BT Young Scientist Exhibition 2012

On the 11th of January 2012 12 students from TY were off to the BT Young Scientist exhibition.
The entire TY year applied for the competition back in October but it was the 12 girls, within 4 groups, that had the privilege of attending the competition for 4 days.

Another trip to the Young Scientist Exhibition

Happy New Year!

First week of school is over and we are back at full speed. This week ended with a trip to the Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin, for all TY's and 2nd Year students, where we had 5 Transition Year groups competing.

Storyboarding an issue.

In Religion we are exploring the MDG's and for the past few classes class Fódla have looked at MDG No 3 and the issue of Gender by watching the film Desert Flower - the Waris Dirie story.

Awards!

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

The Junior Spiders!!

So this morning Sarah K, Leah and Sarah D headed off with Mrs.L to DCU Helix for the Eircom Junior Spider Awards.Wish us good luck!!Here's a picture from this morning.

SarahD

Blogs of the week

SarahD is doing great work on her blog as is SarahK and SarahM.

Sarah D

SarahM

SarahK

They all deserve more people to read their blogs. Why not pop over and have a read of all their goings on?

Mrs L :)

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

http://edublogawards.com/2011-3/best-class-blog-2011/

We have been Nominated!!

Well I think a celebration is in order for our bloggers. Thanks to all who continue to blog because the St.Wolstans TY blog has been shortlisted in the Eircom Junior Spiders 2011.

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.

Going global with our greetings

We will be taking part in a Christmas greetings exchange project with some other schools around the world. The project is one of the Connected Classrooms projects  #ccGlobal projects. (http://ccglobal.ning.com/)

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 News from TY TV

More TY News from TY TV.

Thanks to Aoife and Saoirse for being this weeks News Readers and to Courtney for help with the recording. Isabelle and Orla wrote the script before mid term but they never got to record it so we adapted the script today :)

Positively Pulaski want to chat

Mrs Forsberg contacted Mrs Leahy recently because they had something in common - their students like to blog!! Mrs Forsberg students are a little bit younger than TY students but they have something in common with TY - they like to blog and everyone loves to see a comment on their own blog. Right?

So Mrs L would like TYs to head over to Mrs Forsbergs 6th Grade blogs at Positive House in Pulaski Community Schools and read their blogs and leave a comment.

Imagine, taking your TY experience even further out of the classroom - all the way to Wisconsin, America!!

http://kidblog.org/PositivelyPulaski/

Here are a  few tips from Mrs Forsberg.

Before you blog...

*Remember that blogging is a formal type of writing; it's expected that you use standard English and proper punctuation.  (You are representing your class, your school, and your country. :)

*Commenting Etiquette--

• Make sincere comments (Make a connection to the writing.) "Nice blog" is not a sincere comment.
• When someone comments on one of your posts, it's polite to visit their's back.
• It's polite to thank readers for visiting your blog and taking the time to leave a comment. 
• If someone asks a question in a blog comment, answer it.  If you've asked a question on another blog, check back--You just might get an answer! 
• When you leave a comment on a post and have the option to leave a link, share the one to your blog.

Mrs L :)

Opportunity for TYs to win an iPad2!

The Language Village (http://www.thelanguagevillage.com/ are currently running a competition for secondary school students - the winner will be the student who answers the competition question 'Why learn more languages?' in the most original and convincing way.

This involves creating a blog post on www.thelanguagevillage.com that not only addresses the question but is also dynamic, interesting and enjoyable, using any media of the students' choice.

For more information go to:

http://www.languagesinitiative.ie/component/content/article/213

I wonder will the iPad tempt any TY student to enter?