In the blink of an eye...

Alison Sanza

Year 7N Home Group

As part of the Year 7  Home Group program, students were asked to think about the emotions they experienced during their first year of high school. 

The discussion was lively; students mentioned the balance of excitement and trepidation in the first days and how they very quickly gave way to an even greater range of emotions. 

Friendships made, and happiness and fun featured heavily, but was tempered also with the anxiety of assessment tasks, new learning and deadlines. 

Here are some of their reflections. 

Looking back at year 7 …and forward to the future 

by Nova Giles 7U 

Yesterday, tomorrow, but never right now 

Barely a glance when tomorrow comes ‘round 

For we focus our eyes onto the unknown 

The workload tomorrow 

Its joys and its sorrow 

But never this day, 

It’s present, 

It’s now. 

So we look past over weeks, thinking how? 

As all those tomorrows fade into the past 

And somehow those memories made never last 

For every day 

We crane our necks 

For tomorrow’s tomorrow’s tomorrow and the next. 

Alysha Parthimos 

Year 7

I originally thought Year 7, my first year of high school, would be an extremely slow nd exhausting year. But, now writing this piece I realise it is already the last term of my first year in high school! I have learned new things, made life skills and have had so, so many happy and hilarious memories. 

Day after day, more thoughts reach my mind on my plans for when school is over [this year], which makes me realize that the end is coming. It has been very fun and I enjoyed every second that passed. 

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