Junior Camogie

On Tuesday, I went to a camogie match near Santry! We were playing St.Dominic's school, this was the first time I played a Junior Camogie match this year. The bus journey took around a half an hour, when we arrived at the pitch we started warming up and got ready to play our match, I played as a forward! We unfortunately lost the match but it was a close game! The team had a good time out though, we all had a laugh on the bus! Hopefully we might be more lucky next time!

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! 

Junk Kouture!

We have been working away with our Junk Kouture project, there's so much work to do with it! We are making our outfit from casette tapes, we are using both the plastic cases and the tapes from inside! Muireann and Sarah are working on making this outfit too!

What our outfit is made from!

There's so much work involved with Junk Kouture but we're really happy with how the outfit is coming along, we're making a corset and skirt out of the tapes! We also have a belt made out of the tape covers, the hardest thing to make is the skirt as we have to sew on the tape by hand and it takes forever! Muireann did the sewing all last week while Sarah and I worked on the corset, so I think we better give Muireann a break from it this week, it's very easy to get sick of sewing all those tapes!

Our outfit so far (still unfinshed) , and yes that is Muireann under it...





This is the belt we made from the tape covers!



That's all for now, blog soon!

Hollywood, here we come!

Last week at school, my friend Muireann and I filmed the first episode of Wolstan's 'TY News'. We made a video telling everyone what us Transition Years have been up to so far in school! After we had both calmed down and controlled our fits of laughter, we talked about Junk Kouture, Carlingford, Work Experience and Workshops we have done!
If you want to have a look at the video it's linked underneath here! We tried our best, but believe me it was hard for us not to laugh at each other trying to be serious!

Yellow bees!

For the past week or so our class had all been getting ready for the Fun Walk which took place last Friday! Our year colour was Yellow,, so we all decided we would dress up as bees! We made up a dance that represented friendship (the theme) and inclusion! Half of us were 'bad bees' then the other half were 'good bees', at the beginnig of the dance the bad bees bullied the good bees (while the song 'I'ma be' was playing) but afterwards we all learned to get along and we danced together to 'Here comes the sun'! Our class tutor was great, she helped us with the dance so much and even dressed up as a sun on the day itself! On Monday, we all found out we had actually won a prize for best class in our year!

Everybody 'Buzzing' during our dance routine!

Work Experience

We began work experience last week, for this first placement I am working in a dentist. Everyone is so kind and helpful at my work experience place! I've had a really good experience so far and I hope this will stay the same for the rest of my placement, it's great getting to learn more about dentistry and what's involved in that career! I think I'd really like this type of work! I'm really excited for the rest of my placement and hope all goes well! :)


Blog soon!

Carlingford!- Day 2

After a day of great fun, we all got up with an early start around 7:00 a.m to start packing up all our things to go home, we then all made our way down to have breakfast and head out for another great day!
In the morning, we all treked up the hill (singing away)  to take part in the 'Carlingford challenge', we divided ourselves up into seperate teams and battled it out to try and gain more 'gems' than the other teams by completing the different challenges! Our team worked really well together and we came joined-first along with another team!
Afterwards, we headed off to 'laser combat', we were split up into teams and we worked together to try and beat the other team. We all got a bit mucky from lying on the forest floor taking cover from the other team's shots but i though it was so much fun and everyone had a great time!

Ready to take on the 'Laser Combat'!

Overall, I had a great time in Carlingford! I got to know many more people in my year a lot better and had great fun with all the girls in my year! Those 2 days at Carlingford were a great experience and I'm sure it will be one of the highlights of my TY year! :)