TY So Far : )

So far, I have really enjoyed Transition Year!

I’ve had chances to do a lot of things I’ve never experienced before.

I’ve never had a job in my life, and this year I’ve had two so far, and have just started my third one!

-Scoil Naomh Bríd Primary School

-Setanta Sports Broadcasting House

-ABsolutely FABulous Flowers

I really enjoyed my first two work placements, and I have a feeling I will really like my third one too! When organising my work placements, I made sure to choose three completely different ones, so I could experience more.

We have done many activities in aid of several charities…

-“HollyDays” for ISPCC

-“National Pancake Party” for Tallaght Children’s Hospital

-“Lollipop Day” for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund

We have taken part in competitions, such as “The Briary Gap TY Drama Competition”, where we got a chance to write and perform our own play, and “MiniCompany” where we invented and sold our own product. I have never taken part in any competition similar to “MiniCompany” before, and I really liked it. It made me feel much older for some reason...maybe because we had a lot of responsibilities, and we had to organise the whole thing ourselves!

We have gone on several trips, such as the traditional trip to Carlingford J We also went on a maths trip to Rathbeggan Lakes, a science trip to the RDS (BT Young Scientist) and a Road Safety talk in Punchestown.

Apart from the trips and activities, I think TY has made me much more confident, and it has allowed me to make loads of new friends! I’m so excited for the rest of the year!

 

http://dearbhlaty.blogspot.ie/ and I at Rathbeggan Lakes!

http://annahepple.blogspot.ie/ , http://annastyblog2014.blogspot.ie/ and I at Carlingford!

http://costellooo.blogspot.ie/ and I at the school Funwalk!

Leading the school Funwalk :) 

(when you realize that you make the same face in every single picture..)

GO TEAM I.PROTECT!

After weeks of work on our mini companies, the day has finally come! Today, two adjudicators came into our school to judge our  TY product and company in general.

I am the managing director of “i.protect”. Our company has designed and made cable protectors to prevent iPhone chargers from breaking.  It was a very stressful few weeks trying to get our product made, and everything ready for the school competition, which was held in the school hall.

It was quite scary having to speak to the judges about our product. However, I think they were impressed by our “innovative idea”, and our “i.protect” branded t-shirts!:)

The day was a success, and as a member of the “i.protect” team, we are delighted to have gotten through to the regional competition, which will be held in the Kilashee House Hotel in Naas, Kildare.

We are so excited to go along to the competition with the girls of the other winning mini company – “Bam Beauty”!

i.protect members:

http://costellooo.blogspot.ie/

http://ellawalter.blogspot.ie/

http://annahepple.blogspot.ie/

http://hannahmahonty.blogspot.ie/

Briary Gap Drama Competition!

Many weeks of preparation went into our play – “Willow”, which we performed in the first round of the briary gap TY drama competition.

Our play was about a woman named Willow, who was a play write back in the 1500’s. She wanted to be successful, so disguised herself as a man – “William Shakespeare” . When she finds out that her best friend is a Jew, she is shocked, as Jews and Christians could not be friends back then. When Willow finds a diary from the future in her library belonging to Anne Frank, she is suddenly transported to the future, where WW2 is ongoing. She sees how badly the Jews are treated, and is greatly upset by it. She is sent back to the 1500s, and goes on a mission to stop prejudice against Jews. She writes a play – “The Merchant Of Venice”, which becomes a huge success. (I played shylock at the end of the play, and had to say a speech from the Merchant of Venice!)

 We thought our play was pretty good and original, but unfortunately we did not get through to the next round. However, two other groups from our year got through, so we are very happy for them!

(tall people problems..)

Bye Bye Zumba :-(

Us TY’s had an amazing four weeks of Zumba classes as part of our PE program! Despite being extremely hard work, it was great fun, and we lost a few calories at the same time which can’t be too bad! I really enjoyed it and am thinking about doing Zumba classes..!

Best Work Experience Ever!!

Hellooo! :)

So on Wednesday, the 7th January, us TY’s started our second work placement!

I am working in Setanta Sports Ireland, and loving it! It’s completely different to my last placement

working in a primary school, as this time I am in an office building surrounded by adults instead of

children!

When I first went in last week, I was very nervous as there were no other TY students working with

me. I met with my supervisor, and was given a tour of the building, where I got to see the filming

studio, editing suites, broadcasting room, greenroom, and various other rooms used for the

production of programmes on Setanta Sports.

While working here I have:

- Worked with the graphic designer, creating ads for the company.

-Worked with the media/marketing director.

-Worked with the librarian in the library (which holds videos of all matches/documentaries

    which were broadcasted by Setanta Sports Ireland throughout the years.)

- Worked with the Promo director.

-Toured to different media outlets in Dublin (e.g. 98 FM, The Star, Irish Daily Mail) with the FA

    Cup.

-Worked with the sound man, and the voiceover man.

I have really enjoyed my experience here so far, and I have experienced so many different

job roles.  I only have two more days left to work in Setanta Sports, and I will definitely be

sad when it’s finished!! :(

the FA cup

Work Experience, woo!

Recently we started our first work placement! The plan is that every Wednesday, from now until December 3rd, we will be attending our work placements, and discovering whether or not we would like to work in our chosen area in the future.

I chose my old primary school, Scoil Naomh Bríd, for my first placement. I chose here as I think I may be interested in becoming a teacher in the future, and I enjoy working with and helping children. So far I have spent three Wednesdays working in the primary school, and have extremely enjoyed each day.

I am working in a senior infant class (the students are around 5 or 6 years old). So far, I have helped the students with their maths, art and PE classes. I have also helped the teachers with some jobs such as cutting out & laminating worksheets, and hanging up pictures on the wall. My favorite job has probably been helping out with the art, as art is my favorite subject.I have helped them make "marble art", where they placed three marbles which had been dipped in paint onto a page sitting in a baking tray. They had to roll the marbles around the page until there were lots of different coloured lines on the page. Last Wednesday they had to make "autumn trees" where I had to paint their hand and wrist with brown paint. They then had to stamp their hand onto the page to make the bark and branches, and create leaves with green, yellow, orange and red paint! All the students were constantly talking to me about Halloween and what costumes they will wear! It's also nice to see all the teachers whom I used to have.

the primary school is handy to get to, as it is only a ten minute walk from my house. There are also four other girls from TY doing the placement with me, Orla (http://tyblogok.blogspot.ie/), Molly  (http://mollymonster1998.blogspot.ie/), Amy (http://amyrosejackson.blogspot.ie/) and Aimee (http://aimee9888.blogspot.ie/).

I'm really glad I chose here for my first placement, and I am looking forward to the next few Wednesdays I will be spending here!

Carlingford 2014!

Our TY group just got back from Carlingford Adventure Centre, co. Louth. It was an amazing two days spent with my year group!

On Monday 15^th we had a very early start. We were told to meet at 07:00am for the bus to Carlingford, so each of us arrived at the local Esso station one by one, half asleep and loaded with bags. Despite our tiredness, the bus there was great fun!

The journey took around two hours. When we arrived, we were told where to go and what activities we were going to be doing. The town of Carlingford was so pretty! We all thought it was similar to something you would see in Harry Potter!

 I was sharing a room with Anna (http://annahepple.blogspot.ie/), Dearbhla (http://dearbhlaty.blogspot.ie/), Aisling D (http://aislingdoran46.blogspot.ie/), Aisling K (http://mytylife.blogspot.ie/) and Sophie (http://mydevinetyexperience.blogspot.ie/ ) . Our room seemed to be one of the newer rooms, and it was actually really nice! We were delighted as there were plenty of sockets to charge our phones!

I enjoyed the food we were given at the adventure centre! On the first day we were given sausages, beans, chips and potatoes for lunch and spaghetti bolognese for dinner. We only stayed for lunch on day two, and of course the majority of us brought piles of junk food with us also!

The activities we did were kayaking, canoeing, laser tag and team building games. All of the activities were really fun, but my favorite was definitely the laser tag. For the laser tag, we were given camouflage overalls or “cam-onsies” as one of the instructors called them! We were also given a laser gun and a headset. We were then split into the red team and the blue team, I was on the blue team. We played a series of red vs blue games, which the blue team won (woo blue team!). We had to walk ages to get to all of our activities which was a small but tiring, but at least we burned off all of the calories from the junk we brought with us!

I would definitely return to Carlingford. I had such a good time and it was a really good way to get to know the girls in our year that we may not have really bonded with before! 

Laser tag! (with Anna G http://annastyblog2014.blogspot.ie/)

Where our water sports took place!

The town of Carlingford!