Briery Gap Drama Comp.

Today my class went on a trip to Mullingar to take part in the Briery Gap Drama Competition.It was a very enjoyable day!
We left the school at 9:15 and arrived at 10:50.We didn't have to preform our plays until 1 o'clock so we had time to go to McDonald and get something to eat.After we had had something to eat everyone got into their costumes and each group had a chance to practise before going out to preform in font of the judges.
My groups drama went really well but before we went on stage everyone was quite nervous.After we did our play we got to watch the other group do their play.After each group had preformed we had an hour and a half to do whatever we liked until the bus came to take us home.Some peopls stayed an watched the other schools preform and other went to the sweet shop.
But a few girls and I decided to go for a walk(well more like a run) to the playground around the corner.There;we went on the basket and a zip wire,then we walked over to a small lake and saw some ducks and swans and there was some exercise machines there to so we went on them for a while and took lots of photos;but then it started to rain.We started to walk back to our meeting place when it started to lash rain;we all got soaked as we ran down the road.I stepped in loads of puddles and by the time we got back we were all drenched.When we got back we dried our hair under the hand dryers in the bathrooms and put our coats on the radiators;we all thought our teacher was going to give out but she didn't seem to mind because we got back in time for the bus.
Today I had a really good time and I hope we (or the other group) get through to the national finals so we can go to Cork for the competition!

Music and Drama

Today in music class we were told that the annual music night is going to be in March.Our music teacher thought it would be a good idea if instead of doing 1 song we are going to mix a few songs together.We are going to be singing Hall of Fame,Ho Hey and I follow Rivers.Its still a while until the music night but have already started practising in class.Today we started with Hall of Fame and next week we are going to be working on Ho Hey.

Next week my class and I will be taking part in the Briery Gap drama competition.The class is divided into 2 groups and each group will be preforming their drama on Tuesday.All week we have been practising and our play is really coming together now. I'm really looking forward to going to the competition on Tuesday and hopefully we will get through to the national final!Our drama was writen by our group and it is all about  the effects of war.
heres a copy of the script:

Religion drama the effects of war from katiehurley06

Mini Company Presentations

Yesterday as the last part of our mini company experience;every mini company set up a display and did a presentation to be judged.The company's that got the highest points were short listed for the Kildare county final.In each class there was 3 awards given out;1 for display,1 for innovation,and 1 for best report.My company 'SnapShot Frames' got the award for the best display in our class(Síocháin).It was very interesting to listen to the other mini company's presentations because we got to hear about how they came up with their products and how they did market research etc.Even though my company didn't get through to the Kildare county final I have really enjoyed taking part in the mini company project;it was a very time consuming proect but I have learnt a lot about business and working in a large group!

My Mini Company Display and Team!

Teddy Bears!

Since we are finished our Junk Kouture project we are now making teddy bears in Home Ec class!Over the Christmas holidays we had to go and get fabric and some other equipment.When we came back to school  we had to trace patterns and cut them out;and now we are pinning them onto our fabric and cutting them out!My teddy bear is going to be purple!

BT Young Scientist

Yesterday all the TYs and second years went on a trip to the RDS in Dublin to see the Young scientist exhibition.We left the school at 9 o'clock and arrived at the RDS at around 10.I went to go see the stand from our school;they did their project on how the weight of school bags effect peoples spines.It was really interesting and I learnt lots.I learnt that if you are good at maths you will be good at music;which is actually true because I'm not very good at either subject but my friend is really good at maths and she is also good at music.In the RDS I saw a robot and loads of projects.I got lots of free stuff which was really cool;I got a tree which I am going to plant I'm my back garden and I also go lots of posters,pens and pencils!It was a really good day even tough it was my 3rd time going.

Back to school!

Since we have been back from our Christmas holidays we have been getting back our exam results and projects.
In geography we got back our 'My Trip Around The World' project back and now we are starting to do medical geography so we each have a disease which we have to research and find out where it comes from and where it is most common.We only started in class yesterday but I already find it really interesting because we never really did anything about the geography of diseases last year.
In art we are starting a new project because we are done our Junk Kouture project;now we are doing portraits of our favourite famous person using the inside of cassette tapes.
In science this term we are working on our sci-fest projects because we didn't get into the Young Scientist competition.
Tomorrow we are going into Dublin to the RDS to see the young scientist exhibition and our art teacher is hoping to take us on a trip to the art museum near Easter,we also have our retreat and smile a mile to look forward to this term too.

I am doing my Sci-fest project in a group of 3!We are doing our project on Dreams!We want to find out what causes dreams and what influences them.We have lots of work to do because the competition is really soon.Survey,results and repots have to be written,so we have to work very hard.