Songs with meaning...

In English we were all asked to chose a song that had meaningful lyrics. We then all got to play bits of our song on you tube in class. There was many different types of music and songs. Some people had some of the same artists. Many people had The Script as did I. The Script's songs are always meaningful and everyone can relate to them.
   I chose "Millionaires" by The Script. The meaning behind it is that money doesn't matter. We don't need money to fulfill our lives. Instead the idea is too live life to the fullest and to spend your time like your're a MILLIONAIRE!


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Hair Couture

For our mini company we are arranging a book with step by step hairstyles. 

So if you are stuck for what to do with your hair for a party, or if you need something quick and simple for school "Hair Couture" is easy to use and very effective. 

    It is going to be on sale in our school very soon and is not only a useful book to have but also a great present for friends, sisters, cousins, mams and aunties! Bonus it is super cheap! 

 

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Once Upon a Time.....

We were recently given an english assignment to take a fairytale and change the ending. Instead of everyone living happily ever after we have to change it.
    We are in pairs and we have to write a dialogue for the new ending of a fairytale. After we have done this later on in the year each pair will have to perform their scene in front of the class. My partner and I are doing "Hansel and Gretel". We have loads of good ideas on how we are going to change the perfect ending and make sure that there is no happily ever after.

Sci-Fest!

This week my partner Rosie and I started our sci-fest experiment. We are testing how much bacteria is on make up brushes and sponges if you don't wash them. This week we have started using make up utensils and washing one but not the other to show howmuch bacteria grows on them. We are doing htis for three weeks and then we are doing an experiment using nutrient agar t show the presence of bacteria on the make up brushes and sponges.
     It is really interesting and hopefully will be loads of fun and will teach us a lesson about cleaning our make up brushes. I'll keep you posted on how it goes!

A nice Surprise!

Last Thursday we went to the Mini Company talk in Naas cinema. This was our second mini company talk with Orla. However after we had been there for about 45 minutes and Orla still hadn't turned up the teachers discovered she had been unfortunately taken to hospital that morning.
    We all didn't want to head back to school and we soon foud out that Naas cinema were going to let us watch "Skyfall" the new James Bond movie. We couldn't believe it and it only became real when the lights went down and the screen lit up. We also got free popcorn, sweets and drinks in our new Madagascar cups.
   It was a fun day in the end and we were so hyper on our way back to school!

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Full Speed Ahead!

We are all definitely settled into TY by now and the weeks are starting to fly by already. I can't believe that it is nearly midterm already!! 

   Next Friday is our dress up day for Halloween. TY's theme is Zombies! Can't wait to see what outfits everyone comes in with. It is sure to be a good day. 

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   At the moment we have lots of projects to do and we are so busy with all the work that seems to be piling up. We recently did our maths project on a famous mathematician, myself and Alannah did Archimedes. We found out loads about him as a mathematician and we also discovered that the owl in a Disney movie was named after him!! 

  At the moment we are watching "The Pursuit of Happiness" in religion to teach us about poverty. It is a sad movie but we are all learning loads. Unfortunately we have to say goodbye to our present religion teacher. We thank her for all she has done and we look forward to seeing her in the future. link

Junk Kouture

At the start of TY all of us had to get into groups of three as we are all entering in the Junk Kouture competition. We all must make a dress entirely out of recycled materials. My fellow designers in my group are Alana and Liz. Our dress is going to be completely decorated with BOTTLECAPS. Colourful bottlecaps  that we collected from the many pubs in Celbridge.
     One day myself and Alana went around to all of the pubs collecting as many bottlecaps as we could and now we have hundreds of bottlecaps. So now we spend our Art, Home Ec and TY design classes paper   mashaing our skirt and sewing bottletops onto our bodice. We spent hours at the start of the year with a hammer and nail hammering two holes into each individual bottletop. Hopefully when it's finished it will all have been worth it !!

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