Asher Muller

School Trip

Year 7 traveled to Fremantle Port to get a better understanding of the surroundings. While we were there we had to fill out a small booklet that contained information that will benefit us later in the project. We split up into groups and traveled to different places in the Port. First, we arrived at the Maratine Museum but it was a shame that we couldn’t enter it. But we still got to look at some cool things like a massive submarine and the limestone wall. Overall I enjoyed it but I think it was kind of rushed and we should’ve had a bit more time there. This experience gave us a lot of information that we have used in our projects.

The Giver

Project Utopia is about creating an amazing world that no one would want to leave. Term 2, the whole of year 7 was introduced to The Giver, made by Lois Lowry. The Giver led up to the main project which was Project Utopia. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas, in his mind, he thinks the community is perfect whilst in reality, the community is corrupted. The Giver made me understand that no world is perfect and that it is better to know the truth than make everyone believe a lie.

Introduction to the Project

In the middle of term 2, we were properly introduced to the project utopia. Two experts came in to explain to us our project. They explained that they wanted us to give them ideas for Fremantle. Mr. Green then explained more about it. Project Utopia is to make an amazing place that people will love. Fremantle port was moving away which means people are deciding what to put there. All saints and the Fremantle port redesign team gave us an amazing opportunity, they let us create and pitch ideas to them. At first, this made me and Arya excited to do this project. We were thinking of imagining 10-20 years later us viewing the new Fremantle port and seeing our ideas. After the experts said we were going to help redesign Fremantle, I’m sure everyone was intrigued.

Vision Board

After we were introduced to the project our first goal was to create a poster of all our ideas A.K.A a Vision Board. Basically, it is a big collage of mostly pictures and words that show our vision for the project. Our ideas had to represent some of the livability factors and they had to be either sustainable or liveable or even both. My group members were Shola and Milana, whilst we were creating the vision board we got some hiccups. For instance, Milana had to go quarantine and so we only had 2 members and that we were on a time crunch and we started rushing it. Overall I think my group did quite well.

Grandparents Day

After we made our vision board we had to present them to our grandparents. Most of my peers brought in their grandparents to see their work. My grandma came in to see what I have been doing at school, she couldn’t wait to see my work since I talked about it all the time with her. My Grandma took photos and asked questions about our ideas and I really think she enjoyed coming to look at the vision board. After that, I said my goodbyes to her and she was very impressed with not just my work but everyone’s, she took some pictures of the school and of my group’s vision board, and then she left.

Class model

We had to make an individual plot of land on the class model, on my plot of land had museums, heritage walls, and a shopping center. We made these using Minecraft and physical objects like plastic trees that weren’t too scale and foam boards that were used to make buildings. This took us around a 5 weeks, using the info we collected in class we used that to place our buildings.

Presentation

On the day of the presentation we were feeling good, multiple parents came in and saw our pitch and they asked multiple questions. It felt amazing that the adults and teachers enjoyed and got involved by asking questions about our answers and our own questions. On that day I had my sister’s Athletics carnival so I left early for that but I didn’t miss the presentation which was good.