English Trip :D

TYs had a great day yesterday :) 

The English Trip was a great success and and we had great craic :D The Yeats Exhibition in The National Library was really interesting and I loved being able to see Yeats own handwriting and pieces. I really enjoyed learning about Yeats and I'm sure this will come in handy in the future :D 

The Bog Bodies were actually pretty scary, I didn't expect them to be so..urm..detailed ? haha They still had some teeth, fingers, ears, toes, facial hair and the hair on their heads still had its natural colour and one even had Gel in his ! After 2000 years !! A lot of them had some pretty gruesome deaths including getting several blows to the head and then being disemboweled :S
After an hour of being set free to have our lunch on Grafton street we met up again with our teachers and set off for Juno and The Paycock in the Abbey Theatre. It was fantastic ! So much better seeing it on stage than reading it in the book ! The set was amazing, so realistic and I couldn't stop looking at all the little props all over the stage. The actors were perfect and it really felt like you were actually there. Mr. Boyle and Joxer were very comical through the play and had us all laughing. The end scene was very emotional and had some of us in tears. 
It was a great experience having read the play to actually go and see it being performed :) Thanks to the English teachers :) 

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/juno_and_the_paycock/ 
^ Link For Juno And The Paycock in The Abbey Theatre.

Mini Company Workshop #2

Had our second mini company workshop in Newbridge yesterday, It was interesting but the pressure in on now as we have to have a prototype of our project made for our next workshop :S
We learned alot about advertising and how to get our product out there and this was very useful. We also learned about the five, very important P's :
Product
Place
Price
Promotion
People
Theres also going to be some changes to our mini company, we realised that our name is very like many others so we need to think of something more original..
But on the up side...we got to go around and get food in the shops afterwards :D

Results Of The Fun Walk...

Unfortunately, We did not win :( But Well Done to class Banba ! :D
The fun walk seemed to go well anyway :) I wouldn't know though because our group was left behind *Sniff* :( The route was changed without our knowing and we sat there waiting for the rest to come but they never did :'( FOREVER ALONE :'( haha we still had fun though watching the people walk by and running after the rest of the group when we realised they were heading back towards the school and not us :L
It was a great day full of brilliant performances and fun :)

GO BANANAS !

Fun Walk is tomorrow :D aaaannd by the title of this post you can probably guess what our AMAZING class Eriú is dressing up as ;) Almost got our dance organised but to be honest I think a lot of us are getting Overly Stressed about it and its becoming a bit of a Not-So-Fun-Walk... BUT im sure everything will work out on the day  :) *Cough* and we will win *Cough*

Hope that our Perfomance will be quite Apeeling to the judges ;)

Tune in next post for the results of the funwalk ;)

Love Always,

Alex

x

Update

Just an update to say how the projects are getting on...

Young Scientist has been written up and sent off and ( with a bit of luck ) will hopefully be accepted into the competition :) Our Project is on the effects of a Healthy Breakfast on your fitness and consentration levels compared to An Unhealthy Breakfast. Its called : " Super charge your day ? Then super charge your Breakfast. "

Geography Project is going well but theres still alot of work to do...Really enjoying Learning about all the new places ive come across though :)

Irish Project is almost done now, just a matter of typing it up :)

We have a new English Project. We were split into threes and each of us have to look up a particular piece of information about Yeat's Life in order to be prepared for the trip :) My group's project is on Yeat's Relationships.

Mini Company is starting to get tough but we are doing well and enjoying it all the same :)

The School Is Alive With The Sound Of Music

This year our school is performing the famous Musical, The Sound Of Music.
The cast have already been selected and everyone is getting excited.
Congrats to Niamh McGoldrick, Leah Redmond, Aoife O Neill, Sarah Hart, Georgia Keegan and Isabel Fagan ( Apologies if i have forgotten anyone ) all of whom have gotten roles from our Ty year :)


Really looking Forward to seeing the musical :)

English Trip ! :D

For English we are reading the play "Juno and the Paycock " by Seán O Casey and on the 19th of October we are going to see it in the Abbey Theatre :D BUT thats not all we will get to see...on the way there we are stopping at the Bog Bodies Exhibition and the Yeats Exhibition :D AND I think we are even allowed to walk around the shops for a bit too,  Boo yaaa ! 
English is one of my favourite subjects so you could say, that there's a possible chance, that I'm pretty excited about this trip...:D 

Mini Company Workshop

So last week we were sent off to Naas for our first ever mini company workshop ! It was pretty interesting ( although the highlight of the day to some people being the speakers not working properly...*Cough*  NIAMH MCGOLDRICK *Cough* ) and I realised that we really needed to up our standards for our mini company Poppy Pockets.  We are still trying to find a proper way to explain our product so when we find a suitable explanation, ill get back to you on it ;)  We also discovered that we already have major competition, including a company that has an idea similar to ours...
Hopefully will be able to start looking into manufacturing and that people will be interested in our product...
Fingers crossed for us !