Today we had P.E. first period in which we played Beat the Ball Rounders, something I have never played before. I learnt that you simply have to hit the ball and run round the posts when you are batting and when you are fielding you have to pass the ball from post one to four before the batter reaches it. I enjoyed this and found it interesting learning a new game. Next we had Information Technology in this lesson we developed a spreadsheet model containing information about a charity disco. The following lesson was History in which we peer-marked our Black Death stories, I have enjoyed learning about the Plague and some of the funny ways they believed it could be cured which modern medics would laugh at!
During lunch time I practised a dance we have to perform in a group for an assessment on Friday; I enjoy working as part of a group and bringing all our ideas together. In Maths after lunch we prepared for the upcoming maths challenge by completing a past examination paper in groups. This enabled us to help each other. The last lesson of the day was English; we were labelling our limerick poems and Haikus! This was confusing but I soon got the hang of it. The end of my school day came very quickly as it always does with such interesting lessons, as I walked out of school I thought about the journey home on the green bus! We had a different colour bus tonight which confused us all; one boy from the Aston school even nearly missed the bus because of this!! Overall a great day! I am so looking forward to the next two days as were not having our normal timetable but two days of performing arts! Should be fun!
Emer-Jo Staunton 7H
Brighten up the day with a blast from the past!
First lesson in the morning we had history, where we solved a 17th century murder mystery and made the teacher walk the plank in an online interactive game.
We haven’t had an RS lesson in…it’s been so long it can’t remember, so it was sad to find out that we won’t have another lesson for another 4 weeks, due to the holidays and teacher training day. My poster for RE month was submitted into the national competition a while ago, too! I am anxious to find out the results, and to see if anyone I know won.
We went back to punctuation basics in English, with the use of colons and semi-colons. Dr. Romon Alonso’s Drawings should be legends by now! Geography was a real Twister… we learnt about the destruction tornadoes could make.
We revised all we learnt about rocks and their formations in science, although we had a supply teacher (the Legend Mrs Barratt) as Miss Handcock was away.
...and so the day ended. We didn't have to walk the long way to get to the back entrance, now the library has finished!
Xuan Vo
Today seemed like it was going to be an average Tuesday except for the fact that everyone was more tired due to it nearly being the end of term. However lots of people seemed to be excited for the holidays. Today I had Geography, English, French and double tech. In Geography we looked at the global fashion industry. English went fairly quickly as we were just revising for our end of year exam. In French we were told that we were going to have a writing assessment next lesson. Unfortunately for us, our next lesson was tomorrow. Despite being warned about our test a day before, we were reassured by the fact that we were allowed all our notes. Lunch also went fairly quickly.
Last lesson was double tech and I was in resistant materials. I was looking forward to this lesson because it was a nice way to end the day. I continued working on my Harry Potter style jewellery with my friends whilst also having a conversation with Mr Hazleton and Mr Coleman about Fleetwood Mac, The Clash, The Kinks and funnily enough The Prodigy too.
Kajal Saroay 9Z
