In the holidays, the Southwell School Chess A Team travelled to Christchurch for the NZCF National Interschools Chess Tournament. We all did quite well, and came 4th overall.

Recently at school we did speeches. I did my speech about fast food - some history, benefits, and disadvantages of fast food. After performing the speech, I have reflected on my performance. I think I did quite well although I could of done better. I realised that I spoke a little quickly, and that I could of learnt my speech a little better as I needed to use my cue cards occasionally. I found that I could of also expressed my voice better. Overall, I think I did OK.

Today in science we all learnt how to make a digestive system out of plasticine with Mr Velzian. Before we made the finished plasticine model, we drew the human digestive system. Here is what my plasticine model looked like:

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Hi, my name is Alex and welcome to my blog. Something about me - I love music; I play 3 music instruments, the piano in which I am Grade 8 - Advanced Certificate, the violin in which I am Grade 5, and the clarinet in which I am Grade 5. I also like playing Football (I support Arsenal FC), and I play badminton. One of my hobbies that I like to do in my spare time is puzzles. My favourite puzzles are chess (even though chess is also a sport), and the Rubik's Cube. I can solve a 3x3 in 13.86 seconds. My record for the 4x4 is 56.98 seconds. I hope you enjoy looking at my blog.