checkpoint 11

My group did child abuse for PBL. One thing that did not go well is that our group was spread out all over the school when we needed to work together. Some things that went well were that all the checkpoints were done on time. I think that all our goals got achieved, we got up all our posters and finished our presentation on time. Our action we took was to put up posters around the school to help people get help when being abused. If I got the choice to do this again i'd probably change the people in my group or be more organised.

Child abuse #1 action

23.11.17

Our group has made a poster about child abuse and put it up around the school, on the poster there was some facts about child abuse and phone numbers of helplines. The poster turned out pretty good and it had all the right information. The help of my team members made putting up the posters and they had some great ideas of where to put them up. One thing that got in the way was the amount of posters we had, we ran out and missed some parts of the school. Over all i think  this action was a success and it went exactly how i wanted. 

(photo under is the poster)

Action plan 4 stage.

Action plan #1:
Create posters up around the school, on the posters there will be information about how you can help some one that has been abused and also emails/phone numbers of websites and organisations that deal with child abuse.
 
Action plan #2:
Contact whoever runs the teacher debrief in the morning and ask if we can do a little presentation on child abuse.

Action plan #3:
We will also be giving out leaflets to the teachers when we talk during the debrief on how they can help kids that come forward on being abused.

Action plan #4:
We will be making information cards and hand them out after deans assembly, on the cards there will be emails, phone numbers and help lines of child abuse company.

My group name V.I.K  (Vai, Issac, kiara) and we have chosen child abuse. These are some of the websites we've use:

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-child-abuse

https://www.livestrong.com/article/229260-causes-effects-of-child-abuse/

We chose child abuse because we think that when someone comes forward about abuse most people don't know how to react or how to help.

necount, english

I knew that I wasn’t much of a performer but I didn’t know I would be so terrified. I was in the auditorium and it was my first solo performance in front of 50-60 people. It was the second to last day of performances so there was a chance my name isn't going to be called. I tried calming myself down and focused on the things I could touch and smell around me. I was playing with the ring on my pinky finger and could smell the cologne of my friend next to me. My friend tried reassuring me that if my name was called I would be fine and ace my performance but being me all I could do was overthink and have a billion things run through my head. “What if I muck up the keys, what if I get up there and forget my song?”

At last, four performers had done their song and I was on the edge of my seat waiting for my name to be called. Then it happened. Mrs Beer removed a name from the pink bucket and began to read out the next performer, it was my name for a second or two I just sat there in complete shock. I turned my head to my friend and he had the biggest grin on his face because he knew how scared I was. I could never describe how I was feeling it was just so many emotions at once fear, nauseous, panic and my heart felt like a herd of wildebeest running through open plains.

As I got up out of my seat my knees were weak but I still had to walk up to the stage which felt like miles. Getting closer and closer to the stage the feeling of panic grew bigger and bigger, I reached the stage and took the two steps up from the floor to the platform. I sat down on the chair behind the piano and took three deep breaths. I tried to calm myself by imagining I was just performing to one of my friends and not 40-60 people. It worked for a couple seconds then all the fear came back in one swift thought. The entire auditorium was silent and everyone was waiting for me to start. Finding my place on the piano my hands started shaking like an earthquake and the height of my fear was reached. Mrs Beer asked if I was ready and inside I was totally dying but I calmly said I was. Placing my hands in the piano I started to play, straight off the bat about five seconds into the song I mucked up but I played it off and kept going. I finally finished my song although it felt like forever I was filled with relief.

Sitting back in my seat I was traumatised, I couldn’t believe that I messed up my performance that many times. I was shaking still and felt more sick than before, I sunk into my seat and tried to reassure myself it wasn’t that bad but I knew it was. This was single handily the scariest thing I’ve had to do in school and I’m sure I won’t be doing it ever again.

Sponsor letter

4th Speptember 2017

Dear potential sponsor,

I am writing because I am looking for people to sponsor me in the hunger games. My name is Kiara I come from district 12.

I’m a skilled hunter, I've been taught how to hunt my whole life. I'm very swift with a bow and i can sneak up on an animal without being noticed, I can use a sword and I'm good at climbing trees. Do you think i have what it takes?

In my district i’ve won 6 bow and arrow competitions and my district has won the hunger games three years in a row. Im determined to win and i’ll but in the effort to try my best, I’m very good at  alliances and will use this skill to win the Hunger games.

I hope you consider my purposle it would help me a lot in the Hunger games.

Yours sincerely, kiara