Blogging

So I needed something to blog about and Siobhan suggested a Blog post about blogging so here goes. I started blogging once a week when we started at the beginning of the year. I wasnt really into it at all and didn't see the point in it. As time went on I just stopped blogging altogether.
It was after the Christmas Holidays that I started blogging again. I used Siobhan as my motivator, because she would talk to me everynight on facebook and tell me that I had to blog. I hope to reach 75 blogs by the end of the year. I try to blog about what I do everyday in school.
I find it hard to compose a blog about what we have done during the day. I don't know if we can blog about anything or if it has to be about TY, because if it can be about anything, I would blog about my book. I hope to keep blogging.
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Kellie xx

Tech and art

So today I had double art, and Ms O H said we had to do our end of year art project with our home ec partners because we had to do our art project on the country we chose to do our cookery project on. Me and louise had chosen Spain as our country, and we couldn't decide between Picasso, Gaudi and Dali so Ms O H said we could do all three. It sounded like a good idea so we went with it and designed the A2 poster it would go on.



After school today, I had to go to tech because we had to work on our F1 project. Roisin, Niamh and I went from our group and all of the other group turned up. So we sat down and started working on the project. Roisin and Mr W worked on solid works and I did the timeline for February. It didnt take very long. We had a very good time in tech, laughing and joking with Mr W but also working.

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Kellie

Desert Flower Review

So Ms L gave us a small pat of the book Desert Flower to read while she was out on Wednesday, and we have to do a review of it when we finished it so here it is.

The book Desert Flower was a very heartwarming tale of one girl's journey from rags to riches. In this story, Waris, is due to marry a man she does not know or love and doesnt want to narry him. She talks to her mother and tells her she wants to run away. Her mother tells her no but helps her get away in the middle of the night. The way the author portrayes Waris' amotions and how she acts is brilliant. I found the part where she describes the Female Genital Mutilation quite gruesome and made me feel a little nauseous but that makes for a better story if you can make the reader feel that way. I also love the way the book describes how Waris was lonely all her life but then she meets a man and has his child. It just shows that anyone can have a happy ending
I qould definatly reccommend this book to anyone but tell them if they are light hearted they should skip over the section in which the Female Genital Mutilation is described. I give this book 4 stars and a very high reccommendation.

Drama Day

On tuesday we went to Mullingar to perform our dramas for a judge. It was all very good. We got a double decker bus there and I sat downstairs at one of the tables. When we were nearly at Mullingar, the bus driver put on a Whitney Houston CD and everyone just sang along. The noise coming form our bus was extremely loud.
So we got to Mullingar and went inside to get ready. With everyone dressed and make up on, we went out to the stage to perform. Our play went better than we could have hoped. No one forgot their lines or laughed on stage. The other plays were also brilliant. I filmed Noughts and Crosses for Siobhan because she was acting in it and coudnt record it herself.
All of the plays were brilliant. After we finished, we all went to get lunch and were told another school was coming to perfom and that if we wanted to watch them we would have to be quick at lunch. We came back to see the second play and I have to say, it was pretty good but I didnt really understand the plot or the story for that matter.
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Rehearsal Day

Today was good overall. We we in careers for the first class and then for the second, third, fourth and fifth class we practiced our play's. At first it was really fun but then as the day went on it got kinda boring because we were just doing the same thing over and over again and certain people were starting to get giddy and hyper.
For mini company we started selling our product, and the reactions of people weren't all good. Some people thought from our posters that wewere selling actual cupcakes and not one's made from baby clothes. So that was kinda embarasing. So to get away from it, me and aoife went around the school showing people who couldn't be bothered or couldn't come to the stand our product and that it was clothes not food.
So overall the day was good. Looking forward to tomorrow, going to Mullingar for our Drama. Sitting with my spouse and we shall talk about jemimah (excuse the spelling) and cousin lauren and lily of course!!!
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Half Day

Today was pretty good. We a half day and all of our classes were cool because half of the class were gone to rugby in Tallaght. Mini Company was my first class of the day and it was a double. So the first class we just worked on making the baby cupcakes to use as our prototype. We are gonna start selling tomorrow in the science corridor. And the second part of the class we went to the cmputer room and we printed off posters and order forms.
Next we had english and that was also a double, for the first class me and aoife went around the school puttin gup the posters we made to advertise our mini company. The second class, Amina came in because there was hardly anybody in their class either so they came to us to make a full class.
After that we had a single Art, and Ms. O H was out so we just drew watevr we wanted.
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English Play

Today we did another rehearsal of our English play "Time of your life". Ms L gave us last class yesterday and first class today to do our rehearsals because the actual play will be held on Tuesday. I only have a small part, just 2 or 3 lines but im still kinda scared because I don't particularly like doing things infront of a large group of people. We have an actual dress rehearsal on Monday and we have to bring in our costumes and props and all for then.
The other class and the rest of our class performed theirs for us before and they are really good, great to have good competition. I really hope everything goes well on Tuesday.
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Irish Class

Since Ms. F left, we have had a new Irish teacher whose name I can't spell. Today during class she started asking us about our families and where our names came from. She also said if anybody in the class knew what "geneology" was. Nobody knew so she explained it was the study of things like peoples family trees. She suggested that we trace our families and do a project (In Irish) about our family trees and what our first and last names mean.
Sounds like fun because we will be doing something other than basic Irish drills like verbs and stuff like that so I can't wait for it.
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T.Y so far

TY so far has been amazing, I am really enjoying it and i would definatly reccomend it to anyone. Since the beginning of the academic year we have been to carlingford, done our work experience and so many other things. I have reconnected with friends I lost contact with after we left primary school and made so many other friends. Myself and Siobhan have got on exceptionally well, going for our daily walks during lunch just cos she can't stay still for very long.
The amount of projects has not overloaded me, I thought that whenever a teacher said we had to do a project I would have hours upon hours sat infront on my computer just doing research but they really weren't that bad, of course research had to be done but it wasnt taking over my whole day.
The amount of competitions that we have entered as groups and as a class is pretty amazing.
So far we have entered the F1 in Schools competition, which my group made it through to, the Margaret Aylward Drama competition, The Young Scientist, SciFest, the Briery Gap Drama competition and the Mini Company competition.
Its all really fun and I hope the rest of the year is as good as the beginning.
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Technology project

Today we did alot of work in technology for our technology F1 in Schools project. In this project we have to design a car made from wood and compose a portfolio in which we have to describe each team member and they're roll in this project and how we plan to do each task given to us. We are currently working on getting sponsorship to get team uniforms which inculde monogramed team t-shirts and personalised hoodies for each member.
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Science Project

Today we came to the computer room to do our science project for SciFest. Me, Katie, and Jessica are in a group and our project is on the study of dreams and sleeping and is titled "While you were sleeping". We have spent alot of time on this and hope the judges from SciFest will choose our project to be displayed at the SciFest event. We have yet to print and distribute our surveys but we plan on doing 10 per year group and we fit 2 on a page to save paper.

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Young Scientist

On Friday last, all of TY and 2nd year went to the RDS to go to the young scientist. It was really good. I stayed in a group and walked around with Niamh, Roisin, Louise and Siobhan. But me Louise and Siobhan got seperated from Niamh and Roisin a couple of times so we spent a good bit of our time looking for them aswell as having a look around the exhibit. The projects were really good. I looked at a few and there was one on horses which was good and I met a friend of mine who I had done work experience with and his project was of the causes and the effects of swine flu and what the vaccine does to ur immune system.
We finally cought up with Niamh and Roisin and we went to watch the juggling being shown in the main hall. It was really good and the routines were brilliant. There was one routine where they had what looked like bowling pins and they lit up and they threw them around and you could see the colours and it was just brilliant.
Then me louise and siobhan went into the section where all the businesses and colleges had their stands. We saw people with frisbees and we wanted to know how to get one. So we went to the stand they were giving them out at and they told us we had to collect stickers to get the frisbee. So we spent about a half hour looking for men with white hard hats to get stickers from, and by this point we had lost Niamh ad Roisin AGAIN.
The day was brilliant and I always enjoy going to the young scientist.
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Bag Packing.

Bag Packing

Well Siobhan saw this letter on the TY notice board and it was looking for people to do bagpacking for the Irish Cancer Society so she asked me if I wanted to do it with her and I said yes cos I thought it would be a good idea to do some charity work this year cos i will be very busy next year. So i took down the number and rang the woman and said we were interested in doing it. So we went around TY asking people would they do it with us and we got a good few people to do it with us. So it started on friday and we did it from 4-7 but me jessica, niamh and siobhan started a little bit late because we got locked out of siobhans house because mandy had her keys so we had to wait for her dad. So we got changed and went back over. It was