careers research

purpose of the research: The research is apart of our careers unit, the research will teach us about things such as bills, tax, skills and requirements, etc.

Career i was given: I was given the career of a probation officer {Parole officer}

what am I working on now: I'm currently working on calculating all my bills and finding out how much money you really earn as a probation officer

Aboriginal Boomerangs

Throughout the social studies topic of migration, more specifically aboriginal Australians and the stolen generation, I have learnt many things. The most significant thing I myself have learnt is that every piece of art on a boomerang has meaning, and tells a story. Each symbol has a different meaning, for example: a downward facing arrow represents spears. I also found the fact that Aborigines usually did their markings and symbols with dots instead of lines like traditional art quite interesting. Here is a few symbols and their meanings:

We were tasked to design and paint our own boomerangs, and here's mine:

The boomerang is meant to tell a tale of rejection by those close to a person, and being able to find yourself and be accepted by those who truly deserve your attention. It is meant to symbolise how there are always people in your life who will push you around and bully you for who you are, but if you look hard enough, you will find people who truly accept you for who you are, kind of like the light at the end of the darkness. It is also meant to symbolise how there will always be dark times in your life, but you will always have people there willing and ready to help you lift your spirits and make your life better once again. The symbolisation behind the boomerang is meant to be uplifting and tell people that no matter what goes wrong, there is always something to live for, and there will always be something or someone there to lift your spirits, and those good things should be what you focus on.

English: another world-diversity

Over the past two terms in English, all our work has been connected to another world. All our work has been related to the idea of texts set in other worlds, that reflect real life problems. In term one, our main focus was the Zootopia film study. We watched the film, then were put into groups and created a presentation about a specific element of the movie, after which taking all the elements that the different groups spoke about, we wrote an essay about the movie. The second term was kind of similar, except this time we read the novel "Children of blood and bone" by Tomi Adeyemi.


Our main focus was diversity: Which to me is understand different people better, because we are all human and deserve to be treated the same way. In term 2 we watched a small section of a silent voice, which helped me to better understand the struggles a deaf person goes through, and how mocking someone for their inability hear or speak is cruel. Another story that helped me understand diversity was the movie Tarzan. It helped me to understand that just because you are born into a family doesn't mean they are truly your family. Your family is who you choose to be your family, like Tarzan chose the gorillas as his family, and not the humans. Diversity is important because it helps others to understand others of a different culture easily and more in depth.