'tis a darlin blog post..... a daaaarlin blog post

Yesterday we took a trip into town to see juno and the paycock. We also visited three different museumas, the w.b.yeats exhibition, the national library and the national museum. Everybody had a great time looking at the exhibitions and the play. Thanks to all of the english teachers for their help !!!!!! :)

irish projct

So lately in irish class we have been working on projects. We were put into groups of three and we were allowed to choose our own title. I have been working with shauna and caitriona and we decided to our project on TG4. The first thing we did was look up information on the internet, but the internet didnt really give us the information we needed. We got thinking and we decied the best way to find out about TG4 was to actually go there. It took a lot of planning but we finally got there. On wednesday the fifth of october, we arrived at the train station (after much deliberation we decided to take the train instead of the bus) and we were off...... but when we reached athlone the train broke down and we ended up taking a bus after all :-(. We arrived in galway city (an hour late) and we were picked up in a TG4 van and we asked our chauffer, the caretaker at TG4 lots of questions (thanks john). when we arrived at TG4 HQ. we were taken to reception and greeted by Caitrionas uncle (who very kindly arranged our tour), he took us to orla the hr manager of TG4. She brought us to a control room to watch PONC being filmed. After that we met the presenters of ponc who were very nice and gave us free hoodys and mugs (thanks colman and maire treasa). then we did a tour of all the studeos and got our picures taken presenting the news. When we were finished that we went for lunch in the TG4 canteen. When we finished our lunch we went and visited sile, the girl who presents the weather and does the voiceovers and she showed us tow to present the wheather. We also met the sound engineer and he showed us how they do the voice overs and the promos. Last but not least we visited the set of ros na run, it was unbelieveable how small it was. And then it was back home to our beds. :-)
It was definately my favourite project of all time

blog action day

today is blog action day and we have been asked to write about food, and seeing as heloween is coming up, ive decided to post a barm brack recipe :)

350 ml cold water 540g sultanas 275g sugar 275g butter 400g self raising flour 1 tsp mixed spice 3 – 4 beaten eggs Optional: Chopped nuts, glace cherries mixed into cake 22.5cm square cake tin Preheat the oven to 180˚ / Gas 4 Line the cake tin with greased parchment paper Wrap trinkets such as coins, rings in parchment paper (as tightly and neatly as possible) Put the water, fruit, sugar and butter in a saucepan and bring to boil. Boil for 5 – 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Sieve flour and mixed spice into a large bowl. When boiled mixture has cooled, pour into the flour and mix well. Add beaten eggs and beat well. Pour into the prepared cake tin. Push the wrapped trinkets into the cake mixture (i.e. below the surface so there is no trace of them when the cake is cooked) Bake in a preheated moderate oven for approximately 1 ½ hours. After 30 minutes reduce oven temperature to 160˚C / Gas 3 for the remainder of the cooking time. Test with a skewer – if skewer is dry, the cake is ready.) 

mini company work shop

Well today we went to our second mini company workshop.... It was very interesting hearing other peoples ideas and learning about S.W.O.T. And yet again we didn't get to go to mcdonalds ..... But it's okay though because we went to centra and chick king .... Thanks mrs. L mrs. B and mrs. McM

BANANAS OF THE WORLD UNITE !!!!!!!!!!

all week we have been practicing our class dance for the fun walk. our colour is yellow we're going as bananas.Ms McE is our tutor and shes dressing up as a monkey and we have two people dressing up as bananas in pyjamas (with a twist) ...... we FINALLY have our dance sorted but we need some practice to get the timing right .... heres our song