Swim a mile with a smile

Last friday, all of t.y. and 5th year L.C.V.P. took part in the Swim a mile with a Smile.
Swim a mile with a smile was set up by Brian and Laura Daly (eimear's parents) in memory of their son Ian sadly passed away due to cancer.
The swim raises much needed funds for barrtestown and crumlin childrens hospital

I swam a mile with my team (louise and emma) and then i swam an extra 12 lengths to bring it up to half a mile

and in total we all swam 40 miles (beating the wolstans record!!!!!!!!)

SHAKE IT OUT

Last night was the music night, which is a night where all music students come together to show off their work for the year, both of Ms. O'R's ty music classes came together to sing florence and the machines iconic song.. shake it out. We spent weeks preparing and when we got up on stage it all went really well, nobody forgot their words or sang out of key. Well done to everyone who took part because the night ran really smoothly. heres a video of or song.. Enjoy!!!!!!

BRAVEFORCE

So last wednesday, all of T.Y. went on an assault course in co. meath... it was called braveforce. I can safely say that it was one of the best days of T.Y. so far. I absolutely LOVED IT.
There was lots of muddy water and things to hop over, and it was tough, but we all managed to finish. By the end of the day we were soaking wet and we had to go up inot a freeeeeeeezing cold warehouse to dry off and get changed. words cannot desribe the coldness of that room. My hands were shaking and my lips were blue, i could actually see my own breath. It was well worth it though!
When we were all dry and changed we went into a room for the presentation of przes, and our school won the biggest enrty :) we got a trophy and brona got a medal for doing so well.
It was such an amazing day and next years tys should definately do it!!!

jabba jabba jembe

So last wednesday, class eriú had a drumming workshop. We were taught lots of different beats and lots of different styles of drumming... my favourite was the bass drum which was a big huge drum used for keeping the right timing. We also watched a dvd about drumming in africa which was very interesting.
I really enjoyed the workshop and it was brilliant

Work experience 2 day 2

Today I was really exited to start work seeing how much I loved yesterday! As soon as I got in I was given one of those huge industrial trollies full of stuff to price (me and my pricing gun are now BEST of friends :D when I was finished all of that I was given ANOTHER trolly. Then I was given a big candle table to set up a display with the candles, me being such a Perfectionist I arranged them in order of size, and guess what... I had to price them too :O I love pricing things! The gun is so fun to use :D and I'm getting faster :D woohoo!!!!
When I was done that I did.... More pricing, myself and my pricing gun are best friends now!! I named her Lola !! :D
Then after that I tidied the book and card section! And set up cushion displays :)
I really love work experience and I'm gonna miss it so much when the week is over!

WORK EXPEREINCE 2--- day 1

So today i started my work experience in the home and interiors department of The Orchard Garden Centre and Cafe. When I arrived, I was given a tour of the whole place and shown where everything was, then i was introduced to my supervisor for the day who was lovely. She set me straight to work clearing one of their shelves dusting it down and setting it back up again. She also gave me a few tricks of the trade, when i was finished she brought me out two trollies piled high with new tea sets that I had to price. To do this I had to scan the barcode to see how much they retailed at then enter the price into the price gun, peel off the original price stickers (which were in pounds) and stick on the new prices. Then when i was finished I had to take stock off a shelf and dust it down, put all the original stock onto a trolley and set the new tea sets up on display (which took a while, because of all the different pieces). After that I had to find a new place for the stock that was originally on that shelf and move the things from that onto another shelf! it was all very confusing (but really fun!!!!).
When all of the displays were sorted, I unpacked and priced a new shipping of jewelry and then it was time to go home!!
I really enjoyed the day and all of the staff there were so lovely! I'm really looking forward to tomorrow no!! :)

Scene 1 everybody get in your positions, pay attention and listen

Today, we went to mullingar for the briery gap TY drama competition.
The class split in two and we each wrote a script, and assigned actresses. My groups drama was based on the song concrete angel by martina mcbride, it's a really sad song about child abuse.
The main character in the play was Holly, a seven year old girl who was being abused by her mother. She has a close relationship with her father, but he didn't suspect anything and by the time he realised it was too late!
We based the drama on the lyrics of the song, with some of the most poignant lyrics a main focus
Like "the teacher wonders but she doesn't ask" and "she hides the bruises with the linen and lace". The play was seen through the meighbours eyes, as they read an article about hollys death in the paper, wechose to end the play on the lyric "The neighbours hear but they turn out the lights".
My role in our drama was the director, and even though it was tough and there was a lot of work involved, I really enjoyed it, and have all my fingers an toes crossed that weber through to the next round!

Young scientist

On Friday, all of the tys and second years went to the RDS for the BT young scientist exhibition. There were hundreds of projects there, some of them were very interesting. I really liked the one on criminal motivation. There were also projects from our school in the exhibition, they were also very interesting... One of them was on the news and the radio.
There was also loads of fun stuff to do at the back of the exhibition where lots of different organisations had stands, my favourite was probably the analog devices stand, there were lots of games there, like lifesize operation, a laser room, a balance game and a floor piano. Other stands were also very interesting, at the European union stand I learned how hard it is to use a glovebox and at lots of stands we entered competitions...
It was a great day overall, everyone enjoyed themselves and learned something new :)

BACK TO SCHOOL

Well after a long two weeks of late nights and lie-ins, we're back to school and back into the swing of t.y. life.
A couple of things have changed since we were back, we changed options again, and now I'm in art. I'm really exited for art because I picked it in first year but I never got it and I've always wanted to try it out.
We have also changed Thursday activities, we are now doing Zumba, Massage and Music composition, I cant wait to try them all out on Thursday :)
We're also going out on a trip to he young scientist exhibition on Friday to see some of our own schools projects and we're going to a creative writing workshop for English on monday

the hills are alive

so last week was the big week for everybody involved in the musical, everyones hard work came down to those four performances.
i was invlolved in the wardrobe/costumes for the musical, and on the night i was organizing all of the captains (the main lead) clothes.
It went very well and there was no mess ups with his costumes.
I never got to see any of it because i was backstage most of the time butwe started to watch the dvd in crative writing today and with that and what I've seen in rehearsals it was a pretty amazing performance :).
Im really sad its all over, and i really enjoyed it.

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T.y. Life ;)

So it's been a while since I've posted, and lots of things happened since I was gone.
We went to go see Laura (a fellow eriudlian) in the nutcracker valet, she was pretty amazing, I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did.
Today we had a dress up day in school, lots of people dressed up but we didn't have a parade like we usually do :( it was still a good day though, well done to everyone who dressed up, especially fiona caitriona and Brona
We've also been working on our home ec project, we have the fashion show tomorrow :), my groups theme is Cinderella.
There's been lots of project work going on, we presented our geography and history projects, and I'm kinda gkad theyre over because I hate speaking in front of people.
There's also the English drama we're doing, our group is doing a drama based on the songs concrete angel and how to save a life, the main theme of the play is child abuse and we are entering it into a competition in January
And of course the big news this week was the eircom spider award our ty blog won
WELL DONE EVERYONE :D

'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

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

CARLINGFORD !!!!!!!!

Last monday we got up incredibly early (6AM) to go to carlingford in louth. when we got there we got straight into our activities.... we were put into 8 groups and group 1-4 (I was in 2) was doing the challenge course first with john ( harry potter ) and we did lots of challenges like the spider web the low ropes and the maze.  After lunch we trecked up a really steep hill to get to a huge forest where we did laser guns. we all dressed up in army jumpsuits and hats and we were armed with (very heavy) laser guns and set free in the forest to try and kill eachother. when we came back to the ostel we finally got our rooms (we got a pretty good one if i do say so myself) And then a few of us went down to the common room where we met some people from a boys school in dundalk and played charades (which was hilarious) and we went off again after dinner up the hill to do a nightline in the forest and a tunnell crawl. when we got back we joined the boys again for a sing song and at about 11.30 we set off to bed ( not saying we went to sleep though). The next morning everyone was exhausted after having to get up at 7.30, nevertheless straight after breakfeast we went orienteering which was VERY tring because it was all uphill, half way through we did some archery. After lunch we went rock climbing and absailing which was TERRIFYING because im afraid of heights but i made it half way up the cliff before i started to panic, so i was very proud of myself. we headed straight home after rockclimbing and i got into my much needed shower and bed

T.Y. Baby :-D

So far T.Y. has been amazing. One week in and we have already done so much. we have plenty of projects to do already.... in geography we have to plan an around the world trip, in irish we have to do a project on something in our local area, inscience we have started our young scientist project, in Home. Ec. we're doing a project on clothes ( and people said T.Y. was a doss year)
On thursday afternoons we get a break from classes to do Pilates, Photography and Charlston dancing,which are all really fun.
Another thing different about this year is how our option subjects work... we get 8 weeks at each option, and I have technology for my fist 8 weeks ... i hated technology in first year but this year i dont think its that bad. We made keyrings last week and i finished mine today.
Next week is going to be really busy because we're off to carlingford on monday, back on tuesday and junior cert results on wednesday (eek).
Thats all for now.
Laragh