Fashion show

Fashion week

This week all ty's were busy getting there mini company product ready to sell at the fashion show. It was our first opportunity to sell our product to the public. Busy making posters and making final fixtures.
 People in the school volunteered to be models to walk in the show and others to dance, sing to perform or to help our backstage.
The day came and everyone was ready. The room of the runway was transformed.
The show was really good and everything went perfectly. Everyone looked like they were enjoying themselves. Even the teachers performed, models and dances.
 The show was really good and everything went perfectly.

Shout out too raja xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Glow&Co

                   ~ Mini Company ~

This week has mostly been focused on mini company. My mini company is called Glow&co. Our product is decorated, scented colourful candles mostly in containers such as jars. We make them from scratch, ordering wax, wicks, scents, colours, pants, jars ect to make the candle look at good as possible. We struggled a good bit because not everyone in our group is always in or when we plan something not everyone is available, But we get past it.

Serena came in to the school on Tuesday, to help us with our company and to guide us in the right direction and to answer any of our questions. I ordered our raw materials so we can begin to make our product to be ready to sell, hopefully to have our first opportunity to sell at the fashion in The Celbridge Manor Hotel. One of the girls made all our social media accounts which will hopefully help our progress.

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Carton house 

This week we went on a trip to carton house to the art exhibition in Maynooth. We left the school at two. First we looked around the different sculptures. The Exhibit is called vanishing art. This is to show people the work of sculpture because this art is dying out. This exhibition is fully of beautiful art sculptures both inside and outside carton house, In the building, out oh the grass and even in the lake. We were giving work sheets to fill in about the sculptures and how we think about the exhibition and what we think the message behind it is.

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we found our the Irish rugby team were training so we spent time watching them work out in the gym. Some people even met them

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Walk in my shoes

World Mental Health Awareness Day 

This week is mental health awareness week. The 10th of October being globally mental awareness day.  Its a week that teaches people understand how to let people with mental illness such as depression, anxiety, bi polar etc. talk about there problems and what they are going through so they don't fell like they are going through it alone or don't feel like they are being judged or looked down on.

This Friday our school got a letter asking to let us wear ''funky'' shoe to raise awareness and bring in two euro to fund raise for mental health awareness. Everyone wore in their different shoes like doc martens, slippers, uggs and other different shoes.

We raise awareness for mental health because if they are left acknowledged mental health problems may cause a lifelong suffering and have a major strain on personal development, work,physical health and everyday living.

1 in 4 young people in Ireland only suffer from mental health issues. Suicide is the second most deadly killer among young people in Ireland between the ages of 18-25 and has one of the most highest rates in the EU between the ages of 14-24.

Walk in my shoes tries to prevent people feeling like they cant talk to any and take unnecessary actions because between 45% and 65% of mental illnesses are treatable. 

 ''You never really understand someone until you consider things from his point of view, Until you climb into there skin and walk around in it''- spoken by Atticus Finch, written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Friendship

Friend ship week

This week was friendship week. We had a talk about bullying and we had our fun walk. Where two men came in and talked to us about preventing bullying, being a bully and what to do if you or someone you know or even see are getting bullied.

All we had to prepared for our fun walk. We picked the song around the theme of friendship/anti bullying. picking the songs were difficult. After a long deliberation we decided on ''Once Upon A Dream'' by Lana Del Ray to fit our class name from sleeping beauty and ''Wake Me Up Before You Go Go'' by Wham.

The walk was moved to Thursday because of the weather which put us under pressure because we had work experience on Wednesday, which put us under a lot of pressure. All day Tuesday we practiced. Which made the day really fun and exciting, along with a bit of panic and stress 

 The day came and everyone was really excited and the atmosphere in the school was very positive. The fun walk came and the dance went very well. We came out on top in the end, all the stress paid off.

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digiital foot print

My Digital Dossier

Your digital footprint is another name for your digital dossier. 

It begans before you even know it, before you are born, at your mothers first ultrasound. When the doctor first scans and your mother sees you for the first time this is the beginning of your digital dossier. Which then will be printed and given to your parent to keep forever and even framed. 

The same scan an will then be filed in your hospital folder. As you grow so does your digital foot print. All your scans as you develop are filed in your hospital folders. Even your bar coded bracelet from when you are born is a footprint in your digital dossier.

 From the day you are born pictures on digital devices are taken of you and uploaded on to social networks and emailed to friends and family. The news that you are born using phones and gmail are also part of your digital footprint.

 This will continue as you grow even the time you go on your first gaming website and social websites. All your searches and purchures online add to your dossier. On cctv is part of your digital dossier. Every second you are adding to your digital dossier. Even right now. Who knows how big your digital dossier could grow.

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Best day of ty

CARLINGORD

This week we went to Carlingford adventure centre for team building and other activities. On Monday i had to get up at half 6 to get ready to get to the bus on time. Dragging myself out to bed to say the least. We met at esso at 7. After a long journey, we finally got to Carlingford.

We got given our rooms. All of my friends got put in the same room, all eight of us. After claiming our beds we went back to the meeting point and headed to our first activity. Which was canoeing we canoed across the sea to a tunnel, where they told us a story about the water could put an extra day on our life. We went into the freezing water and went back for lunch. 

After lunch we went for the challenge course for team building.. but personally no team was built. It was fun in the end with a few slip ups and agreements but we managed to get through it in one piece. After we were finished we had dinner and went out the the forest for night light. We were blind folded and told to find our way across the forest as a team by using a rope. After had free time and lights out at 11. 

The next morning woken up at 8 by the intercom with dreadful music to go down for breakfast and get ready for the activities planned for the day ahead.  The first activity was canoeing. We canoed to the beach and played a few games on the beach got a boat to the trampolines in the middle of the sea. It was really fun, but we had to swim back. The next activity after canoeing was laser tag which was the best activity we did in the two days we were there. We played a lot of different games and had a lot of fun. Sadly after that it was time to go home.

I was sick for the rest of the week so i couldn't go to the workshops on Wednesday and the Mini company trip on Thursday.

Overall i thoroughly enjoyed our few days in Carlingford.


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Work experience

Ty and First day of  Work experience

This week we have started to do our projects. W e have began to start Ty work. I was busy all week trying to find work experience at the start i was very good at trying to get work experience but i lost interest when people didn't reply but i finally found a placement in the pharmacy in Clane.

 I'm really excited to start my work experience but nervous too ill have to see whats in store for me in a few weeks. I hope its good and i get a lot out of it.

On Wednesday we got our junior cert results. We didn't have to come in until 11.50 on Tuesday night i couldn't sleep. I was so nervous about the results, it was the same with the whole year. I met up with my friends before we went down to get the results. All really nervous but excited to finally find out after a three month wait what the last three years have came too and also excited about the night ahead. We walked down to the school and walking in the nervous multiplied. we walked into the hall where we were due to get our results. Everyone has the feeling of nerves and excitement with the long wait.


Finally at 12 Mrs Barry followed by Mrs Smith, Mrs Hughes, Mr Corcoran, Mrs Leonard the Ty year head and Mrs Kavanagh Bracken our third year year head and now the fifth year year head. They gave us a talk about how proud they were about the great results over all. It was hard to stand still. After we got the results i didn't open them i waited till i got home and over all i was very happy and proud of my results and relieved the work i put in to studied came out in the end. It was the most nerve wrecking day of my life so far, but the night after made up for it.

 All my friends went to wrights. We were all together it was so much fun. It was definitely a night to remember and honestly i'm sad that it is over so quickly.

The beginning

First week of ty 

This week was our first full week of ty. It was our first week that we did Ty workshops. The main point of the work shops are to learn new skills in life anf to bond with our class and to make new friends.

 On Wednesday morning we had first aid which was very interesting. We learnt CPR, Heimlich remover, how to rap an injury like a cut or a broken ankle. It was really interesting to find out life saving techniques. In my view it makes me a lot more comfortable to know what to do in serious situations, where if you don't know what to do and panic, someone else' life could be in danger. 

The second workshop we had was edict class. The company was bk inniU. We learn about body images that not everyone is perfect and most girls feel the same about their body. We also learnt about posture, how to walk in heels and how to hold yourself confidently for interviews.We learnt about the appropriate underwear to wear to an interviews and work places, under shirts and skirts and how to dress in the work place.

 Lastly we learnt how to exfoliate our skin and to treat our skin.

The last work shop was a positive party. A women came into the school to teach us how to be positive and how to be happy when thing aren’t exactly going your way. She gave us tools to cheer ourselves up when things aren’t going our way. She gave us tips and did exercises to get us out of our comfort zone. We did laughing yoga and the hokie pokie. Our class looked like we were having great fun and everyone was laughing and having a good time bonding together.

This week of ty was fun and I thoroughly enjoyed myself I hope the rest of the year is like this.