Science 2023

Miah Davies

For this project we had to create a tower strong enough to withstand an earthquake. You had $60 to spend. The tower had to be 60cm tall and 30cm wide. You have spaghetti and blu tack and each spaghetti is $1 and each gram of blu tack is $1.

Engineering process:

The engineering process was very chaotic and messy because people were either not in the lesson or they were hanging out with other groups. Next time we could all stick to what we are meant to be doing. Next time we have to build this tower I would make it slimmer and more stable so it was the right height and and strong enough to withstand an earthquake. For the future I would probably go with different people because we didn’t get the work done and some of the group members kept on walking to other groups and started talking to them while everyone else was doing the project.

Teamwork:

My group was pretty god because we managed to get the work done but we could’ve spread the work out so one or two people were doing all the work because two people were doing most of the work and one person was doing all the research and most of the still, while the 4th person was walking around talking to friends and not helping. We all communicated well and that’s how we managed to finish the project. Eleanor was the Project Manager, Tim was the Speaker, Cooper was the Equipment Manager, and I was the reporter. Tim, Eleanor, and Cooper created the tower with their patience and delicacy. It took a while to get it right but they managed to complete it. I did the research and some more stile and helped the others with their stile because that’s what I am better at.

Our design:

Spec Basketball

Miah Davies
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This is a 6 week schedule that include strength, endurance, flexibility, shooting, dribbling, and recovery. These things will help improve my basketball skills if I follow them correctly. I also had to include other things such as hobbies, jobs, training, homework, and nutrition. Some of these things such as nutrition are very important because it helps with basketball and your health. If this schedule is followed correctly then my skills and gameplay style should improve and I will become healthier, stronger, and faster.

Reflection:

Skills:

There are many skills that I have learned during my time in spec basketball. The main skill I have learnt and implemented into my games is defense. Defense isn’t one of my strong suits in the game but as I have been in this class my defensive skills are better and I am now able to keep on the ball when being dribbled up the court. I was taught to stay low and not bounce up and down, make sure my feet don’t cross over when sliding, and to beat your player to the spot they are planning to go to. I knew these things before the class but it wasn’t as good, in my games I am now one of the better defenders and I’m a lot stronger in my defense and I am better at taking hard contact and creating contact when playing.

My defensive skills have improved lots over the time I have spent in this class and playing against boys my age and older boys, my confidence has improved and I am a stronger player. Playing with boys in this class was harder because they are more aggressive then girls and they like to attack the basket and this has helped me in multiple ways. One of the ways it has helped is that I have become a better outside shooter and I am better with my floaters and if I do drive I am more aggressive and I am able to get to the basket easier. It has also helped my defense because boys are quick on their feet so I have to be quicker and lower and that has improved my defense a lot and I now implement those defensive skills into my games.

Course:

During my time in spec basketball I attended many courses like a strapping course, a talk about nutrition

The course that I found the most useful was the strapping course. I already knew how to strap but I am now better at it, at this course I learnt how to strap an ankle, thumb, and fingers. This course was useful for me because I learned better ways of doing it and if anyone needs me to do it for them I will be able to do it because I was taught. It was also useful because if I hurt myself and need to strap something I don’t need to wait for someone to do it for me, I can just do it myself. Through the course he taught me new things and told me how I can improve from how I was originally doing it or tell me I am doing a great job.

Knowing this will hep for in the future in case I want to become a physio therapist or someone just needs help doing it. Some major concepts raised were allergies, types of tape, and how to tape different types of body parts. In this course we learned how to tape fingers, ankle and thumbs. When you tape a finger you have to put a layer of tape on the bottom of the finger and just above the knuckle, you then put two more layers on top of that tape. Before putting the tape on you have to put a foam piece in between the two fingers, so it is more comfortable. With a thumb you use one type of tape and you start around the wrist and and then around the thumb. You continue doing that until the thumb is secure. With an ankle you do 3 stirrups, 4 cross stirrups and a lock at the top of the ankle to hold all the tape together. While tapping someone you have to make sure its not to tight or two loose because if it is to tight it could cut of someone’s blood circulation. If you are not sure if it is to tight you can ask them or you can squeeze the tip of their nail and if it stays white then you have cut off the blood circulation and it is to tight.

English Reflection

Miah Davies

This years English was very hard and I learnt a lot of things throughout this year such as to write a perfect poem and making great and funny commercials

Organization

I am pretty organized in English meaning I bring what I am meant to bring but not all the time. When it comes to brining books to class or a fully charged laptop I don’t normally remember to bring a book to class but then I struggle to have a fully charged laptop by the time I have English. I take the notes I am meant to and I don’t always take the important notes because I either don’t here the teacher say it or I don’t think it is as important as the other notes I took. So this year I think I have been pretty organized.

Confidence

English isn’t one of my strong suits and I really struggle with some of the work and assessments I am receiving but each assessment I do I feel more confidant in the next assessment but I always end up not doing good in that. I really liked some of the assessment this year and felt really confidant but other assessment that are harder and more difficult I wouldn’t feel as confidant.

Marks

My marks were not very high in English but I am very proud of myself for the marks I got. Next year I hope I get better in the subject and get higher marks to prove to myself that I can do it and always believe and feel confidant about myself. With the current affairs I thought I could’ve gotten a higher mark but most of time people were missing and couldn’t get all the people done. Throughout the year my marks were pretty low but I am proud of myself for the marks I got.

Goals + Challenges for 2023

My goals for 2023 is to improve my score in English and get higher marks. I also want to be able to do the work without being confused and not knowing what to to. I want to have some challenges next year but challenges I know I will be able to complete.

Involvement

I have been very involved with most activity’s like reading aloud or helping out someone with their work. I would like to contribute more wen it comes to reading a book page to the class or reading a story or poem I write. I love to help people with their work so they can get it done, so if someone asked me if I could help them write something or print something I would say yes to get more involved with the work.

Collaboration

I like to collaborate while working which involves talking, sometimes I get told off or I just get told to talk quieter. I like to collaborate because sometimes I get my work done faster and I can get help as well as me helping someone else. During English I have been told off plenty of times for talking in class when I am asking for help or helping someone but sometimes I just get told to quite down if we are talking about the work and not somethings else. In the future I would love to collaborate more.

I had fun doing English this year with all the projects and me learning new things and I hope to get better and more skilled in what I have learnt this year.

Binge Drinking Expo Reflection

Miah Davies

In year 8 my class did a binge drinking expo showing the older years the effects of alcohol.

That alcohol can have a lot more impacts on your body then I thought and that if you decide to drink it don’t go above to normal drinking standard and don’t have alcohol when you are underaged due to what it can do to your body.

Some advice for older years thinking about if they want to drink or not I recommend you don’t due to the many effects it could have on you such as cancer, dizziness or other things that are worse. There are lots of long term and sort term impacts that can really effect your life and how you live. So don’t drink alcohol if your thinking of it. Some advice for kids younger, listen your parents when they say NO to alcohol.

I don’t know if I want to drink or not due to me seeing people drunk and seeing the outcomes in it.

This was really fun and hope to do it again sometime.

Dance Reflection

Miah Davies

For our year 8 transition night illuminate festival we made a dance, we looked really goofy but we managed to pull through. This dance routine had a long process with many days of hard work and determination.

We went through a lot to create this dance over a short period of time. First we were put in pairs and pretended we were puppets with a puppet master, we then taught the puppet dances to the other people we got put with then incorporated that into our dance. I was thinking of separating into smaller groups like we have done most of the time but we just ended up staying in the one big group. We then collaborated and worked together to make a tutting dance, we tried to make this dance as cool as possible and did it at different timing so we had a cool effect. Next we added on the breaking free parts then we finished and the ending which was amazing. Lastly we pieced it altogether working with the other class for the first time and we then performed an 1hr later.

The structure of the dance was a binary structure meaning it had 2 parts and the 2 class groups were different but had the same style dance as in the toy dance and the tutting. Towards the end we all broke free and started moving more freely and have a better time dancing.

The toy and tutting dance are stiff dance moves and not very free moving to make a cooler affect and make us look like we are actual toys. We weren’t very energetic at the start as toys but then when we broke free we had to be energetic and stay at the same amount of energy level all the way through. We didn’t have much space between everyone because we weren’t doing big movements, most of it was smaller moves. We had to stay at the same speed for that cool effect.

At the start we were all separated into groups of three and made up our own tutting dances, we then incorporated that into the dance as well as everyone else parts of their routine. We all then collaborated and worked together for a few weeks and ended up creating this amazing dance. Next time we could listen to each other instead of talking over the top and let everyone contribute and not just the one person. In the groups at the end we all mixed up groups and taught each other which made another 2 or 3 counts of 8 to to our dance.

The timing and spacing was really good because we all stood we were meant to stand and went at the time we had to go at. We all committed to this performance because we wanted it to come out as good as possible.

I think the group performed well knowing we only had 2hrs to put the two separate dances together so I think we did well. From what I saw we all did well and we all kept the same amount of energy throughout the dance making it look cool and making it look neat and tidy. The other class did really we with their dance towards the end and I am very proud of them for completing it without messing up. I am also very proud of my group cause we did some pretty embarrassing moves but we managed to pull through and make it look amazing. I think I did really well with my spacing and time with the movements. I could’ve looked at the audience more but it was bright so it made it harder to look at them.

It was very different because it has different levels of height and lots of slopes making it harder to dance. As well as all the natural including bugs and trees also trying to avoid them and having to stay still even with a bug on your face. Also you never know what is on the common and there is all sorts of sticks and dirt while in the dance studio or on the stage it is clean and all one level.

To make sure you collaborate with your peers and even if you don’t want to do something just do it because it is best for the group and it always ends up lookin great. That you have to work with people you don’t really like or work with that often, so just get it over and done with because you might not have to work with them again.

I had a lot of fun doing this project and I hope to do it again someday.

Recyclable Jewellery

Miah Davies

In Term 2 2022, I joined this class for InnovatED because I wanted to improve my skills with jewellery making and I wanted to make new friends during this process.

  1. First we discussed what we were making then discussed how we were going to do it
  2. Second we made designs of the bracelets and showed the teachers to see if it was good
  3. Third we sorted out all the beads into colour code so it was easier to get what we needed
  4. Fourth we started to make the bracelets and brought in new ideas of what we could make other then bracelets
  5. Fifth we started making the packaging and letters
  6. Then we scraped the idea of that
  7. Then we got them ready for the market and set it all up
  8. The sold most of them and made around $86
  9. Last of all we chose something to do in this class and started with that

Talking about six but we had to scrap the ideas of packaging and notes because the hospital wouldn’t let us give them to the give due to hygiene reasons so then we just put them on display and sold them at the market.

We used the design thinking process through our whole journey with this and then used to capabilities wheel to help with the values we had to use and the main one was creativity.

Letter to MP

Miah Davies

In 2022 term 2 I wrote a letter to Mr Lim and told him about the issues and the things that are happening to the Great Barrier Reef. This term in Hass we got told we had to write a letter to your MP about a situation and as you know I chose the Great Barrier Reef so I did my research collected all of it and then turned it into the letter we were making. This was a very hard task but I am very proud of myself for finishing and in the future if I have to do it I know how I can make it.

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I had a lot of fun doing this but also had some hard times so if you need help just ask for it because that is the way to get it done.😁👍

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Project Utopia

Miah Davies

 In Term 3 I did a project on Fremantle and my group, and I used these four capabilities collaboration, communication, origination, and problem-solving. When I did this project, I feel like we had some ups and downs, but we still worked as a team. When it came to the showcase I was just out there and talkative and so was the rest of my group, so I was proud of that.

ASC Capabilities

With communication, we did a lot of talking together as one group and we weren’t just sitting there quiet. An example of when we were using effective communication was when we were planning our scripts. What I did is I wrote as much as I could and then my group and I shared what we all wrote down and then we got told we just had to have a conversation so that is when stopped the scripts. We also used effective communication in the showcase because before we started, we were talking about where to stand and reminded each other what we were talking about.

Our organization was pretty good, but it could have been better. Some days we were forgetting stuff and not remembering the stuff we did the day before, but as this journey of Project Utopia, it got better and better till the point where we were remembering this and flying through all the work. Also, with our vision board, we were very organized because there was a pocket on the back for extra paper and we put all the pictures in a special order, so it was organized, and we knew where to point on the day of the showcase.

We used collaboration during every session especially when we were planning our vision board and then making because if we were quiet while we were doing the planning and making the vision board, we all would be doing our own thing instead of working together and that would have been a catastrophe. But in the end, because we all worked as a team, we completed the vision board and it turned out great.

Our problem solving was good, so when we had problems all of working together to get the problem solved, one of our problems is when the presentation finished and we started re-writing what we said in the presentation because we all wrote what we said and then sent it to Daniel to put it together, but as he did it he wrote what he wrote on his script and completely changed it and everyone in my group got angry and Astrid started arguing. But, in the end, I fixed the script, and it was what we said at the showcase.

Public Speaking

I think my group and I have pretty good public speaking and I think it really helped us in the showcase because if we weren’t good at public speaking ten the showcase would be a mess. So, i am really happy that we were all brave and wasn’t scared to talk up in front of all the parents and teachers.

At the end of it all we were so relieved that we had finished and did not have to work on it any longer.

Role Models and Me

Miah Davies
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In 2022 I did a project about Role Models and Me in health and it was hard but I made it all the way through.

This is a link to my presentation showing Who my role model is and what bad role models are. Also, what I value and a bit more about me including Who I am, Who I can trust and so on.

This project was hard but I made it all the way through and I am very proud of the work I finished and how it ended up looking in the final product.

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Miah’s Collagraph

Miah Davies

Since week 2 Term 2 I have made these amazing Collagraphs and they were really hard work so I’m really proud of what I did.

I experimented with all sorts of materials and then it turned out looking like this with my 1st and 2nd print and I tried out lots of different ink colours. But with the inking it got really messy so if you do this at home wear short sleeves and I really enjoyed Visual Arts and I’m sad that I can’t make anymore Collagraphs anymore.

Thanks, Miah