Yesterday, Wednesday the 23rd of May all of Ty went to an exhibition hosted by Intel in Trinity College. It was an interactive workshop and we were introduced to things like robots, ultra books and new types of laptops.
It was a really interesting and different day. It was amazing to go to Trinity college because I have never been there before and it could be a my future college who knows?
I am going to write this post about what I thought blogging in TY was like. Before TY the word blog was a an alien word to me. I had no clue what it was or why we were doing a blog.
During TY I found that I actually like blogging. I liked writing down what I was doing every week in TY and about the new experiences I had. I also enjoyed reading other peoples blogs and finding out what they liked about TY. It was interesting to read other peoples blogs and their impressions of our different TY events.
My favorite thing about blogging in TY was reading comments on my own blog. I would advise anyone who has access to any form of computer to write a blog. It is a great way to voice your opinion and give your view.
It was also a great achievement that our TY blog was a finalist in the Edublog Awards and that we won the Eircom Junior Spiders Award.
Set up your own blog on www.blogger.com !
That's all for now....
Here is the moment that we won the Eircom Junior Spiders....
On Tuesday the 8th of May all of TY competed in Scifest. My project was called Onion Tears and my aim was to find out why onions make people cry and how to prevent this.
A good few entries from St. Wolstans won and we all had a great day. I think it was a good experience to present my project in front of judges. The girl who won had an excellent project and her project title was biodegradable or non biodegradable.
I really enjoyed Scifest and working in a team.
Check out http://www.scifest.ie/ if you want to enter Scifest 2013!
I think its time that I write a reflection on TY so that incoming TY's can read it and see what is coming. Lets start with saying that it is NOT a doss year, capitals intended. I have done so much new things this year.
My highlights would be my two work experiences and going to Carlingford. Other things I really enjoyed were collecting on Lollipop Day, taking part in the Swim a Mile with a Smile, Scifest and going on the Gaisce hike.
In TY I have never been short of anything to do to say the least. We got a countless number of projects as well as the normal Christmas and upcoming Summer Tests. I feel like my confidence has improved this year also things like presenting our Science Projects in front of all of TY.
I will miss TY when its over it will be hard in fifth year not going on amazing trips every week and doing projects on all sorts of interesting topics.Check out http://www.stwolstans.ie/ for pictures of all these events!
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This Friday class Banba is having our TY party! We are still in the process of deciding a theme for our party though.
Each TY class gets to decide what kind of party they want to throw and when they want to have it.
Class Fodla threw a party at Christmas and class Eiru are throwing a party at the end of the year.
TY is coming to an end and I think this is the first year that I am actually going to be sad that the school year is ending. We have done so much in the space of just one year. Things like going to Carlingford, The Younge Scientists Exhibition, Swim a Mile ,Gaisce and many more. It will be really emotional on TY night to say the least....
On Friday the 27th of April some of TY is taking part in the Presidental Gaisce Award! It is the country's most prestigious and respected Award Programe. Basically, you can get three medals; Bronze, Silver and Bronze. I am taking part in the Bronze Award. I had to start or continue on with three activities. One that was to do with sport, another was a personal skill and finally something to help the community!You have to do 13 weeks in the three activities and an extra 13 in one of your choice.
For my sport's activity I continued with my swimming as i am a member of Clondalkin Leisure Centre.For my personal skill I started something completely new which was piano. I am in love with playing piano now and im so glad I started it! For my community involvement skill I supervised the Homework Club in school.
This Friday is the final part of our Gaisce, the hike. We are going to Kippure Estate in the Wicklow Mountains. It will be great fun and to learn more about the Gaisce Award check out http://www.gaisce.ie/ That's all for now....
Over the past few weeks in Religion we have been learning about conflict particularly in an African country called Rwanda. The conflict occurred between the Hutus and the Tutsis. An estimated 800,000 Rwandan's we killed during this mass genocide in 1994.
We watched two movies about this conflict:
1. Sometimes in April
2. Hotel Rwanda
Both of these movies were very emotional to watch. Thousands of people were murdered just because they were a Hutu or a Tutsi. I preferred Hotel Rwanda because I thought it was easier to understand and I liked the characters better. My favourite character was Paul. He cared for so many people and always had a moral courage.
The Hutu interhamwah called the Tutsis cockroaches and said they all had to be extinguished.The interhamwah used machetes to kill most Tutsis. The conflict all began when Tutsi rebels bombed down the Hutu Presidents plane. This conflict was horribly cruel because thousands were brutally killed.
I found both movies very sad to watch and I was very angry to know how little help the Rwandans got from the rest of the world. I would like to go visit Rwanda in the future because I would be interested in seeing how the country has improved in more recent years.
