For my Exhibition, I chose art. Art was one of the skills I wanted to learn but wasn’t so great at. I knew it would be challenging and I did go through some ups and downs. One of the ups was that I’ve gotten better throughout the weeks and sometimes feel proud. One of the downs is that it was a bit stressful along the way to ‘success’. Although it may not have been the most fun journey, it did help me with my ATL, perseverance. I’ve gotten better at taking my time and not rushing through things.

My symbolic piece is me climbing a mountain to success. At the top of a mountain I added a pencil, like that was my reaching point. The mountain went up and down, just like my journey. In the mountain, I put a range of my attempts starting from week 1 to this last week.

In the background, I also added different colours that represented my journey as a learner. For example, the colour orange occurred more frequently than the others because that was how I felt most of the time.

For Exhibition I chose Public speaking because I usually get really shy in front of people and then I would not remember what I was going to say.

Then all of my year 6 teachers decided to come up with an idea called Exhibition. At first I was very confused because I didn’t know what we had to do. When we started having classes about Exhibition, I picked public speaking because I wanted to get better at speaking in front of a huge group of people.

My very first time doing public speaking I did really bad. I was really shy and not really confident at all. When I told my dad he was surprised because he was like “ My daughter is not confident”?. “I think you’re talking about a different Emma, there is no way that is my daughter.” And something is when I am with my friends I am really confident but as soon as I am in front of people I don’t really hang out with I start to freeze and not say anything.

During the Exhibition I kept practicing speaking in front of people so I could get better at it. I started to get better at talking in a big group. I started to get more confident. Now I am getting really, really confident. I am proud of myself for standing in front of large groups and NOT listening to the little voices in my head which say no.

My exhibition is about public speaking. I needed to be a lot more confident. It was a big challenge to speak in a discussion. I had a fear about saying the wrong thing. Also was never really confident about speaking even if it was something i even knew about i would have still not have said it.

Public speaking was a real success. I learnt new skills to do with confidence. I thought that I wasn't going to be more confident but I am. There were many attempts but by my 8th attempt I was so confident my scores went higher and there was not a lot to work on. By the end of the exhibition I probably would be speaking way too much by the end of the year. I did have a lot of ups and downs because I was quite scared at the start. I did cry but that’s ok i guess because it's my first attempt. Lots of people said that I was very quiet so I thought that public speaking was a good topic I would say. It was a very big challenge to face but in the end it turned out to be amazing.

Because not being confident is a bad thing, it's just that it can just make things a lot harder when it doesn’t have to. My artistic piece tell my journey for how i was not that confident but by doing about 10 attempts i became so confident because i have practice a lot and i've improved on my speaking skills because at the start i was not very good at speaking but from my pictures it shows that i've tried to be more confident with what i'm trying to say about that topic and the picture with the hands up it shows how much i have improved and skills i've learnt and how much confident i was from the start. In my art piece there are 2 photos in the first photo itg show that my confidence levels are so low but in the other photo my confidence levels are high.