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brothanathan:
Wish there was an attendance award at my school  ;D

This is what dedication can bring, congrats.

K.Smithy:
I just wanted to take a minute to say a very big MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! to everyone! ;D I hope everyone has a wonderful day and you all enjoy spending some time with your loved ones :). I know that for some the Christmas period is not one of joy, laughter and love and may bring about sadness and anxiety. To those that may be feeling down this Christmas, I just wanted to say that:
- You are loved
- You are wanted
- You are enough
- People believe in you and support you
- You are a beautiful human being

Merry Christmas all :)

K.Smithy:
Ahh... another school year. Today was my last first day of school. It's weird because I know that during the school year time goes so quickly and before I know it I'll be graduating, but the reality of this hasn't quite hit me yet.

To be honest, I'm anxious about this year. Every piece of assessment I do now matters, every mistake I make matters, every thing I learn matters... Last year I was able to stuff up and everything would be fine, but this year its a little different. I don't know why this makes me anxious, as last year went pretty well for me. I achieved 100% As on my unit 1 and 2 report card  (after being told at the start of the year that one of my teachers didn't think I would achieve an A in their class), I also got the top mark in my grade for one subject (wasn't too far behind in others), managed to get the best grades in my year level for the psych student experiment and research investigation, physics research investigation, bio student experiment and research investigation and English persuasive speech, and I also managed to write two research investigations (bio and psych) at a university level. So, realistically, I shouldn't be too stressed.
Sure, for some of my subjects I had some dramas (particularly in regard to teachers not actually teaching) and therefore, my grades weren't as high as they could have been (while I received As overall for all of my subjects, some of them only just made the cut).
Sure, there is room to improve, but I did so well and with all of the stress that I went through having a busy schedule (I participated in my school's musical which meant a lot of hours of rehearsals), I should be proud of myself.
My maths teacher left at the end of late year, which is extremely saddening for my class as we all had such a good relationship with him and he was an amazing teacher. This year I will have two maths teacher (this isn't ideal!!!). One of my teachers is working part time and I will have her for most of my lessons, but my class is dreading the teacher who will be taking us for the other lessons. This teacher is the one we specifically stated that we did not want, due to some drama that occurred in grade 10 extension mathematics....

However, I'm also really excited! This year will offer so many opportunities (volunteering, extracurricular, leadership...) and I'm so excited to see where this year takes me. So far, academically, grade 12 has been off to a great start.
My Unit 3 grades so far are as follows:
Psychology: 10/10
Biology: 10/10
Physics: 10/10
Methods: *haven't been assessed yet*
SOR: 24/25 (I was in the top 4 from my grade)
English: Either a 24 or a 25 out of 25 - I should hopefully find out tomorrow.
I'm pretty happy with these results, and I am looking forward to my next pieces of assessment.

How about this though... It is the first school day of the year and my school computer has decided to not work properly. So, for the next couple of days I have a replacement computer while the battery in my usual computer is serviced. Besides this little debacle, today went pretty good. My school has a new building (it was built last year) and it is called the "Senior Years Hub". It is a building in the centre of the senior years area and within it is a kitchen for students, study rooms, an auditorium, additional classrooms, access to the SY guidance councillor, pathway/career advisors, pastoral leaders, etc... It is in the centre of senior years so that students are forced to walk through it to get to classes (this way they are reminded that they are surrounded by additional support if needed). It is also home to year 12 lockers. We were allocated our lockers today - and boy oh boy are they big. I am really excited as I don't use my lockers for school stuff, so this year I am making a snack locker - its gonna be epic! They also gave everyone in my grade a travel coffee cup and inside it was a chocolate and some hot chocolate packets ;D

That update was kinda pointless, but I'm pretty excited about it ;D

I hope to update this thread as much as possible this year :)
As for now, this is all I've got - until next time ;D

K.Smithy:
Today we had our first whole college assembly, I was one of the MCs (along side the other school captain). It went pretty well, I choked up on a few words as I get a little nervous public speaking (even though I enjoy it), but other than that it went swimmingly. At the end of every assembly we play our college song and people get up and sing and do the dance moves that go along with the lyrics - most people join in. Once we get to middle years participation starts to decline, by the time you get to senior years, almost no one is singing or dancing. So, this time, the staff member who organises assemblies pulled the other MC aside and told him to stand in the middle of the stage and get people to participate.... This is where it went a little down hill... He didn't know the words or dances moves, but honestly, good on him for getting up there and trying his best! It was so admirable to see him get out of his comfort zone, in front of ~1400 students and god knows how many staff members...
But it got to the point where I just couldn't see him suffer any longer, so I ran out to the middle of the stage, put on a brave face and tried to do the best I could at being energetic. I didn't know all of the moves, so I just watched the teachers who were teaching the new students (but I pretended I knew what I was doing of course ;D). By the end, we had almost every single student dancing! It was crazy! All of the teachers were laughing at us but that's ok ;D
But administration loved it so now it might be a permanent thing.

Also, I got my English results today.. 25/25!!! FINALLY!!! I DID IT!!! ;D ;D ;D

caffinatedloz:
Wow Katelyn! Good on you for putting yourself out there. I hope that being school captain brings lots more opportunities for fun and laughter this year. Congratulations on a fantastic English score! Hope you really enjoyed your last first week back! ;D

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