Hallowe'en Dress Up Day!!!

Today we have a dress up in school! I dressed up as the Mad-Hatter from Alice in Wonderland and won a prize for best outfit! Everyone else looked great as well!!!

ACCORD Talk!

Today a lovely lady from ACCORD came in to talk to us about realtionships. She was really nice and open and made us all feel very safe and comfortable. She gave us really good tips about our family life, friendships and relationships and we all really enjoyed the day!!

Colour Me Beautiful!!

On Friday two ladies came in to the school to do a Coulor Me Beautiful programme with all the TYs. They firstly divided us up into groups according to our hair, eye and skin colour. These groups were as follows; Light, Warm, Deep, Clear, Cool and Soft. Light - these people have pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. Warm - these people have fair skin with freckles, red, auburn or strawberry blonde hair, and green or blue eyes. Deep - these people have darker skin, darker eyes and brown or black hair. Clear - these people are fair skined, dark haired and clear eyed. Cool - these people are generally of an older generation with silver hair. Soft - these people have sallow skin, light brown or dirty blonde hair and brown or green eyes. I was told that I'm a Soft. The colours that suit me are creams, browns, olive greens, light blues, salmon, pale pinks, rustic oranges and purples!

Mini Company Talk!

On Monday a lady from the Kildare Enterprise Board came to talk to our year group about our Mini Company ideas. She made every group's CEO stand up and present their idea to the rest of the class. She was very supportive and helped everyone develop their business ideas further. My group plan to make an object that will reseal a soft drinks can so that it is airtight, leakproof and transportable! Today our technology teacher was very helpful by making a product design for us on a computer programme called solid works. Hopefully this will help us in trying to convince a manufacturer to make our product...

My Geography Project: Peru!

Our Geography teacher has set us an assignment in which we have to plan a world trip to six countries. My group has decided to "visit" Croatia, China, Laos, Peru, Brazil and America. At the moment I am in the process of researching Peru. I plan for us to a six day hike on the legendary Inca Trail up to the ancient site of Machu Picchu. To see more about this trek go to www.incatrailperu.com !

Our Trip to Carlingford!

Last week our TY group went up to Louth to spend two days at Carlingford Adventure Centre. We had a great time, but arrived home tired, wet and aching. We left by bus at 7:00am and once we'd arrived were immediately sent out to do our morning activity; The High Ropes Course!! I was terrified watching my classmates scale up the ropes about 30 feet in the air and almost died with fright when I attempted it myself! In the afternoon we went back out to do kayaking and pier jumping (best fun ever!!) I have to say that the dinner and lunches impressed me. It wasn't the usual disgusting mulch that is commonly served in hostles, but gorgeous, filling meals! What followed that evening was the only low point of the trip, the hill walk.. What a fiasco!! We treked up a mountain in the pitch dark for three hours. It was foggy, lashing rain and blowing a gale!! We all slept well that night! :) The next day we did orienteering, archery and the Challenge Course. My team had so much fun in the box maze and nearly all of us got drenched while trying to cross the river!! I absolutely loved the trip, we had so much fun!!!!

Social Development Day!

Last Monday our class, Amina, had our social development day. We all had a really great day learning more about each other and having loads of fun as a group. In order for us to get to know each other better we were catagorised into our main personality types and I found out that I was a melencholic. Yeah, I know that makes me sound like I'm always depressed or something, but apparently it means that I'm logical, precise and organised! It was so strange seeing everyone catagorised into their groups, because they really were all very similar! I loved the day, lo pasé bomba!!!!