Lollipop Day!

Today we went into Dublin to help raise money for Lollipop Day,which is the 22nd and 23rd of February.We were raising money for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund.We arrived in town at 10 o'clock;then we each received a cap,t-shirt and collecting box full of lollipops,badges and stickers.Then we divided into groups of 3 or 4 and set off to stand at our designated places.When people donated €2 we gave them a either a bagde or a lollipop.I donated €2 so I got a bagde!Even though we were all freezing by the end of the day we all had a really good time and raised lots of money for the Oesophageal Caner Fund!

Drums!

On Monday morning we had  drumming workshop with a really nice man called David!We used lots of different types of drums during the workshop;we used the jembe and the kpanlogo.We also got to use some other percussion instruments like the Shekere,Marakas and agogo bells.We learned lots about where the different instruments came from and how they are played.While playing the drums a few girls got to wear some cool hats.We played the drums for 3 hours and after none of us had sore hands because we learnt how to play them properly.We also played a Bob Marley song on the drums and  few girls played guitars too!It was a really fun workshop and I learned loads but I wish we had it for the full day instead of just in the morning!
Check out The JabbaJabbeJembe workshop website to learn more about the drums!
heres the link:http://www.jabbajabbajembe.com/

En la clase espanola!

He aprendido mucho en Español este año.

En clase de español hemos ido aprendiendo sobre América Latina.La semana pasada aprendimos todos los países y capitales de América del sur que hablan español.Teníamos un examen el jueves; tuvimos que aprender diez países y capitales. Algunas personas tuvieron que hacer una nueva examen pero tuvo 100% !!

Vamos a mirar una película española en la clase después mid-term!

Un mapa de América del sur

(P.S.I didnt know what 'mid-term' was in spanish!)

Art

In art class we are currently doing portraits of famous people suing cassette tapes.To begin with everyone had to choose an image of a famous person;then we used an online photo editing website called pixlr to make our pictures black and white.I decided to do a portrait of Taylor Swift because I really like her music.
Next we had to draw the portrait on A2 paper.Even though a lot of people haven't done art before the portraits still turned out really well.I finished drawing my portrait this week so I got to start sticking down the cassette tapes.We  are using PVA glue to stick down the tapes because prit-stick isn't strong enough.
Here's my portrait so far!











Heres and example of what our portraits are going to look like when we are done!

We are spending 3 more wees on this project after mid-term and them we are going to be making puppets which I am looking forward to because everyone is making a different puppet and when they are done we are going to make a video!

Good News About The Drama Competition!

Today in religion class our teacher gave us some good news about the Briery Gap Drama Competition.Unfortunately my group did not get through to compete in the competition in cork;but the other group in my class did.They will be going to Cork to compete on the 1st of march;unfortunately the whole class can't go to support them because the competition is on the same day as Sci-Fest(a science competition taking place in the school hall).Even tough we all can't be there on the day we are showing our support by re-arranging the Sci-Fest judging so some of the class can go and watch the performance.I would like to wish the girls luck in the competition and I hope they do well!

Medical Geography and Movies

In geography we are learning about medical geography so we are watching a movie called 'Contagion'.The movie is about how fast diseases can spread by people touching things.The movie is really interesting but everyone is getting a bit paranoid.We are also making pamphlets about different diseases.My one is about Typhus;I have learned a lot by making my pamphlet, I've learn the about symptoms,where its most common and how to prevent it.
Here's the trailer to 'contagion'!

We are also watching a movie in religion called 'Pursuit of Happyness' because we are still learning about the Millennium Development Goals,and the movie is about poverty.