Year Reflection

Term 1
In term 1 I only remembered doing william pike, I unfortunately didn’t go to camp. I got too nervous thinking about my past experiences and I decided not to take the risk again.

Term 2
I mainly spent my time in lockdown, doing all sorts of activities to entertain myself and pass by time.

Term 3
This term was one of my favorite terms, I got to go skiing which was an eye-opening experience that I really enjoyed and would go again. I also had the opportunity to try Self Defence which took an unknowing turn and I ended up loving the experience and would definitely go deeper into the subject.

Term 4
It feels as almost that term 4 just started yesterday and now it’s already ending. For me I cannot forget the mind-blowing ballet performance at the Royal Isaac Theatre I loved how they set out a story with only a movement, they really displayed Sleeping Beauty amazing. Another favorite of mine was the escape room, 10/10 loved it a lot it really opened up my mind. It was exciting as well as an adrenaline booster, I enjoyed exploring the city and breaking codes with the help of my friends.

Waiting (story) - Pobble

In the early hours of the morning, when the sun was barely peeking its head over the trees that surrounded the lagoon, he lay there. Waiting. The vast creature slid through the water like a partially submerged submarine, the majority of its bulk hidden beneath the green-tinged water.

It was a calm morning, and so the shiny surface of the lagoon reflected its surroundings like a window; a window that showed the true beauty of nature for those who looked into it. However, despite its beauty and serenity, the atmosphere in this place could suddenly change.

Power, panic and noise could put an end to the peace. The vast creature waited… He had seen something… It was ready to pounce rapidly. The forming circle of bubbles drew plenty of attention to the waiting predator…

It glanced in the distance, only to find a mystery; a mystery so unknown the creature decided to search in depth into this scenario. It searched high and low, keeping an eye out for clues. But the hippopotamus had no luck. 

It decided to take a rest, slouching down into its warm, comforting home. The hippo felt a lot more calmer now, as its eyelids shut drowsing off into the water it slowly disappears, leaving behind only the top of its head and eyes. In the meanwhile the mystery still awaited in the depths of the lagoon crease, it lay near the edge tossing and turning by a light drift of air. It was currently night in the African scenery.

Stars shone in the far direction of the moon. Dark hues enveloped the night's sparkling sky. It has struck midnight. Some birds would often fly over the vast expanse of water, although you wouldn’t see a lot of them.

Octagonal Pyramid

 Today in maths I have constructed an already made octagonal pyramid, all I had to do was fold the edges and put it all together. Once we've constructed it we count up all the faces, vertices and edges. 

In total mine had:

8 faces, 9 vertices and 16 edges. 
Heres what it looked like: 

Polygons

 

Polygons are named after the Greeks. 'Poly' means 'Many' and 'Gon' means 'Angle' 

A polygon has straight sides that have no curve. Polygons can not intersect lines, unless its a complex Polygon. There are many different varieties of Polygons, like the Concave Polygon. The Concave Polygon usually has an indent like the example below. Polygons can not be open but must be closed as in the examples below.

                                             

I now know how to sort Polygons from Regular shapes, as shown from the information above. 

Clean up - picking up rubbish

 Yesterday I went with a group of people to do a rubbish clean up around a few streets. We all put on some rubber gloves (for hygiene) and scattered around in pairs looking to find some rubbish to pick up.

 We came across a street that had a playground placed in the center. As we walked around, my group decided to search through the bushes hoping too find immense amounts of rubbish like, chip packets, glad wrap, and a lot more. To our surprise we did eventually find a bush full of rubbish and started cleaning it up into our rubbish-bags. 

Then we came to a grassy patch, that was near a different bush. We found a bunch of cigarettes laying everywhere on the patch as if the house near it just threw their cigarettes over the fence. 

In the end we managed to pick up 68 of them all together, half were fresh and the others were used a long while back. When we came back our bags were full to the top, I never imagined we would pick that much rubbish in 1 hour. 

                                                    

End of term 3 Reflection

This term I have been doing a number of activities through out the past 10 weeks. 

2 days ago (Tuesday 21st) I went down to Porters Ski Area and had a blast trying out skiing for the first time. It was quite challenging at first, but then I got used to it. There was a instructor that guided us through our journey. We started off at the beginner ramps, and slowly advanced to the intermediate ones. Once I made my way up the mountain to the intermediate ramps I decided to go down them. On my first 2 tries

I was pretty good at it, but shortly after that I got stuck in the middle of the mountain (intermediate ramps) to my surprise I got some help and got back up again. Soon after that we got packed up and headed back to school. 

                                       

William pike was another activity that made all one of us go out of our comfort zones. William Pike itself wasn't necessarily an activity, it was more a guide starter to lead us into other activities to explore. I've been learning French, waltzing, and I have a vivid idea on my future plans. Some of my future plans are... 

to sell juicies and raise money for the refugee fundraiser. Another plan I've already organised is to go ice skating in Alpine Ice. I might think of more later in the future, but otherwise I've gotten a decent amount of ideas of what I want to do / explore. 

In maths for the past few weeks I've been learning algebra. I like algebra a lot because of the new experiences and techniques it's brought me. I think I'm getting the hang of it easily and fast. It reminds me of a puzzle that never ends, but in my opinion it's a fun thing to do, since you get to work out unknown questions and feel successful afterwards knowing you've done well. 

Literacy - Visual prompts - Remembrance

Today in literacy I was told to write a piece of writing based off of a picture (or just for inspiration)

My goals are to entertain and give the reader a vivid vision of being there personally, like in a 3D motion. Let me know in the comments if I've achieved my goals.

This is what I came up with:

It was a dull grey day, but the poppies were a sharp, vivid red. The memories collided in his faithless mind, too many soldiers dead. They sacrificed they’re mortal lives to save their country, and had a victorious death soon after…

Maybe it all happened for a good reason, he thought trying to lighten up his brain. But it surely wasn’t that good, the soldiers never had a choice to join the war or not. They were forced into it at young dreadful ages, whether they like it or not. Many wanted to escape, but there was no choice… they had to save their country, they were its only choice and saviour.

He lay there in the memorial poppy field, staring at the fading sky. He gripped on to the nearest poppies and a tear made its way down from his eye, landing on his soft surroundings.