Green Poppies.

In Mr.Kennedy's amazing history class we are currently colouring in green poppies with red in the middle, these poppies represent all the Irish soldiers who died in world war one.  I think it is such an amazing and thoughtful thing to do as nobody ever thinks about the Irish soldiers who died only the English.  I don't have any pictures of the ones we've done, so this will have to do.

We are going to ask students and teachers to wear them on their chests on the 11th of November, sadly the 11th of November is a Wednesday and the TY's who made them wont be in school but Mr.Kennedy will be able to tell us how it goes in our next history class. Professor Keith Jeffery gives a figure of 210,000 Irish men who served for the British in world war one.  Many people think that at least 35,000 died though the figure on the National War Memorial is 49,400.

Work Experience

I am doing my work experience in Cullen and O'Beirne solicitors in Dublin, I was very excited my first time as my dream job is to do something in law.  I was so nervous before I went in I was sitting on the bus and my stomach was doing somersaults, I had no idea what to expect.  I went into the Capel building at 9 a.m on Wednesday the 3rd of November and went to use the elevator which i realized was for employees only, i had no idea what to do so i went up to reception and told them why i was here and the woman was very helpfully and sent em straight up.  I didn't know what my employer looked like so I was scared I would embarrass myself and call someone by the wrong name but they were all very nice and lovely to talk to.  ever since then work experience has been a blast, every Day I've been filing and sorting mail and photocopying etc. and I get to go for a lovely lunch in McDonald's, I don't like getting up extra early but I suppose its worth it to have a good day at work experience.