Saturday 15 December 2012

The Little Nutcracker ballet

On Friday, we went to see the Irish National Youth Ballet perform 'The Little Nutcracker'. There were two girls from our school dancing in the ballet, the skill of all the dancers in the ballet was amazing. They all moved so gracefully around the stage and performed all their dance moves so precisely!
 In the video above, the Irish National Youth Ballet are performing their opening number to the show. -Abbie :)

Junk Kouture Fashion Show!

Today at school we had our fashion show for junk kouture. This was a final showpiece of our creations, everyones outfits looked fantastic with their make-up and hair done! All of the outfits were so creative and they all looked amazing! So much effort went into making these outfits, we were all so proud when they were finally finished!
Muireann modeling our outfit!
The picture above is of our outfit, since my last Junk Kouture post, we have made a headpiece and decorated shoes to be worn with our outfit. We made the headpiece by attached a pom-pom made from tape to an old hairband. The shoes were decorated by wrapping tape around them and attaching them to the front of the shoes. I'm really happy with how our outfit turned out, we all aggreed we had worked as hard as we could to make it the best we could!
The fashion show was really great, it was so much fun! I loved looking at what outfits everyone else had created and what ideas they came up with!



-Blog soon, Abbie

Thursday 6 December 2012

Gaisce

Two weeks, ago I submitted my entry for gaisce. Gaisce is the 'president's award', students who nominate themselves for the awards set goals for themselves under the following headings: Community invlovement, Personal skills, Physical recreation and Adventure journey.
A minimum of 1 hour a week is required in each of the first 3 challenge areas. At the end of the programme, nominees undertake an adventure journey for one night and two days. We must also undertake one of the challenges for 26 weeks, twice the lenght of the other (13 weeks).
For my gaisce, I am doing camogie for the Physical recreation activity and I am doing this for 26 weeks. I am doing life saving for my personal skill and underage coaching for my community involvement.
I am really looking forward to completing my gaisce, bring on the challenge!


Life-saving

Wednesday 5 December 2012

End of first work experience placement!

Today was the end of our first work experience placement! This placement was really great, I learnt so much! For my last day I went to an orthadontist in Naas, I leanrt all about braces here! I was also shown how to make mouthguards and retainers. I even made a mouthguard for myself to practice
The mouthguard I made is purple and white, as you can see from the photo. I can use it for any sports now!
In all, I learnt so much about dentistry, I now know what is involved in a career of dentistry and what type of work is done.

-Blog again soon, Abbie

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Choir

Along with a few of my friends, I joined the school choir this year, we go to choir every Monday during lunch and after school for an hour every Tuesday.
On Monday we practice our christmas songs for the annual carol service. We sing classic christmas songs like Silent Night

On Tuesdays we practice our piece for the 'Wesley School Choir Competition'. The song we are singing for this compition is 'Caresse Sur L'Océan', this is a french song!
A school last year singing at Wesley
I'm really enjoying choir and I'm looking forward to our upcoming performances!

Monday 3 December 2012

Mo thaithí oibre agus an Idirbhliain

This week in Irish, we were asked to make a blog entry describing our work experience (taithí oibre) placement we are in a the moment.
Here is my entry:
Roghnaíonn líon áirithe daltaí in Eireann tabhairt faoin mbliain bhruise sin ar go leor áiseanna éagsúla.
Creideann roinnt daltaí gur deo í an bhliain sa éalú ó chóras na scrúdaithe agus úsaid a bhaint as tallan atá acu a churtear faoi chois go minic toisc brú ó scrúdaithe stáit.
Toisc gom mbíonn béim mhór ar tionsenaimh san idirbhliain forbaítear scileann fíorthábhactaca iad sin sa lá atá innui ann.
Bíonn deis as daltaí freisin taithí oibre a dhéanamh agus is mór an buntaiste seo do chuid mhaith scoláirí.
Táim ag obair í Lialann fiaclóra í Rathcoole, Gco.Baile Átha Cliath.

Ba mhaith liom a bheith i mo fhiaclóir sa todhchaí. Is maith liom mo taithe oibre, bíonn tascanna le déanamh agam san oifig chomh bheith ag obair mar chúntár fiaclóireachta. Tá mé ag foglaim scileanna nua. Tá a fhios agam conas na ríomhairí a úsáid, a labhairt leis na custaiméirí agus conas a coinní a thógáil! Is aoibhinn liom an obair, tá súil agam go n-éireoidh mé go maith sa post seo sa tochchaí.

-Slán, Abbie

Sunday 2 December 2012

Mini-Company in Newbridge


For our second TY mini-company talk, we all headed off to Whitewater Shopping Centre in Newbridge to learn even more about mini-companies from Orla, a representitive from the 'Kildare County Enterprise Board'.

We left our school early at around 9:30 and arrived in Newbridge shortly after 10:00!
Orla started the talk with each mini-company giving a brief introduction to their idea by the marketing managers within the group. We listened to each other's ideas, afterwards Orla told us more about the report that has to be completed to enter the Mini-Company competition in Kildare.

After we had learned all about the report we must make, we watched a few short films regarding different personality types. We learned how to identify each differnt personality type, they are known as; Passive, Aggressive, Passive Aggressive and Assertive. Passive personalities are more timid whereas Aggressive personalities tend to use shouting and e anger to express themselves. An assertive communicator has both the right levels of passiveness and aggressiveness within them. They tend to keep calm in tricky situations and gt across their message positively

Our mini-company talk then ended on this note, we then all headed up to the Food Court in Whitewater to have our lunch and chat about our mini-companies!

Bye for now, Abbie!

November News

The month of November really flew by! All of us TY's had a lot of deadlines to comply with during November!
Geography Trip Around The World
We were assigned a geography project a little over a month ago, this project involved us planning a trip around the world for two people for a full year. We were put into pairs and each given a budget of €12,000 each to spend (A total of €24,00 between us). We had to visit six countries in total; 2 developed countries, 2 developing countries and 2 underdeveloped countries, and write about what we learned on our 'trip'. I was paired with Liz and we decided to visit Iceland, Poland, St.Lucia, Peru, Kenya and India.


English Mood Board 
We each made a mood board for our English class. On this 'Mood Board' we stuck on pictures or sayings that inspire us. We also stuck on things that explain who we are as a person and our different interests.
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As you can see from my mood board above, I have pictures of One Direction, Taylor Swift, swimming, camogie and other things too!

Mini-Company 
Our mini-company idea has really come on a lot during November, we are planning to start taking orders for our product tomorrow. I really hope people will be interested in our product! We have everything orgainsed to start making our DIY Dye kits, we just need to figure out the packaging really!


We also had a mini-company meeting with Orla in Newbridge, we were told more about how to manage our company and learnt about different personality types. The meeting was in the Odeon cinema and afterwards we were aloud to have our lunch in the food court! 

-Blog again soon, Abbie