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media type="custom" key="22235402" Remember: Keep checking in on my blog! http://singaporelife.wik ispaces.com/ __**Reflection week 9 6th of December**__ This week has been so calm and relaxing we have been busy and doing regular classes but not everything is so rushed anymore. Today I am so excited because we have got debating and I really would like to win since my mum is there I really want to make her proud. Our topic is Space exploration is a waste of time and money and we the affirmative team believe this statement is true. We are going to talk like we really believe in this and fingers crossed we win! I am up against one of my great friend Felicity and she is with Kaylen and Nick. We have our debate at 9.00 this morning and parents and children are coming to watch. This week has been our last proper week at school and now we have only Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and then we have SPEECH DAY! I am lucky enough to be doing a speech about....... I cant tell you because if my mum reads this reflection she will find out and I want it to be s surprise but once speech day is over, I will of course tell you. I also found out that I am getting an award but seriously I don’t even know what I am getting it for! This week for !learning! We have been just running over the basic things that we have done this year basically just to recap. In English we have been doing our debates everyday because we unfortunately we only had a week to prepare. I am about to leave home and go to school. So......... Bye!

Here is a recount about my year, you can either read on my wiki or to make it easier you can read it on a PDF!

=__**My Spectacular Year at Avondale Grammar School **__= “It is better to lead from behind and put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership’’ –Nelson Mandela

That quote is what motivated me to become an innovative leader at Avondale Grammar School. At the start of the year the middle years applied to be leaders for our school. I was very delighted when I got nominated to be Student Representatives. I knew it was all going to change; going to meetings on time and giving up my recess and lunch and that was ok because I got the role for a reason and I was willing to give it %110. Every time I put my badge on in the morning I feel of joy and wear my badge with pride. Oh my goodness; China, that is all we talked about for weeks; what it was going to be like, who we were going to sit next on the plane and we had absolutely no idea what we would do or what the agenda was! When we landed I thought “WOW” this is going to be a trip to remember. We got to our hotel and put our bags down, brushed our teeth and didn’t wake up until 9am! Whilst we were in Chins we travelled to: The temple of heaven, Tian’anmen Square, The water cube, Birds nest, the tea house, lots of different cuisines of food, and many more great places but I have to confess that my favourite part was the Great Wall Of China. I was hot and tired but it was mind- blowing. I felt so lucky that at the age of 11, I was going to visit one of the 7 world wonders! This year with my mentor I have achieved nearly everything I wanted to this year. It was very tough though. I did not know my times tables at the start of this year and by the end of the year I can do them in a wink. I also am finding French more easier because of course, in mentor I caught up to everything that I have missed and now I can be at the same level as everybody else and to top that goal off I also got the award for best improvement in my class. I have also completed my goal of keeping fit and healthy and going on runs on a regular basis, I have really enjoyed this because I love to feel like everything has been done. This year my life has become a lot more easier with a mentor and I hope to have the same awesome one next year!

My brain was buzzing like never before. I could not bear the thought that a huge test was about to commence in less than three hours! ‘GO’ our first test was English. WOW! I was so surprised how well it went. My favourite part was when we got to write a persuasive text about deserves the made up hero award, it could be anyone, but I chose my role model Ellen Degenerous. I picked her because I think she is an amazing lady that has really helped change many people’s lives. The next day was maths; I just kept myself positive and goodness, it worked! When we finished NAPLAN I was really surprised how fun it was and when I got the scores back even happier!

“In, out: I was saying to myself. I was so nervous. My audition was up next. I was running over my lines and as I was blabbing away, I heard…. ‘Paris Coulson’ I walked into the room slowly. The teachers helped me amazingly, they were all smiling. I gave it my best and prayed I pulled it off. Weeks later we were all having recess and the teachers were announcing the roles. I was crossing everything I could find; fingers, toes I really wanted a part. Fortunately the crossing fingers tradition worked! I was delighted when I got the part of the Mum. I was memorising my lines and practising my tones. I really wanted to be the best I could be because we didn’t have much time to practice. I was counting the days on my calendar and funnily enough the nights came! I had a fantastic mum costume and I was in the zone, but overly nervous. The set was astonishing and you could tell a lot of hard work was put in. The night was spectacular and I think I said my lines well and put in as much effort as I possibly could. Over all everyone did a great job and the night was a blast!

Something unique about Avondale is we have our own 1 to 1 mentor sessions each week and I love them because we set goals to achieve during the semesters. I was over the moon to complete my times table goal and now my knowledge of times tables is complete! I also enjoy mentor sessions because this is our own time to express our feelings and have a chat. This year I was very lucky to have an amazing mentor Mr Kemp who has helped me achieve basically everything I wanted to this year!

This year I have been enjoying lots of interesting projects like one of my favourites was the history project where we had no make our own city that will be on the moon. This city had to be realistic and modern I really liked this project because we got to be creative and have some independence with this project and mine went really well and I ended up getting an A! This year I have also was delighted to find out that I was asked to host the family concert and I thought I did a great job even though I was terrified I think I pulled up a pretty great performance. This year I have improved and achieved on a lot of things but next year I would like to….. 1. Play an instrument 2. Improve my mathematics skills even more 3. Become a more innovative leader 4. Get a maths award 5. Be at top of my class for at least 1 thing

Those are just some of my goals for next year but I am sure I will come up and think of some better ones soon. Don’t get me wrong this year has been amazing but these are just some things I would have liked to complete this year but I think it would be too much but this year has been my best year at school yet and I can’t wait for many more to come! <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">All in all the year has been my best year at school with the musical and mentor and fantastic projects. I honestly, I can’t wait for more fun and exciting experiences at Avondale Grammar School. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">By Paris Coulson

__** Reflection, week 8 29th of November Friday **__ This week has been very busy! We have had fun but still very busy. Today I am scared because we have this test called PAT MATHS obviously you can tell it is about Maths. I am really worried about the test but lets hope I will be ok! Enough about the worrying stuff let me tell you about the fun stuff! This week I have finished my recount about my year, I thought I was never going to get it finished but me when I did I felt amazing when I handed it over to the teacher! Also this week we have got our topics for our debate, I am with Oli.P and Hugo. Our debate is why space exploration is a waste of time and money we are agreeing to this this statement. We have come up with some great ideas and I am very excited. In Humanities we are doing our final assessments of extreme weather. We have a map and we have to fill out 6 extreme weather events in the past, draw them on the map and write information about it. In Science we are still on our brochures but now at least we have finished the table and now the fun comes in! In Technology we are doing an ABC book for the little ones in pre-school I think I have done some very cool pictures and so has everybodyelse! In our class for technology we sometimes write to our pen pals in Australia and my pen pals name is Gabriel and she is very nice. In art we are doing 1 word to describe this year and I chose spectacular and that is what it has been! We have to write it as many times as we can from letters out of magazines. It is sad that it is nearly the end of the year, but I am looking forward to a break and another year of school coming very soon! That is all the highlights of the week, so Bye! Here is a website about one the extreme weather events I am doing in Humanities; Cyclone Oslwald []

__//**REFLECTION WEEK 7 22nd OF NOVEMBER FRIDAY **//__ This week has been another great week and I am really happy with how school is going right now! I was really happy yesterday because our team for debating won! We won our debate and it was such a great feeling, but unfortunately this one was only a practice! In humanities we are now focusing on some major weather events in Australia that has happened over the past years. I am doing the flash floods in March 2010 it is hard to find out research because it was three years ago now, but I am still enjoying it! This week we have had chior nearly everyday, but it is paying off because we get to sing at carols for the school and we also get to wear costumes... YAY! My recount is coming along well but I am nervous I won't get the hard copy finished!!!! Other than that all my worries have drifted away and I am only worried about my recount!! This week we did our technology assignment and our group did really well, we got lots of positive comments and people guesst nearly right away! I am pretty sure all of our tests are done well I think... I never know maybe teachers can pop one up out of nowhere! Well thats all that really all this week! Bye! Have a good weekend.



__**REFLECTION WEEK 6 15TH OF NOVEMBER FRIDAY**__ Wow this week has gone so quickly! This week has been full of fun and learning. In Humanities we have been learning about extreme weather. Right now a major terrible event has occurred. A humongous typhoon in the Philippines. Typhoon Yolanda. The typhoon has died down now but all they have left is nothing. Something bad about this is that people are causing conflict together about water. They are fighting over water, because no one has any and it is just getting so sad. To fix that problem we are having a fundraiser at school that the S.R.C have organised. We are doing a Donation a Day It is where one day we bring in stuff for the Philippines.

Wednesday- Toiletries Friday-Mufti Day and a donation.

We really hope this will help the Philippines. In Science this week we have been doing these brochures for a holiday in different planets. Lara, Claire and I are doing Mars. I won’t tell you too much more but our space ship is called "The Titanium Diamond" and when we have finished I will put on my wikispace for everyone to have a look at. This week has also been about Tests, tests, tests and TESTS! I have done a English benchmark test, a maths benchmark test and a French test for my report I am not sure how I went on the other two but I got a great score for French! I am a bit nervous because these scores affect my report, big time, but I hope I do ok! So those were some of my highlights for this week and I will see you next week! Bye https://docs.google.com/document/d/16pOI9IX0BEiFFv0JlZI9EyS_G9KGYFaGQemSMvzDKHc/edit?pli=1 Up above is some info we wrote about Typhoon Yolanda
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__**HUMANITIES 12.11.13**__ In humanities we are learning about extreme weather and here is some information I found out about the Philippines Typhoon:
 * The winds were up to 402 kilometres per hour
 * There was absolutely no electricity anywhere
 * All the hospitals and pharmacies in the Philippines were either shut down or destroyed, some people that were in the hospitals got unfortunately very hurt or killed.
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__//**WEEK REFLECTION 18TH OF OCTOBER**//__ <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This week has been great, we have had a public holiday on Tuesday and we have had rehearsals all week! So we have been at school but not doing too much work! I am very excited because I got a main role as the mum in the school play, so we have been practicing a lot! I am also so sorry I haven’t been updating my wiki it has been so hectic lately! This week’s homework has been really fun, we have been doing math sheets about coordinates and recounts about reports that we read and the best part is for our technology we got to rake pictures! This week I have also like that we have started doing debating with my friends Lachlan and Felicity. We are saying that guns shouldn't be band for various reasons. That’s all for this week folks but I will see you next week! I will post the pictures for technology underneat <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">h. BYE!

This is my timetable for camp

__ **Vietnam: 11 of July 2013** __ Right now I am in Vietnam having a great time. I have now been to Ha Noi and Hoi An. We have done fantactic cooking class called: The Green Bamboo Cooking class here is a website if you are in Hoi an you can go to this wonderful place. [] I promise you wont regret it! We have also had this great tour where these Vietnamese Uni students wanted to practice their English on us so the took us around the popular places in Ha Noi. We went to a historical museum about Vietnam we went to the temple of Literature and this AMAZING ice cream place in the french quarter. It was called Fannys. This tour is for free and the kids do it voluntary. It is a AMAZING tour and it is #1 on trip adviser []. In Ha Noi we stayed at a hotel called Intercontinental and in Hoi An we are staying at sunrise. So Far my holiday has been great and I am going to make a video on my holiday so you xan just wait and look forward to it! Bye!

If you can't be bothered reading all of this read it on this PDF Here are my goals for next termó Drama- Drama has been one of my favourite subjects this semester. In drama we have been doing melodramas and reading off scripts. For the melodramas we have made our own script and created a play. I was in a group with Oliver P, Zac R and Lara G. Our melodrama is called ‘Torture in the Castle’ we are preforming it on Thursday the 20th of June. My group and I are overly excited about preforming. Teacher: Miss Housten Art- In art we have been doing a number of subjects like shades and tints, mixing colours, how to use paint in the right way and many more exciting things. We have done pieces of art like colour wheels, buildings, architecture (buildings/collage) and shade and tint ice cream drawings. And next term the I am extremely excited about doing sculptures for our next subject during art. Teacher: Miss Knight Science- In Science we have done 2 subjects over this semester. Light and how we see it and the earth and how it works. It has been really fun with the different experiments we have been doing and how much we learn in 20 weeks. Light is a great topic to work on because we shows how much we take light for granted and what actually goes on inside our eyes and what comes out. My favourite topic we did in science was the eye. I learnt so many things and I will share some with you now: The black dot inside your eye is called the pupil and the colourful bit on your eye is called the iris. The pupil controls the light that enters the eye and the iris shrinks the light if it is too bright. The iris also can open the iris wider if it is too dark and you can’t see. It is pretty amazing right? I have learnt many other exciting things as well as what I just shared to you. Teacher: Miss Housten Music- In music we have basically just been learning how to keep the beat and use different instruments. Right now we are in different groups like… Percussion, recorders, 6 hands piano, keyboard, violin, singing and guitar. I am singing rocking my soul with the percussion group and edelweiss with the recorder group. I love music it has always been one of favourite subjects. I love music I feel great pleasure when I do anything with music. In conclusion music is…………AWESOME! Teacher: Miss Jing Maths- In maths we learn a different topic each week. So I can’t remember everything! But I will name the ones I can remember! Fractions, data, chance, times tables, division algorithms, addition algorithms, multiplication algorithms and I know this may not make sense but many more that I can remember what I learnt but not the topic! To be honest I have never really liked Maths because I had always found to hard and annoying but this year I have really started to enjoy maths and found out that the more you learn the easier it gets. So that has been my new perspective and it is really started to come along so I have really started to love maths! I have actually enjoyed the topics all the same because as I said the more you the easier it gets. So every topic I have learnt it has made me better at maths. Teacher: Mr Buroows English- In English we have done roughly around 15 topics. We have done lots of persuasive texts the main one I have enjoyed is Generation Z. We had to write a persuasive text about why our generation is the best. The arguments I wrote about were.. We are really good at technology, we look after nature and I also wrote about Steve jobs in my text because he was the main one who bought technology back to life and that was one of that was one of my main points. We have also learnt about different grammar and comprehension rules and strategies. Here is a few examples… ‘I before E except after C’ or 66-99 as in “ ” so I think those strategies help me during my years of school! Here is one more things I have learnt during in English class. I found it hard before how to read things and understand them straight away but we have been doing this in class so now I find it really easy to read things and understand them straight away! Teacher: Miss Housten
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History- In History we have been learning about migration in the 19th century. We have learnt about the Chinese gold miners the Afghan Cameleers Torres Strait Islanders The Germans and I think that’s it. I have found it very interesting how many different people migrated to Australia for many different reasons. The one that I personally found most interesting was the Afghan Cameleers. They came to Australia to map the continent and they invented the trans Australia railway and the overland telegraph. They were mostly Afghans and Australians that were involved in that era. We have also been learning about different people who shaped Australian history. Peter Lalor is a really good example. He shaped Australian History by being the first Criminal to become a politician. Now you’re probably thinking ‘So what’ that doesn’t shape Australian history. But it does. All of the criminals hated politicians but he just loved the idea. He lead the Eurika stockade and when his colony got forced to get put into jail he stood up for his colony and it gave him such a rush so he decided to become a politician. So I really enjoyed learning about him and a few others. Teacher: Mr. Kemp Health- In health we have learnt about two different topics. We have learnt about Self-esteem and friendships. I have really enjoyed both subjects and look forward to learning more about friendships next term. In self-esteem we learnt how to build up our self-esteem and how to control it. I learnt that the word ‘self-esteem’ actually means your feelings, how positive you are and what you think in your own behalf. I thought it was your personality! So as you can tell there is something I have already learnt! To learn about self-esteem we did a few different activities like… Mr Burrows would read out a statement and we would have to go in the neutral area, the disagree area, the strongly disagree area, the agree area an d the strongly agree area. I found those types of games fun! We also did a acting exercise. On the emotional side of self-esteem we got a sheet of paper and had to act out the emotion of someone doing something too. All in all in health I have learnt a heap more of what I used to know about self- esteem! Teacher: Mr Burrows Library- In Library it is very peaceful and calming we simply read a book with Mrs Martin them we go and borrow our books na d read quietly for the rest of the lesson. It is very unfortunate that Mrs Martin hurt her back in week 7 so we haven’t had library for 4 weeks! But we have just done other lessons during that time. Teacher: Mrs Martin ` Technology- In Technology we have been learning about 3 topics this semester Scratch, computer skills and how to create a 3D shape on Microsoft word. These have all been fantastic topics to work on. I have to say I have enjoyed learning about scratch the most because it is what I will be able to use the most. If you don’t know what scratch is it is a program that you can create games on. I have come from not knowing how to use scratch at all to being nearly a professional on it. I have learnt how to make character jump how to make them move and many more wonderful things that [|www.scratch.mit.edu] could teach you about. I have also learnt these skills from other people in my class that are pro’s at scratch. As you can see a bit further down than this reflection you can see my 3D shape that I created with Microsoft word. I am very proud of what I have achieved. Teacher: Mr Kemp P.E- In P.E we have been doing soccer. I have really enjoyed soccer because I have always wanted to play in a soccer team and learn how to play soccer properly and in our P.E classes we got to do that. I have learnt many different skills like.. Drag backs, U turns, how to be in defence properly, how to aware of the ball that is coming at you and if I kept going this reflection wouldn’t stop! We have also learnt a number of Athletic skills. We did sprints, long jump, long distance, shot put and those things probably sum it up! Because of these skills I was learning in P.E I got into the interschool athletics competition I won 8.0 in long jump, 4th in our relay and 5th in our sprint. As you can probably tell I really love P.E and would love to get more involved in it when I am older! Teacher: Mr Kelly and Mr Burrows French- In French we are now focussing on the proper stuff. We have done all the words and most of us can nearly speak fluently… We are now doing the vowels and congregating. Now most of you probably don’t know what ‘congregating’ means. Well here is a example.. It is basically past tense to future to present tense. Je pechér- J’ai peche Tu a pechér- Tu peche Elle a pechér- Elle peche Il a pechér- il peche Vous avez Pechér- Vous avez peche Nous avons pechér- Nous avons peche Pechér- Vous avez peche Ils ont pechér- ils ont peche Elles ont pechér- ells ont peche So that took me a while to memorize what they are and what they mean. Je is I, tu is you, elle is a girl, il is boy and more importantly Pechér means fishing! I have really enjoyed French because I am learning a lot more than I used to and I am also enjoying it much more than I used to! Teacher: Madame Sandar To sum up my semester- My semester has been great and I look forward of many more to come ahead of me with my learning! By Paris Coulson

__**Friday the 14 of June**__ In Technology we learnt how to make 3D shapes on Microsoft word. It is Awesome maybe I can teach you!?

__**Friday the 14 of June**__ This week has been fantastic! We have had swimming every day for 1 hour during our middle session and today is the big competition! We have to wear our house shirts. And of course my is yellow! Anyway I am really excited for many different things. 1. My mum is coming home from Australia on Saturday 2. Lara’s scavenger hunt party is on the weekend 3. We have a swimming competition today 4. I memorized my whole script for drama and we are having a big rehearsal today for our melodramas. YAY! So those are the things are the things I am looking forward to! My favourite things this week have been..... In history we had to find out about people who had changed the world today I did Peter Lalor, He changed the world because he was the first criminal to become a politician. (I love doing these sorts of things!) I also enjoyed science because we are finishing off our projects and I have finished! My project is about the eye. (I am really sorry I can't put it on the wikispace) I loved drama because our group finally memorized our scripts so we are pretty happy. Our melodrama is called "Torture in The Castle" It’s really funny! And last but not least..... SWIMMING! Swimming has been awesome it has been so energetic and fun. The most laps I have done in a day s about 80 laps in 25m pool. So roughly that is about 2km! I know it sounds a lot but that’s what we had to do! Swimming has been great fun we have been learning how to get better at so many things like... Backstroke, freestyle and butterfly and a few more. But that has been my pretty much fantastic week! See you soon! Up above this writing, is one of the slides in my presentation for science. It is about the cornea. __**Friday the 7th of June**__ This week has been pretty good. I have set some new goals and Claire and I presented this History project we have been working on for 2 weeks. We both think it went really well. We presented it on this great site called prezi. You can find the presentation down the bottom of this text. I am also still working on science project. It is about the eye. I am doing this presentation on a site called smilebox. It gives you lots of templates to choose from and just press download and its there! In Technology we have changed from learning about scratch, now we are learning about different tricks on a computer. To see what I have learnt just press the PDF that says technology and it will be up on your screen straight away. So as you can tell me life has been going well and I hope your life is to! Bye.

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Thursday the 6th of June This is what I did in Technology it was fun __**Friday the 31st of May**__ This week we had Naplan, we have done all the English tests but now the worst one of all..... MATH! If you didn't guess today is our maths test. I am excited but a little bit afraid! Because when I go back to Australia this test will dicide if I get into my dream school, so now you can sort of tell why I am so sceared. Talking about math this week we have been doing some reviews on some Maths and I am really pround of what I have been learning. Not much has really been going on. In history we are still doing our presentations and in science I am doing a presentation on the eye. We are doing the math test this morning at school!!!!! AHHHHH! We havn't had library this week because Mrs. Martin hurt her back quite bad so we didn't have library! Well Bye! This is my maths

__**Thursday the 23 of May**__ This week is a short week because tomorrow is Vsac day and we get a public holiday! This week we have had lots of fun subjects like art I am enjoying it so much. We are at the moment doing collages with paper. We are drawing buildings around the world. Today I am really excited because the people that are hosting our camp are coming in today to tell us in more detail what we are doing for camp. Incase you didn't know we are going to..... CHINA! My favourite part of this week has been history because last week we got a topic of people who migrated to Australia and where they migrated to. ( I was doing Torres Strait Island) This week we pulled out of a hat one of the four topics people were doing in our class. Once we all had one we had to pick a partner that was doing the same I got claire and we are now doing the afghans. It is very interesting and I look forward learning a lot more! We are doing Naplan next week and I am really Scared! But I'm sure I'll be alright! Just incase you wanted to know what the year 5's are up to during the week! __**My Reflection 17 of**__ **May** This week has been really good! I did my maths and English practice tests for naplan and I think my score was really good! I also started reading this awesome book that I am really into called "Big Nate" It is a great book for my age group. Today we have scratch day! I am really excited! If you don't know scratch is like this really cool piece of technology that you can start from scratch! And you can make your own game! I have made this really cool game called "The Wizards adventures" Its really cool. Its like a maze game and the wizard always needs help finding things. When I upload the game to the website you can search paz25 on this website [] ! And play my game good luck! In music we have been forming groups of percussion, strings, singing, keyboards,piano and recorder! I am in the singing group. Lara and I are singing rock my soul it a pretty good song! Well I ahve to go to school now see ya later! P.s my reflections are in a diary form! Here is a picture of the book I am reading.

Monday the 22nd of March Here is my information for todays showcase:

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This is a quiz try it and GOOD LUCK!

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media type="custom" key="22146446" width="140" height="140" Hi I am Paris and this is where I am going to be sharing most of my learing with you. We are now in the middle of week 3. We have just received our new dell tablets and they are very interesting and fun. We have learnt so many new things just with our new tablets. This is a picture that I wrote and took. It is just supposed to mean I am very excited about starting our new wikispace!!