This Tuesday was the first day of a new school year for me. This year I’m in a Grade 7/8 split class as a Grade Seven. When I arrived at school on Tuesday I met up with some of my friends and got in line to see which class we would be placed in. Everyone I knew was pretty surprised to find out that there were three 7/8 classes and only one straight Grade Seven class. Most of my friends in Grade 7 weren’t really happy about this since the Grade 8’s have a reputation for not being the best kids. Also, in all three of the 7/8 classes, there were only around seven to eight Grade Sevens so that means fewer people that we know and fewer friends. In my class, I don’t really have many good friends I only have two mutual friends that I didn’t really talk with too much over the summer.
The first week started off differently than last year since last year the school was encouraging a “Growth Mindset” but now they’re encouraging “Collaboration Techniques” where we do a bunch of different activities requiring teamwork. We started a few things to work on over the course of the first week for things like Math and Language. Half way through the first week of school I was already “uncomfortable” being in a 7/8 class since some of the people in the class did things like hitting my shoulder while passing me in lines while entering the classroom and some people are just annoying. Not everyone in the class is like that, but just some people. Since I don’t have too many friends in the class I can focus more on the actual school work, but sometimes it just feels lonely.
Later on in the week I just deal with the people that annoy me and just try to ignore them. For example, if they forget my name I just let them call me whatever they want unless someone else wants to correct them. If they stand on the chairs at lunch I just ignore them and eat my lunch and so on.
The first week of school was alright since this is also my first year with rotary so it’s taking some time to get used to the new classroom system. Although I’m not particularly enjoying this school year I’ll still go back to school since it’s not like I have a choice.