Easter

Easter holidays !!!

And with that relief also comes work, as I have my end of term exams in June and so I am starting to revise  now. I also have my Piano exam really soon and I need to do more work on that as well.

For starters, Joseph's birthday party was good, but he wasnt 100% so we didn't go to legoland. I made him a bird box !!

I finished The Lovely Bones and started reading (and finished) another book called My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. They were both amazing books. I am now reading the Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

In this last week I have been doing lots and lots of Rowing. We have a race coming up called the Ball Cup which we have been working hard for. I rowed Wednesday 3-8, Thursday 9-4, Friday 8:30-4, and I am going to row on Sunday from 8-2. I'm really glad to have this day off !

On Wednesday I am going to go into town with my friend for the day. We are going to shop (obviously!) and to see the new movie Divergent which will hopefully be really fun!

On Thursday I went to a 13th birthday party of one of my best friends. It was a disco and it was really cool; I got to talk with some of my friends who were at my old school - my friend still goes there - whom I haven't seen in 2 years and I also caught up with  an old friend whom I havent seen in 5 years from my 2nd school.

I will let you know how my day in town will be next post, and be sure to comment!

Thanks !

Exams

Sorry I haven't been blogging recently but I have been really busy and the weeks just seem to fly by!

I got full marks on my Latin test so I was really happy, and so I decided to choose Latin and German for my languages. I also had a Geography test, which I got 83% in. Talking of school, I got my E&As on Monday. E&As are Effort and Achievement grades which at my school we get every month. These grades were my best I think I've ever had. For our Effort Grades, A* is way beyond expected, A is Very Good, B is inconsistent, and C is unacceptable. For our Achievement , 1 is excellent, 2 is Expected level, 3 is Unacceptable. We have 14 subjects. I got 10 A*s, and 11 1s. I got A*1 in all the sciences and maths, and an A1 in English, which I was very proud of. I only got 3 2s, the rest were 1s, and my effort was only A*s and As. It was a really good month for me !!

It's my brother's birthday on the 31st (he's going to be 7) and our family is going to go to legoland and invite some of his friends over for a birthday tea. I will have to decide what to get him soon, and I have no idea what he's really into these days.....

My title today was exams because I'm starting to feel the pressure of my piano Grade 5 which I am having on the 2nd of May.  Also, with the lent term almost over, it's going to be the end of year exams soon, and I will have to start revising for them about 2 months before ! My violin Grade 5 exam will (hopefully) be in the summer term. I say 'hopefully' because right now my teacher thinks I need to work harder until she thinks I am ready enough to be put in for it.

I started reading on Monday (and finished today) a really good book called The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was really really good and I think that style of book is one that I can enjoy. I am now reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

Please comment if you have anything to say, and keep reading ;)

Music Competition - Piano

Another week gone by. Time flies when you're at school again, doesn't it?
My Latin test went really well, and. I managed to get all of my homework out of the way. Hopefully I'll know my test score by tomorrow!

Today it was the Piano music competition, which went really well. I was second to another boy who also did well. My friend, Catherine, played great too. I went to town and got a McDonalds with my friend before and then went back to school for the competition. It was really fun. 

Right now I'm choosing language options for Year 9. We can do German, Russian, Classics, Latin and German, or Latin and Russian. I'm thinking of doing Latin and German, but it's not completely settled yet. If you have any advice, please comment below! 

On Friday I had a sleepover with one of my friends, and it was really fun. We watched 'Confessions of a Shopoholic' (really funny) and we stayed up all night, so it was a thumbs up for the sleepover! 

My Dad is going to Verona, tomorrow, so I won't see him until Thursday. I have a netball match on Thursday as well (I'll let you all know what the outcome of that is). 

Our family friends came over from Cardiff at the weekend, and so it was really nice to see them. They have an 8 year old son called Connor, who is friends with Joseph (my youngest brother). We went out for the day with them on Saturday, and we had a good time; we went to a science centre which we've been to before, so it was nice to go back. 

Overall a really fun week. 

Thanks for reading 😄

New Start

This is a new start. A new section of my blog. My life: Stage 2.

So many things have happened since my last post that it would be boring for you and me to relive it all again. So this is a new start. 

So, to inform you of the basic details of my life now...

I am 12 years old, almost 13. 

I go to a private school. I started this school in Year 7 and have now completed 1 and a half terms of Year 8. 

I still play Piano and Violin, but I stopped French Horn at the end of Year 6. I also stopped Ballet.
I have two younger brothers.

These are my main achievements in my life so far:
I sung at the Royal Albert Hall
I performed at the Royal Festival Hall
I sung at St. Paul's Cathedral
I performed and sung at Snape Maltings several times

That is the basic outline of my life so far.

So now we can get on to recent things that has happened to me.

This week was half term - Yayyyy !!! - and I went with my Mum and brothers to our friends' house 2 and a half hours away. Our friends have 3 children: a 12 year old, a 10 year old, and a 5 year old, so its close enough to our family's ages and we all gbet on really well. Katie (12), Thomas (10), Elliot (my brother(10)) and I went to a 3-day stop animation course at a theatre near their house. It was extremely fun. If you want to check out some of the animations we made, then click on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtW8DNm8UaFdkQFSy_RTeEg
Mine and Katie's are:
Scrap-tastic 03
Dancing Man 04
Space Unicorns 1

Elliot and Thomas' are:
Scrap-tastic 04
Dancing Man 2
Terrible Trio 01

Other than that, all I did was relax on my holiday. I actually have lots of homework due for this week that I was meant to do in half term - I did it today. I have a Latin test on Tuesday which I am revising for as well. I did Rowing this morning from 8 until 12:30 which was fun though. At my school I ampart of the Chapel Choir, and last term we sang 2 pieces at Snape Maltings that we recorded (with the BBC Symphony Orchestra) for BBC Radio 3 - this should probably have been on my main achievements list. In this half term we are going to sing at King's College in Cambridge, but I'll tell you about that once I know more about it.

FYI: I got an iPad mini for Christmas, so that is what I am blogging on now.

Thanks for listening, and now hopefully people will start reading this again!

Also, feel free to comment any time! ;)