Breakfast is good!.. In school, with all your TY heads, tis even better! :D

On Wednesday the 15th of December, our fellow TY heads from class Emnet organised a lovely Christmas breakfast for our class, Amina.
They set up the tables in the 2nd year mall with delicious breakfast food like, brioche toast, tea, coffee etc. They put in a huge effort to this event. The girls in Emnet wanted to do this as a little gesture of kindness at Christmas time.
We took loads of pictures and we had a great time dancing away to our favourite Christmas songs. Our TY coordinator even joined in on the fun. We ended the breakfast with a big train of all the TY girls and our coordinator swinging the around the mall.
To show our appreciation of what the girls in Emnet did for us, we made them a nice card. We made it using the Christmas colours of red and green. The girls in Emnet were thrilled with the card that we gave to them.
It was a great way to finish up for the Christmas holidays.

Niamh! :D

Put the eggs and bread on top! :)

Last weekend, the Irish Cancer Society had a bag-packing session in our local Tesco supermarket. Two girls in our year organised a list and timetable for anybody in the year who wanted to volunteer on one or two of the days. I volunteered on Saturday morning for three hours. There were plenty of volunteers on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon aswell.
We had to cover whatever tills were open and we also had a table at the entrance of the supermarket for selling raffle tickets and badges and candles. We took turns in selling at the table and packing the bags.
It was a very good, worthwhile cause. We ended up collecting a fabulous total of 2,600 euro.
There is another list for this Sunday in the same supermarket. Hopefully we will be as successful with the money that we raise and with the number of volunteers that we get.

The best packers!!! :D

Niamh! :D

Strutt your shtuff!!! :D

On Friday the 10th of December, we had our home economics fashion show. The show was on from two o'clock until the end of the school day. It was a really good, fun and enjoying afternoon in school. We were modelling the outfits that we made in our groups before the snow holidays.
There are three home ec classes in TY. In each class there were four or five smaller groups. There were fourteen different outfits to be modelled. I was the model for my group in my class. Each outfit was fabulous in its own, unique way. My outfit resembled a love bug or ladybug.
Even though it was good fun modelling the outfit, it was still rather embarrassing! There were fifth years watching us, a lot of who did their Junior Cert with me and who I knew pretty well. There were also first years watching us but it wasn't as embarrassing to model for them. The judges were Ms L and Ms O'H. They were really impressed with the different styles in each group. Our home ec teacher Ms McA, our year coordinator Ms L, the P.E teacher Mr L and the chaplain Mr K were all aslo watching us the fashion show. 
I walked to the song "firework" by Katy Perry. The judges were impressed with our outfit and mood board. In the end, there were six winners. My group was one of those winners. There was no overall winner as the two judges couldn't come to a decision as to whose outfit and presentation was the best. The six winners won a big tin of roses.. They were delicious! :)
Even though at times the making of the outfit was quite stressful, in the end it was all worth it.



The fourteen stunning models.. and Stepho!!! :L

 Niamh! :D

Christmas dress-up day!

Yesterday was our annual Christmas themed dress-up day in school. This time round we weren’t given specific themes for each year group. We just had an overall theme of Christmas. A good few people in our year made a great effort.

There were presents, santas, sheppards, kings, elves, a Mary and we even had a Coca-cola truck! I wanted to dress up as a reindeer but unfortunately I didn’t find a costume in time. Instead, I pinned a stocking to my jumper. I filled the stocking with sweets and gave them out to everyone throughout the day.

The winners in TY were Chloe and Ruth. They were the Coca-cola truck. Chloe was the driver dressed as Santa Claus and Ruth was in the back dressed as Rudolf, with a red flashing nose!

Overall, it was a great day with lots of Christmas Spirit throughout the school!

Niamh! :D

Pilates- Lets tighten those ‘not-so-tight’ muscles!

On Wednesday for double PE we had a lesson in Pilates. A lady, called Angela, came into us to give us this class. It was a relaxing class. We learned how to tighten our core muscles in a proper way. We also learned how to breathe properly whilst doing exercise.

Some of the exercises were difficult to achieve at first but I think everybody grasped it after a few trials and errors!

Pilates class seems to be really worthwhile and is great for preventing injuries and bad postures. It is a great opportunity and experience for us in TY.

Niamh! :D

Meditation! (A.K.A: Falling asleep!)

In pastoral care on Tuesday, Ms K.B did a meditation with us. It was really really good. I think most of the class actually fell asleep! It was enjoyable and very relaxing. It helped me to get rid of any stress I had. We should meditate more often in school!

Niamh! :D

Cookies... Delicious!

On Tuesday for our double home economics class period, we baked chocolate chip cookies. They were absolutely delicious! I baked with C-Dog (Chloe!). We started off well and we ended with a great result. The cookies were really simple to make. We only needed some margarine, some sugar, some flour and some chocolate.

For some strange reason, the mixture didn’t turn into a dough. We had to use our hands to squeeze the mixture together and then into small balls.

We were able to tell which balls of the mixture belonged to who because my hands are small so I had really small cookies!!! Ha!

Me and C-Dog worked really well together as a team!

Niamh! :D

Snow School! :)

On Monday, the 29^th of November, we all got off school 10 minutes early. This was due to the snow that was pelting down from the sky. 10 minutes may seem like a pointless time frame. But when you’ve been in school all day long, looking out at the snow, not being allowed to go out in it, 10 minutes means everything!

When our principal announced that we were getting off early, everyone went wild! It was great. We all ran outside the school and started throwing snowballs at each other. Snow was coming at me from every direction.

For the rest of that week we were off school. It snowed heavily most of the days. The heaviest snowfall was on Wednesday night and into Thursday. We had about 8 to 10 inches of soft, powdery snow on the ground outside. Even though it was cold outside, the snow made everything look so beautiful.

During our snow holidays, I spent a while every morning working on the different projects that I have due in the next week or two. I made really good progress on these projects, which allowed me then to go and enjoy the snow without feeling guilty or without the thoughts of projects hanging over my shoulders!

Niamh! :D