Monday, June 22, 2015

Music lessons

Excellence evidence: Music lessons with Roger Hamilton

Today Sarah, Jesse and I got a free (not really) guitar lesson because a couple of weeks ago, Roger was sick so we missed out, but we had to have another one because our parents have paid for ALL the lessons. It was fabulous! Last week, Roger gave us "Hold Back the River" by James Bay which is my absolute favourite song at the moment. When he gave it to us, we had no idea what the picky bit was and even Roger struggled with it! He still is struggling with it but I spent a whole day playing guitar so I can nail it! It is a really beautiful song and Sarah and I are going to perform it in the Oakland's Got Talent. I hope we do well...

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Kakano Talent Quest Judging

Excellence evidence: Kakano Talent Quest Judging

I know, I haven't done it yet but I did something pretty awesome to do with it.
Miss deSchot emailed the house leaders about judging the Kakano Talent Quest and I just made a graph of who can do it each day and emailed it to her. I did it very quickly and she, Mr Ladbrook and Miss O were very pleased :) I had made a minor mistake though by not checking with the leaders first to see if they were available and then sending her the results but I sorted Hayley out reasonably quickly and adjusted the graph and sent it to Miss deSchot.
I got an Active Thinking tick!!!!!!:):):):)

Flags

Excellence evidence: Flags

As house captains and leaders, we need to put out our school flags (showing the CARE values and our school name) and bring them back in. We have made a schedule so that the girls put them out and the boys bring them in, or vies versa depending on the term. We have been doing this regularly though I have been late to school many times so I haven't been able to put mine out. Lately I've been keeping on top of it, but every now and then I'm late so I can't put it out. It's a good job though.

Cyber Safety

Excellence evidence: Cyber Safety

I am in charge of running a Cyber Safety course for the school. I have just recently written out 2 scripts that we are performing in the assembly (Hayley, Emma, Azriel, Becca, Jackie and Cassidy that is). The first one that we are performing is about 'Putting Your Personal Details On The Internet' or 'Personal Info' for short. I have juts earlier sent the skit scripts to the actors so they can practise. If you want to see more just visit my Google Docs.











PALS

Excellence evidence: PALS

Last week on Friday I had PALS. Again no one turned up.
We planned an awesome mega game of Octopus again but no one wanted to play.
I lie, a couple of kids asked us what we were doing, but they weren't that keen on playing Octopus in their lunchtime. So that was boring

Music Lessons

Excellence evidence: Music Lessons

Last week, Jesse and I were given a new song. That is 'The Only Exception' by Paramore.
I've heard that song be3fore, but it looks really difficult. Especially the riff. Woah! It even looks scary! There is some chords in there that I've never heard of either, just to make it difficult enough.
We didn't go over it so I can't practise it which is a bummer. I've lately found out I'm the oldest and the most experienced guitar player student in the school! That's pretty cool, I have to admit.

Being a Role Model

Excellence evidence: Being a Role Model

Yesterday I was being a role model to younger students by being nice and playing with them. We played a small game of tag and then I set them up with a game of octopus to play. They really enjoyed so they got all (I mean all) of there friends to play. It was a massive game on the field. Eventually, I had to leave them to play by themselves. What helped me was that they didn't follow me or pleaded me to stay. It was quite easy!