Lá Glas

Last Friday we had our annual Lá Glas. Each Year gets a theme and you must dress accordingly. Our year were leprauchauns or fairies. I was a Fairy. Most people dressed up and everyone looked amazing. At lunch their was a parade where each class enters one person into. The Judges pick the best costume for each year.

Scifest

On Friday we had our Scifest presentation. There was 33 groups entering. There was 4 judges that go around. All the projects looked amazing. I was in a group of three with Ava and Meadhbh. Our project was How food affects our energy levels. This is what is looks like 

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Conflict

This week we had to do a powerpoint on an area of conflict. I was in a group of three and we did ours in the London Riots 2011. It was really interesting to learn that most of the rioters were from well off families. Someone made a song about it.The link is on the prezi. Here is how it turned out.

http://prezi.com/kf80mhj7-xeg/conflict-the-london-riots/

Gaisce - 29.11.12

The other day I have applied for Gaisce. In Gaisce you have to do 13 weeks of a physical skill, 13 weeks of a personal skill and 13 weeks of volunteering. You than pick one of them to do for an extra 13 weeks. At the end you do a 26 mile hike!
So for my physical skill I am doing camogie as I have gone up to the u16 team.
For my personal skill I am doing lifesaving as I am starting Rescue 1 my fourth exam.
For volunteer work I am going to do underage coaching for the younger camogie team.

Teddy?

Finally my teddy bear is starting to take shape, slowly but surely. I have finished making the arms, the legs, the body and the ears. All I have left to do is the head and to put all the limbs together and in no time I will have my teddy done. As soon as he is finished I will put up some photos to show you all how he went.

Here is what my teddy should look like in the end :/

Lollipop Day!

Last Friday was Lollipop Day. All of TY went into town. We were in groups of 4 and all groups were assigned an area. We all had buckets full of Lollipops and badges. They were €2 each. 

Around lunch time all the buskers started setting up. There was a wide variety of street performers. Everything from trumpets to leprauchans to Singers to Drum kits made from plastic containers. We had great fun. By the end of the day we couldn't feel out feet, it was so cold. All in all we had a blast.

Jabba Jabba Jembe!!

Shekere

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A percussion workshop. Yesterday Dave came into our school and showed us the fine art of Jembe drums. He told some interesting facts about them. We all learned how to hit the drum to get various sounds. He than taught us some songs that we could play on them. Two girls were on base, six girls were on shekere.

He than showed uas how to use the asalato. I LOVED them.

Home Ec.

Every week in Home Ec. we cook. We have made loads of delicious food and desserts. I think that my favourite was the Risotto. We had a simple recipe, but the end result was mouth watering. We have also made profiteo rolls which surprisingly turned out really well. I would never have attempted them at home, but cooking them in school showed me just how quick and easy it can be to make them.

Cassette Tape Portraits

In art we are doing cassette tape portraits. We take a photo of someone we like and we put it into a software that makes a black and white image of it. We print  that off. From that image we draw an outline. We shade in the area that will be covered in film. Once the outline is done we get the cassette tape and pull the film out. We fill in the shaded area. We cut up the film to fit the size of the area we wish to fill. I am doing the photo of Audrey Hepburn \/

Young Scientist!!

On Thursday we went to the BT young scientist. We left the school just after nine and arrive around half ten. The RDS was full of students and teachers from everywhere. Some have even traveled from up north. I had a look at the projects and they were truly amazing. Some were really interesting and very well presented. If you went towards the back of the RDS there was loads of company's and colleges doing experiments and some had tests for us to do.
We also did a load of tests and got freebies!!!! :)

January 2013!!!

Happy New Year everyone lets hope its a good one.

So this is our first week back in school from our christmas holidays. I got my test results back and i am so happy with them. This means that i can have a bit of time to relax before i start studying again. In home. ec. we cooked scones. Lets just say Roisin and mine didn't turn out as planned. Roisin brought in plain flour instead of self raising flour. So the inside of our scones weren't light and fluffy, but they still tasted nice. We also made apple crumble which turned out amazingly. It was so nice and i think it will be a recipe I will be using again.

In TY design we are making a teddy bear. Mine is going to be made of light denim and it will have big brown  eyes. We have started cutting out the shapes we will need to make the teddy. It does not look like a teddy just yet.

Fashion Show

So yesterday was our fashion show. We had a great day all the dresses were amazing! The fashion show was in front of all the TY's and some teachers brought their classes to watch as well. As you walk down the make shift catwalk the atmosphere is amazing. Your chosen song is blaring from the speakers, You strike a pose and the crowd erupts in applause and cheers. There was five judges.

Today our art teacher told us the winners of Junkouture in our class. Roisin and I came joint second with Elaine and Sophie. I was shocked as all the dresses were stunning.