goodbye primary hello high school

13 Pages·2017·3.17 MB·English

GOODBYE PRIMARY
HELLO HIGH SCHOOL
By Year 6 students at Westbreen Primary School
& Year 7 students at Pascoe Vale Girls College
Goodbye Primary, Hello High School Kids’ Own Publishing
By Year 6 students at Westbreen Lead Artist: Ailsa Wild
Primary School & Year 7 students Support Artist: Reeham Hakem
at Pascoe Vale Girls College Book Design: Naasicaa Larsen
Community Publishing Director: GOODBYE PRIMARY
ISBN 978-1-925077-61-2 Anna Dollard
Published by Kids’ Own Publishing, Kids’ Own Publishing is a social
2017 purpose arts organisation that
HELLO HIGH SCHOOL
© Copyright of the original works empowers children, families and
remains with the authors and communities to share their stories
illustrators through artist-led community
publishing
By Year 6 students at Westbreen Primary School
Westbreen Primary School
Pascoe Vale Road C2:29 Abbotsford Convent & Year 7 students at Pascoe Vale Girls College
Pascoe Vale, VIC 3044 1 St Heliers Street,
www.westbreenps.vic.edu.au Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia
Principal: Antonio Cerra Ph: [phone] ROLLCALL
Year 6 teacher: Maria Zarkadoulas kidsownpublishing.com
wepublish.net.au YEAR 6 YEAR 7
Pascoe Vale Girls College Zak Abdo Aasiya Ahmed
Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale VIC 3044 This book has been produced as part Ayman Abdou Fatema Albousweilem
www.pvgc.vic.edu.au of the Joining the Dots Moreland Bisharo Adan Batool Al-Bidiri
Principal: Kay Peddle Project, with funding support from the Alizeh Adil Khadiju Ali
Year 7 teacher: Larissa Keen School Focused Youth Service at Merri Tehreem Akmal Mariam Ali
Health. Aya Ali Maryam Ali
INLLEN (Inner North Local Learning & Ben Clarke Kashaf Amire
Employment Network) Natasha Faraj Sienna Batten
Brunswick Business Incubator, Sundas Hanif Shen Bennett
Room 5A, 420 Victoria Street, Lilly Irvine Grace Davies
Brunswick VIC 3056 Dulni Jayasooriya Hannah Hall
Manager Transitions: Rochelle Darby Jordan La Rose Sonia Jammal
Consultant: Hong Nguyen Branden Millar Eman Khoder
Humza Omar Vinuki Kumarage
Patty Papat Jade Lynch
Myko Perez Nidhi Mathew
Youssef Saraya Ayca Mizrak
Mark Soro Jasmine Moustafa
Jihad Taleb Imelda Naisan
Heinrich Talento Noor Nasser
Soulaf Tartoussi Pamudu Sirimanna
Tenisha Thomas Riyah Taha
Palwasha Tokhi Minahil Tahir
Kim Tran Mariam Turiaki
Josie Wallace
Maysa Yehye
INNER NORTHERN
The left hand pages of this book have been imagined The right-hand pages of the book are filled with very
by a brave group of Year 6 students about to start High helpful advice from a class of awesome Year 7s who
School — who are scared about getting lost, missing know first-hand what it’s like to experience the ups
exams, new teachers and much, much more. These and downs of High School! As a future Year 7 you may
students are having mixed emotions about disasters be anxious. That’s OK! This book is here to help you
and adventures happening in High School. conquer your fear so you don’t just survive but thrive
at High School!
We created these stories with our imagination.
Year 7
Year 6 Braves Awesomes
1. Anxious
1. Confident
2. Butterflies
2. Be-Yourself
3. Nervous
3. Don’t-Worry
4. Scared 4. Happy
5. Stressed 5. Have-a-go
6. Lonely 6. Lollipop
7. Survive
7. Confused
8. Thrive
8. Excited
* Sometimes you’ll find some advice in red —
2 We asked a teacher ... 3
Getting lost is natural
I FEEL NERVOUS

ABOUT GETTING LOST
Everybody gets lost at some stage.
In my imagination there’s a girl
called phoney. Phoney is happy and
If you are not sure where something is, like the toilets,
excited for the first day of high school.
just ask someone. There will always be other students
and teachers around.
She is so excited that
she jumps so high ...
They won’t think you
… but realises she needs to go to the TOILET. are silly for asking.
Problem is, phoney doesn’t know where .yraid ruoy fo
the toilet is and she is busting. kcab eht ta pam a neve s’erehT
.nwod edispu yaw ruoy wonk
She rings loudly ll’uoy loohcs hgih ni er’uoy ecnO
and full of agony!
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I’M AFRAID I’LL FALL BEHIND HEY... Just have a go …
In my imagination there’s Natasha, a bright red
alien with matt black eyes and a black mouth. Sometimes at school you get heaps of homework,
but most of the time you find you have heaps because
you put off doing it.
She is in Year 7 at Alien High and is failing her
grades. She’s going to lose her scholarship and I’ve put off doing it a lot and it got really stressful.
thinks she won’t get accepted in to University. I was getting up at 6.30 am because I had homework
due. I realised I wasn’t doing it when I was meant to
because I thought all my homework had to be perfect.
But I now know it doesn’t have to be perfect every time.
It is better to have a go and hand it in, than
not do anything because you don’t think you’ve
done everything right.
She’s angry about
Sptuahtreoe rnaistnfskag si ala innfnodgdr thjheoeeairnlc psgh refaarr osdhm.e oSsm .heeve ewsrtoyurokdni eec slu– bho.a ldSredhree r s,f iegbeeliltnssg vse, ry arsndeIto awvuteld oleryyutv idlemsdore eylnmodo’tvnie ceneni en tttoe ehI d,igt nah etkniotns d itk n ahe tabivonboe kMour yutae tbtUl ibiomntou.i eu Hta rIinon tswd eue eyneavot naeiuldnr ,
years to come.
happy and five years of working hard later, she
goes to University and then gets a job as a lawyer-
accountant-chef-policeman at Almina Restaurant and
becomes one of the smartest aliens in the world!
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Popularity IS NOT the most
I FOETEHLE NRESR WVOILULS TAHBINOKU TO WF MHEAT important thing.
It is more important that you feel comfortable with your
group of friends than trying to be friends with people
who are popular but might not be nice to you.
In my imagination there is a ghost called Soougen.
She is quiet, lifeless and insane. She has been
High school is not like an American TV
failing her grades.
show! Popularity doesn’t really matter.
She feels lonely. It comes in her
There are people who will judge you, and there
mind and it’s a really quiet kind
are people who will like you. (Yep, that’s life)
of feeling.
My first day of school was a very good day.
There was a girl I remembered from orientation.
I went up to her and she was with other girls. I
talked to her and today she is my best friend.
Sshhee hnaeuvenrt sfi nthdes sfcrhieonodl sb. eUcnatuisl et hsihs ed ahya s HIGFHU TSUCHROEO L thIa mtI tae’asadb setoyr ru,u ebeta u mmltly eai t nk aiiisncn deag l fffsreroiilee tnn ntodhdtses a wistsa h anmolol ecth a arred .
failed her grades. She feels at peace feelings as I do.
because she is haunting the school.
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Students only get
I FEEL MIXED suspended if their
behaviour and
EMOTIONS
actions are
very serious
In my imagination Jay
is a cloud, a cumulus cloud.
His floating house is on top Weather, the train just stopping, a flat
of Mount Everest and he likes tyre or a flooded underpass — it can
eating (blue) cheese. He travels happen to all of us.
to school by the Wind Bus, which
If you are late, you get a late pass from the office, which
is surprisingly fast. Today he
gives a reason for your lateness. If you are consistently
misses the Wind Bus and is
late, your year level coordinator will talk to you about it
late for school. DISASTER!
and may decide to issue you a detention.
He misses his tests and
gets suspended.
WE ASKED A TEACHER:
It is unlikely that you will get suspended.
Endangering and bullying others would be
the main reasons for expulsion as these
are serious crimes which are not tolerated.
If you bully, are violent or swear at others
Ihmcoaansg fmuinsieixn eggde, tlfitekienelg ian s gpusos iepsveoennrdeydewd ch!o eHoreke i, es. o ybcooeuuh lamdv alieoyau adr l cstooon egtxeinpt uuael sssiu oasnfpt. eenr ssiuosnp. eIfn psoioonr it
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I HOPE MY TEACHERS DON’T be scared!
AREN’T MEAN! All teachers and
students will make
In my imagination there’s a
clown called Tessa. She goes to you feel welcome
Garbage City High. It’s located
high up in the Himalayas. Tessa
the clown is very, very funny It’s normal to like some teachers more
and she likes to eat old honey. than others.
The teacher has clown-phobia,
Most teachers are nice but they can get
and would rather he didn’t have
cross when the class is too loud.
her in his class.
Some teachers can be strict, but not mean.
It makes Tessa want to laugh,
like nervous giggling, but her teacher Teachers have rules for behaviour in class
just gets frightened. and it is only when you break the rules you
get in trouble.
Tessa has to cover her mouth or the teacher will
send her out of the room. Then Tessa takes off her
red wig so she looks a bit less like a clown.
The teacher says she will try to be more
accepting of her as a clown. Tessa is happy
and thanks the teacher for being kinder
and tries to say a funny joke to make
him laugh.
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I FEEL NERVOUS ABOUT ALL
At times homework can
THE HOMEWORK
be hard but deal with it!
You will usually get 1-2 hours homework per night but
this varies. Most of the time homework is finishing off
work that wasn’t completed in class so BE SMART —
make sure you get everything done in class then you
will have less homework.
Ithtoo i estsmod toeuoukw dcmayaoya rta ktinnoo.y dn B bt fnueeoost ar ttt fgs htr raaeaak inkndedet oey yfod i su. r
HTiWeshmt iioosshn uI ed is cisnoamhm . n h hAaha iesagocll kdim,i tnsevche ureeih rwntatadeth op usitarpnrheknyekre d mtsehh h psiih ass micen taww awhlHlooreeiitoolg d.l ldl h WhoAtt uuaeSchsrrvkcnnneehe nss’rott. o oypkA l .eun dcHlrkorlopeoewwl preh ..w ao ush tas t…o AryeceakllelloyrwH tbA hiagPen, PsldoINh uleaEdeuS plgSa ht!u usg rhan. s
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Find friends who like
the same things
I GET BUTTERFLIES
WHEN I THINK ABOUT It is not hard to be yourself at the start. If you are
pretending to be someone else and you make friends,
MAKING NEW FRIENDS they will soon start to see the real you.
It’s just easier to be yourself from the start,
I imagine Zeby the hamburger. He has two lettuces
then you will have better friends.
and two patties in his stomach and he loves to
dab. It’s Zeby’s third day of High School. He’s at
the basketball court and he’s alone. It makes him
depressed and it gives him anxiety. He feels lonely
and empty. Zeby has butterflies in his stomach, but
he knows what he has to do ... Zeby meets
Daisy and they
dab together.
I met my best
friend on the tram
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