Having a Blast!!

Source

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
Source

Open Day
Source

Juno and the Paycock

Yesterday, all the TY's went to Dublin on an English Trip. We went to see the Yeats exhibition and then went to the National Museum and National Library. At 2 o' clock we went to the Abbey Theatre to see Juno and the Paycock, the play that we read in English class. I really enjoyed it.

Isabel seem to have enjoyed it as well. Read her blog post here.

Martha didn't understand Johnny's character until she saw him on stage. Read her post here.

Eleana

Bog bodies, Yeats and Eimear!

Image Source - Tate Gallery© Estate of Jack Butler Yeats

Eimear wrote a great post about the TY English trip to Dublin to see the Yeats exhibition and the Natural History Museum.

"We headed off to the William Butler Yeats exhibition first. We were greeted by a tour guide who brought us through the colourful displays and cases which make up the exhibition. Everything was colourful and designed beautifully, from the stands themselves to the

W B Yeats

On our trip to the W. B Yeats exhibition we learned about his life, love and interests. We also heard his poetry read about to us and my favourite poem came up. It's called The Cloths Of Heaven.

My favourite lines are,

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Nicolle

Irish trip to town

On Thursday 26th November both Desta and Selam headed into Dublin to the National Library, The National Museum and The National Gallery for our Irish trip. When we arrived we went to the National Library first where we were met by a tour guide. She brought us around and showed us the differnent things about Yeats, his life story, his family, how he wasn't very good in school, Maud Gonne, the events that inspired his writing etc..
We then went to the National Museum. We saw all the different things like the Bog bodies the Gold exhibition and many other interesting things. The bog bodies were so cool, they were so well preserved. One of them still had finger nails and hair.

After the National Museum we went for lunch on Grafton Street and we met Martin King and the Australian Rugby Team. It was great fun and we got pictures with them too :) Martin King is so nice haha.

After lunch we went to the National Gallery where we were also met by a tour guide. We saw pictures by Jack.B Yeats, Edward Munch etc..

Overall the day was really good and it was enjoyed by all :)

Eileen

22/10/09-in IT class-

Its weird how after all that excitement and work towards the fun walk last week and this week its all over. Although we didn't win we were so happy with our Selam Traffic Jam! Ahhhh it was so much fun. I stood at Willowbrook 1 with Ellie and Niamh and even though we didnt see every class coming out to the judges we got to see all the costumes when they walked past us at the crossing. Everyone looked awesome! The rain was a nuisance, I made a "Cows Crossing" sign and it ran all over the place but it was funny :)

There's so many projects that we are doing atm, but it makes it much easier to learn things when you do projects! I just finished a project on Marilyn Monroe in History, that was pretty cool!

Ehm... we are doing a project on Jack B Yeats in Irish and in Geography we are doing the deadliest project ever - An Around the World Trip! Its so much fun! We get in groups and then we pick countries that we want to travel to and then we like book flights and hotels and things we are going to do and all! It is AWE-SOME! We actually feel like we are going on the trip and we're all excited hehe.

We had a talk today on Recyling and then another one from Garda Roche about drugs. Speaking of Garda.... Work experience in November for me is in Finglas, Blanchardstown and Cabra Garda stations. Hehe great place for Garda work experience, I'm sure they're pretty busy in there hehe. But Im sure it will be good :) My March work experience placement is in Urban Outfitters...I cannot wait, its my dream to work in a place like that, ahhh I love it!!!!! :P Cant wait for both the work experiences!
Well class is over in Like 5 minutes so best be off!
Conclusion- TY Is awesome-AZING!
Tttyl
~Meg K