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.

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.