Music Night is looming..............

In Music at the moment, we are practising our song for the music night. The music night is an annual event to showcase the musical talent in the school. Performances will be done by each of the first, second , TY and fifth year classes. There will also be performances from the choir, the orchestra, trad group and other solo performers. This year my class is doing a medley of three songs- Hall of fame by the script, Ho Hey by the lumineers and I follow rivers by Lykke Li. I am really enjoying learning the songs and everyone gets really into it and sings their hearts out. I will be playing the piano accompaniment along with Ciara K, Shannon and Sarah Q on guitars, Zoe on the ukulele, Ciara M on the bongo, Orla on the triangle, Eimear on the tamborine and ruth will be keeping the beat with the biro. Everyone else will be singing and dancing along. I think that the three songs are completly different but they work really well together.
 I have been working really hard because Ms S has asked me to play the intro for hall of fame, however this intro is quite fast and was hard to learn! But at long last I have got the hang of it and it sounds really good. The songs are also coming together. Everyone was a bit worried at first about what it would sound like but I think that everyone is happy now.
Here are the three songs that we will be performing:

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