swim a mile

this past Wednesday, 6/5/2015, we went to the National Aquatic Center to do a charity swim for a local foundation called, Ian Daly, Swim a Mile With a Smile.

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All the money made for the swim a mile go to Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, and also the Barretstown castle. The Ian Daly charity fund was set up by a family who lost there son at age 11 to a brain tumor the doctors had never seen in a child before.  

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This little boy, is Ian Daly and he loved swimming so after he died hes family wanted to do something to remember him and to do something in his honor.

When we got to the nac we told that we could do it in groups or by yourself so we mostly did it in groups 8 people did it by themselves. all 8 finished there 64 widths of the pool. Although most people didn't think they would be able to swim that far by themselves a lot of people swim at least 32 widths or over. i didn't think i would swim the 32 but i swim 46 and would of kept going expect we ran out of time.

after we all finish we got t shirts and we got in a photo, we got changed and then went to Blanchardstown for some well needed retail therapy. 

scifest and basketball match

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sci-fest was on the 6th of march. unfortunately i wasn't able to stay for the judging as the first years had a basketball match, i went with them as i am there coach. but i was very proud of my group they did really well even though we didn't get though.

Our Project:

our project was  the sensitivity to pressure in the skin. This came up as an idea as Sophie and Sarah were messing and Sarah pricked Sophie with her nail by accident. We then began to think of ideas and we look up on google ‘experiments to do with pressure on the skin.’




these nervous are the ones we tested.

block week with an garda siochana

February 9th - 13th

this week i spent 5 days with leixlip garda station. this was really fun there was four girls from st. wolstans at this block week.

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on Monday the 9th of February we went down to the garda college in tullimore, this was a brilliant experience when we were here we were bought into the dorms, the mock court room and there after hours bar/pub.

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on Tuesday the 8th and Wednesday the ninth of February we went to the courts. i got to sit in on the dwyer murder trail. this was so cool there was so many murder trails on that weren't even in the news or at least i cant remember them. these two days were amazing i learnt so much about the Irish court system and also the structure of the new court buildings. like in the old four courts the family of the victim and the prisoner would be walking past each other entering into the court room. now they are brought in through opposite doors.

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on Thursday the 12th we went to westmanstown for see different units of the the gardas. there was K9 unit, aqua, horse unit were all there, now unfortunately i could not go near the K9 or horse units. 

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on friday the 13th all we did was go to nass and look at the armed force unit.

briery gap competition

this week we went to Mullingar to compete in the briery gap competition, this is a drama competition were you write/act/direct your own play. there were 7 plays entered from our school. the three English teachers came with us to mullingar.


the play i was involved in was entitled schizophrenia, this story is about a teen aged girl call Grace going off her meds and a image of imagination called lucy becomes visable to grace and just grace. in the first sence grace can not find lucy and is scared but then lucy appears and the begin to disscuse the fact that graces mom and dad are trying to make her take her meds.

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the second part of the story is when graces mother is introduced she comes in angry that grace has gone off the meds. the go back a forth, grace giving out to her mother saying that 'lucy is real and a real friend, but you refuse to except her.'



part three is back to lucy and grace, lucy gets annoyed that grace chose her mother over her. grace begans to take the pills and this makes lucy even more angry. grace begins to think that the meds make her worst. this give lucy the advantage. 'i want you to kill her' (lucy). the play finale ends with a gun shot.

so thats al he excitement from this week.

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mini med

the week of the 12th

this week i had mini med which is a medical course for ty students to do for a week it is organised by the royal collage of surgeons Ireland. this week consisted of viewing two live surgeries, a Cesarean section and a laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder. we also had many lectures. this week consisted of two days in the rcsi and three days in Beaumont  hospital.

watching the operations was amazing as we got to ask the surgeons questions while they operated. the Cesarean was live streamed from the rotunda hospital that surgery only took five minutes from skin to baby. where as the gallbladder removal took two hours.

this week really gave me an insight into medicine and made me more determined to get into medicine then i ever was before.

i wont have a social life in fifth and sixth year especially because there is the hpat for hopefully med students top take as well as the leaving cert as you need 700 points to study medicine
  

young scientist exhibition in the rds

on Tuesday the sixth of January we attend the young scientist exhibition in the rds along with the second years in our school. this was really exciting because we had a group of ttys from our school competing this year and they did very well the got highly commended the information was brilliant and was used in a presentation by a man who is trying to get interactive whiteboards in all classes in primary schools. they did so well they had a news article wrote about them in the Irish times.

on Wednesday the seventh we had work experience and it was a new place i was in the playschool i attended all those years ago and  it was so different to the last work placement as the last one was nice and relaxing were as this one you cannot talk your eyes off the kids for a second. but  i'm  not complaining it was a hell of a lot of fun.

on Thursday  the eight we had normal classes and alot of rehearsals for the play which were performing on the 27th of January. im quiet nervous for this.
 
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on Friday the ninth we had a talk about  mini company and it was not fun as we found out that we have to make a presentation to everyone the day of the competition which is not  going to be fun as we have to talk for three minutes, and in practice it was that bad as my group got 2 mins 45 seconds so we need to increase our time by 15 seconds which isn't that bad. also we learnt about the book let we have to do which my group still hasn't finished

fashion show

this week was the schools fashion show and it was brilliant, were all quiet tried from it though. So for the fashion show I was doing mini company and i also was doing hair and make up for a few first years. i did this on Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

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On Tuesday my year head needed help to paint the stage so my class went to the celbrigde manor to paint the runway black and the back round white. that night everyone from mini companies to models to teachers had to be there at 6 pm. then we began to set up our mini companies and I began to do the girls hair and make up. at 7:15 peoples began to arrive and the show didn't start until eight. i have to say I really began to panic at the stage that i realized the girl who's hair i only started was on with in the next ten minutes but then i figured out what i could do. after this it was smooth sailing. Or so i though but of course i was wrong as the mini companies were in the garden room, which was the dressing rooms for the girls, the parents didn't really come in to see the mini companies so we only really sold to students..... I'm not compelling because we made a profit of over 60 euro.

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On Wednesday I didn't a work experience placement so I was in carton house from eight o'clock helping Mrs, Leonard and Mrs. McMahon. i had to organize sheet of paper that Mrs. Leonard had to call  out back stage in order of the fashion show. then i focused on mini company and recounted the money that we made the night before to make sure we had paid everything off. after this Mrs. Leonard had to back to class so i just made sure no one went near the clothes. after school at 3:30 more of the backstage girls came and we began to do a check list to make sure all the clothes were there, they weren't we were missing two pairs of jeans which we later found. this night went fine as everyone was came I found myself calmer on Wednesday then i was on Tuesday.

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