Our girls in KFM and F1 :)

Here is the podcast of Roisin and Aisling's interview on KFM this week about their F1 in Schools projects.

Aisling and Roisin at KFM

Well done girls. Any sponsors out there?

Mrs L :)

The Student Blog Challenge

Well done to Siobhan and Aisling B for entering the Student blog challenge. I'm delighted. I see their blogs have been visited by a teacher from New Zealand already. Good luck girls.

Anyone else want to join them??? Find out more info here.

Register your blog here.

What will the challenges involve?

Chloe Wants to be a Millionaire!

Chloe enjoyed her Irish class today. Read on.......

"Today in Irish we played Who Wants to be a Millionaire but all the questions were related to Irish Verbs. Everyone each got a question. We sat in The Chair at the front of the room and our teacher, "Chris Tarrant", asked us the

2x + 3x = ?!?!

Niamh P's been blogging........

"On Friday for our maths class we went to the hall with Ms K's maths class to have a fun maths quiz. The quiz was all about algebra and all the different forms using algebra. We did the quiz like you'd play Bingo.

We were spilt into groups of five or six girls. Ms K handed each group two cards full of answers to the questions she would ask us and a handful of counters. She began to read out each question. We then had to work out what the answer was and....

The Student Blog Challenge

Student Blogging Challenge.......

Is made up of a series of 10 weekly tasks all designed to improve blogging and commenting skills while connecting students with a global audience. Next challenge starts in March 2011.

Find out about this challenge here.

You'll be visiting other student blogs around the world and they will visit yours. Sounds fun.

If you are interested in taking part in the 10 week Student Blogging Challenge then register here http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/02/05/student-registration-now-open/

Good luck.
Mrs L :)

Ruth does some Irish Dancing!

Ruth was dancing this week.....

"Today in Irish we went down to the hall with the other T.Y. class to do a bit of Irish dancing. It was really fun and I think everyone enjoyed it. I thought it was great fun because I haven't done Irish dancing since I was in primary school.

All of the dances we did were done in groups of eight of four. Strangely enough I remembered some of the steps which I was very proud of! Mr. S had Irish music playing which made it better and the whole year was dancing which was really funny.

At the end my good friend Niamh did a solo dance, and she was amazing, I thought she was going to kick me in the face one time!"

Thanks for blogging about your Irish class Ruth. Read more of Ruth's blog here.

Mrs L :)

Briery Gap Drama competition

Saidbh was blogging about the Briery Gap Drama Festival this week.......

"The Briery Gap Drama competition was on Tuesday and St. Wolstans had four drama entries in the heats. My group did a play based on the poem 'But You Didn't' by Merryl Glass. We adapted the poem and wrote a script with a scene for each verse.

Blogging in school...

I have posted a video on the Blogger Instructions page about how to change your Blogger settings that will allow you to post in school....and at home of course. :)

http://stwolstansty.blogspot.com/p/blogger-instructions.html

Happy blogging.

Drama at Mullingar

Good luck to both TY classes, and all 4 productions, that will be representing St Wolstans in the Briary Gap Drama competition tomorrow in Mullingar.

All plays were written by the TY students themselves and I think we have budding actors and script writers in our midst!

Big thanks to Ms Guilfoyle, Ms Brogan and Ms Rowan for all their help and support.

Good luck girls.
Mrs L :)

Rugby blitz.

TY were playing in a Rugby blitz today. Siobhan posted this on her blog....

"Today half of the TYs went to Tallaght to play in the rugby blitz. We played in St Marks School. The blitz’s was cancelled before Christmas because of the snow but we finally got to go and play today. It was a brilliant day and everybody had a good day.

Christmas wishes

I didn't get a chance to wish all the TY's a happy christmas yesterday before they finished up for the holidays. We were to go bowling today but it has been cancelled. We will go in the new year though:)

So happy christmas TY. Have fun, enjoy, and stay safe over the holidays.

Mrs L :)

Here's a little something to make you smile.

A Christmas breakfast

Siobhan was blogging today about the Christmas breakfast that class Emnet help for class Amina this morning.

"Today we had a Christmas breakfast hosted by class Emnet. We had if for the first class and it went into a few minutes into the other class. We had a really good time. There was lots of food and hot chocolate and marshmallows and sweets and things like that. It was a great morning. Everybody had great fun and they all got lots of food. There was music and it was a brilliant morning.

Mrs L got us started signing.........

Bag packing for Irish Cancer Society

Well done to the TY's who generously gave up their time this weekend to help bagpack for the Irish Cancer Society.

Read what Stepho has to say about it here.

TY podcasts

I just received these podcasts from Peter of Create School who came to St Wolstan's last week along with Chris and gave each TY class a podcasting workshops.
I had to make them into little movies because Blogger doesn't facilitate sound files. All images from Scoilnet ImageBank and free to use under Creative commons.
Enjoy:)

And here is Orlaigh's group podcast - Impressions of Ireland

Podcasting workshop - Ailbhe's report

Podcasting- such a good day!
On Friday we had a brilliant day. Two men called Chris and Steven came in to do a podcasting workshop with us. I have to say that it was brilliant and I really think that it should be done every year with TY's from now on. It is really worth it in my opinion. Firstly they spoke with us about how one can do a podcast. If you go into iTunes U it is really easy to do podcasting. The word podcast is an amalgamation of the words broadcast and ipod because a podcast is basically a broadcast for an ipod.