Good news all around

I have a good bit of news to tell everyone! Firstly, in relation to the briary gap competition. We have all been waiting patiently to hear if either of the dramas had gotten through to the final in cork! Today in religion, Mrs G walked in with a face that was difficult to read! I couldn't tell if she had good or bad news for us. This was probably because she had both! Unfortunately my group will not progress any further in the competition, however I didn't really mind about the is because the other group did get through! I'm happy that there will be one group representing the class and the school in the finals and I know that they will do so fantastically!:D
That's not all the good news I have......There's more!

On the 21st on January, two judges from the enterprise board came to the school to judge our mini-company projects! Four groups were short listed for the possibility of progressing in the Kildare county final! One of the groups was " Williams words" , a group from my class! Since then everyone had been waiting anxiously to hear the news! Fortunately, on Tuesday, Mrs P gave them the good news that they had been waiting for! I'm really happy that a group will be there to represent the class and also two groups to represent the school! (Hair couture also got through to the competition!)

Williams words- Shakesphere dictionary

Hair Couture

                                



And Finally….…………OUR F1 CAR DESIGN IS FINALLY FINISHED! It was sent off to our make centre today! Now all that is left to do is the portfolio and sponsorship and we will be all set for the comp on the 8th of march!Eilise:Dxx

Oh the stress of TY....

Don't believe anyone if they tell you that TY is a doss year. Its not. There is so much going on all the time and there are so many things to get done. One piece of advice..... do not leave eveything until the last minute!
The Mini-company schools competition is taking place next monday. Mini-company has been so stressful. Our company is called SnapShot  Frames. We use old birthday cards to decorated frames. For the competition we have to have a business report and a display done for monday. The business report is finished but the display still has to be sorted out, which is worrying.
In technology, all of the TYs entered the f1 in schools competition, where in teams of five or six you must design a formula one car. Only two teams from the school got through to the competition, and luckily I was on one of those two teams. For the competition, each team has to complete a portfolio containing research on aerodynamics and designs of the car and also advertising and fundraising. this all has to be done so that our designs can be sent off so that the car can be made.
Eilíse :D

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