Review of term 1

This term, I enjoyed maths because I just love maths in general. I enjoyed the SRAs too because l enjoyed answering the questions and also because I have progressed through the levels almost 3 times. But the most fun thing, in my opinion, is the maths murder mystery because I love problem-solving and murder mysteries.

I’m really happy with my learning this year because in maths I learned how to measure odd shapes easily and how to measure the perimeter of a triangle. I’m also happy with my writing because I’m starting to write more and I’m starting to put more detail into it too. From my latest piece of writing, I got level 4 which is usually the expectations for yr 8s so I am above my year level when it comes to writing. The same is for my maths except I got towards 4, but that’s still a good result.

I don’t think that I have found anything hard this term but I know that I will find the problem-solving challenging that will happen very soon.

The Benmore Dam trip

Last week on Thursday, we went on a dam trip, the Benmore dam to be more specific. We went there because we were originally planning to go last year when we were studying sustainability but then Covid came and we had to cancel the trip. I learned that they used a crane thingy to slide in big concrete slabs to stop the water from flowing into the penstocks for when they’re doing maintenance on the turbines or penstocks. My favourite part of the trip was lunch because I was really hungry and the wraps were really good.