Reflective+Statement

New Skill For the past few weeks Dylan and I have been planning to make a guitar amplifier for our new skill. The new skill it self is working with electronic and how they work. We will be working for a couple of weeks learning and assessing the different electronics used to make an amplifier. Our supervisor will be Craig, he has a trade certificate and is a licensed electronics technician. He will watch what we do in each step and will come to our aid to teach us what we are doing wrong.
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Community Service For my community service Rhett and I are teaching tennis at the primary school. We will attempt to teach tennis and the skills involved with it. We will show how to play and get them to the stage where they may be able to play by themselves. We started on the 28th July. We go down at around 1:10pm and set up the tennis courts for the lessons. We teach two classes (the older kids then the younger) and then we pack up and come back to school to go home. We will be doing this project for at least eight weeks

Expedition or Event For my expedition or event Dylan, Angus and I planned a bike ride to Old Tallangatta on the 30th of July. We had around 15 people come and ride with us and Mr Amery to supervise. The ride started at the start of lunch time and it went right to the end of school. Everyone made it and it was quite a successful bike ride. However we did learn some lessons about planning it and about giving people more notice. Michelle helped out a lot with the forms so a big thankyou to her and hopefully we will be more organized for next time.

New Skill For my new skill I have done 1 session with my Dad. We learnt about all the parts used to make an amplifier and what they do. The session went for about an hour in which dad explained all the uses of the things we are using and we made a schedule to follow for the next few weeks. Dylan and I are planning our next session on Thursday. I really enjoyed the first session and I learnt a lot from it. Dad’s explanations along with some of the classes I had done before hand I understood most of the information dad was feeding us.
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Community Service In community service Rhett and I have been going down to the primary school and teaching tennis to the children. The kids have all taken it up and are all enjoying it. I think they are learning well and the classes are fairly easy to teach. So far we have done around five sessions. We have played a few games with them and they have all already improved. I am happy with our progress and the teachers are happy to help keep the class under control. Personal Development For my personal development I am following a weights program which was given to us by Mr. Amery. I am doing this program with two others at the same time, (Angus and Dene). We are currently doing three sessions a week and we have already finished two weeks. The program consists of 15kg weights and for each session we up the repetitions. From 15 reps up to 20 reps. I think the program is going really well at the moment and I am sure I can feel the improvements.

New skill- for my new skill I have done around 7-8 sessions with my dad and Dylan. So far it has been a lot of fun and I am really enjoying it. I have finished my chip and most of my box. Now I just have to put it all together and connect it with a speaker. Community Service- for community service Rhett and I are up to our 8th session with the St Michaels primary kids. I have really enjoyed doing the coaching but I think that 8 weeks of the same thing gets a little bit boring. Health- for my health I am going to be doing a power point presentation with Dene. We are going to have a few sessions with the year 9 students and talk to them about body piercing and tattoos. Personal Development- I started off pretty strong in this project but I dropped right off as I was not really committed.
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New Skill In my last session of making my amplifier I made some connections from the chip to the coil and we were hooking everything up. I enjoyed doing this session and I think we got a lot done in the time we had. We also had some fun taking photos of the amps and us. Health So far for my health project I have talked to Linda a little bit but I am still to have a full meeting with her to plan the whole activity. When I meet up with her I we will organize a power point presentation and organize the sessions that we are going to have with the year 9’s. Beliefs and Values For my beliefs and values project I am going to be researching Scottish. Their tradition and culture, I will also be researching my own family and doing a report on the differences and things alike between the two different kinds of people.
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**Reflective Statement 5** New Skill On Thursday 30th October, Dylan and I had another session with the amp at my house and we finished putting it together. For our last session we will be doing checkups on the problems why the amp may not work. Health I’ve been planning a health project with Linda. In the group there are Dene, Haleigh and myself. So far it has been going well and we have planned a good session that will hopefully go for somewhere around 2 periods. We have a lot of information at the moment and I think it is going well.

**Reflective Statement 6** New Skill- Dylan and I have finally finished doing our amps and all the little check ups. They are working properly now and mine is hooked up in my room. The whole project has been quite fun and I think that my dad did very well to teach us and mentor us through the 8 sessions that we did. Health- Haleigh, Dene and I did our health presentation to the class on Tuesday 11th November. The presentation went for approximately 2 periods and we had a lot of fun passing on the information we had gained on tattoos and body piercings. We talked to a few people and they said that they enjoyed it and all the teachers that watched were all quite impressed. Beliefs and Values- I have gathered all the information I need on Scottish people and I am currently putting it in to a piece of writing. I am learning a little as I read through the information and I am learning about where my Nan came from so in a way I’m looking at my own cultural background. 