English trip to Dublin! :-)

Yesterday all the T.Y's went to Dublin for the day as part of their English TY course. We all Came into school excited and ready for the day ahead of us. We got the bus at 9am and got to the city centre at about a quarter to 10. First up for class Eriú was the W.B Yeats exhibition on Kildare Street. We got to see lots of documents that Yeats wrote himself and we found out lots about him. After that we went to the National Library. We were all expecting lots of books, but when we got there, there was no books? Just lots of documents from years and years ago. Next up was what we had all been waiting for.. the Bog Bodies Exhibition! We were all excited and nervous to see them, but i have to say, they weren't as bad as i expected! Overall they were interesting and i found out lots about what happen to us after we die! then we went for lunch on Grafton Street before meeting up again for a quick walk to the Abby Theatre for the play 'Juno & the Paycock'. they play was good and we all understood it alot more than we did while reading it! We all loved the actor that played Johnny for some reason! overall it was a great day had by everyone!

Time Travelling!

As part of our T.Y history course, we have been talking about our family trees. I love finding out about my ancestors and i have found the whole process very interesting. i found out that my family is quite alot bigger than i thought! we have been looking up many websites that trace families back to 1902!
now in history we have moved on to Women in History. we had to pick one women and find information about her. I didn't know who to do at first, but as i researched the topic, i found lots of people to do. I changed my mind lots of times, starting with Eleanor Roosevelt, to St.Brigit. to finally deciding on Princess Diana. These women are all very different and range from different times in history but are all very interesting!
I can't wait to time travel a little more!

this week we have been doing lots!
1- Fun Walk: so many off our classes have been practising our routine to the funwalk
2- Projects: our home ec project on 1900's fashion was due this week
3- Mini-company- we have been working on our idea lots this week and things are finally starting to come together
4- Reading: we're going to see juno and the payacock in 2 weeks time so we are trying to finish reading the play before then... we are also reading our own books in creative writing...
5- Activities : today is thursday so after luch we have pilates, dancing and then photography
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B-A-N-A-N-A-S

tomoro is our anual funwalk and we have been given the colour YELLOW! because we're ty's, we have been practising our fun walk lots and lots and we are becoming quite competitive! our theme is bananas and as its friendship week we are trying to base our dance around friends.... we have deceided to have martha and caitriona as bananas in pyjamas as they are best friends and the rest of us have a routine to the banana song, with a bit of gwen stafani's b-a-n-a-n-a-s at  the end... we are all really excited about our dancing and we're praying that the weather will be kind to us all!

what a girl wants, what a girl needs!

Last thursday we went to Naas for a mini company workshop... it was great and we got alot done on our product.. we're calling it "What a girl wants! what a girl needs!" its a small compact bag that has everthing a needs to keep in her handbag, from tissues to eyelash glue! we're going to make a night out product first, with everything you need for a night out... and hopefully if thats sucessful we'll move on to debs ones too! the workshop was really helpful and we now know what we need to do for our mini company to be sucessfull! everyone in our group is working really hard to make it work out well and we're all super excited :)
we have been getting lots of projects in other subjects and they are keeping is really busy! theres no time for many breaks anymore cos the work has began!