Irish Student Press

We had a visit today from James Reeves of the Irish Student Press. James was at St Wolstan's for the launch of the Savvy Savers Bank (more on that later).

Mrs Leahy gives out the Student Press every time it is delivered to the school and it is full of really useful stuff. Each edition is also online.

Check out the website for features and competitions. St Wolstan's won the last student and teacher competitions!!

Why not send in an article to the paper? The best contributors to the March issue will recieve €100 vouchers for Penneys. Go one....we have lots to share at St Wolstan's:)

http://www.studentpress.ie/

Lolli-pop day preparation!!!

On the 26th of Feburary 2010, all the TYs will be going to Dublin to collect for Oesophageal Cancer Fund!
Emma, Paula, and I have been preparing the whole day from grouping people together to collecting permission slips and organising buses. We have being working alongside Ms. Leahy and Claire from OCF. We can't wait for it and hopefully will be a great day!

Hope you enjoy the day girls xD

~From Katie

Find out more about Oesophageal Cancer at the Lollipop Day website

http://www.lollipopday.com/

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

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

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