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

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.

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

Learning how to embed a video to my blog!

 During I.T class this week Mrs.L showed us how to embed a video from YouTube to our blog. It's so easy to do, hopefully now I will be able to post more videos to my blog!
How to embed:
1) Find video on YouTube
2) Click 'share' underneath the video and click embed.
3) Copy the embed code
4) Open a New Post in your blog and click 'HTML' in the left hand top corner and paste the embeding code there.
5) Click publish!

If you have followed the steps above you have now successfully embeded a video to your blog!

-Abbie :)

Smile

As you know for Work Experience, I'm working at a Dental Surgery. I'm really enjoying my time here, the staff are really friendly and so helpful!

This week was really busy at the surgery, it was probably my best week so far! I was aloud to take all phone calls and make/change appointments for people on the Apple computer 'Surgery' system. I was taking calls throughout the day! 

I was also doing other tasks including getting files of the patients from the cabinet, making 'take home packs' for the patients after they have had teeth extracted and also making up the protective glasses for the patients! 

For more info on the tasks I have done take a look at my Work Exeperience blog linked along the side of the page!

Blog soon, Abbie :)

The Simon Community

During school on Firday, there was a talk organised by students in our year to be given on The Simon Community. This presentation was given by Ms.O'S, my art teacher, she explained to us the work The Simon Community does in Cork and how they incorporate people living in the Simon Houses to the local community.

Ms.O'S had previously worked with the Cork Simon Community and was involved with one project in particular; the big 'Four-o' project. This project involved making and art banner containing the work of residents of the Simon houses, each resident was given a blank canvas and created, along with the help of artists like Ms.O'S, a masterpiece. Each piece of art was copied and printed onto a large banner which was hung in Cork city. The art work created was beautiful and expressed so many emotions. I thought that this was really a great project and I found Ms.O'S's stories of how each piece was created to be really inspiring.

An example of some of the Big Four-O artwork.

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!