Tuesday 26 February 2013

Lollipop Day

Hey people....... :)


           So last week was busy for us in l'annee de Transition. (little piece of french for you guys :P) On Friday we went into Dublin city to collect funds for Lollipop Day. This years lollipop day was in aid of Oseophageal Cancer. This was a great cause and even though we were a bit cold (understatement) it was a huge honour to be helping out and doing something good with our TY year. We had to stand on Lower Baggot Street and we felt that we did quite well given the fact that it was a quiet street.


Yesterday in our Home Economics class we made Chili Con Carne with rice it was really nice (hey that rhymes!) even though ours was a bit spicy thanks to my lovely cooking partner Emma. But it did make for a tasty lunch time. :)

Also its work experience tomorrow which I am looking forward to as well but sadly it's our second last day of this work experience which I am slightly disappointed about :(


Tuesday 19 February 2013

Percussion Workshop.

    Hey dudes,
                      Well last week we had midterm so we are all refreshed after our break and ready to bring life and energy to the rest of our TY year. Yesterday was Monday our first day back and we had an enjoyable relaxed day to say the least. In the Morning we made our cheesecake in Home Economics. With my partner Emma we made a strawberry and chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate chip cookie base. It was delicious if I do say so myself.


Then after that we had a few regular Classes in English were currently creating a drama from a poem. Ours is a love drama based on the poem the Thinness of Ice by Liz Loxley. We have decided on our characters and are in the middle of writing our scenes and we will be performing it on TY night for our parents and teachers. Then as a special treat we TY classes were allowed to take part in a percussion workshop. Our instructor was called Dave and we were allowed to play his djembe drums it was good fun, we even got to make up our own rythem's. It was great fun.


This Friday we are going to Lollipop day. This is for oesophageal cancer and we are going into town to collect money by giving out lollipops us Ty's are really looking forward to helping out a great cause and giving up our time.

Bye people.............................
                         Shannon

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Another Week.....

Hey People,
             
So we've had another busy week what with our projects and what not. Last Friday was St Bridget's Day and as she is the patron saint of our county we celebrated by making a St Bridget's cross.



In Religion we are still doing an area of conflict in the world, my partner and I have chosen to do the Mexican Drug War. This will help us to learn about an area of in the world that I did not know actually was in conflict. 


In Art we are still doing our cassette tape portraits. We have drawn out our pictures of the chosen celebrities and are sticking down the tape from the cassette tape onto our pictures. This is a lot more time consuming then I previously thought.


In History we are learning about the reformation. We have been given John Calvin and Martin Luther to research and do a project on them.


In Geography I am doing a project on Cuba, we must learn about  the aspects of their culture, places to visit whilst there and other things about Cuba.              


In TY design we are currently making a teddy bear from fabric. We have cut out all our pieces and tacked them together and we have started machine sewing today. . 

In Home Economics we are cooking every week. This week we have made risotto. It was nice however we put in a little bit too much rice. Next week we are making Chili Con Carne.




In Science we are working on our Scifest projects and mine is Is Public Transport as Clean as You Think. We have done our experiment for the competition and are now focusing on finishing the poster and report book.