My Year 8 Blog!

Two weeks ago was our 8 Alive week. During that week we painted part of a Mural that will go up outside our Food-Technology rooms. We also went on two excursions: CERES and Rock climbing… 

CERES is located in East Brunswick in Melbourne and is a community Environment park. In the park they have a cafe that mostly serves organic food and drink. They address the issue of Environmental Sustainability and house an Indian village where people go and learn about recycling in India and Indian culture. When we went there with our class we each got to paint a picture and got a Bindi (dot on forehead) and Henna (painted onto hands/feet) painted on. We also made recycled paper and learnt about Melbourne’s waste.

Later on in the week our class went to rock climbing in Nunawading. We all had to partner up - my partner was Zoe, and went off to go climbing. We had to trust our partners to not let us fall and it was a great experience for all of us!!! It was really fun and there were some huge walls, but I managed to climb all the way to the top of one of those walls, which was a great experience!!! It was so much fun and I wish I could go back and do it all over again.

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What makes a good teacher? Have you ever asked yourself this question and wondered what the perfect teacher would be like? Well, let me tell you, I have! 

For me the perfect teacher would be someone who respects their students and appreciates their opinions. It would be someone who creates a good learning environment, where everyone can learn at their own pace and using the best methods to learn. Of course, there is no perfect teacher, but some come close. Have you ever had a teacher like that? 

As a student people expect a lot of you, such as parents, teachers and classmates. They expect you to do things that are sometimes really difficult to do. Sometimes people expect to much of us and teachers and parents especially. In this term, our class has had around 7 or 8 projects, all of them at once and I think this is putting unwanted and unneeded pressure on us. 

Parents sometimes make it really hard for us, and my parents at the moment are expecting me to go to Saturday school, do all my chores (bathroom, my room, my shoes, the birdcage,  vacuuming etc.), as well as my homework, and all that on the weekend! My dad expects me to do all my chores first, so this weekend I didn’t even have a chance to do my homework, because I didn’t have time to. 

Has anything like this ever happened to you? Have you ever felt like you were going to break under the pressure? Have you ever wanted to skip a certain part of your life when you were just swamped?!?

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