Orientation Day
9/12/14
I arrived at Northcote High School (NHS), said goodbye to my dad and walked in wondering what the 9th of December had in store for me. I found out which class I was in from the sheet and walked to the hall and sat down in my form, 7E. We introduced each other and had an introduction to Northcote High School.
After the welcome, we went to our classroom in the D block and sat down and got our name tags on. We played a round of human bingo. It’s basically where you go and ask your classmates questions like which month are you born in and if someone has the same thing in common, you write their name down and once your sheet is full, you say bingo. I quickly became friends with Jon which is short for Jonathan. We walked around on a tour of the school and then came back to have recess.
Recess was fun and I talked with Jonathan and also went and made some other friends too. I forgot to say that our tutorial teacher name is Miss/Mrs Dresleck, I think. We went to drama and played some fun games to do with our presentation skills in daily life.
We went to science next and discussed about what we were going to study next year. We got to do an experiment where we put some chemicals, for example sodium chloride on a metal rod and put it on a blue flame on a Bunsen burner to see which colour the flame turned into. It was awesome to see the colours but they were very similar colours some of them, we also had to guess an unknown chemical which we guessed was lithium chloride.
We washed our hands and went to have lunch. I had a vegemite sandwich and went over and found Jonathan throwing his sandwich to some birds which was funny because there was one dove and three pigeons and he was trying to feed the dove only. Don’t worry; it was only a tiny bit of his lunch.
We came back and began to take a Student Profile Test which had around 130 questions. I finished around 80 and felt pretty happy because we only had 30 minutes. We filled out our booklets and I found out about the iPad program and went to listen to the assembly at the end of the day, it finished at two thirty and I went back home to tell my dad everything I have written in this recount!