RANT #4: GYM Class Heroes

plushie • 12 July 2012 at 8:43 PM

@Dreamer Well at our school here in Australia (it starts in 4 days) we are all on Holidays for winter (winter right now) and yes last time a played was a year ago so it's kinda sad.

The teachers take full care on us, like we were playing Octopus and I flipped over a kid then he landed on me, it hurt a lot. It's normal for us, it gets funner every year xD

We don't change grades till end of the year, it's different for us. I'll be a grade 6 next year ;D We have different seasons so when it's Summer for us it's Winter for you and that's when we change grades, we only get 2 months of School off in Summer. And during sport (Gym) we all don't care about if someone is not a good runner or fails at it. We cheer them more then the good runners in races 0.o At the School of Victoria (my state) we are multi-cultural so no Bullying or Racism and it's not likely to get bullied at all. AT ALL. I have been at the school for 6 years and have not yet been bullied. Here's the way the grades in each class work, Prep Class 1 and 2 class 3 and 4 class 5 and 6 class then it stops there. We have different grades put together like I am in a class with grade 5's and 6's. Prep is the only class without another grade. Prep comes before grade 1.

dreamer • 13 July 2012 at 1:48 PM

@Plushie Wow... That sounds like a confusing schedule. o.o It's summer here right now, and I go back to school at some point around the first week of September. That's when I start seventh grade. ;D

There are like, 4 different P.E. teachers at my school, so I could get a different teacher next year, but it would be just as hard. 😱

So you have 6 classes per day? We do too. We get our 6-day schedule and supply list in the mail in August, so I'm excited for that. We call our daily classes "periods", like periods 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6. Each period is approximately 54 minutes.
We're split up by color teams. There are two colors in each grade, and that represents which teachers you have for your main classes. I'll be on the Purple Team next year, so everyone else on this team will have the same Math, English, Science, and Social Studies teachers.

Ususally grades here don't have classes together. But last year, I had an Enrichment class that had two seventh graders in it, and my Spanish class had an eighth grader in it.

I tend to stay with a small group of close friends so I don't get mixed in the drama. 😊 My sister is starting sixth grade in September, so I'm excited to be able to tell her all about middle school, and what to be prepared for. They switched up the teachers on the teams this year, so two of my sister's teachers will be the ones I had.

It seems confusing at first, but it's actually pretty easy to remember. 😃

plushie • 13 July 2012 at 6:13 PM

Nope! xD We all have one teacher we also have a Music teacher, Art teacher, Italian teacher and sometimes sport teacher but mostly not. I know what periods are xD My sibling have them, because there older and go to College (high school) When I still go to Primary School (Elementary school I think)
We have Inquiry, Math, Mass, Literacy, Religion (It's really fun we get to do cool activities in groups ;D) Poof that's it, and we only do Mass once a term. We ALWAYS do Inquiry but we finished it xD So yeah. Oh yeah and there's Writing, I LOVE WRITING!
Well uh, we stick with the on class ALL year and it's half 5's half 6's our class is called 5/6S because our teachers name is Mrs.Smith and there are 2 other 5/6 classes.
Coool (: I'm starting sixth grade next year too!(:

Yeah I know about schools all over the world, we had classes about it.