Last Day of Y10

Finally. The last day of Year 10. And yet we don't want this year to end. Zoe and Mayu are both moving away and next year is going to be so incredibly insane. Here's to a gorgeous year. Thank you everyone who made it so special. 

Ellie, Amelia, Nora, Lizzy, and Fiona eating lunch at Mike's Place

Sitting near the back of the field, eating chocolates in the sun. What a great way to end a great year. 

Last English class. We got to play charades on the bridge. 

Nathalie, Emilie, Me and Kelly

Throwing Ellie in the recycling bin.

Bye Zoe. Zoe's moving to Singapore. 

Amelia, Ellie, Zoe, Fiona and Lizzy

Adelina and Emilie worked really hard to make us each a photo frame with photos from the years. 

Goodbye everyone. Have a good summer! I'll miss you!

Top - Adelina, Emilie, Nora, Zoe, and Lizzy

Bottom - Me, Nathalie, Amelia, Ziyoda, Ellie and Mayu

Green Day Activities

If you're going to run a Green Day, you just have to have activities to go along with it....

Plant a Sunflower in a recycled plastic bottle

Organic Food tasting. Compare fair trade products to non fair trade products

Recycle!
Throw the correct objects into the correct bins to win sweets!

Green Day

Because I'm in the Environmental committee of the school along with Ziyoda, we both knew about Green Day weeks before it actually happened. Green Day was a non school uniform day, to raise both awareness and money for the committee. I helped to advertise and organize the baking competition and bake sale that took place at snack.

From Left to Right - Me, Hannah, Amelia, Emilie, Nora, Mayu, Lizzy, Ziyoda, Ellie

Red Nose Day

The girls in my class. My tie was the awesomest!

Lizzy and Adelina

At lunch there were various activities, one of them was to throw soaking wet sponges at teachers. It was VERY funny.

Mooooostach!

For Red Nose Day the girls in our class dressed up as girls, but wore ties and moustaches!

The boys in our class did a sponsored silence - ahhhh. Heaven. A day of quiet. 

Ellie and Lizzy with their moustaches and glasses

Drawing on Nora's moustache

Drawing on Emilie's moustache

The Roll Up!

The top of Jeron's head.....(photos for the advert)

A hole in the wall of their school

L-R Top row - Pim, Melis, Jeroen
Bottom row - Adelina, Emilie, Moi! 

On the 3rd, they came to our school, they had to wear their sports kit so they would fit in. It was really fun!

After lunch we had to present our product to the rest of the students in the exchange and some teachers who were the judges. 

Here is the advert we showed.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj45_EyJ3fg

Guess what? We won!!!

Go Roll-Up!

Dutch Exchange

Adelina, Emilie and I decided we wanted to take part in a Dutch Exchange with a local Dutch school. It turned out that it was for them to learn English instead of us learning Dutch.

On February the 2nd I cycled with Mommy to the Dutch school - Sint Maartens College.We were in a group with Jeroen, Melis, and Pim (all boys). 

We had to come up with a product that could be sold to people our age.

We came up with a Roll-Up laptop!

Called The Roll Up! 

First prototype of the easy bag

Pictures for the advert

And more...

Sinterklaas Party

For a Dutch tradition, our class did Secret Sint - where we buy a present, disguise it as something else and write a poem for the person. It's called secret, because you don't know who did got it for you.

I got Nora, and disguised it as a popcorn bag. 

We did it in Dutch as well - I got a boy and disguised it as a massive iTouch. It was really cool!

Sinterklaas party! We got pizza and I brought in popcorn.
Yummy

Snowball fight!

First day of school

September 6th - First day of school

For Ashlynn first day of Y6 (5th Grade)

For me first day of Y9 (8th Grade) and a whole new system - 1 hour periods instead of 29 minutes, longer days and weirdest of all - A 2 Week Time Table!!!

AHHHH - attack of the killer Sunflowers!

Prize Giving

The night after Shakespeare Shorts was another late night for Ashlynn and I. It was the Year 8, 9, and 10 Prize Giving. I had won an award for 'Outstanding Achievements' . It was quite a nice ceremony and the guest speaker was funny. I won a Thesaurus!!? (A bit weird eh?) It's a coincidence because David got the same prize as I did, except for he got it for Y9. Well, anyway. The exams are mostly over. I only have my French writing to do. I got good marks for every thing - Outstanding Achievements!!? 

Our Underwear (Oops, I mean shorts!!)

Over the last few months a few of my friends and I worked on a short part from one of Shakespeare's plays, Twelfth Night. We choose the scene where Sir Toby and Fabien try to convince Viola/Cesario that Sir Andrew is a great fighter and try to convince Sir Andrew that Cesario is also. It is was funny.

Lily played Viola (A girl dressed as a boy)
Ma'ayan played Fabien - She dressed up as a Biker Dudess
I played Sir Toby - I was a Hippie!

Me trying to convince Kelly (Sir Andrew) that Viola was a horrible fighter.

Ma'ayan and I laughing at Lili.

Kelly played Sir Andrew - She was a Punk!

The Sword fight at the end of the scene was funny.

Shakespeare Shorts

On the evening of the 26th it was Shakespeare Shorts. Kids from any year group could decide if they wanted to put together a small sketch of about 5 minutes. It was a great evening, but as I'd already seen all of the sketches 2 times (in the rehearsals) it was a bit repetitive. It was held in the Marque that was set up on the grounds of our school. It started pretty early, so the lighting was almost all natural. 

Shakespeare's Knickers!

My English teacher (on the right) did a Hilarious sketch with another Drama teacher. 

The witches from McBeth. 

Exams!!

To the tune of 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'

'It's the most horrible time, of the year.

All the teachers are bossy,

The test papers glossy,

Oh my, oh dear!

It's the most horrible time, when exams are here!!'

So far, they haven't been too bad. Today I have a DT (Design Technology) exam and a music exam.

Wish me luck!!!