Today all of the students in year five and six were loaded onto the bus to Gisborne  Secondary college for our step up, we were going to see what it was like to be at high school and experience all the different teachers and different classes.  Now I know what it is like a little more and I think I will be ready for it.

As soon as we got off the bus we went to the theater room where we played a game that involved acting, communication and lots of laughs! It was called what are you doing and was where a person was picked to act out an activity, then another person from the grade was picked who had to ask what they were doing and they would say something completely different to the original. Then the person chosen had to say “that’s not how to “(and the say what it was)” this is” and then they would act out the activity and another person would be chosen to ask “what are you doing?” again-thus the game continues.

Next we did art, and we created flowers out of CDs. First of all we were given a CD disk each that we could decorate with our desired pattern and the art teacher would attach them to a skewer and stick all of the finshed works together on a block of wood, then we had a whole garden of recycled flowers.

Unfortunately that was all we had time for and had to leave after only two subjects. But I did learn that in secondary school we have a different teacher for English, science, spelling , maths and inquiry unlike a single teacher for everything.

Overall it was a great experience and now I will feel a lot more used to high school!