Eva's Cholera project

I have just finished my second geography project on an infectious disease in Peru. I made a brochure on the disease and included information like what it is, how it is caused, how it can be prevented, vaccinanations, symptoms and all about the medicine needed to cure it.
I learned a lot about Cholera and that it is caused by drinking or eating excessive amounts of drink or food that contain Vibrio Cholerae 01.
If you are travelling abroad for long term you will be offered the Vaccine which is called Dukoral and it is an oral vaccine. If you dont want to get the vaccine you can prevent Cholera by only drinking bottled water and not eating anything that is undercooked or raw.

To learn more about cholera clcik the link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera

Eva Brady ( :

Towards 2015 book project

Read the lovely stories and reflections on Primary education on the Towards 2015 blog

http://www.stwolstanstowards2015.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to come back to the TY blog!

Team Bladhm

New blog post from team Bladhm

http://sites.google.com/site/bladhm/updates/february

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TY's collect for Self Help Africa

Eileen just sent in this report......

Yesterday morning, Sunday 14th February Robin, Eimear and myself collected money outside the church in Celbridge in aid of Self Help Africa. We collected for about 2 hours and people were extremely generous. We had great fun while collecting for a great cause. We were glad we could help out and get involved through TY.

It was a pity it had to rain towards the end :)

Eileen :)

Movie Time in TY

On Friday, the last day of term, both TY classes got together in the Demo room to watch a movie called "Sometimes In April" which was based on the Genocide in Rwanda. This was a topic we were looking at in our RE classes. The movie was very good and everyone enjoyed it. It was a good chance for both the TY classes to come together.
It was hard to watch at times, but very true to what happened at this time of conflict in Rwanda.

Ellie xox

Self Help Church Gate Collection

Some students are giving their time this weekend to help Patsy Toland with the Kildare area Church Gate collection in aid of Self Help Africa. Patsy has given us a lot of help with our Towards 2015 book project so it's nice to be able to return the favour:)

Once again, thanks to everyone who has volunteered and to Grainne Clarke for organising the teams.
Mrs L

Towards 2015 book project

Everyone is continuing to work on their contacts for the Towards 2015 MDG book project. Most of the team have interviewed an older person, a granny or grandad, and have sent us their reflections.

You can see some of the snippets we share on our blog at

http://www.stwolstanstowards2015.blogspot.com/

We don't want to put all our stories on the internet because we are saving them for the book, but you'll get a good idea of how the project is going if you read the blog.

Most of the TY's are using their involvement in the book project and giving their time after school to it, for their Gaisce Award.

Thanks to you all for your help.
Mrs L

Still Life models

I supervised at the Junior Certificate Art exam yesterday afternoon. Nine TY's were the models for the still life drawings, they were great. It must have been very hard to sit there for all that time. Big thanks to Aoife, Hannah, Niamh, Ellen, Nicolle, Ellie, Susan and Louise for posing.
Mrs L

Savvy Savers Bank launch

New blog post from Savvy Savers

http://savvysaversbank.blogspot.com/2010/02/100210.html

In School Science Competition

Today, in triple science, the science teachers announced the winners of the in school science competition. There were some great prizes won, like boxes of Celebrations and vouchers for Liffey Valley. Prizes were given to the students who got through to the BT Young Scientist, and also to students who the teachers thought deserved a prize for all their hard work. The teachers judged our projects in 3 areas.

Scientific Content.
Presentation of the project.
The originality of the idea.

The overall winners were Ali Bell and Eileen Maher. They did a project about fake tan, which was quite original. Although they did not get through to the BT Young Scientist, they continued working away on their project and even went to Maynooth College to complete it!

Ms Barry came down to give out the prizes and to look at our posters which were displayed on the walls of the demo room.

After the prizes were given out, we watched "Creation" which is all about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and his life. The teachers had kindly bought us chocolates, lolliops, crisps and fizzy drinks to reward us for our hard work.

Overall, it was a great few hours! Thank you Ms. Ward, Ms. Healy and Ms. Coogan for such a great afternoon! :)
- Sarah McE .xo

Irish dancing

Today, Class Selam did Irish dancing with Ms.Farrell. Becky Eiffe and Eva Brady from Desta came in to show us how to do it.

We did two different dances; The Haymakers Jig and The Marching Dance. We all had really good fun and Ms Farrell hopes to do it agian next week. We are all looking forward to it :)

Ellie xox

And Meg says....

Today in Irish class we were introduced to the world of Irish dance by Becky and Eva! It was great fun. We danced to jig music and learned the "1 2 3" step, some of us were better at it then others. We also did group dances like the Haymakers Jig and The Marching dance. The moves were pretty basic but me, having no co-ordination couldn't quite handle them!
The whole class listened and learned and had loads of fun in the process! :) Bonding!!!!
Hopefully we'll get another shot at it! :)
XOXO
~Meg

Blog updates

Thanks so much to all the girls who send items for the blog, you all do such great work. The blog is looking great and will be a great resource to the 3rd Years who are making up their minds about TY or 5th Year at the moment. I hope they see what hard work you all do:)
Mrs L

Garda Talk on Road Safety

On Thursday 28th of January both class Desta and Salem had a talk from two Naas Gardai. It was amazing! But I don't think any talk has ever had such an impact on me! It was so scary but yet so interesting.:O

They both talked about car crashes and gave us the facts and statistics of crashes on the road in Ireland over the past few years.

It was amazing to see actual videos of crashes and then hear people talking about the effect of the crashes on the families lives. They showed us videos of people crashing and losing their lives and pictures of the aftermath of car crashes.

Overall it was terrifing but a brilliant lesson all at the same time.

Katie Ryan, Desta

Savvy Savers Update

Since the last blog post, Team Members of Savvy Savers have been working so hard organising lots of things including lunchtime openings, the official launch day and our work that we will enter into the Regional Competition.

We had our first lunchtime opening which went down so well, I think all our new customers enjoyed the sweets :) We have gotten lots of forms back and we are now really encouraging people to lodge money every week. We as a team are working really well together and we are currently really focused on planning our launch day which we hope to be on Tuesday 23rd of February. Lots of things still have to be done so that the day is a real success. We really hope to have some interesting public figures there along with all our Bank customers. Along with working on that we are also keeping in touch with our customers and Pamela our Assistant Manager had the lovely job of giving some happy customer’s €10 credit vouchers the other day- which they got as a result of joining the bank.

Our Regional Competition is also fast approaching; it will take place in the Killashee House Hotel on March 3rd. We are doing lots of work in preparation and we really hope to do well there on the day!

I would just like to say how much I am enjoying working as Bank Manager, and with the girls they are a great team! :)

Pamela- Is constantly doing great work as a brilliant Assistant Manager!
Meg- Sales and Marketing is doing great, great job, I am sure you will keep everyone updated
Laura and Sinead- you guys are doing great work especially at the busy lunchtimes when you are taking forms and lodgements
Sinead Keogh- Doing lots of great work as the teams Auditor

Well done guys! :)
x x Ellie
Bank Manager

TY Information Night

The 28th of January was Transition Year Information night in the school. Meg and Pamela were asked to go up and speak to the parents about their TY experiences so far, and to promote the programme.

Ellie, Eileen, Louise, Emma and I went up to the school as well to help out for the evening. We were opening the door and handing out leaflets to all the parents. At the end of the night, the parents came up to us asking what we thought of Transition Year, and if it is worthwhile. The evening went well, with the parents appearing happy with the TY programme.

We also helped out the following morning with the TY talk for the 3rd years.

Ali Bell

Ellie adds......

"It was a pleasure to be able to help and of course talk about what a great experience TY has been for us so far and how much we enjoy it. Meg and Pamela gave a wonderful speech to the parents about everything that is involved in the year and all the events and things we have done so far. They did a really good job, well done! :) "

Ellie xox