A New Beginning
My blog shows when I was a year 8, talking about primary school things, but now that I’m at high school I’ve got to talk about my class and growth mindset. I think that high school is a big school, however it’s not so big that I get lost often, it’s a good size and a good experience to learn about the high school. I think that learning is important because when learning you get smarter and learn more and more things about the topic you're learning about making it quicker to finish learning completely about. I’m a student at Grey High and my favourite subject at the moment is math, I may not be the best at it, but I do it the most often, meaning I learn lots of new things about math. The difference between my primary school and my school now is the size, and that Grey High has a cafeteria and lots more classes and teachers. It’s not that worrying anymore because it’s pretty simple to get around when you have the same periods each term.
Incase you didn’t know, growth mindset means that you enjoy learning new things and enjoy being challenged, however fixed mind set means the opposite, you are scared of learning new things thinking you’ll make a fool of yourself and do not enjoy being challenged, meaning they’ll give up easily. I however think I’m between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset meaning I’m an average learning student. Being in between means I’ve got to work harder and try different things to become a growth mindset person. I think that my knowledge of the school is going well because I am learning where everything is and finding it very easily. I think I could become a growth mindset student if I just put my mind to it and worked hard for it.
The reason I’m going to Grey High is because it looks like a very nice school, and because my friend Matt was going, and it would be pretty unsettling if I were to go to a school without my friend. I think I’m an average growth mindset student because I tend to try new things however I usually struggle to put in the effort to complete it well. The reason I’ve got a chromebook is because we’re learning to be a digital school, so we each need a chromebook for our digital learning and learn how to be cyber safe online with our chromebooks. The reason I have a blog is because we are needed to post something about our class each day on it, it however will probably be about how well or how bad they were on that day.
I was at school one day and I was getting lost, I was panicking walking around the school and not knowing where to to go. After a bit of time I asked a few teachers where the class was, they told me where it was however I was still confused about where I was supposed to go. Next I figured to go all the way around the school looking for the classroom, however I ended up going to 9 Social Studies instead of 9 English making me very confused. After that I went around the school one more time and found my class! However I was late obviously. When I got there I found out that we annoyingly had mentor that day without them telling us and I burst out crying getting annoyed at mainly myself, however I was let outside to read and calm down which was helpful.
My opinion about high school is that I think it’s fun, releasing new possibilities to me. I think that High school isn’t too hard to get around, if you figure out where each place is in the school that is. High school shows many activities to exercise and have fun around the property of the high school, meaning you need a hat if you are going to go outside that is. The high school however has one important thing that most of the primary schools don’t have, and that is a cafeteria, they sell chips, soda, pies, ice creams/ice blocks, sushi, American hot dogs and more. It’s the place to get tasty food at our school. Overall Grey High is a great school so far and I love exploring it for new things, however the people who work at the school are the best things I could ask for.
By Aedan Gunn 2017
