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Since moving into the more senior part of high school, a lot has changed. I am a dedicated, organised, and hard-working member of the Cowan House Council, which I love. I have represented All Saints’ in swimming, tennis, French, and badminton over the past few years. I am also an active member of the service community, as I attend Cooking for the Homeless, I peer tutor, and I am currently working on an award that requires 36 hours of service, hard work, and adventure.

In Year 11, I have had some amazing opportunities. I was fortunate enough to work as a Peer Support Leader, and guide Year 8 students to learn the college values through fun and interactive games. I have also been volunteering as a girl guide Junior leader for 11 months, attending sessions every Thursday afternoon to work with girls aged 6-10, and help them earn badges. I have also received Year 11 awards in House, Drama, and Tennis. In September this year, I will be heading off to France as part of the French Exchange. This will teach me how to overcome challenges especially with communication.

In Year 10, I was a member of the school rowing team, which taught me how to work effectively in a team to achieve an outcome. I also earned a lead role in my musical theatre class year playing Isabela in Disney’s “Encanto” for Year 4-6 students. This taught me how to engage an audience, and how to use public speaking. I also earned Merit Certificates in Health and Science. In September last year, I headed up North to Exmouth on a girl guides trip for 5 days, where we carried everything and kayaked around the coast, and camped on beaches. This taught me how to lead a group, and how to tackle new experiences.

For my 9/10 Drama Class, we were given the task of creating a costume design for one of the characters featured in our Musical Theatre production of Encanto.

For my costume design, I decided to focus on Isabela, because that is who I played in the production.

She is the oldest of Abuela’s grandchildren in Encanto, therefore she has more expectations pushed on her.

Her magical gift is she can make flowers and plants grow under her control.

Everyone sees her as graceful. Mirabel sees her as selfish and snobby. Abuela sees her as the “golden child.”

She is betrothed to get married to Mariano, which she doesn’t want to do, but is doing anyway to please her family. With the help of Mirabel, she eventually breaks free from her perfection and expresses who she truly wants to be.

I chose to focus my colour on purple and pink, because they represent perfection, femininity, and beauty.

For my character, I decided to have a white shirt with lace sleeves, to not only represent simplicity, but lace is often used to make women feel more elegant and feminine. This also adds more shape to her appearance. For my skirt, it was a long, flowy purple dress, with pink flowers on it. This is was to be more accurate to the movie, so our audience would understand who plays which role, but also to represent Isabela’s powers with flowers and nature. As for shoes, whilst I did originally plan to wear purple slide on shoes to be accurate to the movie we all went barefoot. We also had to take off any watches, bands, or jewellery off our wrists and ankles, as they are distracting, and would break our characters. In my hair, I wore a flower decoration to yet again show my character’s power.

Pink and Purple Colour Scheme – represent her floral abilities, her perfection and beauty, and to be accurate to the movie

Before I found the right costume, I did find it hard to find a costume that would fit her character. I originally wore a short purple dress with a plait around the collar, with flowers on it, but the colours didn’t match her character. I then found the right shirt, but then needed to find the right skirt. I originally used a pink skirt, which looked right for the character, but was very similar to another cast member’s skirt, which would have confused the audience, because we play two separate characters. In the end I found the perfect skirt that matched my character that I was able to use to spin in and move like Isabela.