Year 7 News
Transitioning to Year 7 at MGC
On the 31st of January, the Year Sevens of 2017 began their first day of year seven at Melbourne Girls’ College. For most of the girls it was quite nerve racking starting high school in a completely new environment.
With instructions for the day from a couple of different teachers, we were off to our very first class. The bell rang and you could tell that mostly all of the girls had already settled into the new school amazingly. At recess, everyone had a smile from ear to ear. The nerves from the first part of the day had already disappeared and everyone was enjoying the new comfortable setting.
During periods two and three everyone in the whole grade was very happy with the progress they made starting a new school and were surprised how easy it was. At lunch everyone looked like they had known each other for years. Friendships were blossoming at a phenomenal speed. During period four, everyone was having an exhilarating time. We finally realised that high school isn’t such a big, scary, overwhelming place. It’s where you will meet new friends who you could potentially know for the rest of your life; where you learn lots inside and outside of the classroom and even though it may be a huge change from primary school it’s definitely for our benefit.
Compared to primary school, high school hasn’t been such drastic change. Some things remain similar; having classes with the same group of people, catching up with friends during lunch time and recess, learning new things from our teachers and having a good time. We’re lucky that there are still opportunities to play sport as well and to participate in other clubs too.
The main difference for year sevens, between primary school and high school is that we’re all new, but we’re all new together. This means that people are more open to interact with each other and more willing to make friends. It is essential to try and meet as many people as possible in this time period as it gets harder once friend groups start to form.
By Catherine Brendish 7M2
The girls from Lyons, setting into their new routines.
Year 7 Camp
On Monday Melba and Maris travelled by bus to Arrabri Lodge, in Warburton. They were there until Wednesday. Then Lyons and Chisholm swapped with them and were at Arrabri Lodge until Friday. We did lots of activities including mini golf, giant swing, low ropes course, flying fox and so much more.
On the last night both camps had a talent show called “Red Faces”. Our judges came from places such as Mars and Hogwarts. We had a lot of amazing performances including camp 1 winner Jemima Meyer- Grieve who sang Hallelujah” and the camp 2 winner, was Jaeda McPherson, singing her original song, “Good Times Don’t Last”.
We also did an activity where we walked through the forest finding letters. Then we had to decode them. At the end we had a campfire. We roasted marshmallows and listened to all the birds and creatures of the night. After that we went star gazing and we found the Southern Cross.
On behalf of the Year Sevens I’d like to thank the teachers for taking time to help run the camp. It was amazing and you did a wonderful job. Thank you very much.
By Tanysha Nolan 7C1
