G-Eazy!!

Here is a lovely pic of my fave man G-EAZY!!!!!!! Hes a beautiful rapper and is finally coming to Ireland on the 22nd of may!!! I'm o excited I'm going to see him with my pals and its going to be amazing.  Its in the academy so I'm gonna be so close to him. My fave song off his new album (When its dark out) is probably calm down or everything will be okay.  GO BUY HIS ALBUM!!

Sci fest!

Aoife and I are doing a science project for sci-fest.  We originally applied for the BT young scientist but sadly did not make the cut so we are now doing it for sci-fest.  We have always been told by our parents and grandparents and so on that texting is so bad for your education, Aoife and I were both victims of this silly harassment from our parents so we decided to see if they were right, to see if texting really has affected the English language.

To prove this theory we must test students and adults of all ages, we must ask them to text a set message as they usually would an then also write out that same set message in their best english possible, so far we have tested students in N.K.E.T.S and Scoil Naomh Bríd both in celbridge, we have also tested TY students from our school and will be testing students in Lucan Community College and Maynooth Post Primary this coming Thursday.  We Have sent emails and letters to many other schools asking for permision but these schools are slow to reply so our project has taken off to a slow start.

We are both very excited about our project and hope that we go on to suceed in the sci-fest competition, this is also a learning experience for us and we have discussed this with each other already.  I feel much more mature and confident after going to these schools, writing letters and emails and also speaking to principals and students and also teachers.

We have also been in contact with many other people for help with our project we were very excited when we were in contact with the minister for education Jan O'Sullivan.  We were in contact over email and she was very helpful with our project and we appreciated her help so greatly. We were also in contact with her over twitter and got a follow back from her. We made a twitter account for our science project to contact Jan and to get publicity. (@txtg8) FOLLOW US:)))

Mini Company

For my mini company I am in a group with Linda, Claire and Megan.  We are doing snowmen made out of jars, It sounds weirder than it is.  We bought jars and we are stacking three on top of each other, the bottom jar contains sweets varying from bon bons, maltesers, apple drops, candycanes and lots more.  The second jar contains hot chocolate or sugars sticks, there are three different types of hot chocolate; cadbury's, maltesers and galaxy.  The top jar contains marshmallows either mini white and pink ones or yellow and pink flower shaped ones.

To remember the french people who died in the recent bombings and shootings, we have made a french themed set of jars and the money we earn from it will go to  a charity called French Secours Populaire.  Which provides aid during emergencies in the county. Below is a chart of how the moneys money is being distributed.

Distribution of public generosity

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• 56%: Social Missions in France (€ 12.2 million)
• 12%: Social missions abroad (€ 2.6 million)
• 15%: fundraising expenses (€ 3.2 million)
• 16.8%: Operating cost (€ 3.6 million)
• 0.2%: Gross fixed assets (€ 0.05 million)

I believe that it must be very hard for all the people in france at such a tough time so i think it nice to help as much as we can.

Kilkenny Art Trip

On the 24th of September our whole year went on a trip to Kilkenny on an art trip, the two teachers who came with us were Mrs.Brogan and Mrs.Carpenter.  We went on one large coach and another small coach.  We were split into groups for our buses and there wasn't many on my bus so the bus was nice and quiet for the long trip down to kilkenny.  we left the school at 9:05 we didn't even go into school we just got our itineraries and got on our bus.  When we got there we were already late and so we were in a very big hurry to the cinema, we got to the cinema and we were allowed to buy popcorn and sweets before we went in.  The cinema was really warm but it was kind of nice compared to the cold outside.  The movie we got a special screening of was called 'The Song Of The Sea'.  It was such a good movie and it had an amazing story line, I love all the characters Irish accents and the drawings and animations were so cute and very well drawn.  My favorite character was either Cú the dog or Saoirse the innocent little sister who also ends up being a Selkie.

straight after our cinema trip we walked back up to the castle, almost getting run over by a few cars here and there,  In the castle there was a a workshop/showroom thing where we got to learn all about how it was made and all the components that are used to make up the movie.  we got to see things such as first sketches and final drafts.  We were also told all about how people got the ideas for the characters and how much work was put into each second of the movie.  It takes 12 drawings to make one second of the movie.  The final room we went to had a real life set up of one of the characters from the movie it was so cool and interesting to see and the character was very funny so I found it funny too. 

After our groups little tour around the castle we got to have lunch some of us went to the little cafe and got tea and a snack, we were allowed to roam around the castle so we went down to the market and Eilis bought a chocolate cake pop. We took lots of pictures and talked to lots and lots of tourists who loved our 'catholic school' uniform.  We got loads of funny photos and group pictures in front of the castle.  There was so many pretty things to take pictures of such as the beautiful gardens.