First Year Sports Day

     Last week, class Banba were given the opportunity to organise a first year athletics afternoon. We all took different events and organised them separately. Emma and I organised discus, which was easy to set up so we got to watch the other events.
   
     The sports day was on Tuesday, it was good to be out in the sun instead of in classes and it was a successful afternoon, we set up at lunch time and the sports day was from 2pm until 4pm.
   

Blog Challenge- Spanish

Hola!

Este desafío blog de semana es para escribir un mensaje en un idioma diferente, así que decidí hacer mi blog en español. Hago francés en la escuela, pero me encanta el acento español, así que quería escribir mi blogpost en español.

Esta noche es la noche de música y escuelas de clase TY Eriu y Banba estará cantando Florencia y de las máquinas Shake It Out '. Hemos estado practicando muy duro así que espero que todo nuestro trabajo duro dará sus frutos!

        

Music Night

Next Wednesday, it is the schools music night and all the three TY classes are doing performances. Our class Banba and Eriu are doing Florence and the Machines 'Shake It Out' together. We have been practising together and a lot of work has gone into the performance.
 We are all looking forward to the music night  and hopefully our performance will go well.

Braveforce

Yesterday, we went to the braveforce centre in Puddenhill to do an assault course. We left school at 11am and we were there by 11.45.
   We were all gathered together and brought to the start line for a warm, and then we were off.. It was a 3.5k run with 20 obstacles to tackle. There were underground passages, swimming in a mucky ditch, climbing and walking across ropes.
 When finished we were all freezing and mucky but it was a good day out and we all enjoyed it.

Djembe!

On Monday, 5th March, class Banba did a percussion workshop for the day. We did it with a man called Dave, he brought different percussion instruments and a djembe drum for each of us.

  We learned two songs on the djmebe then we took turns playing the percussion instruments. We then put the percussion and the djembe together and played different songs.

 We all really enjoyed the day as it was something different and it was really enjoyable. I would definitely recommend it for other TY's to do.

Tich Miller in Cork

On Saturday, 3rd March, Our Tich Miller drama group travelled to Cork to take part in the Briery Gap competition in Macroom. We left on the bus at 10am and got to Cork at 2pm, it was a long bus journey but it was fun and the time flew.

  We went on stage at 3pm, we were all nervous before going on stage but we thought that it went fine. We all had a really good day, all we did was eat for the whole day.

  We left cork at 4.30pm and got home at 8.32pm. I was wrecked after the day but we were happy with our performance and we all had a good day.

Work Experience

Last week, all TY's were on work experience. I went to the Chemistry Department in NUI Maynooth for the week.
 
Throughout the week I set up labs for experiments, cleaned up labs after experiments, I also got the chance to make my own soap in a reflux and distillation experiment. The week was good experience and I enjoyed the week out of school to work. 
 
  My supervisor and the staff were really friendly and helpful and they made the week more enjoyable for me. I enjoyed the week of work experience and I now know that i may like a career in chemistry.