LCC grade 7 students are spending the first week of classes in a special orientation program to help them prepare for a successful Middle School experience. Here are two reflections from our grade 7 students:
Today we had a class about your brain. We did an activity where you were supposed to be an event planner. Part of the time, the entertainment, food, and the location of the event were chosen by you, and the other half of the activity was you rolled a die to determine place, entertainment and what you ate. Luck, or chance, was mostly to do with this, and the thing is, to be a successful student, you can’t rely on luck alone. To be a successful student isn’t really about being smart. It’s about having good organization, writing things down so you remember them, and planning ahead and not leaving everything to finish on the last night. If you never do well in one subject doesn’t necessarily mean you’re bad at the subject, it may just mean you forgot to do an assignment or didn’t ask for another explanation in class even if you didn’t get what was going on. The successful student tries hard, studies for tests, does their homework on time. All in all, there are not really unsuccessful or successful students. There are simply those who don’t try their best, and those who do.–Grade 7 Student