My TY Diary - Fashion Show

Week 15

 This week has been a very busy and exciting week. We had the St. Wolstans Fashion Show in The Celbridge Manor Hotel on Tuesday the 25^th and Wednesday the 26^th. We were all busy on Monday, practising and getting the costumes and clothes ready for the opening night. I was in the ballet dance. We were dancing to Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking out Loud’. It was a great dance but I was really nervous because we had to do it in our pointe shoes and I had never done a pointe dance before so I, as well as the other younger girls in the group were really scared but I think it was a great success. We wore our black leotards with little pink chiffon skirts over. Ms. Hughes, the Home Ec. teacher very kindly made them for us. On the second night, I think we all had more confidence but just before we were going on, I was putting on my shoes and one of the ribbon just came out in my hand, so we tried to find a sewing kit to sew it back on but we didn’t have time so one of the girls had a safety pin and Ms. Hughes came and pinned it tightly back on my shoe. That made me a little bit nervous but it was fine. Overall, I think the show was a great success. It was full on both nights. Even the teacher did a bit on modelling and dancing! A lot of hard work and determination was put into it but it turned out really well and all I’ve heard were positive comments about the night. The clothes were very well chosen, the music was new and catchy and the entertainment was very funny and enjoyable. I really enjoyed the experience and if we would do one again, I would definitely do it again and maybe model too!

                                    

                                       
                                         
                                     
                                         

My TY Diary - Carton House 'Vanishing Art'

                   
                                                   
Week 13

The thirteenth week of TY. This week we had a few different things on.

On Monday, we had double art, and I finished my oil pastel drawing. I thought it was quite hard to blend all of the different colours together, but after a while I got used to it and I'm happy with the finished result.

On Tuesday, we all went out to an art exhibition called 'Vanishing Art' in Carton House. We all got on the bus. Carton House is only ten minutes away so straight after lunch we left. On our arrival, we were brought into a small room with the smaller pieces of more fragile art. We looked around there and filled out some sheets we had gotten off of our teacher. Then everybody split up. When we were finished in the room, I went outside with my friends to have a look. The bigger exhibits were outside, including a big eagle hanging from a tree and also a hot pink dinosaur. There was a big white sculpture which everybody had different opinions about it but I thought it looked like a big tooth.

                  

                                                     

While we were walking around we came across some girls from out year gesturing madly for us to go the other way, so naturally, we didn't and walked towards them. As we looked right, we saw the Irish Rugby Team training. We were all shocked. We just stood there and then a crowd of our year started to gather around. Some of the girls, who were walking the other way, met them outside the other door and got autographs. Everybody was really happy and chirpy on the way home and in a good mood.

On Wednesday, we had work experience as usual. I did my tasks and helped customers for the day. I was really tired when I went home. Thursday and Friday were normal as usual, with our usual classes. Next week, I have two assignments due, one for History and one for Irish. I will have work experience on Wednesday as well and on Friday I will be cooking Thai Green Curry in Home Economics. 

Thats all for this week, until next time, Thanks for reading and Bye :).

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My TY Diary - Maths Week

Week 7


This week was a really normal week.  Nothing much happened. Its maths week so every morning we have a "Maths quote of the day" and a maths riddle, and because of this in maths, we are doing special maths projects. I'm in a group called "Maths Eye". It means our project is about telling people about maths in everyday life with pictures and explanations.  There are two other groups as well, called "Careers in Maths" and "Maths in University". All the groups have to make big posters for each topic and at the end of the week, all the posters will be displayed in the corridor for all the other students in the school to see.

                                                        

On Tuesday, we had mini company, and our group is ready to buy our material to make our product. I'm really excited and hope that we will sell loads of our product. We hope to be selling in time for Christmas so everybody can buy them for presents.

On Wednesday, I had Work Experience. This week I was doing the same as last week, on the floor making the shelves were full, making sure the prices were on the products and turning all the labels to the front. I was walking around all day and so I was so tired after my shift but I went upstairs with my mum and got a hot - chocolate with cream and marshmallows and then I felt a lot better! We also had a look at the baking section which is my favorite section.

                                                       

On Thursday, nothing really happened. Double PE wasn't on because our teacher was at Cross-Country so we watched "The Zoo" in stead. I am in the fashion show in November dancing and today we had Hip-Hop practice. I'm not sure when the ballet practice is on but I'm going to do that too! We also got a talk from two TY pupils from last year about different sore of technology things they did last year like set up a radio and this year we are planning on building on that and also going to try doing a Youtube channel!

On Friday, I have Home Ec. and will be sewing my Teddy Bear.

That's all really for this week,

                                    Until next week... Bye        


Emer :)

My TY Diary - The Fun Walk!

WEEK 5

Week five of TY and were all doing fine. This week was Bitter- Sweet. It was the fun walk. It happened on Thursday due to heavy rain on the weather forecast and they were right. It just rained and rained all day and night. We were really lucky we did it on the Thursday although it was a bit annoying. It was scheduled for Friday but on Tuesday there was an announcement to tell us that it was on Thursday. This was Tuesday night and we all had work experience all day Wednesday so none of us would be able to meet up. We still had to prepare a dance for the walk and we were all a little worried that it wouldn't come together. In the end it was fine. We learned bits of it on Thursday but it was hard to learn it on Thursday too because the school mass was on in the morning so half of the class had to down to practice singing for it. Fair play to all the girls who gave up their lunch time to come to an empty room to learn it and after the mass we spent a class learning it and doing the whole dance over and over again.

                 

In the end the dance came together really well and the class did so well preforming it but we didn't win. It was announced on Friday morning that class Aurora won. We were all really disappointed because the class put so much effort and time into coming up with the idea and costumes and everything but we still really enjoyed it. Our dance was inspired by our class name Ariel so we did a remix to Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid as well as a few other songs and we all dresses as Flounder, the fish from The Little Mermaid because he is yellow and our colour was yellow.
                                                        


Nothing else really happened this week. We were all tired on Friday because of the fun walk and we had classes as normal the rest of the days except Wednesday which was work experience day again. Work experience went really well. I was on the floor the whole day this week which was exhausting but I still really enjoyed it. :)

Thats all for this week really!

                 Bye :)


Emer :)

My TY Diary - Baking Muffins!

Week 6

So, just nearly finished my 6th week of TY. Overall, happy with my choice to do it. I have made loads of new friends with people I rarely talked to last year and have loads of more free time. This week was a pretty normal week. Nothing that exciting happened.
 On Monday, in careers, we did a Careers Interest test. My results were 1) Creative, 2) Enterprising and 3) Social. This means that I am more suited to jobs that involve making stuff or being creative, A job that involved good leading or persuading someone or a job that involves dealing with people.
 On Tuesday we got a french project. I'm with Aoife and our topic is about Tourism in France. It not actually that bad, because only the main words and the verbs have to be in french, not the whole thing. We are probably going to talk about famous french places like the Eiffle Tower or the L'Arche de Triomphe but were also going to talk about beaches or skiing resorts.
 On Wednesday we had work experience. This week I was with Paula again doing sort of the same things - sorting out and restocking the shelves. I had a scone for lunch. It was really nice but very filling.
 On Thursday nothing really happened. In P.E  we did the beep test. As always it was horrible and I didn't do very well (5.7) but I think I just make it into the average fitness rate for a girl my age which is good.
 On Friday we baked in Home Ec. My favourite - vanilla muffins with butter- cream icing. They were really nice but we didn't get to put the icing on until we got home because they were too hot and the icing would have just melted off.
That's all that really happened this week!
Until next week ..... Bye :)


Emer :)


                                               

My TY Diary - Work Experience!

 Week 4


This blog marks then end of our forth week in TY. This week has been very nerve-racking and also very enjoyable. 

The week started off normally, with normal classes and activities. On Wednesday it was different. We started work experience. I'm sure we were all pretty nervous, starting a new, unfamiliar place for the first time and it was always going to be different but Wednesday was the day we had to face the music and go in. I am working in Avoca's food hall for this 10 week placement (every Wednesday for 10 weeks). I got in early that morning, because it was the first morning and first impressions are important..... I got a lift with Eve, who is also doing her placement there -  but upstairs in the cafe, not the food hall. When I arrived I was given a tour or the floor and kitchen area etc. and was introduced to a few different people. One of them was Margaret. She works on the cheese counter, so for the whole day I helped her. I don't like cheese that much but I have to say, I really enjoyed myself :). After a couple of hours on the cheese counter, I went over to the floor manager, a lady called Paula. She was really nice and gave me a quick briefing about what being floor manager involved. After I finished my job with Paula, I went back over to Margaret for the rest of the day. During the day I wasn't really that tired but when I got home I just collapsed into the sofa for the night. The rest of the week was pretty enjoyable. Everybody talked about their work experience on Thursday and it sounded like everybody enjoyed it - just like myself.

We also baked on Friday. Aoife and I baked Swiss Roll with a chocolate fudge filling. It was really nice but it didn't look great because we left it too long before we started to roll it so it cracked. Taste over appearance any day :)  

                                                         

Anyway, that was this week. Another week over and done with. We are all excited for next week thought because the fun walk is on. Ill tell you about that next week :) Until then ...
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Emer x