Irish Dancing

Today in Irish we went to the hall with the other TY class and did a bit of Irish Dancing. It was fun and everyone seemed to enjoy it because it was a break form school. We all did dances and we were in groups of 2 and 4. We danced for most of the class and at the end there was about 3 people from the 2 classes and they danced in a circle on their own to show us their amazing skills. They were actually very good and I enjoyed it. We should have more of them type of Irish classes.

Grand Torino

Today in religion Ms. K.B.was out so Ms. R was supervising us instead. It was really fun because we got to watch Grand Torino. We are about half way through the movie now and it is actually really good. at the start it was really sad because we found out that the old man (Clint Eastwood) was at war and his wife died. I can't wait to watch it again because I really want to find out what happens and how the story ends.

Maths Quiz

Today during maths we went down to the hall to have a quiz. It was really hard. It was a mix of both classes; Amina and Emnet so we were in groups of like 6. I wasn't really that much use to the people in my group because they were all smart and I didn't know how to do any of the questions. In the end my team won because we had the most counters on our maths cards so we won a bar of chocolate each. So I halfed my with Bebhinn and it was yummy.

Home Ec/ Art Project

Since like last week we were assigned a project that involves two subjects. It is a cross between Home Economics and Art. In Home Ec. we are assigned a partner and we have to choose any country in the world. We then had to look up recipes of food that are eaten in that country and whatever we choose we then have to cook it. It is over the course of 3 weeks so we have to cook 2 savoury and 1 sweet dish. Last Tuesday just gone me and Niamh O'R picked to do New Zealand so we made a sweet dish which was called Raspberry Friands which is like fairy cakes with raspberry's in them. It was easy and quick to make because it only took about 20 mins to make them. After taking them out of the oven we saw that they had turned out beautifully; nice and crist, we then sprinkled icing sugar over them to finish them off :) Next week we are thinking about making like a chicken dish but it hasn't been descided. We better do it quick because we are cooking it on Tuesday. After we cook the 3 dishes we then have to either make a PowerPoint Presentation or like a folder which would include our recipies, a little about the country and like things that you didn't know about that counrty. On the other hand in Art we have to make like a poster or a mood board, which will include things about the country. We are going to write a little about New Zealand's culture and weather and most importantly we have to talk about a famous or unknown painter or artist from that country. Our teacher Ms. O'H said that we should include a little about his life; like biography and things that he painted/sculpted etc.

Movement workshop

Today we spent about an hour doing a movement workshop where this guy, Ian cam in and he told us we were going to be doing different poses and possitions for drama. At first I didn't know what it had to do with drama but then I found that it was how you move on stage and stuff. We did things in like a big circle and then we did things in a group. It was fun because we got to different things and see how fast we could do it. So it was pretty fun.

Mullingar

On Tuesday all of the Transition Years were off to Mullingar, in Westmeath to perform our English play based on the poem, "But You Didn't" by Merryl Glass. We left the school at about 9.10 am and we were on the bus for about an hour, so it wasn't that bad. When we got there is was about 10.40 and there was only us there so we didn't have to perform the play in front of people; we liked that idea because we were so nevous. We managed to do both plays without messing up or forgeting lines. In the play I was like a army general so I had to wear a suit , and it looked so cool because my mam put like badges and chains on it to make it look army like. Afterwards we were able to walk down to the town so most of us went to McDonalds. It was so good and then we went back and we saw others schools perfomr theirs; there came all the way from Donegal, and they were really funny. We got back to the school at about 3.59 so that was grand.

Technology

In technology this week we finished our clocks that we made. They look so cool because they are green and the have got a red centre piece, mine is a star. We had to saw out green plasic to make the shape, we had to make it really smooth. We then heat the plastic so we could bend it, after that we made our centre piece, we glued it to the clock. After that we just sort of finished it off by putting stickers on it , I got my stickers to look like the numbers; 3, 6, 9 and 12 on a real clock, and then I put on like the hands of the clock and a battery pack. It look so cool and I can't wait to bring it home to show my mam what I made. :)

17th - 21st of January

I don't think a lot happened at the start of this week. :( It was Stephanie's 16th birthday on the the 18th so we spent the whole day singing "Happy Birthday" to her ..............in ..........every...........class :) She got a tattoo for her birthday and I think it is so cool, it is a peace sign and a love heart blended together to make a treble clef. She already has her next one planned! On Wednesday we got to have a half day due to school planning so we got off at 12.40, it was grand because I had planned to go down to Scoil Naomh Brid ; my old school, to ask the principal whether i could have permission to do work experience there in March. It was grand because she said yes so I don't have to worry about waiting till the last minute. We also had another half day on the Thursday because there was the Ty and 5th Year Parent Teacher Meeting, so again we got off at 12.40. My mam didn't go to the meeting because my little brother was sick.

BT Young Scientist Exhibition!

On the 14th of January 2011, all of the Transition Years and the Second Years were off to the RDS in Dublin for a Science and Technology Exhibition. In St. Wolstans we had two groups that were accepted into the competition; one from TY and one from 5th year. It took us about an hour to get there but when we did there had to be about 400-500 people there! Girls and boys from schools all over Ireland and age 10-18. We got in there and it was really hard to get around because there was so many people and you didn't really get to see the projects due to people pushing and shoving you. I met up with some of my friends and we walked around and the first thing we went to was the Robot Wars, which was pretty fun because we got drenched. We managed to find our way around so that we saw everything. It was so fun because people were giving away things left, right and centre; I think I got about 50 pens and 20 pencils along with highlighters, etc. Other things that we got were Frisbee's and badges. We then went outside where we could get either Eddie Rockets or a cup with chocolate and marshmallows so we went for the cup of chocolate. It lasted the whole day and we got back to school at about 3 and we tried to get Mr. Dooly to let us go home 20 mins early but.........he said no :(

Exam Results

Over the last few days we had been given back our christmas exam results and I didn't do really well but I did try my hardest, so that's all that counts. It was grand because we only have 5 exams so it wasn't that bad because we only had to study the small amount of stuff we actually learned. It will be a lot harder in 5th Year because we have more exams and they will be a lot harder.