I think it has to be said that this week started with a little irony in
the fact that, on Monday morning, we were being told that the Academy is
really trying to knuckle down on lateness to Form. Just as this was
being said, people in our Form were walking in late. Oh how we're gonna
miss them in a few months time...
After our week off school, it's started getting serious this half term.
For example, it was the Graphics coursework deadline this Tuesday.
Indeed, it does sounds like an awful lot of work. As a matter of fact,
ANT was showing us her product that she made. It was a book for children
learning the alphabet. The pages all have a letter (obviously) which is
accompanied by a picture of an animal (whose name begins with whatever
letter) and to top it off there's also a few facts about the animal as a
side dish.
First of all, Wadz thought it was an interesting idea that children who
were learning letters should be able to read the facts, but ANT defended
herself by saying that the child was meant to have the facts read to
them by an adult.
Also, I think it's fair to say that some animals were a little more
difficult to guess than others. For instance, there was a double page
with 'n' and 'o' on either page. The picture for 'n' was an owl.
Naturally, you'd think that there was some mistake (as owl starts with
an 'o', which was on the following page), but ANT cleared it up by
saying it was meant to be a night owl. Other examples were queen bee for 'q', yak for 'y' and x-ray fish for 'x'.
In PE, we had a rather lengthy discussion on super powers. Attempted
give everyone powers, and Wicks also argued that magic should be allowed
as a super power. What do you think?
After school, someone somehow made the mistake of bringing up geography
and history. I'm sure you all know that it is not uncommon for ANT,
ArwaChihuahua and Wadz to have an argument about subjects and which is
more useful/important/etc. So, we have ANT on Team Geog. and
ArwaChihuahua and Wadz on Team History. This heated debate rapidly
escalated to a full-on verbal brawl, which only ended when they reached
their houses. It should also be noted that ANT was trying to bring the
whole RE vs. IT debate up again, but Master just wasn't gonna have it.
Wednesday morning brought us to a rather interesting and unexpected
assembly on vinyl (yes, I'm talking about music records). Overall, it
held a very important message, which I personally believe is so
important it deserves to be put in bold. Here it is: Hold on to your passions. There you go, something to think about.
BTW, if you were asking, no there wasn't an Assembly Music Act. The
chain has been broken (gosh, it sounds like we're on 'The Weakest
Link'!).
Thursday lunchtime was an interesting one. We had a nice little
discussion about survival, the question was: If you were on an island
and you had to choose between eating a 'spud with mud' (a potato freshly
dug out from the ground) or rose petals, what would you go for? This is
assuming that you had no previous knowedge of what they both were and
there was no other food. Hmmm, tricky one, eh?
On that lunchtime, we also encountered another problem. It has now
officially gotten to the point that there are too many Griswalds. Yes, I
know it sounds strange, since Griswald is not the most common name on
the planet, but after Wicks' birthday film night, I think we've all become almost more Griswald-conscious, if you can call it that...?
During Friday breaktime, we witnessed something truly remarkable. Over
the past week or so, a girl, from one of the lower years, has been
deliberately trying to block Master's way, but when she came up to
Master that break, this boy, who's probably in the same year, gives her a
right telling-off. At that point, we just all turned to eachother and
thought 'Whatta hero!' Props to that guy :) It should also be
recoginised that he had rather interesting hair.
Later on in the day, Master, ANT and Ruby all had their interviews. I
thought I'd share with you ANT's only piece of advice to Master: "You'll
be fine, as long as they don't ask you 'what is the meaning of life?' and you have to leave your answer in surd form."
Speaking of ANT, it seems that her streak of luck in German lessons is
still going. In Friday's lesson, the teacher asked her a question and
then forgot that she hadn't finished answering it. More on this scenario
on Day 24 of the 40 Quotes of Lent.
It may be said that ANT has been less pleased with the whole 'paint rota'
in Art. I think it's almost gotten to the point that the most
optimistic of the human race may declare this situation a hopeless case.
Never mind, 'Can't win 'em all', as ANT would say.
Until next week, have a good one :)
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