Strike!

As there is only 5 Christmas exams for TY's, Ms. L decided to have a party and bring us bowling for our last day because were such good girls! ;) 

This morning all TY's went to the library for our Christmas party hosted by Class Cairdeas. There were all sorts of cakes and goodies to eat! Towards the end of the party we all put our Kris Kindle presents into a Santa sack. Then Aisling, dressed as Santa distributed all of the presents. There were smiles all round! We also all joined in on the Cha-cha slide and Gangnam Style!

After, we headed straight to Kbowl in Newbridge. It took a while to organize all of the teams and lanes but eventually we were all set! Afterwards we were aloud to go to WhiteWater in Newbridge to do some shopping or just eat! haha

Today was a great  to finish off our first term in TY. It was nice to have a little treat after our Christmas tests. I think everyone is really excited for Christmas now, and I hope everyone has a brilliant Christmas! Talk soon :) 

The little Nutcracker ballet

Just before our Christmas tests Ms. l decided to bring us to see the Nutcracker ballet. Here is the opening performance of the ballet. 

Christmas Carol Service

Today we had our annual carol serve to mark the end of our first term of this school year. It  is a tradition in St. Wolstan's for the entire school to gather in the hall and listen to Christmas choirs played by both the orchestra and trad group and also listen to some of the Christmas classics snug by the choir. A student from each year also read a small extract. The music department and Mr. K went to great trouble in order to make the choir service a success, and indeed it was!

During the Choir service our former Year Head Ms. H, gave out certificates to some of the students from TY and Fifth year (last years third years) for receiving excellent results in their Junior Cert. I was delighted to receive my cert! Afterwards we stayed back and got our photo taken by the Liffey Champion. Well done everybody :) 

Check out the latest event taking place at St. Wolstan's here.

St. Vincent de Paul Collection

As part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at school, we were asked to participate in the annual SVP Christmas collection. We were organised into groups of  three or four students per each 2 hour shift. Last Saturday morning Kate, Fiona and I collected money from busy Christmas shoppers at the doors of Tesco in Celbridge. I must be said that most people were very generous and willing to reach out and help some of the less fortunate people in their local community. Over the past few weeks we have also been encouraging students to bring in small gifts for the annual SVP Christmas appeal. We were delighted that so many people brought in gifts for the appeal and we know that they are going to a great cause. 

If you want to become part of the action and get invloved with the St. Vincent de Paul Society make sure you check out their website here.

Geography Kenyan Presentation

 

As part of Transition Year geography, we were divided up into groups of 2 and given a country of interest. Each group had to research the requirements needed to travel to their chosen country, the food eaten, the cultural norms, and some of the most popular places to visit in the country. We also had to research how to get there, and at what price. We then presented our research in a power-point presentation and tried to sell our chosen country to our fellow class mates. 

For our project we contacted the Kenyan embassy in Ireland and asked them could they provide us with any information on Kenya. Luckily they sent us loads of info and even sent us a DVD showing us the wildlife found in Kenya. I thought this project really enjoyable and I now really want to visit Kenya in the future.

Kenyan Presentation from katiehurley06

Keep calm it's nearly Christmas!

The school is beginning to look very festive at the moment with Christmas decorations in nearly every class room! All TY's are beginning to get very excited including class Síochain! We like having Christmas sing songs in free classes and whatnot! ;) 

Last week we also did our draw for our class Kris Kindle. Our presents will be distributed on the last day of school before the Christmas break when the TY's have their Christmas party. Some people are finding it hard to keep it a secret, including myself! 

Adios Junk Kouture

Well, we have finally reached the end of our Junk Kouture project. We first starred the project at the beginning of September and we have been working on them for 3 double classes every week ever since. A lot of effort has gone into creating our outfits but I think the work has definaly paid off! Although there were a few disagreements a long the way, I feel I have learned a great deal about working with other people in a small group. I also learned a lot of new sowing skills and techniques! 

A fashion Show was held at school yesterday to show case all of the unique dresses made out of recyclable materials. Each group had to pick a song which was suitable to the theme of the dress and also give a 90 word description of the dress while another member of the team modeled the dress on the "runway". 

Unfortunately I was absent yesterday when the fashion show took place, therefore I didn't get to see every-bodies outfit. However, I saw a lots of pics of most of the outfits and they all look amazing! Every dress was made out of something completely different! I am really glad hat we had the opportunity to make outfits out of recyclable materials, it really showed us what can be achieved using "Junk". 

See what other TY students got up to during Junk Kouture here.

Treasure Hunt!

For the past few maths classes we have bee learning about cryptography and how to use it.  Cryptography is an art of writing and solving codes. lets say you have a message that you want to put into code, you first encrypt the message and then decrypt the code if you wish to find out what the message reads. 

Ms. O'B aloud us watch the National Treasure as part of our study on cryptography. everyone really enjoyed the film and it showed us how cryptorgraphy can be used in lots of different situations. 

Final Mini Company Workshop

This week we attended our final Mini Company workshop at the Odeon cinema in Newbridge. As usual Orla  was presenting the workshop. This work shop was a lot more involve as Orla went around to nearly each mini company and asked how each company was doing and what the financial side of things were looking like. unfortunately Orla did get a chance to come to our group at the lunch break we got to have a quick chat with her about how we were getting on. She was very impressed by our idea which is a Sports Skills app. She also informed us that there were very few apps in the competition there fore we had a good chance! 

Later, Orla spoke to us about the importance of developing a business relationship with people and how to work as a team in order to reach your goal. Orla then showed us a DVD on how we should act around people in a business internment. 

Afterwards we got to look around WhiteWater  however my friends and I just went straight to get food at Ginzeng. I was delicious! ;) 

F1 in Schools - Here we Come!!!

This week we got fantastic news that our F1 project qualified to the regional final! We were thrilled as we were one of the two teams selected out of the entire year! The judges gave us some very good convective criticism to work on for the Finals which will be held some time in March of this year. however we have a lot of work to do before then. Firstly we have to finalize the car designs and send it to our manufacture. Then we have to source sponsors and begin to fund-raise and advertise for our group. we have our work cut out for us but it should be good fun! :)

If you wish to find out more information on F1 in Schools check out their website here.
Also make sure you check out our blog where we will post regular updates on our progress throughout the competition, there will also be more pages coming to the Rapido y Furioso blog soon so keep following it!

Let the countdown begin...