IT Project

As part of our final assemsment for IT this year, we were asked to create a video using Windows Live Movie Maker. The software is really easy to use and is automatically included in all windows PCs.
Muireann and I decided to make an 'MTV Cribs' styled video, except we filmed around our school and so, decided to call it 'TY-TV Schoolz'
Check out my video below!

Build-A-Bear

In Home Ec, we have been working on making our own handmade teddy bears! We bought some materials and began work on our teddy bears!

I chose to use these two materials to make my teddy bear, Denim and a Floral-patterned cotton fabric.

We began making our teddy bear by cutting out templates.

Once all the templates were cut out, we used the templates to cut out our fabric. Once our fabric was cut out we began tacking the pieces together, preparing them for sewing!

These are all of the materials we will be using to make our teddy  bear!

Cassette Tape Art Portraits

We are currently working on an Art project at the moment in which we are all creating portraits from cassette tapes. I chose to make a portrait of Niall Horan for my project.
I began by choosing a picture of Niall and using a photo editor to change the photo from colour to a simple black and white. From the black and white photo I drew the portrait of Niall, only shading in the black areas from the photograph.
Once my drawing was complete, I began to stick down pieces of cassette tapes on to the black spaces on my drawing.

Here are some expamples of what our finished masterpiece will look like!

Michael Jackson

Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

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.

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

Young Scientist

Last month we were told about Young Scientist, the annual science competition in the RDS for students. Sarah B, Eve L and myself decided we would put an entry in! We thought long and hard about our project idea to enter. We eventually decided on the title Is a good night's sleep really that important?, we planned to research how sleep deprivation affects students mentally and physically.

We worked hard on our proposal and sent it off to the Young Scientist for approval. Our project wasn't chosen out of the entries to display at the RDS but on the bright side we were given 3 family tickets, one for each of us! We were dissapointed we didn't qualify but we are looking forward to going to the exhibition to look at all the other great projects there!

October's over, Now here's November

October was probably the busiest month we have had of TY so far! For October, We have been working on all our class projects.

Mini Company:

The mini-company group that I am part of has finalised all our ideas for our company! We have created a company called DIY Dye, we are going to be selling kits to make it easy for people to dye their own shorts (or other clothes too) and stud them also! I think our kits will be useful to people as it's a cheap way to make cool designs with your old shorts and give your old clothes a new look!

Our company logo!

Technology F1 car competition:

This month our year started in on another project in our tech class! As part of the project we have to design  a race-car and enter it into the 'Formula1 schools competition'. If our idea is chosen out of the many that enter, our design will be manufactured into a mini-race car! Our team name is Titanium, we thought of this name as titanium is a really strong and durable metal, like our car would be! Our inspiration for the design comes from a cheetah, the world's fastest land animal!

Trip Around The World:

We started our 'trip around the world' geography project during October! We work in pairs for this project. We are set a budget of €24,000 and we have to plan an ideal trip around the world for two people. We must visit 2 developing countries, 2 underdeveloped countries and 2 developed countries! We will learn about the country's cultures and traditions as we 'travel' aorund the world on this trip!

Check back for more updates on my TY experience soon!