All things T.Y,

Over the past few weeks, we have had trips and important events taking place. On the first week back we had our trip to the BT Young Scientists exhibition in the RDS :)
This was a great day out for all of us as we got to spend the whole day , which gave us time to see all that was on display, and even take part in some of the activities without constantly time checking.
It was even more wonderful as our school was represented by three students in T.Y. who did an amazing project on The Effects Of School Bags On The Shoulders, Neck, and Spine.
The girls really did the school proud, and won a rosette for their super display :)

Another very important thing that actually happened just this Monday gone, was the Mini-Company Judging. This was held in the school hall, everyone set up a display, and reports were sent in to the judges.
Everyone put in lots of effort and each company gave a presentation the judges from the Kildare County Enterprise Board.
Three awards were given out in each class; a display award, a business report award, and an innovative award.
The Mini-Company I was in along with six other girls from my class (who are all amazing and put so much work into making our company the best it could be) won the display award for our class :)
It was a nerve wrecking and exciting day!
Everyone had fun, but we were all glad of a little time off from the stressed of running your own business haha

Back After Christmas :D

Most people dread to go back to school after a long break, but in TY, I don't know why anyone would. I was looking forward to coming back and seeing everyone again. We had about one day to get back into the swing of things, and then we were straight back into work! Projects were assigned, plays were written, and mini-company reports were printed.

Busy busy busy! With cookery, sewing, mini-company, and art projects, we are all run off our feet, but we all love it really. In Home Ec we made a delicious apple crumble which was half eaten before we even made it out the school doors.
Then we began to start our Teddy-Bear making in our other weekly Home Ec class, which for someone like me with a sewing phobia, is a bit tricky haha.
In art, we had to pick an image of a famous person, a singer, actor etc. We sketch it out, and then we will create the image using the inside of tapes. I chose the gorgeous and wonderfully talented Robert Sheehan for mine, well, who else could I chose?? Heehee
Along with these, the single most stressful aspect of TY, is coming to a close. Mini-Company. Our reports had to be all written up and perfected, and we have to be working on our presentations, and our displays. Our judging will be taking place on Monday....nervous.

(I shall include a little picture of Sheehan here, just so you know who I'm talking about.)

Pre-Christmas Fun-Time ;)

Before Christmas holidays we had our usual Christmas exams in the core subjects; Maths, English, Irish, French, and Religion. Our other subject grades were based on our project work, and a sort of continual assessment. The exams were over before we knew it and we were all super excited for Christmas :)

Before our Christmas holidays, just to re-cap, we went on a fantastic TY group trip to the bowling alley in Naas! The morning of this trip we were allowed to come into school in our clothes. We all gathered in the library where class Cairdeas had prepared a fantastic Christmas Party for all the TY's. We had our resident Santa Claus hand out all of the Secret Santa Presents, and we all had a great song and dance.

Once the bus arrived we all piled on, and off we went to the bowling alley. We were all split into teams and given a lane per team, we got a great game in and had THE single most delicious popcorn I have ever come across. After this, we all packed onto the bus and went to Whitewater for lunch, Burger King Anyone???

This was  a lovely way to finish off our term, and everyone had a great time :)