Gradebusters: The SEQUEL! (A Year 11 GyG: 2021-2022)

Yes, I absolutely love charity shopping!!! More environmentally-friendly and I've got quite a few great ones in my area that I love shopping at I've tried to reduce how much I buy from charity shops though because clothes are clothes and overconsumption is overconsumption, even if it's "sustainable" lol.

And yes, actually! I've shown it to playwright Jennifer Farmer who was the playwright assigned to assist those of us participating in the National Theatre competition! She's awesome and basically said she loves the dynamics I'm building in my work And yes, I struggle so much to learn lines! I don't know how they do it! As far as fave films and/or plays.... hmm... I quite like romances (but the ones with tragic endings, I hate the gushy ones) like Titanic, Romeo and Juliet (of course!) and The Fault in Our Stars and the Importance of Being Earnest is a play I quite like too!

Mid-Week Update: Tuesday 12th October 2021!




It was meant to be an overnight trip to Scarborough where we did fieldwork but ended up having to be a day trip to a local beach because of covid restrictions and stuff, but it was still fun and I enjoyed it! We aren't going to be looking at our findings from the trip until after our mocks/PPEs in November though!



I consider that to be a considerably okay score! I made so many silly, silly mistakes (I literally said that chromosomes were found in the cytoplasm instead of the nucleus!!! HOW?!?! the silliest mistake I've made EVER! *facepalm* ) and lost a few marks due to not explaining properly, but those are both things I'm working on! overall, I'm not devastated with the score I got (though it could be far better) and I'm just going to keep on learning from my mistakes and trying my best! I'm going to use these test questions as revision in future (especially 5 and 6 markers) so I can get more used to the exam techniques.

I've also completed my daily tassomai tasks for the day, meaning I'm on track to completing my goal of doing tassomai every day this week, and eventually, every day without fail (I just need a starting point lol)

Anyways, that's it for today, so I'll see you in the next update! <3

Yes I don’t like people who splash out on things they don’t even need, they already have their basic needs, anything more is unnecessary unless it’s sentimental.

When is the play due to be entered? Ahaha that’s funny, but even the Titanic, the characters I hear are quite stupid. I read the fault in our stars and IT WAS SAD. Do you cry in films/reading books?

I never got to go on any fieldwork trips due to this stupid virus -_- Scarborough sounds like it would have been cool though, shame you missed that.

Well done on bio wooooo!! I swear bio markschemes are so eVIL

Mid-Week Update: Thursday 14th October 2021!



But! as you may or may not know, I did my German-speaking exam for my mocks yesterday (the actual ones in November they didn't want us doing speaking exams during) and....


I am honestly so happy with this score, I cannot find the words to describe itI often doubt myself a lot and underestimate my skills, but German is one of the subjects that comes more naturally to me and I work really hard on, so I'm so glad the work has paid off!

This mock speaking exam has definitely made me feel a lot more confident about the continued ones in November, not only for German, but all other subjects I really began to believe I was humanly incapable of achieving good grades, but now I've consolidated that if I work hard, I can get the grades I want, I think I can proceed with my studies believing in myself haha. This sounds really dramatic, but it honestly became really draining always only getting subpar grades, so kicking off my mocks with the TOP GRADE in the entire year for German makes me really happy!! so indescribably happy!



I'm not too worried though, as the unit is algebraic proof, which is a really minuscule unit - we've literally been able to cover it in three lessons lol! I think I understand it pretty well, so hopefully it goes okay! I'm aiming for around 80%! I Will let you know how that goes and if I reach that goal! <3

Anyways, that's it for today's update! Will see you all later! MWAH!

Mid-Week Update: Thursday 14th October 2021!



But! as you may or may not know, I did my German-speaking exam for my mocks yesterday (the actual ones in November they didn't want us doing speaking exams during) and....


I am honestly so happy with this score, I cannot find the words to describe itI often doubt myself a lot and underestimate my skills, but German is one of the subjects that comes more naturally to me and I work really hard on, so I'm so glad the work has paid off!

This mock speaking exam has definitely made me feel a lot more confident about the continued ones in November, not only for German, but all other subjects I really began to believe I was humanly incapable of achieving good grades, but now I've consolidated that if I work hard, I can get the grades I want, I think I can proceed with my studies believing in myself haha. This sounds really dramatic, but it honestly became really draining always only getting subpar grades, so kicking off my mocks with the TOP GRADE in the entire year for German makes me really happy!! so indescribably happy!



I'm not too worried though, as the unit is algebraic proof, which is a really minuscule unit - we've literally been able to cover it in three lessons lol! I think I understand it pretty well, so hopefully it goes okay! I'm aiming for around 80%! I Will let you know how that goes and if I reach that goal! <3

Anyways, that's it for today's update! Will see you all later! MWAH!

MEGA CONGRATULATIONS for getting the top grade in German - I’m so happy for you! Good luck for the maths test too - you‘re gonna smash this!

WOOOOO I’m glad I don’t have to do German now, everyone hated the speaking part 😂 Das ist wunderbar!

Proof is annoying, but sounds like you feel confident

Weekly Big Update (Every Sunday but it's on Tuesday instead today because my organisational skills suck and I was stressed at the weekend)



Reflection On Last Week + Goals for this Week


It’s been a few weeks of me having these same goals, and I am appalled (really, truly appalled) that I haven’t been able to organise myself in a way whereby I could get them done.

It’s weird. It feels like there physically aren’t enough hours in the day for me to complete this stuff, but I know that’s not the case, and that I just suck miserably at prioritising.

Really, all I have to do is:


But somehow I’m failing at that??

I think it may be helpful if I start setting myself daily goals out of the weekly goals, so I don’t leave all of the weekly goals to be done at the weekend, and then end up completing none when the school week burns me out and I feel like doing absolutely nothing.

if I say “today you’ll do [one of the big weekly goals] for an hour after school” I may be more likely to complete it. planning also makes me feel really productive, and feeling productive makes me feel happy and fulfilled and like I’m taking active strides to better my education and like I won’t fail my GCSEs and end up jobless and depressed (yes, that’s how drastic my thinking process is).

so that’s the plan! I’m going to some kind of checklist/task to track my activities and make sure I get stuff done, and I’ll probably write my daily intentions on this blog as well so you can see I’m getting stuff done

anyways, my goals for this week are the same as the ones for last week, however, they really have to get done as:

so yeah, completing my goals this week is pretty important.

as for tassomai, I’m finding I remember to do it some days, and completely forget others, which I won’t beat myself up about as I just need to get into a routine.

okay, that’s it! now for mocks

mocks
so, as I’ve mentioned a few times in previous posts, mocks are in November, a week or so after we return from half term, which starts this coming Monday (basically, this week is my last until half term). I’m feeling confident that I can do okay in these exams if I do everything right, but based on prior experiences of mine, I do fear my bad organisational skills, tendency to overthink, and other bad habits will prevent me from doing as such, with me instead getting everything wrong.



We haven’t been told much about mocks, or what we’re doing for each subject, except for geography which we’ve been told is going to be on paper 3. that’s great because now I only have to revise paper 3 content.



I will let you know more about mocks and my preparation for them later

extracurriculars
I thought it’d be good for me to disclose some extracurricular activities I’ve undertaken this year, as they go hand in hand with my studies, in that they require time, commitment and concentration that could interfere with my education if I’m not careful.

comedy of errors (school play): I’ve been given a lead role for this production, meaning I will have more work to do, lines to learn and rehearsals to attend etc., but the production is completely finished by February, so I have a clear window free in the months prior to my exams. rehearsals are every Thursday after school, plus additional occasional rehearsals at lunchtime for specific scenes and characters. to me, this seems completely manageable.

new views: this is a national theatre competition for young playwrights! we’re required to write a 30-minute play with a story of our choice (though they encourage us to draw from personal experience). the winner gets their play staged, directed and performed by the national theatre company, which is an absolutely amazing opportunity! I did it last year but didn’t end up submitting my play as I didn’t consider it finished, so this year is my chance to perfect and refine it! it’s a body of work that means a lot to me and that I’d like to do justice, so the time is worth it! the club is every Tuesday at lunchtime, and outside of school, I have to spend additional time writing my play. I feel this is also manageable with good time management. also, my play is already half done, so I don’t have as hard a task as others.

LAMDA: basically an acting exam. I have practice sessions for it every Thursday and the exam is in May. now, I did consider not doing it because it’s so close to my exams, BUT the exam itself is less than an hour, and my preparation for the exam is an hour weekly, which is fairly okay. again, it all balls down to my organisational skills! it should be manageable.



okay well, that’s it for my weekly update, I believe! see you later <3

Quick Update!

hey guys! I am so so so so so so so so sorry I haven't updated this blog in over two weeks It's been a draining two weeks, and I have had neither the time nor energy to open up TSR and write blog posts I'm going to elaborate on this in a humungous post tomorrow that basically catches you up on everything that's happened in the past 2 weeks and that I failed to update you on (oops....). It's basically going to be like one of my Sunday updates that never actually happen on Sunday lol. Anyways, it's my bedtime now , so I'll speak to you all tomorrow, but I want to apologise to you guys again for leaving you high and dry

I'm especially upset because I was doing so well in posting (fairly) consistently on this blog, and I've only gone and ruined it :/

Okay well I'll actually stop now - more on everything tomorrow <3
(I'll also reply to everyone that's messaged me/replied to me MWAH)

Hey, don’t worry! I haven’t updated mine in 2 weeks either lol but everyone knows how irritatingly busy things get this year! Anyway, it’s your blog so your rules

How’s half term been? With responsibilities, tips from Holly Gabrielle on YouTube include:

- to do list of tasks to reach towards your academic goals, remembering to break them into smaller, more precise instructions (e.g “revise trig values” instead of “revise maths”)
- within that to do list, you can arrange them into a priority list and you could mentally put a price on each to see which is worth spending more time on.
- when you’re spending a long time deciding what to do, jUST DO SMTH, because the sooner you start, the sooner you finish!!
- if you are making a revision timetable, base it around the exam timetable so you are working in order of the exams you are sitting. In theory it should work but I’ve never made one bc I know I wouldn’t stick to it 😂 just remember if you don’t manage to make one, any revision still matters.

Everyone is doing so many extra curriculars in 6th form and I’m just like 😩😩

Hope your HPQ went well btw 😂

Your text editing is so hilarious omg
Anyway, SUPER WELL DONE on those FANTASTIC results (clearly I’m not that good with text editing forgive me)
You’re going to do absolutely great with these mocks - I wish you a really productive and pleasant weekend - good luck!!