1. By: Hannah Weis:)

2. In Relation to The Year of Secret Assignments  In my book there are 6 characters. They have to write to each other for an English assignment for school. The two schools are rivals – like Tech and Apollo. The 6 students get to know each other. They play pranks on the opposing school to show the other person that they are better. Some pranks that they do are: set off the sprinklers, set off the fire alarms, hotwire the teacher’s car and take it for a spin around the parking lot. The teachers think that the students wrote graffiti on lockers and hacked the computers with viruses. Then the 6 students meet and have to find out who is pranking both of the schools because it is not them.

3. Types of Schools  Government or public schools  Private schools  Independent schools

4. Government or Public Schools  Funded by the Australian government and tuition is much less.  This is the most common type of school.  Have uniforms.

5. Private Schools  Usually funded by a religious group, but partially funded by the government.  A little bit more expensive than Public schools.  Offers more subjects to take and more extracurricular activities.

6. Independent Schools  Very expensive and exclusive.  Have smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a lot of extra curricular activities.  You will be in that school from kindergarten to twelfth grade.  No funding by the government.  May offer boarding.

7. A typical day of School in Australia  Go to school at about 9:00 am and end at about 3:30 pm.  Eat lunch at school.  Average class size is 18 students.  Go to school from January to late November.  Required to go to school for 200 days.  Summer vacation is December to January.  Have 4 terms and between each term they get 2 weeks off of school.

8. Grades in Australia  Grades in Australia are called years. ex: If you are in 8 th grade you would be in Year 8.  Year 1 to Year 6 – Primary School  Year 7 to Year 12 – Secondary School  Year 12 is college for some students