Bag Packing for Irish Cancer :)

 

Today 10 students from St Wolstan's including myself headed to the local Tesco to bag pack for the Irish Cancer Society which is voluntary. When we arrived there we met the women and they handed us our yellow t-shirts that we would be wearing for the afternoon. Soon enough we were into the bag-packing , helping people with their shopping and helping some to their cars. We all had turns at the desk selling raffle tickets, badges and candles. That was great fun , i spent most my time there , rounding up the people to get their raffle tickets. The raffle prize was a huge hamper. It was amazing. Overall i think we made loads of money in the few hours we were there and it was great fun :) if you would like to make a donation click here

Ty Fashion Show :)

Friday the 10th , all transition years had a fashion show in the gym. The fashion show was for the dresses we made in home-economics. We were given a task at the start of the year to make a dress with the color purple. I was in a group with Kellie, Grace, Niamh O'R & Sandra. I must say our dress turned out really well after having so many ideas and we bonded great as a team. I learned new skills that i haven't known before like using the sowing machine. Everyone put in an effort and it showed at the end , everyones dress/outfit was fantastic. The fashion show was held in the gym and we had an audience of 5th and 1st years. The judges were Ms O'H and Ms L. There were 4 boxes of roses given to the group the judges that they thought that stood out from the crowd. My group won a box of roses ;) Yumm !

Christmas Dress-Up :)

Thursday the 9th of December, we had the annual Christmas dress up day. We had to bring in €2 and the money went to the care of the age. The theme was just Christmas for the whole school. Mostly everyone dressed up , it was great fun. I dressed up as Santa Claus must say being Santa for a day is hard work , the heat of the costume. At lunch people who got picked for the parade went and had the parade, i was in a group and i was Santa , Lauren was a present and Chloe and Ruth were the Coca-Cola truck. My group won the selection box for Transition Year :)

Pilates :)

This week we started Pilate's for  double  p.e. A Pilate’s teacher came in to teach us, her name was Angela . It was very unusual, i had never done anything like that before. You use your core muscles to do everything in Pilate's. It strengthens your core muscles and tones your stomach. We did different exercises that are supposed to be relaxing but i thought they were quite hard im sure when i get used to it , it wont be that hard. We were then shown a new way of breathing, you have to like breath without moving your stomach up and down , its all in the ribs and the teacher checked if we were all doing it right. It was interesting as I had never tried it before, I don't really like it as i like things with more energy , but it is very interesting. I'll give it another week to make up my mind but im very grateful of our P.e teachers for giving us this opportunity.

Cookies :)

In home-ec on Tuesday we made beautiful cookies. Ms Mc'A supplied the butter, sugar and flour , which was very nice of her. All we had to do was bring in chocolate. Ive never done home-economics before so i found it hard to use and find loads of the items. I was partners with Roisin which was great because she is deadly at cooking.
First we started off beating the butter and the sugar and when that was done we put in the flour and the chocalate pieces. We put in kit-kats which was amazing. Then we sturred the mixture together until it was kind of sticky so we could put them together. After we had put the mixture on the tray we put them in the oven for 10 minutes and cleaned our area. After 10 minutes they were ready , they were delicious. Im going to make them often there really easy and simple to make. I hope to do more cooking throughout the year :)

Sneachta :)

On Saturday i was greeted by the beautiful snow. Although it looked beautiful it also looked very very cold. Soon enough everyone was out having snowball fights. Unfortunately i was sick until Monday. On Monday in Irish the snow came in buckets it was beautiful, we got off ten minutes early wooo .
That night the snow kept coming and coming and everyone was praying school was closed. Tuesday morning we were all hoping that a text would come in. At 8 o'clock we got the text saying school was closed. It was the highlight of my day. I didn't think we would get a week off. Thank you snow. Throughout the week was alot of fun and games in the snow , going down the hills in castletown, snowball fights and making snowmen. Although the snow is cold , it was great fun. Although everyone was hoping for another week off school, there was no sight of snow. It was fun while it last. Hopefully it snows more even though its cold :)

Advent Wreath Making In Religion :)

In religion class , Ms KB helped us make advent wreaths. I must say the were gorgeous , the looked really beautiful. First of all we got our block of oasis and put it in the oasis holder. Then we put our purple candle in the middle of the block of oasis. After we put all our greenery in the block of oasis such as holly and make it look lovely. It was really fun making them. I thought it would of been much harder to make.

Podcasting Workshop :)

Friday the 26th of November , two lovely men, Chris and Steven came into the school and we had a podcasting workshop. It was great fun , a lovely way to finish off a friday afternoon in school.
First of all they talked to us about how someone can make a podcast. If you go into iTunes U it is really easy to do podcasting. The word podcast comes from the words broadcast and ipod because a podcast is basically a broadcast for an ipod.
After they showed us how to do one we were all seperated into groups and we made our very own podcast. My group done a song called Pass out and we were impersonating Gillain Mc Keith on ' Im a Celebrity Get me Out of Here'. It was really fun and also hilarious to do. It took us little over an hour to make a 1 minute podcast. After we had them alll done we all came together and listened to everyones podcasts. It was really good and everyone done brilliant for a first podcast.
Overall it was a brilliant day and i hope to do more podcasting throughout the year :)

Heres a link to Chris and Stevens website here