Mid-Term :)

Yippee its finally Mid-term!!! Dress up day yesterday was AMAZING.... we were the Adams family and I was the mam.....
Hope everyone has a great mid-term and Happy Halloween xxx
                   
Eimear xx

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Frillful day........

In Home Eco we are working on our masterpiece of a dress. My group are doing a flapper dress and I am modelling it !!!!This morning we were pinning on the frills and making sure they WEREN'T pinned onto my undertop...... 1 or 2 were and it was a nightmare to get off... I will have loads of scratches on my face from the pins !!!!

Celbridge Historic Town :)

My old Primary School principal Mr.Doohan came into our school today and gave us a talk on the 'History of Celbridge'. I found it very interesting because in primary school he brought us out on walks around Celbridge and showed us lots of interesting places like the famine graveyard and the obelisk. Mr.Doohan has written a book on the History of Celbridge and all the proceeds go towards the new building in Scoil Mochua.

           Castletown House

• In 1722 Speaker Conolly started building Castletown House which is Ireland's largest eighteenth century country mansion. It contains one hundred magnificent rooms with 229 windows.
• As the estate was self supporting it required brewers, bakers, weavers, carpenters, dairy maids, stable boys, gardeners, coachmen and masons.
• The butlers were paid £13 per year, cooks £12, coachmen £11, gardeners £10, kitchen maids £3 and cowkeepers £3.

Celbridge Workhouse

• The Celbridge Workhouse (now Colortrend paint factory) opened in 1841 at a cost of £6800 to house 519 inmates. It was the policy of the governors of the Workhouse that a standard of living higher than that enjoyed by the poorest people outside should not be provided.

Celbridge Workhouse

 

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Juno and The Paycock !!!!

Hi again :)
Well I haven't written a blog post about the play we went to see.......... Well here I go..

We went to see Juno and the Paycock in the Abbey theatre in Dublin on Wednesday and it was amazing. It didn't start until 2pm so the T.Y English teachers thought it would be nice to go to the National library, The Bog Bodies and The National Museum. They were all really good but my favourite was the 'Bog bodies' we the bodies looked like they had been painted brown and just died yesterday. They still had hair and the body hadn't eroded much, even though they died over 1000 years ago. After we went to all these we had lunch in McDonald's :) Finally we went to see Juno and the Paycock.

Juno and the paycock was really good, It was better then just reading the book because it gave you a better insight into the plot of the play. They even cooked Sausages !!!!

Blog Soon,
Eimear x

Thai Satay Chicken Mmmm

We had a Home economics Cooking class this morning and we cooked Thai Satay Chicken!! My partner was out so I was on my own :( but it wasn't a very hard recipe to follow so I was grand. It was like an all in one recipe and then just put it in the oven. It took longer to cook the it did to prepare!! I'm sorry I've no pictures cause its GONE !!!!

Eimear x

Mini Company Stress !!!! HELP

We had our second mini-company group meeting in school today at big lunch with Ms.P. We just had to tell Ms. P what progress we have made since our last class last week. So far we have found a very good supplier who will supply us with the product with our customized designs which he is willing do help us with. We are in contact with the packaging company and label man so I think we aren't doing too bad. My job in the mini-company is the "Finance Girl" because I love Maths :) I just have to control the income ad expenditure and then keep all the receipts. So far I am enjoying learning about the world of Business and Finance.. but it is a bit stressful trying to find a supplier who is willing to deal with students....
Talk soon,
Eimear x

Food, Food Glourious Food !!!

Well most of T.Y in my school is participating in a blog action day where we all have to post a blog about FOOD as this blog Action day coincides with 'World Food Day'. This year the day is Sunday so here I go....

Malnutrition: Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high an intake), or in the wrong proportions
Did you know

• ...almost 1 in 7 people are hungry.
• Climate change is increasingly viewed as a current and future cause of hunger and poverty. Increasing drought, flooding, and changing climatic patterns requiring a shift in crops and farming practices that may not be easily accomplished are three key issues.
• 8 million people die from lack of food and nutrition every year - about 24,000 deaths each day.
• Every year, 5.8 million children die from hunger related-causes. Every day, that’s 16,000 young lives lost.
• For the first time in history, over 1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat. That’s one sixth of humanity - more than the population of the United States, Canada and the European Union combined.
• There are around one billion hungry people in the world: 642 million live in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42 in the Near East and North Africa. Fifteen million people in developed countries go hungry, around 1.5 percent of the total.
• The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices.

Fair trade: Does it really help the growers or are we just told it does to ease our guilt??: The Fair trade badge on a product means that the product was made by a supplier who got the fair amount of pay. You hear all about people and even kids working in Africa and not getting paid... Sweat shops?!?!

To feed 9 million people by 2050 we will have to grow something like 35% more food. Very importantly, we have to do so by being more productive on the cropland we have, rather than removing more natural habitat. I think we will find this very difficult without newer and more modern technology and machinery.

Less hamburgers!!: Can't imagine this one will go over well, but the authors do suggest that people will probably have to reduce their meat consumption slightly to feed nine billion people. This doesn't mean going vegetarian. A recent study from Germany's Potsdam Institute found that if everyone had a diet equivalent to eating meat three times a week, it'd be perfectly doable to feed nine billion people and rein in some of the gruesome excesses of factory farming. But if the whole world adopted a Western meat diet, we'd need to start razing forests for additional land—three million square kilometers all told, an area about two-thirds the size of the current Amazon rain forest.

Thank you for reading and I hope you are going to consider helping the hungry people in the world now,
Eimear x

Mini Company Workshop 2.........

Well Yesterday, Wednesday the 12th the whole of T.Y went to the Riverbank Theatre in Newbridge. There was a rumour that we were going to Mcdonalds so I think everybody was looking more to that then the actual reason we went to Newbridge !! My Mini-Company learned alot about our product including that we should only sellthe main product instead of putting tips and how to apply in it too because people may come back and buy more!!! Orla was the speaker and told us that our idea was very good. After the Workshop, We went to Chicken king which was just as nice as McDonalds !!!!

Chat Soon x
Eimear :)

English Trip.... Juno and the Paycock :)

 W.B Yeats

Next Wednesday we are going to the "City Centre" to see Juno and the Paycock in the afternoon but before that we are going to the National Library. In the National Library we are going to see a W.B Yeats exhibition... Can't wait because I have heard it is meant to Great Fun and you see alot. After that we are going to see Bog bodies in Town. We are allowed to have lunch in town !!!! hopefully we won't get lost!!

Educating Essex !!!

We watched the second episode of "Educating Essex" I was kind of anxious to watch it again because I hate seeing people getting hurt :-(. The second episode wasn't too bad because Gaby, the girl who was getting bullied started to forgive the two girls who bullied her because they are her best friends and didn't know it would hurt her so much........... Awwwh don't think I could trust them again.. even if they were my best friends !!!!! http://www.channel4.com/programmes/educating-essex/4od

Fun Walk :) Mini !!

Well we had our annual Fun Walk on Friday and it was AMAZING, we were minis and made our own car with real HEADLIGHTS :) I was involved in a lift where we lifted a girl,Aoibheann up in the air like a aeroplane and it worked out(thank god). Our tutor was afraid we might stumble. T.Y's then had to stand at all the cross roads to help the rest of the school to cross. It was great craic.
Unfortunatly Fódla didn't win but Banba. I think Banbas dance was really good so i'm gonna be the bigger person and say Well done banba :) see for yourself here are the pictures to prove it all!!! http://www.stwolstans.ie/
Our tutor says we are still going to have a PARTY !!!


Chat Soon,
Eimear x

Fun Walk !!! Yellow

Oh my god the fun walk is tomorrow and I can't wait. This year our dance is so cool ad I think... for once we have a very very very good  chance of winnig... Fairly:)

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Thursdays !!!

Hehehe well I'm in I.T blogging again and Its THURSDAY :) I had home economcis where I got measured for our Dress design, (kinda awkward) And just thinking IM SOOO HUNGRY we have double P.E after we eat so Im thinking we will be practicing our Winning Fun walk "dance" then we have music,We are doing Opera which is suprisingly fun we are making our own opera, We are thinking along the lines of a Jerry Springer show?!!?! We then have maths :( After Big break we have Triple activites which I can't wait for!! Last week in Photography we took a picture of everyone in the shape of odla" which you seen in my pictures !! In pilates we are probaly going to do harder stretches.... HELP !?!?!?!

Chat soon

Eimear x

5 things to do this week !!!!

Well........... This week in T.Y I have alot of things to do.........

1)Home Economics Fashion module: I have to make a headband to go with our flapper dress and our baseline of our outfit is been dyed black at the moment so on Friday we have to measure the model (moi) and fit the clothes on me. Our goal for the end of the week is to have the clothes dyed, a finished headband and to have started to cut and sew our outfit and the frills :)

2)Geography:  For my Geography project this week I have to work on my "Around the World" fact file on Italy and India. Me and my partner, Emma have to type out the information on the three countries we have chosen and then put them in a folder and present it to our class. My goal this week is to complete my Italy section of the project!!!

 3) Find Yellow clothes and paint cardboard: For the Fun Walk on Friday the colour for T.Y is "yellow" so we have to wear a yellow tee and navy tracksuit pants!! and I also have to paint a large enough piece of cardboard yellow to resemble a prop used in our fun walk.......... all will be revealed tomorrow

4) Mini Company: For mini company this week my job is to look up for small boxes to put our product in. We need a small enough box that comes in bulk because we will be buying lots of them for a cheap price and then decorating them.

5) Irish: In Irish for the past few weeks we have started to write about ourselves in irish and put it into a folder and show the class. I have already written about myself and my family so this week I have to start typing it out and put it into a folder.

T.Y is sooooo busy, whoever said T.Y was a doss year mustn't have gone to our school its like any other year but alot funnier and you learn how to deal with all the projects and deadlines !!!!

chat soon, Eimear x

" I get by with a little help from my friends" ..... Really

This week is Anti-Bullying Week and in Religion we watched a reality documentary on 4oD, called "Educating Essex" in which a girl gets bullied because she is of such high academic level and is head girl. She started receiving text messages bullying her from a number not in her phone. The school acted on it and in the end it was her best friend who sent the text message with the help of her older sister two years older, who is a peer mentor and Anti-bullying leader. The girl who was getting bullied thought she could "get by with a little help from her friends " when she was getting bullied but apparently not. I think her friends were jealous of her and didn't mean to hurt her but it turned out to be very serious and they might get a Criminal Record !!!! So think before you bully, it might think turn into something bigger.

Chat Soon x
Eimear

Home Eco Baking.....

Mmmmm, Every two weeks in Home Eco we write about a country chosen by our teacher and get two recipes, a dessert and main course and last week we got China. This morning we had Home Eco cooking and  we made Chinese Sesame cookies today ,they are Delicious and I even have the pictures to prove it !!!!
My partner, Georgia was out so I had to bake on my own :( but I got twice as much as everyone else.. hehehe.

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Fun Walk practice.... shuuuhhh

Well The Fun walk is on this Friday and of course in T.Y its a big deal. Every year there is a big competition on between the two tutors of  T.Y, the two P.E teachers. I can't say much but I think we have a very good chance, I can't wait we were pracitcing for a double class today and if I my say so myself it is coming together very well !!!!

chat soon !!

Young scientist here we come !!

Well I never knew doing the young scientist project could be so stressful and frustrating but I have learned it is very hard. We were given a deadline to come up with a topic we were doing our research on and fill in a one-page proposal to send to the young scientist yesterday online. We also had to fill in answers to questions they wanted to know like : Who are you going to contact for more information on your project? The bt website was having a bit of a technical ( think that's how you spell it ) fault so nobody could pay and the deadline was the 3/10 so nobody could pay and that added to the stress.......... BUT It is all over for now the website is back up and running and Our young scientist project is submitted for judging so all we can do now is wait............................... but I can happily say I am very pleased with our project :)

Chat soon xx
Eimear

Photography class, my masterpieces............ soon I will be famous

In photography each week we get told by Rob what type of picture we are going to do it week and so far here are my collect............ in my own opinion they arn't bad at all........ what do you all think....

AN APPLE............. AMAZING

Flower Power



Fódla, Our class spelt out with the students



Photos of the Week............

Preparing to fall into the mud !! and we did eventually

                                       The mountain we had to climb and the amount of thorn bushes !!

                                         Just before we fell in :)

Absailing............ its quite scary when you are up there.