This week Bank of Ireland from our local town came to the school. They gave us a board game all about budgeting!! They showed us how to play it and you have to fill in a income and expenditure budget as you go along. I found it enjoyable as they made it more fun by turning it into a board game. They will be doing it with us for the next six weeks so hopefully it will be good! :)
This week we have been doing our geography projects. I am in a group with Kate and Elizabeth. We were given the disease of Typhoid. I have learnt a lot of new facts about this disease and I am finding it very interesting. We have to make a brochure about this disease and present it to the class. We have most of it done, we just need to make it look well by putting images onto it. Hopefully we will have it finished this week and then present it to our class :)
This week is our first week back in school since the Easter break and we have got a lot of new projects to do for the end of the year. We have to make and design a new cereal in Mini Company, make a Board game in Irish, a project on a famous person in French, a project on a Typhoid Disease in Geography, a Mood Board of yourself for English, A movie video of Ty in IT, make a puppet in Art and we have to form a band as part of Music!!!! :) I am really looking forward to doing these projects as they all seem really interesting and fun to do!! :)
On Thursday the 21st March 2013, there was an annual Music Night held in Our school. All transition years took part in this and all music classes from 1st to 6th years. I haven't done music since 1st year so it was only my 2nd time performing in this event. Our class sang a medley of three songs by Ed Sheeran which were: Lego House, Small Bumb and Give me Love. It took us ages to get it together but on the night I thought it sounded great ::) I really enjoyed the night and would love to do it again :)
On Friday the 22nd March., six scifest groups from Transition Year got to go to D.I.T in Kevin Street. Aoibhinn and I were won of these and we were delighted. We did our project on 'The Growth Of Grass In Different Soil Samples'. We just arrived and put the poster up and then I accidentally knocked over one of the soil samples. Thank God it was the worst one. As I was cleaning it off the ground a judge came over and started talking to Aoibhinn, and I didn't realize for a moment as I was still picking the soil off the ground. I got it all up anyways, he asked us about the project and a few questions. We were happy the way it went, and we got our second judge not too long afterwards and she seemed more interested in it as in our results Donegal had the most growth of grass and she lives near there so she was delighted with that. We didn't have anymore judges after that so it was a long hour and a half! We got a little bag with a drink, some fruit a packet of crisps and a bar from D.I.T. We got three talks from lecturers in the Collage. One was about Robots, another on Chemistry and one on computer games. They were interesting but very long. After they were over, it was the results. Unfortunately Aoibhinn and I didn't win anything but another group from our school did. Corrie,Lauren and Aisling won a runner up prize in our category. There was 74 projects and only 1 got through to the next round which was a boy from Skerries who did it on coastal erosion of his town. It was a good day out and I enjoyed it :)
On Wednesday the 20th March all Transition Years went on a trip to Kildare. It started off by going to Kildare village where we went into a heritage center and watched a video on the impact St.Bridget had on our County. Our Chaplin then brought us to the Cathedral and we learnt what was the difference between a protestant and a catholic church. He then brought us around the back of it where there was a monument where St.Bridget lit a fire and also a round tower. We were told that if you walked around the round tower seven times backwards that you'll have a dream of the man you are going to marry that night. At lot of girls took part but we rushed them as we were all starving and wanted to go and get some food. We then drove to the Japanese Gardens and National stud, where we visited two wells. The first well was a bit far and we were so hungry that we ran to it. Their was also five stones in this area, so we prayed at each of them and at the last stone there was a tree, where you could hang an item that meant something to you so people could pray for the person you were representing with the item. We then walked back and visited the other well. There was a stepping stone across the well so we walked along it, bent down and blessed ourselves with the holy water from the well.
We then got to go to White Water Shopping Centre in Newbridge so we all ran to get our lunch in the food court as we were all so hungry. At 1:15 we then went onto Naas for Bowling in KBowl. I was on a team with Aoibhinn, Elizabeth, Kate,Sarah, Eve , Shauna and Katie. Unfortunately I didn't win but I did come 3rd :) I really enjoyed the day and would really love to do it again :)
