history talk :)

Yesturday the principal from a mixed primary school in celbridge came into our school to talk about the history of celbridge :) I learnt all about the history of celbridge and mr doovan showed us old photographs of celbridge :) It looks completley different :O There use to be a mill and a workhouse and we have a famine graveyard :O Celbridge has developed dramatically :)

musical :D

Our hole school is doing a musical called the sound of music :D TYs and fifth years were asked to put their names forward for directing and different groups like costume , props and setting :D I signed up for the props and set but unfortunaly i didnt get a place :( But i get to go and see the musical in december at the gaa club :D The directors and  the teacher who is organising everything ms.ward , are very stressed with getting people to go to rehersals everyday and get the work done :) Some people are singing in the play and there are also lads in it from salesian college :D IIm soo excited to see it and everyone is working very hard :)

1920s dancing :D

The last activity we do is 1920s dancing :) Its a very fast pace dancing thats a lot like swing dancing :D Fodla were put into groups with 5 or 6 different people and we had to come up with our own dance :D Its soooo much fun and I absolutly love our dance :D At the end of the 8 weeks we're going to pick different moves from each dance and we're going to perform it together as a class on TY night :D

pallates :D

Pallates is another activity that we do :) Its a form of excercise that involves a mumber of different stretches that can be difficult at times but some can be really fun :D iIs really good for your body and get more flexible :D You feel really good about yourself afterwards :)

photography ;)

On a thursday afternoon for 8 weeks we do 3 activities :) Photography is one of them :) We get to bring our camras into school and learn different tecniques and how to use our camras properly :) We take loads of pictures of the class and if you lye on a chair and put the camra underneath you and take a picture it looks like your flying or jumping out of an aeroplane :D Were making halloween cards atm so were trying to get really scary halloween pictures to put on the cards :D The 8 weeks is nearly up now though , im gonna miss photography :( But im really excited to see what the next activities are :D

opera :O

In  music we are really busy setting up our own opere with fodla :) Our story is based on jerry springer but an  irish version called paddt murphy :) We hav the presenter paddy murphy , jusinta a woman who is pregnent , damo is jusintas boyfriend who thinks she cheated on him and the babys not his  , nicko the man who jusinta cheated with the possibly the father of the baby , damos mother called denica and 2 bodyguards :) We have already picked the girls for the parts and were all realy excited :) There are different departments of the opera for people to work on :) Im in the costume group :) We have all the costumes for the characters planned out and whos bringing in what :) The other groups are the plot who created the story and the script , the music group who deide what music and sounds we should play and the set group who design and make the stage :) Were all really busy trying to organise the opera to get it done on time but im really excited :D

partay ;)

All tys have to set up a party for different times of the year :) Fodla is organising a christmas party for all transistion year students :) We are organising to bake lots of food , kareoke , santa with kris kindle presents in a big stocking for all tys , hot chocolate with cream and marshmellows and dress up :) The other ty classes eriu and bamba are organising valentines and easter partys :)

town and juno and the paycock :D

Yesturday we went to town and we visited the bog bodies , wb yeats and the national museum :) They were okay we had to do worksheets and answer questions on the museums :/ It was interesting to look around though :) After the museums we went to grafton street and we went for lunch in macdonalds :D i love the chocolate sundays , there YUM! :) Then we went to the abby theatre to see the play :) The setting was very good , it was of a tenament house :) The actors were played very well and i understood the play alot more than the book :) Its good to see a visual image of the setting also :) It was a really good day , my favourite day trip so far :)

towny :D

tomorow we are going to town to the theartre to see the play juno and the paycock :) we read the play in english class , the play was okay it got confusing at times :L we are going to visit the bog buddies and wb yeats museums :) after that we get to go into town and eat wherever we want and look around town for an hour :) im going to eat in macdonalds :D we get home late tomorow because the play is a late viewing :) im really excited for a whole day out :D

mini company trip :)

yesturday we went to a mini company trip in newbridge :) we learnt all about marketing and advertisments :L in my group were making customized ipod covers :D we went to chick king and abrakababra :D i went to the shop and caught coke and wedges :D mmmmmmmm.... ;)

bullying :/

in religion class we watched a video about a school in essex about bullying :) its about a goil who got elected head girl in school and she got cyber bullied by 2 of her friends through text :O the principle was able to get the police to track the number and they found out who it was :) the girls were shocked to find that it was so serious they could get a police record :O their mother was a teacher in the school and she was really disapointed in them :/ there was another boy called sam wh obullied a boy called dean because he was being jealous and paranoid and he thought dean was trying to steal his girlfriend :O but they all sorted it out in the end and became friends again :)

another mini company trip :L

Tomorow were going to another mini company trip and we get to go to abrakadabra or the chipper :D Im really excited to go on another ty trip :)

5 things we have to do this week :L

Tomorow is the fun walk and everyone is getting really excited :D our dance is all coming together now and other classes are starting to get clues about our dance :L Today is the last day to practice our dance so we have to get it perfect :D On wednesday we are going to another mini company workshop to work on our projects :) Everyones really starting to feel the pressure for getting their ideas together and getting jobs for everyone for the group :/ In my group im doing marketing and were designing ipod covers :) For irish i have to type up my irish project about yourself and its due next week.

fun run :D

The fun run is coming up soon on friday and everyone is getting very competitive :L all the classes are telling people cover up songs so no one knows what there really doing :L We have practiced our dance very had and i think were going to win :D We have a surprise at the end of the routine but i wont spoil the surprise yet ;) Tys have to go to every corner on the walk to direct classes across the roads to keep the walk a safe journey :) i wish everyone luck in the competition :)

especially for ms.ward :)

Ms ward teaches creative writing class :D This is my favourite class that i do in ty :) Its all about emotions and feelings and it gets you into very deep and very dark times but i think you learn alot about yourself :) you rip down the walls of emotions and you describe them in such dept where you go , yes! thats exactly the feeling! For an author to do that to someone is a great acheivment :) Its only the start though , id say by the time the years up and when all our essays are written ms ward will learn alot about us :) In our essays she wants to be able to see , smell ,taste , touch and hear our emotions :) Its a very interesting class but taken very seriously :)