“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”- Tanaka Munyikwa (ME)
2020…Quarantine
Out of 4.5 billion years… 2020 is the craziest. I never would have thought a global pandemic would have happened and the world would be on lock down.
During these lock down times I have learnt a lot about my self and I hope those reading have too. In a challenging time like this I have been given the opportunity to reflect on myself as a person and what matters to me.
Personally, in quarantine I have noticed that I prefer being with myself rather than around people and relax but when I am around people I want it to be fun. I also learnt that I actually missed school and wanted to see my friends.
In terms of my family, I learnt that I really loved spending time with them and being around them a whole lot more, but after a long time sibling’s can become annoying and parents ask for a lot of chores. Me and my family also went and did lots of exercise as a family to keep our fitness up during quarantine.
In terms of my community, I learnt that I found it really sad to drive past my park and see nobody was there because before lock down there used to be 15-20 people at a time. There were also lots of public events like outdoor movies once a month and community parties but now all of those things have been canceled not.
Health Reflection
Over a couple of weeks, we have filled in a booklet about online behaviours. In this unit, I learnt to stand up to negative online behaviours and to be empathetic to others online and be an Upstander (A helpful Bystander). I do not have any social media’s such as Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat but from this unit, I knew that I could change my behaviours online such as changing the way I speak to friends and others while playing games, the way I comment to things in YouTube and the way I speak on group chat’s
Lesson 1: CRITICAL THINKING
With critical thinking, the video and the lesson we had learnt had shown me to always analyze and look so I am able to use my critical thinking in situations. The video we were shown had shown 2 kids who had seen a video online of a guy jumping off a bridge and they had thought it was real but when they went to the bridge and tried they realized how big the jump is. This is helpful because in these situations you have to analyze and use critical thinking to say Ummm, no that has to be fake no one could make such a jump. This can help me in future, for example, people doing stunts or crazy pranks that could certainly get you arrested if watch it and get analyse the video you can see its fake.
Lesson 2: EMPATHY
In the video, it speaks about being able to listen to the person, be honest and give them constructive feedback and advice for whatever they are going through. The video says not to silver line it and says “Oh don’t worry at least you have… and …” but to be nice listen and comfort the person. An example can be of someone angry because their parents won’t buy them a ps4 you should not say “oh at least you have parents some kids don’t” because this won’t make the person feel better will it?
Lesson 3: RESPECT:
This was my favourite part of this unit because this was the topic that gave me the most view and perspective of social media and what can happen. Things like jail and jobs were the topics that I got a better view of. I learnt that if you are not careful and you do not respect others, this will come around to bite you in the backside. You can ruin friendships, relationships and families. An example of this is someone who is going for a job interview and does exceptionally well may not get the job because of one dumb video of you doing something dumb or idiotic, for example, a video of you drink and throwing rocks at a car. That car could have been a family car of someone you may know or not know and they could have been killed kidnapped all because you broke their car.
Lesson 4: Responsibility
This was not my favourite one but gave me a more mature perspective instead of being taught the social media world and bullying. This helped because it had shown me the way to behave online and how to deal with your troubles. This had spoken about who to speak to if you were getting bullied and why you would go to these people.
In conclusion, I am grateful that we were given this opportunity to be given a broader view of the world, social media, cyber-bullying and being empathetic. This has certainly been a good journey and it has also helped with my behaviours and my decision making to make me more responsible.
Leadership
In Term 1 an application for Transition Service Captains had come out. Since notified I had been so excited to sign up and when I had found out I did that straight away. I put lots of time and effort into it and I think that’s what made me stand out to be chosen. I was lucky and so grateful for this opportunity and at the assembly, I was chosen. My parents were so proud and I was too. I thank everyone who chose me and supported me. My time in Semester 1 was good but I had to give up my position in Semester 2 for others to have a chance.
Motivational Quote
“Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.”
Motivational Quote
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ” – Unknown
HASS Activity
Yesterday in HASS we were working on a project about water-saving and how lucky we are to have it. We watched a documentary speaking about 5 years old child named Chera who had to walk over 4 miles to get water that was not even clean! After that, we got to carry a bottle of 15 litres 100 meters. I really struggled with this and I realized how lucky I am to live a good life
Another activity we had to do was to put the water in the bucket only using our hands. We had 2 buckets and one was full while we had to fill the other one in only using our hands. To fill it up it took over 30 minutes with multiple people helping out. Imagine how long it would take for an innocent 5-year-old girl to do! I’m glad I did this activity and it helped me raise my awareness about the less fortunate.
Fun Fact! We Australians are the top 1% Wealthiest people of the world’s population
InnovatED T3 W1/2/3/4/5/6
InnovatED 27/ 08 / 2019
Today in InnovatED we are doing UN Global goals. Ours is goal 13 (climate action). My group consists of Callum, Charlie, Josh and Cooper and we are working to install a chicken coop into the school.
Our purpose is to be able to reuse and recycle food scraps and feed them to the chickens, while the eggs laid can be used to give to the canteen or to homeless community services to help feed others who are not as fortunate.
We are still in our planning stages but considering the timetable and the amount of time we have we are on schedule. To create the coop we are going to work with Mr Haddow and Mr Peacemaker in the woodwork room and we are going to use woodwork and 3D printer to create the feeding tubes. Recognising our circumstances we have a budget of between $500 and $1000. This is good because for a normal chicken coop off the internet the average price is just over $2000.