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