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When someone tells you that TY is a doss year you can tell them that they are wrong! Since we've come back from the midterm TY's have been kept very busy, with talks, trips, projects, work experience, and much more.

A few of the girls went to Naas General Hospital to attend talks that were given by the doctors and nurses there. Katie wrote a blog post about the talks she went to, click here to see it.

Many of the girls have been busy with Radio TY interviewing people about the things we are doing in TY like Mini Company and Junk Kouture, as well as things happening around the school such as the Open Day.
Some of the TY's were helping out at the open day, Caoimhe was helping in the music room while Rowen was in charge of the sports displays.

Most of our Mini Company groups now have their businesses up and running, selling their products. Click here to find out about Laura's Mini Company group Candy Blossom.

We have been on a few trips this week and had a little bit too much McDonalds and Starbucks. We went to a talk in Tallaght IT for Science Week, see what Sorcha and Rebecca thought of the talk. We also went into town for a W.B Yeats themed trip, which we all enjoyed. Aoife and Laura wrote about the trip.

We have also started doing Zumba during our PE classes and it is great to see everyone dancing, click here to find out what Karen thinks.

A lot of TY's have decided to get involved with our school Musical Calamity Jane and have been busy with the acting, singing, dancing, production team, etc.

Here are some pictures:

Bog Bodies

National Art Gallery
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Open Day
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TY vs Bastille

This was TY 2012/2013's closing song on TY Night. All three classes learnt the song, moves, and harmonies in separate Music classes. They only had one day to sing it together before they performed it at TY Night. I think they did a great job.

Ian Daly Swim A Mile With A Smile

On Friday 20th April, TYs took part in the Ian Daly Swim A Mile With A Smile along with the LCVP students from 5th Year.
The event is in aid of Our Lady's Children's Hospital and Barretstown camp for seriously ill children.
Ian Daly was a boy from Celbridge who died of a rare, aggressive brain tumour at the age of 11. He is the inspiration for the event as he loved to swim.
To learn more about the event and Barretstown, click on the links.

TYs raised a lot of money and swam a total of over 40 miles on the day! Read what Rachel, Niamh and Louise had to say about the day by clicking on the links to their blogs!

Well done to everyone who participated :)

Music Night

On March 28th, St. Wolstan's held its annual Music Night and TYs got the chance to perform in it.

Banba and Eriu, taught by Ms. O'R, were singing the amazing 'Shake It Out' by Florence and the Machine and Fódla, taught by Ms. G, were singing the 80's classic 'Wake Me Up' by Wham.
Over the past few weeks, the music teachers and their classes have been working hard to perfect their performance and as a result, all the TYs sang brilliantly.
Read what Sarah B, Grace and Síofra had to say about the night by clicking the links to their blogs!

It was a new experience for a lot of the girls and we would like to thank the music teachers for all their help - we really appreciate it. :)

Awards!

TY has been celebrating this week as we have received not just one but 2 awards for our St Wolstan's TY Blog!

More christmas greetings

Here is class Banba's christmas greetings video for the Connected Classrooms Christmas Message Exchange project. (http://connectedclassrooms.wordpress.com/)

More News from TY

Thanks to Sarah and Kate for being this weeks newsreaders.




As we said in the News bulletin - Please vote for us in the Edublog Best class blog category

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Off to the Opera

Last Tuesday, 22nd November, all of TY went to the Swan Cinema in Rathmines, Dublin. We went there to see a recording of the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart. It was recorded the previous week at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

Work Experience Week 1

This week, TYs completed their first week of Work Experience. It gave them a chance to gain an insight into the world of work and maybe even opened their eyes to a possible future career.

TY Friendship - by Aoife

To TY

Our last few months,
We'll never forget those laughs.
From Carlingford to Carlow,
Mini Company to English,
Dressing up or down,
Making friends
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Aoife has advice for new TYs

Aoife wrote a really good post giving advice to any student going into TY next year, I thought it important to put here so the 3rd Years will read it.

"What's So Good about TY?

As Mrs. Leahy has directed future transition year students to explore our blogs and gather more information about the whole TY experience I decided that I would make a post dedicated to