Student sample for assessment
Written by a Year 6 student in Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
At the beginning of Year 6, Mrs Lee asked me if I wanted to be the librarian monitor for our class. I said yes straight away because I liked books and it sounded cool. Then I found out what it actually meant. The librarian monitor had to log every book that went out and came back. It had to be right or the library would lose books. I had to remember to do it every day even when I forgot. I had to check people's names when they said they returned books because some kids lie. And there was a whole system I had to learn about shelves and numbers. It seemed like so much more than I thought. I was scared the first week. I made mistakes. I logged a book under the wrong name. I didn't notice when someone said they returned a book but didn't really. I felt like I was bad at the job and maybe I should quit. I could feel Mrs Lee watching to see if I would stick it out. But then I asked her to slow down and show me the system properly instead of just telling me. She showed me the computer system and the shelf system and why it mattered. She explained that other kids depended on me getting it right. That made it feel important instead of just hard. By the middle of the year I actually knew what I was doing. Kids would ask me questions and I could answer. I started to feel like I was someone who could handle it. Not because it got easier but because I stopped being scared of it. The thing is, I'm not actually that good at remembering detailed things. But I can do hard things when I understand why they matter and when someone believes I can do them. I thought the hard part was the job. But the hard part was actually trusting myself.