. But i have learnt a bit about constellations and I've found a bit interesting about how people have named stars and visualised them into shapes. I would like to know what is the use of constellations. 

What has the space topic interested you about?

Production is over!

Last Wednesday and Thursday was the production! I had so much fun and it was such an amazing experience. I played the role of Steelian the cyborg on Wednesday and I was an agent in the chair dance on Thursday.

Some of my highlights of the production, were being able to say my lines at the exact right time to get people to laugh. I loved being able to act on stage but then again it was one of the most terrifying things i've ever done in my life, I was literally shaking backstage. But luckily Sam and Imogen were there, they are amazing at calming people down! Haha. I also enjoyed hanging out with my friends backstage. I found it so cool how we got to wear the microphone head set, to me it felt like a glimpse of stardom :D. I really did enjoy the dances, but the biggest highlight of being on stage, was the chair dance! We got loads of laughs and it was just really fun.

If i ever did a production again, i think next time i would pay more attention to my surroundings. For example the Jutonian refugee camp scene, Sam forgot to get the book for Omega to sign, so i was trying to signal Josh who was in the wing to get it and i didn't realise it was my line! All the actors were looking at me until i quickly remembered.

The scene i enjoyed the most was definitely the Agents HQ scene (scene 4), because that was the scene of the chair dance. Which was soooooo much fun.

I think i did ok performing, but i think i could of done much better. Like paying attention and acting a bit more (if you know what i mean). 

Overall i think the production was loads of fun and it feels weird not having to practise our dances every day. I'm glad i got the part of the cyborg because it was really fun to play and its sad to think that that was the last school production i will ever be doing. I'm definitely coming to the next production though!