Catching up (part 2):)

Mini-company

On Thursday the 8th of november ,we went to odeon cinemas in naas for our second mini-company workshop. We went in and sat in the cinema with three other schools and waited for our lecturer to come in and give us a talk. After waiting for 45 minutes for the lecturer to come, another woman from the enterprise board came in and told us that our lecturer  was rushed to hospital earlier that morning.The good news was that they gave us a free showing of the new James Bond movie, Skyfall. It was an amazing movie. And when the movie was over and we went out the doors we were all handed a bag filled with goodies.

History

In history, we have been learning about the functions of government. we were given an assignment where we had to show the change in the form and functions of government has changed in a country overtime. The country that I chose was Great Britain. I chose Great Britain because I thought it would be very interesting to research. Great britain have a government different to that of Ireland and by doing this project I learned a lot about a monarchy and the role of monarchy.

Religion

In religion at the moment we are creating dramas about inportant issues in the world today. we got the ideas for the drama from doing our projects on the millenium development goals. The class has split into two different groups. one group is basing their drama on homelessness and the other on the effects of war. I am in the group doing the effects of war. Our drama is going to illustrate the effects that war has on not only the soldiers fighting in the war but also on the family of thoses involved. We will be entering a drama competition with our dramas.

English

In our english class with Mrs W. we are doing a powerpoint of our life journey. We have been given a list of topics and have to pick 3 from the list. I have chosen to do friendship, self-actualisation and love. We have to get images, quotes, and music to go with the topics that we choose.

Music

So far in music we have done singing and also learned the guitar which I have really enjoyed.However at the moment we are learning how to play the piano. This is a good and bad thing. Its good because I already know how to play the piano quite well. The bad thing is that we are learning things that I already know but hopefully it will get more interesting soon.
I will blog again soon!:)
Eilíse:)xx

 

Catching up!;)

 

It had been a while since I last blogged so I'm just going to catch up on everything that has gone on in the past few weeks.

Technology:

At the moment in tech we are getting ready to enter a competition. The idea for the competition is to build a formula 1 car. There are six people on my team and our team name is rapído y furioso. I am the resource manager which means I am in charge of finding materials and equipment that is needed to complete the project and to keep track of time.

Junk Kouture:

We do our Junk Kouture project in home EC. and art classes, so that gives us six classes a week. At the moment we are on the way to the finish. There are only minor things left to fix on our dress and we just have to finish the accessories. We are having trouble coming up ith a name for our project but I'm sure we will come up with something. We also still have to figure out what we will be doing for hair and make-up. Our deadline is the 7th f December but the school fashion show will take place on the week of the tenth.

Geography:

We are coming near the end of our first Trip around the world powerpoint. However we have been put into pair and given a country. The country that I got is Kenya. The project involves selling the country as a unique travel spot. The presentation has to be 6-8 minutes long.