Clement’s Blog

On the 28^th and 29^th of November my classmates presented our speech in front of our whole class.  Here is what I said:  

My score out of 20 was 19!

                                                              Final debate

After winning last years debating competition, the Belmore South debating team was out of luck in their final debate at Ringrose public school. The topic for the debate was “We learn more from success than failure”, we were the negative so we argued against the topic.

 First Speaker: Yilmaz 

  Second Speaker: Martin

Third Speaker: Ramiz

Team Advisor: Natalie 

 Unfortunately, we lost and we found this very unfair but that was not what the adjudicator thought. So we now finished the year with 2 wins and 5 losses. Maybe we’ll have more luck next year.    

On 29^th of October, 45 students in stage 3 travelled to Camp Rathane in Port Hacking. I think that the camp we had last year was better than the one we had this year.  Last year we did canoeing, indoor rock climbing, water sliding and swimming, making carts, cooking damper and hiking. This year we did canoeing, swimming, water sliding, indoor rock climbing, archery, riverside riding, camp fire and pool rafting.

This year, I thought canoeing was the best; we made a big raft by holding on all the canoes and the two canoes on the sides. My friend and I were on the left side so we had a chance to paddle. After we reached a particular buoy we split up for races. My shoes and socks were soaked after we finished canoeing, our canoe had the most water and it needed 4-5 people to pour the water out. 

Pool Rafting was new to me because I didn’t do it last year. Our group was split into two, and we quickly made our own rafts. When we made our first one, it fell apart when we lifted it up. Then we tried to copy the other groups design, but that fell apart as well. Then we made our own and it worked, and when the opposing team saw that our raft was stable they copied it and we had a race. A person on our team sat on our raft and we dragged it to the other side and back. After 3 races we had 4 minutes of free time. We booked the pool at 5 to 6 o clock, but then another school booked it first.

The activities were definitely better than last year but we only had a few water slide turns. We should’ve had more slides because there were less people this year but we did it on the last day of camp, but last year we did it on the second day. 

This year it was really fun but I think last year was more fun. 

The police have just called me saying that three of my inventions have been stolen. I rush to the crime scene and find no trace of the burglar’s footprints or fingerprints.  I was a bit surprised to see neither footprints nor fingerprints. I kept looking for clues but in the end I didn’t find any. My friend Patrick came after a few minutes, he asked if I could find any clues. He told me that the burglar stole the phonograph. Now I was starting the get really angry, “THAT WAS MY FAVOURITE INVENTION” I boomed. “This is probably the most important task that you have taken on. “Good luck, Bye” said Patrick.

In our class, we have been doing reading circles; our group is reading Danny the Champion of the World. I have only read 12 chapters (102 pages) but I will give you a review of what I have read.

 Late one night, Danny woke up, his father wasn’t in bed. Danny thought that his father was in the filling station to finish something off but he couldn’t hear anything. So he searched around the caravan and checked everywhere in the filling station. After the search, Danny was tired, then he heard footsteps approaching the caravan, and the door swung open. Danny was glad to see his father back at home, and then he asked where his father had been. Danny’s father asked Danny if he could keep it a secret, he nodded.  Danny was led into a dangerous secret, his father was poaching! He was poaching pheasants at Hazell Woods; he had vowed to Danny’s mother that he would never poach again. He told Danny that he became so excited again because Mr Hazell was a snob.

• Characters: You (Thomas Edison), Guards, Museum Owner and Suspects.
• Objective: You need to find the stolen artefacts and we give you riddles and clues about Thomas Edison and you have to solve them.
• Setting: The Museum, where the artefacts were stolen.

Game Story: A Burglar has stolen some precious artefacts from the museum. You (Thomas Edison) have been called to solve the case and retrieve the stolen artefacts. We give you riddles and clues to solve the case. There are no fingerprints because the burglar was wearing gloves. The suspects were Clement, Ramiz and Timothy; you have to find out who stole the artefacts out of those three suspects. There was no evidence at their houses after being checked by the police. You have to look all over the museum for clues, there are pieces of paper which may be clues or may be riddles.

•  List 8 random facts about yourself
• At the end, tag 8 random people.
• Then leave a comment on their blog, telling them that you have tagged them.

 I have been tagged by Timothy (Allstars) and Matthew (Allstars). Now I will write 8 random facts about me.

1.  I like to play computer games (mostly shooting or violent ones) and watch anime.
2. I like to chat on the internet, msn and other chatting programs.
3. My best subject is maths (even though I hate it).
4. My favourite subject is science.
5. I like receiving comments from other people and read them.
6. My star sign is Leo.
7. My aim this year is to be dux (smartest student/disciple in the school).
8.  I love blogging. 

I have tagged Ramiz (Allstars), Yilmaz (Allstars), Nina M (Carronshore P7v), Megan B (Bellaire), Gabi P (Bellaire), I haven’t decided the other two but I will later.

Today the Atheletics Carnival was so successful. Even though it rained a bit, we still continued. I was 2nd in the 100 meters and 200 meters race.  There was no finals for 200 meters but for 100 meters finals I was 5th.

  There are four houses ( teams ) , Freeman, Newcombe, Bradman and Fraser. Freeman has won the house cup 5 times in a row, and I’m lucky enough to be in Freeman. There was Long Jump, which I didn’t get a place in.

 Then there were ball games, Captain Ball and Tunnel Ball. I was in the Captain Ball team for Freeman, but in the Tunnel Ball team, I swapped with someone else. There was also Tugger War, but that was just for fun and we didn’t have time for it anyway.

 I was so excited when it came to my race, I didn’t do the 800 meters because I thought that it would be too much for me. I thought I would be too tired after around 400 meters.

The Atheletics Carnival is on tomorrow!!! I’m so excited, I hope it doesn’t rain,  if it does, it is going to be cancelled. Even if it does rain, I hope it only rains in the afternoon.  This year, I want to get into Zone. ( Getting into zone means that you compete with other schools.

If it does rain, I wonder when it is going to get postponed to.  The news says that it will rain but I hope it is after the carnival.                                           

A few weeks ago, we were doing a maths project. We had to find a subject that we were bad at. I chose probability because I got most wrong in the diagnostic test.  Here is my question.

 What is the probability that  students receive academic excellence if there are 900 students and 30 classes?

900 divided by 30 equals 30 because only 1 student per class can receive it.

30/900 as a fraction

Simplify 1/30

That is the final answer to my presentation and question. Even though I didn’t learn much, I still thought I improved in probability.