Back to school.......

I know that most people hate coming back to school every year and just going to school in general but these first few weeks being at school have actually been quite fun. Being a year 8 is really fun, I don't know why but for some reason it seems much better than being a year 7. Something that is different from last year that I like is the way that Friday is packed with really fun activities such as swimming and Dodge ball. 

I love the task system it’s a lot better than what we used to do as primary students. I like the way that you could choose what tasks you want to do now and which to do later as homework. Without the task system doing homework was hard because we could only do certain subjects at certain times. I also think that the task system is great because it develops our time management skills in preparation for college.

Dodge ball is really fun this year because instead of being the inexperienced people the year 8's are the now the best players in the school. I thought that since we have 3 classes that it was going to be really hard to play dodge ball but it's working out really well having the class not playing to collect all the balls and kick them back into the court.

If there was one thing I would change about how the intermediate syndicate is run is to have more games of dodge ball with the other classes every normal day not just reward time because it’s not as exiting just to play with your class mates. These games could just be practice games and winning a game would not give your classroom a point.  

Anyway I hope that you are all having a great first few weeks back at St Ben's and I hope that all you year 7's out there are coping with the task system well.