About me 2020

Hi, my name is Georgia. The most significant things about me are:

  • family (my background is a recent photo of my family and I)
  • helping others
  • dance
  • netball
  • travel
  • friends

I am a social person who enjoys hanging out with my friends and working with others in various endeavors. I like to help people, whether that be my friends or other students at school and I maintain great relationships with my peers. I also get along well with adults and have healthy, respectful relationships with teachers and all adults. I’m often relied upon to assist the teachers in the classroom and around the College as well as with my outside interests.

Overall, I am a confident, fun-loving and happy person who loves a challenge loves people and loves experiencing new things.

 

 

Semester 2 Report Review

Overall, I am happy with my Semester 2 Report. In my reflection from Semester 1, I didn’t get as many A’s as I would have liked but the work did also get progressively more challenging (it is also not about the grade.) My subjects were different from the previous Semester as well as I needed to balance Food Tech (which I was very confident in) to textiles (which I am not confident in at all). While I am happy with the marks I achieved, this made a noticeable difference in my results.

In Year 8, I would like to focus more on Maths, Science and Health as those were the only C grades I received. I do noticeably better in English and HASS, and I would like to maintain my A grade. It has always been a goal for me to get an Academic Award, but I do find it very challenging with all of my extracurricular activities and the workload getting larger. Next year I am going to put extra revision in for Maths and Science. For Health I am going to try and be more engaged in class discussions.

China Study Tour 2018

On the 20th of September 2018, I set off to Guangzhou with 16 of my school friends and 5 of my favourite teachers. The trip was an amazing opportunity because I was able to experience being away from home for over 2 weeks including a homestay for 5 days. I was also able to experience school in Shenzhen for 5 days. Throughout those days, I had to learn how to be friends with anyone, if they speak your language or not. We also used lots of different capabilities such as ethics, effective communication, being self-aware and organised. We had to be ethical as we were in another country without our family at age 12 and we were representing our school and our country. We had to make sure we were organised as we had to do our own washing, we had a hotel room that we shared with one other friend and we needed to effectively communicate with English and Mandarin speakers. 

 

Another part of the trip was the exchange. A year prior I had a student come from Shenzhen and stay with me in Perth. It was a strange experience having somebody who didn’t speak any English come and stay in my house but it was an incredibility fun experience. We got to show her around Perth and via Google translate discover our differences and similarities. Even though there was a language barrier we were still friends and had an amazing time. It was easy for her to fit into my weekly plan as she came to school with me and was basically ‘my shadow’ for 3 days.

Overall, this opportunity was fantastic. I grew so much as a person, learned how to be independent, and was able to see some amazing historical sites such as The Great Wall of China and the Terracotta Warriors.

Class Representation and Service Councilor

In 2019 I  had the pleasure of representing my class and College service partners as a Class Representative (Semester 1) and a Service Councilor (Semester 2).  When I first put my hand up for class representative, I was quite nervous. I was new to the College and not many people knew me. I took this as an opportunity to make an attention-grabbing speech. Instead of the old boring read in front of the class, I wrote my speech out on big pieces of card and got the class to read it for me. All while I was dancing to prepared music. Then for my service role, I used my experience and the positive approach to fuel my application. Applying for Service Councilor 2020 was an easy decision for me as I had a blast being able to help on the service team last year. In the image I am in the Chapel, receiving my Service Councilor badge. The Class Representative was also an amazing opportunity and the next chance I get I will be going for that as well.

Citizenship Award

At my Year 6 Graduation, I was awarded the Citizenship Award. It was a great honor to receive this award. Even as a Year 6 I valued the way I could have an impact on both the school and wider community. I had shown that through being a student councilor, making mature choices and being a positive role model for the younger students, individuals could make a difference. The best thing about this is that I really enjoyed all the experiences I had and it wasn’t like work at all. It was humbling to be acknowledged for doing things that I really enjoyed.

Year 7 Week-long Camp

Year 7 camp was something I was told to look forward to. I remember being super nervous to find out my group and my dorm, I treated it like it was the end of the world if I didn’t have my friends in that group. Looking back now, I think that it was good that I didn’t have many of my friends in my group as I got to extend my friends and learn to get along and fit in with anybody, on top of the physical challenges we experienced. I was pushed on the overnight camp as you had to walk there. This involved walking over ant nests and under electric fences which was an exhilarating experience. We had to use all different capabilities throughout the whole camp, resilience on the pamper pole, problem-solving in the dorms, collaboration when cooking our food, inquisitive about new experiences and leadership in the variety of activities. I am very excited about the Year 8 camp with my house, especially if Year 7 is anything to go by.

Speak Up Awards (Homelessness)

In 2018, I presented a small speech to my class on the growing issue of homelessness. That speech was then chosen to move into the next round to do a school-wide presentation with the goal of electing the three best presentations to go to the state-wide Speak Up Awards. I was lucky enough to be one of those three top speeches.

After a long drive into North Perth, I presented my speech on homelessness to a group of judges and around 100 people. I was incredibly nervous as it was my first time presenting to a group larger than about 70. The top 10 competitors from that moved into a higher competition on a stage and it was a televised event. Unfortunately, I came 11th. This opportunity was still one that I was very thankful to be able to participate in. My speech was something that I was very proud of and these helped as a steppingstone to me getting my 2018 and 2019 leadership roles and my confidence to apply to 2020 leadership roles too. 

 

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