Big Day Out

It's nearly the end of the year and the school is going on a big day out soon. One of my favourite events that happened in this school was probably the sport fests, even though I was in dodgeball and I suck at it I still had a lot of fun. I think that for this years big day out we're going somewhere that involves walking. I don't know why I think that but I just do. My previous favourite big day out was probably last years. We did different types of sports like soccer, netball, basketball and I think cricket. We also did bowling in our groups, I was in group 4 with Caitlin and some of us went to junglerama because they got bored of bowling.

College

As you all know next year all the year 8's will be heading off to college (including me) and all the year 7's will become year 8's. The feeling of going to college next year makes me nervous and it scares me a bit,  but I'm also really excited to go to college. Some things I want to try next year in college is joining a club that I'm interested in and going to the cafeteria to buy lunch with my new friends. Things I want to do next year is go to the camps or outings that the school organises, and something I want to achieve next year is to get an excellence in P.E, because I'm really bad at P.E. Things I am looking forward to in college are meeting new people and making new friends, learning new things and getting used to how college works. Some things that will be challenging for me would probably be finding my way around the college and remembering which way my classrooms are.

Book week

Last week was book week and we had different types of events going on at our school. My three favourite events that happened in book week was the visit from Kate De Goldi, the golden ticket hunt and the book character parade.







Kate De Goldi
As you probably know Kate De Goldi came to visit us and she talked about her books that she wrote and where she got some of her inspiration from for her books. The books she told us about were really interesting but I haven't gotten the chance to issue them out yet.







Golden Ticket Hunt
I really enjoyed the golden ticket hunt, especially when I found a golden ticket with Claire. The golden ticket that we found was outside room 1 where the Brigidene painting was. The clues were hard and challenging but fun and I had a lot of fun trying to work them out with my friends.







Book Character Parade
The book character parade was pretty awesome. Seeing everybody dressed up as a character from a book was quite a sight. Even all the teachers were dressed up! I had a lot of fun with my friends at the parade, everybody looked really good in their costumes.

Favourite book when I was younger

One of my favourite books when I was younger was definitely The Cat in the Hat by Dr.Seuss. The Cat in the Hat is about these two kids that have been left home alone because their mum had to go to work or something like that... and it was a rainy day so the kids couldn't do much. Then a mysterious Cat with a hat came in and made things a bit more interesting with Thing One and Thing two. I think I was about 5 or 6 years old when I read this. What I like about this book was how Dr.Seuss rhymed all the words and I also love the illustrations in the book.

AFL

AFL stands for Australian Football League, we started doing this last Thursday. It was great fun and our instructors gave us some tips on playing well. Some of the tips I remember are:

• Laces away from laces
• Point your toe to where you want the ball to go
• Ring finger on the seams
• Crosses up and down

Some new things I learned about AFL are:

1. There are nine players on the field at one time
2. The game will go on for 40 minutes, they will either play for two 20 minute halves or four 10 minute quarters 
3. An opposing player is not allowed to touch a player unless the player is in possession of the ball

After giving us some tips and skills on how to hold and kick the ball we played a game, that involved kicking the balls to the teachers and instructors. I didn't get any points sadly, but my kicking skill did improve.