DEAR Moment

Our English teacher organised a DEAR (Drop everything and read) moment for us at school this week, we went down to the library and chose a book to read!
I decided to read the Hunger Games by Sazanne Collins, this is one of my favourite series of books!

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

Caresse Sur L'ocean

Our choir is currently preparing to enter into the Wesley School's Choir Competition at the end of this month! We have been very busy practicing our song 'Caresse Sur L'ocean' from the french movie 'Les Choristes'. I really enjoy singing this song, I think it sounds really well with the piano accompaniment. I sing the Soprano II line along with all the other sopranos!

Above is a clip of the choir from the Les Choristes movie singing the piece!

I am really enjoying being part of the choir this year, and I am looking forward to performing this piece at Wesley!

Blog soon-Abbie

St.Brigid's day crosses

Today in our TY religion class we made St.Brigid's day crosses. We made the crosses out of rushes that our teacher had brought in for us. The crosses were difficult to make but we got the hang of it in the end!
Repeat the process below to create your very own St.Brigid's cross with rushes!

Here's a picture of the cross I made at school earlier!

thanks for reading!- Abbie

Mini Company Judging

We recently had our final showcase of all our TY mini-companies at school! We all prepared for our companies to be judged by judges from the Kildare enterprise board.

We all prepared a visual display on the day, and had also previously prepared a report of our mini-company.  As part of the mini-company competition, each company was required to give a short presentation to the judges to briefly discuss our newly set up enterprise!

All of the mini-companies produced great displays and presented very well. There were even some prizes given out to three mini-companies from each TY class! There was a prize for the report, display and innovation. Our mini-company, DIY Dye won an award for the great work that went into our report!

Blog soon- Abbie :)

BT Young Scientist

We recently visited the BT Young Scientist exhibition in the RDS with our year group. Everyone had a great time, we enjoyed walking around looking at all the projects and of course, collecting some freebies along the way! There was a group from our TY year that got through to the competition, their project was good. It was about how school bags affect your health etc. In all, we had a great day at the Young Scientist!