On the 17th of December we had a carol service in school. I was in the choir so I got to sing all of the wonderful hymns and songs. I really enjoyed this as it was my first time singing with the school choir. The day after the carol service we had exams. TY's had Spanish/french, religion, English, maths and irish exams. On the last day of exams TY's had none and Mrs.L decided to arrange for us to go to bowling. On Thursday morning class Cinealtas organised a Christmas party. We all went to the library and sang and danced. One of the girls in Cinealtas dressed up as Santa and gave everyone Kris-Kindle presents. After the party we went bowling at K-Bowl. I wasn't the best at bowling but got better as the game proceeded. After K-Bowl Mrs.L had a surprise for us , she brought us to WhiteWater Shopping Centre where I got KFC.
The deadline for out Junk Kouture project was on the 7th of December. We have been working on our outfits since the beginning of September! Our outfit fell to pieces one week before the deadline but we pulled together and created a completely new skirt just days before the fashion show. All our hours of hard work, blood sweat and tears had finally paid off. We spent 6 classes a week doing Junk Kouture - in art , home Ec and design. Today we had the fashion show. Each outfit was worn by a model in each group and they did a catwalk in front of all of the TY classes and some 3rd and 5th year classes. The nerves were at an all time high before the models took to the catwalk but as the music played they began to strut their stuff and show off their outfits. Each outfit was so unique and detailed.
Today Ciara and I had to make our geography presentation. Mrs.McG assigned one country to each pair. We got Mexico. Our task was to sell Mexico to our class and make them want to go there. We talked about tourist attractions in Mexico , culture, food and a lot more. I even made churros to give to the class!
This year our school library was renovated. Mrs.W asked our class to try and encourage more people to join our school library and to design posters to stick on the walls. Our class took this as a challenge and began making posters before Mrs.W had even told us what we needed to do. We had to write book reviews and design eye catching posters. After a lot of hard work the library was a whole new place. Thanks to the Librarian our library is organised and modern. We got new tables and chairs and a whole new filing system where people can rent out books to read!
Gaisce - The President's Award is Ireland's National Challenge Award
for young people, the country's most prestigious and respected
individual Award programme. It is a challenge from
the President of Ireland to the young people of Ireland. Gaisce works on the basis of a personal challenge
set by the young person. You will set your own challenge and agree it
with a President's
Award Leader (PAL). You won't be competing with
other participants, as each challenge is completely individual.The
only person you will
compete with is yourself. Last week I signed up for Gaisce. For my physical activity I chose to do 'Gaelic Football', for my peronal activity I chose to cook and for my community activity I chose to do underage camogie coaching! I cannot wait to finish the goals I have set for myself!
This week we went to White Water Shopping Centre in Newbridge. Here we went to the cinema for a talk about mini company. This time we weren't as lucky as to watch another Skyfall screening but we did have fun! Orla gave us a talk about the type of person you have to be in business. Firstly we started the day by each managing director telling us about their product and how they have marketed it so far. The ideas some people came up with were amazing! Each idea was unique. After this Orla told us what we would have to do for the report and then we watched a video on how to be assertive. The video high lighted four different personalities clashing at work. The four personalities were 1. Aggressive 2. Passive 3. Passive-Aggressive and 4.Assertive . Sadly I cannot find the video she showed us but it was very informative and it gave me a huge insight into the personalities in business. I learned what each personality means: 1. Aggressive- makinganall-outefforttowinorsucceed 2.Passive- Accepting or submitting without objection or resistance 3.Passive-Aggressive- a person who seems to agree to people around them on face, but is actually responding with passive resistance. 3.Assertive- confident and direct in claiming one's rights or putting forward one's views
This year in religion we are writing and preforming our own dramas. In my group we chose the topic 'War'. Roisin and Orla are writing the main body of the script and the rest of us are helping change it around and spice it up in school. I think it is coming along very well and it will be really good when we are finished writing it! The other group are doing their drama on 'homelessness'. As part of their preparation for writing their play they needed inspiration. Mrs. O'S a teacher in our school does volunteer work with homeless people and decided to hold a talk about 'The Simon Community' for all TY's. On Thursday the 22nd of November , Mrs.O'S kindly held a talk about the Simon Community in our school library. We all went down to the library at the start of the day and a power point had been set up by Mrs.O'S. We sat down and she gave an introduction highlighting what she would be talking about during the presentation. She described firstly how she got involved with the community. The Simon Community were looking for artists so she decided to get involved. Her task was to go to a house that the Simon Community had provided for a group of men and create a work of art on a huge canvas. At first , she said the men weren't too keen on the idea , they didn't know where to start. One day she left the canvas in the house and the next morning when she arrived it had been covered in different colours of paint. It turned out that one man had done this to start it off. All the men needed was a bit of inspiration. Soon afterwards all the men were involved writing poems on the canvas and sticking on things that were important in their life. A lady in the house that Mrs.O'S had died just the year before she did this project with the men , so they stuck on a tiara and a wand in memory of her. There was also many other houses taking part in this task and in the end they has many wonderful , unique canvas'. She also took part in a task that involved each member of the household to describe something they treasure and love dearly. I have attached a video with all this information above. Hope you enjoy! The talk really inspired me to want to care for other people in the future and get involved in volunteer work!
