Alice

**Week One** Being the first week, we spent most of our time trying to decide what our research topics would be. At first, I had no idea what to do for my research topic. But after visiting the school library and looking at the different books they had provided us with, I decided that I would research about child abuse. After deciding my topic, I then had to form a question to base my project on. For me, this was a hard decision and was one that I could not make yet, as child abuse is a very broad topic and I didn’t want to rule things out at this stage. I only had Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in Research Project for this week, as on Friday I had surgery.

**Week Two** I was not at school for the whole of this week, due to my surgery.  It was a little hard to continue to work on my project, as most of what I did consisted of sleeping.

**Week Three** I was also away for the whole of this week, but was preparing to come back to school. This involved thinking about my whole research topic and where I could go with it. I had a few ideas, such as how is child abuse dealt with?, what happens after a report of child abuse is made? or what causes child abuse?