Tuesday 23 October 2012

Projects

Hey people
        
         We're finally starting to relax into our TY year and are getting stuck into the projects that we are being given. Our first one is Junk Koture this is where you make a dress out of recyclable materials. Me and my partner are making our dress out of  sports materials eg footballs, Gaelic footballs, basketballs and rugby balls. Our project is going very well indeed and we have the skirt paper mached and we are currently in  the process of sewing the top together.
                    Our next project is a geography project in which we have each been given a county to research and to do a project on. I have been given county Down.
               In Technology we are making a clock which is going quite well I have just finished the actual clock and am now working on getting the piece for the middle of the clock now.
     I'm looking forward to work experience tomorrow as I missed last week and I cant wait for Halloween next week.
    Bye people...................
                 TTYL

Fun Walk

Hey people
    
             On Friday the fifth of  October we had our fun walk it was great. As tradition TY's were yellow and we were delighted at this challenge. There were many ideas thrown around the room the yellow submarine, Spongebob Square Pants and the Simpsons however the one that got the most votes was the yellow pages and so preparations began. 
    We got our more creative people to come up with a dance to go along with our songs- Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen and Gangnam Style by PSY. We went along with these songs as they were perfect for our song. 
We spent the entire week perfecting our dance and soon it was Friday and we were rearing to go. Our class were the first to go on so we got it out of the way.
We in my belief performed very well however our class did not win :(. We were a bit upset however we  were good sports and took our loss well and gave the other class our congratulations. That was a good week for us.
  Thanks for reading    
                     TTYL

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Work Experience 1 and 2

Hey People :)
        My first day of work experience was a busy one. There was to be a surgery on a horse that had fractured her leg. So we had to prepare the surgery room and clean it out. Unfortunately as it was my first I was not allowed to sit in and watch the surgery. Instead I cleaned and mucked out stables which was fairly fun in itself.
The day flew by and before I knew it was lunch time and I had a packed lunch so it was fine . We got an hour for lunch time. Then we were back to work and I had to clean out the preparation room as the horse had been moved. I power hosed the room down and cleaned out the drains.
Then it was time for treatments. I accompanied the head nurse on her rounds to the horses. I had to put on the head strap and hold the horse while she gave the horse its medicine.
Then it was home time. I was happy with my first day it was great and I couldn't wait for next week.

The next week was considerably slower. I arrived just on time to go on the morning treatments with the head nurse. The day moved slowly however I sorted all the jackets for the horses, mucked out all the stables, I swept the barn and cleaned the x-ray machine. The day flew by again and before I knew it,  treatment time was happening again. I got to check the horses heartbeat and listened to its gut. Then we were let to go home early it was a good day. :)