NATIONAL YOUNG LEADERS DAY 2013

Six lucky students were lucky enough to attend the National Young Leaders Day courtesy of the Halogen Foundation. Enjoy their amazing reflections.

Young Leaders Day

By Madi

It was a privilege and an amazing experience to be able to listen to five wonderful leaders on their knowledge of leadership.  I learnt some values that make a good leader such as integrity, responsibility, resilience, respect, self belief, kindness and working hard.  I now know that a good leader doesn’t have to be bossy but they need to remember their values, add new skills to their leadership toolbox and follow their dreams.  Our society is getting smarter, nicer, more peaceful and thus better at leading.  Humankind have a tendency to follow, so a leader needs to be a reliable role model so that their good influence spreads.  All the little things we do will eventually add up to make one big action that will make a difference and help all those around us.  Never give up because even if you don’t reach your goals you will still will have achieved something.  The national young leaders’ day was an inspiring opportunity that I’m glad I was a part of.  I will never forget the things I’ve learnt and I definitely have enriched my knowledge on the never ending topic of LEADERSHIP.

National Young Leaders Day

 by Lizzy

Wow, national young leader’s day was a life changing experience. We heard and saw so many amazing ideas and speeches which were extremely interesting.

As we walked in, I think we all felt a breeze of excitement knowing that this was the beginning of the speeches. I know I was grateful and honoured to 

represent my school.

First I learned about influence and how when you’re a leader you have to influence others to do the right thing. I learned that when you’re a leader you are a role model and need to be polite, kind and helpful to others around you. I learned that even the 

little things you do can make a really big difference if you try.

All these points are from actual leaders speeches which I really enjoyed. The thing about each leader was that they all had something different to say about leadership and what it meant to them.

I personally enjoyed listening to Ruben Meerman and Dan Jackson. I thought that they really got the meaning and understanding of leadership. Although I liked their speeches best, I thought that Sussan Thomas, Mike Martin and Creel Price were fantastic to listen to also.

Overall this amazing opportunity to go to national young leaders day was just breathtaking and as the 5 other students and I walked out of the room at the end of the day I think we all felt like better leaders and better role models.

Leadership by Carley

I learnt so much about Leadership on the 1^st of March.

I learnt that…

Not wearing a badge doesn’t mean you are not a leader.

·      Leaders always believe themselves.

·      Never give up. Keep trying.

·      Nothing is impossible. Starting 8 businesses in primary and high school is not impossible, for one man has done it.

·      You can’t relay on other people to make you a better leader. Follow your heart and make your dream come true.

·      Everyone is treated equally, no matter how you look or how old you are

·      Leaders always include everyone, whether they are in their community or not.

·      You don’t have to have muscles to be a leader. Being strong inside is having a good self-esteem.

·      Act like a leader anytime because everyone looks up to you like a role model.

·      Showing your strengths means that you believe in yourself.

·      Experience difference opportunities in your life.

·      Working as a team means that you are communicating with people.

·      Leaders think about the small and big things for the small things will become big if you do nothing.

·      Being a leader is a long journey, the hard times are the bumps and the good times are the smooth roads.

·      You can not let other people change your future for your future only changes because of YOU!

·      If you want help, you have to look and ask for help.

·      Each little thing will give you an opportunity to show your strengths.

·      Leaders learn from others, so don’t pretend you know everything.

·      Do your passions and stand up for yourself and others.

Leaders are important in life. Remember, if you see someone needing help, do help and ask them what’s wrong. If you see someone in trouble and ignore them, you could bring down your self-esteem. So please, believe in yourself that you are a leader and show the world what your strengths are.

               

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Should We Mine the Moon?

An article in the Age last week attracted our attention as we considered travel in space. Listen to our views about the possibility of mining the moon!

"Cosmic quarries: a new frontier for mineral exploration"

Read more: The Age Newspaper Cosmic quarries: a new frontier for mineral exploration

Practising Scientific Writing

Learning about Black Holes today, included the additional tasks of taking good notes and converting them to text. The Seniors' writing task, after viewing a clip entitiled "Black Holes,"  required beginning with a good topic sentence and using a complex sentence. Do you think Madi has achieved this goal in this excerpt from her report?

A Black Hole is a region of space with its own gravitational force from which no matter can escape. They are impossible to see as they are invisible. Black Holes are created when a galaxy forms or when a huge star collapses and dies. In 2011, using infa red, X ray and radio wave technology, fifty eight people from six different countriesobserved a star being swallowed by a black hole. That was the first time that this had been captured on film. In the future, there will be more amazing observations of the darkest things in the universe, black holes.

COLOUR MY WORLD-INSPIRED BY MONDRIAN

Piet Mondrian from Marg Yore on Vimeo.

Apollo 11

Today's post is from Ateil and Caitie....
Today we watched a movie about Apollo 11. It was about three brave astronauts who bravely left  Earth to travel all the way to the moon it took four days to reach the moon's surface. Michael Collins was the controller for the command module, Columbia. They were looking for the perfect spot to land the space-craft on the moon  and they landed safely. Neil Armstong was the first man to leave the space-craft. He slowly climbed down the ladder and took one step onto the moon. His first words were, " One small step for man. One giant leap for man-kind. " Today we imagined we were one of the astronauts writing a personal account of our journey.



Joe wrote: My heart skipped a beat as I was about to do what had never been done before. ..to walk on the moon. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,"were the words I said. I heard a cheer from the control room and told "Buzz" how beautiful it was!

Lizzy wrote: I watch Neil step slowly out of the module. I feel my heart racing and wonder should I have come to the moon in the first place. I push myself and start to follow. If it wasn't for the bulky, uncomfortable space suit, I would be biting my nails!....I took my chance and held my breath. I ever so slowly stepped out into space. My foot touched the moon. Right away I felt happiness and freedom...

Amber wrote: My heart is thumping as I step into the capsule with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. I then take my seat and hear a boom and I can feel myself and the others being boostedup into the air....

Nic wrote: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," I heard Neil say as I was about to climb down from the Eagle. My heart was thumping as I climbed down the ladder to meet Neil on the moon!

The Redfern Address

Posted by Carley and Amber:
In 1992, Paul Keating, the Prime Minister of the time, delivered a very powerful speech about racistm. So today, we watched the speech, and wrote a paragraph about it.

Most of the seniors thought that it was very appropriate of him to stand up for the indigenous people, because he was non-aboriginal. Here are some examples of what the students wrote after seeing the speech.




Raquel wrote: It was 1992 when the PM Paul Keating made a fantastic speech about how sorry he was for all the things that we did to innocent indigenous people. My opinion of this whole is that it was a terrible way to treat people who live in their own land.

Ivan wrote: Paul Keating wanted to "forge a new partnership" with indigenous people. He said to imagine if our children had been taken from us, imagine if our land was taken from us and to imagine if hundreds and thousands were murdered and we might know how our indigenous Australians might feel.

Luke wrote: In December 1992, when Paul Keating was Prime Minister, he made a strong speech called "The Redfern Speech." He used repetition to remind non-Aboriginal Australians that we are the ones who brought alcohol, disease, murder and also took children from their families. Imagine if that happened to us as well?

Simon adds: Being a Social Justice leader in my school, I will try and do my best to encourage everyone to understand.

Lizzy challenges: Imagine sweeping injustice aside forever? Would we all be treated as equals? Would we all fit in? Well, we certainly didn't when our former prime minister bravely explained how unfair we were to our indigenous people. Their land, their children...we took the lot. But we didn't just take. We brought disease, alcohol and murder as well....one day I hope we unite and forge a new partnership.

Anthony reflected: It made me think about how greedy people are and how we can't share our world and how we destroyed the land in front of them and we don't care. The speech made me ask have we changed or are we still wanting more?

SAFER INTERNET DAY

Today's post is from Daniel and Georgia!

Today we watched a safer internet day program. We learnt to use programs with respect when online with the things we do on the internet! We learnt to not use copy right sights for buying music on the internet. For movies. use itunes and google play. Ways in which the internet is misused include cyberbullying, spam, scam, fake profiles, hacking and bad language.

What is our responsibilty? Never share your password, text politely and use privacy settings on instagram and other types of sharing. When you are on an online game show respect, when using websites for homework don't copy directly from the internet. So when you are using the internet, be safe and don't get friends to email their homework to you!!!