Graduation Reflection (Last Post on Blog)

 It was on the 16th of December I was at the place, the place was The Legends, I was very nervous because it might have been the wrong place, I was going to go in to eat at the restaurant when I was dropped of it was just coincidence that two teachers had arrived and two students to that made me feel much more confident. We all went in when I met lee my classroom teacher.

I then walked in and saw three tables one had some of my friends on it so I choose that one to sit on. When I sat I saw party poppers on the tables and candy canes, chocolate coins and chocolate Santas, there also was two jugs of soft drink one being raspberry and the other cola but what I saw was there where three varieties the other variety was pink one person on my table thought it was pomegranate I doubted that. I got chicken Parmigiana with chips and salad, I didn’t eat the salad.

When I was almost finished we started popping the party poppers so I got the person next to pop his and my party poppers at the same time when they went of I found a strip of paper with a joke that didn’t make sense, a paper hat and two tees. When we were finished we headed out to go to the school which was very close so we could walk when we arrived we had to wait outside one of the exits at the SPC(Sports and Performing Centre) and wait we saw many parents walk past.

When it was our turn we walked in while music was playing then we sat down on seat at the back of the room then the people on the stage talked and talked then they handed out the graduation certificates with a parcel then the awards.

After waiting there we were told to go out but we knew why but the parents probably didn’t know, it was our surprise dance we had worked on it for 10 weeks and know we where performing it in front of an audience that made me very nervous and what made more nervous was that the audience was our family and i had to dance with a teacher at on bit holding hands.

After it was over we were told to come up and pick a bag of chocolates from a bag and give it to our parents is wasn’t rehearsed but we just went with the flow and then we had to go up again but this time it was to take a picture in front of a cake and the school captains then cut the cake all at once, the night was over.

We then went outside where there where refreshments, there where tea and coffee, juice boxes, tiny teddies and water with plastic cups. I grabbed an apple and blackcurrant juice box and my brother grabbed an apple juice he said it was very sticky and when he opened it, it was very bitter he told me to taste it and I found it sour and bitter and I found it tasted like vinegar my classroom teacher lee then told me to open the parcel, I opened it and what I found was a picture book of the pictures that where taken three weeks ago I think. I then grabbed some cake and poured some water then my family left. Overall I felt okay some bits made me nervous some made more relaxed but overall it was great.

GTAC Reflection

On Monday the 28th of October a group went to the Gene Technology Access Centre(GTAC Website: http://www.gtac.edu.au/)  to explore different types of microscopes and microscopic things, the group was  made mostly of band students and some other students.

What we did at GTAC was we looked at microorganisms and there were a lot in the water, it was amazing. We used compound and stereo microscopes and we learned how to use them. We had to solve a case so we looked at several things found and put them under a microscope. At the end we cracked the case. We did it with our science mentors who taught us a lot for example how to use a compound microscope

The people where great, they were easy to understand and specked load and clear. The science mentors where very nice and helped us when we had trouble and they obviously knew what they were doing.

3 Facts

1. Two types of microscopes are compound and stereo 2. Things change a huge amount when put under a microscope 3. GTAC stands for Gene Technology Access Centre.

2 Understandings

1. There is a whole another world beyond what you can see a world which is beyond what the naked eye can see 2. There is a place called GTAC I never knew that but it’s a real place because I went to it I still don’t know what it fully does though, maybe genes.

1. Question

1. Why did GTAC get built?

Picture and Links

 

The place:

Link: http://www.gtac.edu.au/site/images_index/gtac_build_day.jpg

The Logo:

 

Link: http://www.gtac.edu.au/site/images_top_strip/gtac_page_top_logo.jpg