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Year 10 Seminar Day
 Before we got there, I really had no idea what to expect or what we would be doing apart from our plays, which turned out to be really funny and entertaining when we performed them! I’m really glad we did the plays, because it kind of helped me to get to know what some of the new girls’ personalities were like. Melissa 10SO said, “Seminar Day was a really fun experience. I enjoyed playing the games in the rain and listening to the former Year 12s talk about what they are up to in their lives at the moment! My favourite part was performing the random plays we made during form! They were hilarious - I couldn’t stop laughing!”
I thought the guest speakers were really good because they showed us many options of what we could do after school if we didn’t go straight to tertiary study, and helped me to think further about whether I wanted to travel after school. I liked the stretchy-elastic-catch-the-ball-in-a-bucket game, because our team found a good way to do it!
I can’t wait to open my letter I wrote to myself in Year 12, because I really want to see if I have completed things that I wrote for my goals and what I thought about things in general at my age now.
Madeleine 10SJ
As part of the Seminar Day which the Year 10 students attended, they were given a creative task to present. The task was given to the girls a little over two weeks before the Seminar Day, and they had two 50 minute lessons to prepare the task.
The whole year group was randomly divided into 14 different groups and each group then randomly selected the task which they were to perform. The task outlined a story/scene which the group was to present to the rest of the year level. Each group had to incorporate the situation described on their task sheet.
Team games formed another activity on the day. The girls recombined in different groups - a test in itself of their flexibility and skills in working with a range of people they may not have known very well. The challenges presented through the games and the drama task required the students to utilise a variety of skills such as:
- working creatively;
- using their lateral thinking skills to help solve problems;
- working cooperatively and collaboratively;
- making decisions that suited group all members;
- planning and managing their time (both on and prior to the day);
- organising the props needed in the presentation;
- presenting a finished product, in a non-threatening environment, to a relatively large audience;
- having fun and getting to know “new” people better.
We consider these activities to be most useful for them in their current and future studies, and as members of the wider community.
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