TY night :)

On the 29th of May we are having our TY night to show our parents what we have done throughout the year. We will have different stands to show off each subject and what we have done in that subject, we will also have performances  to do, we have "Seasons of Love" to sing to represent our year together. We have been doing Zumba since after Christmas so we have a dance put together to show and also we have done another dance with one of the teachers in school which is 1920's dancing and we are doing it to the song - "Pencil full of Led" by Paolo Nutini. Im excited to preform it and see what my parents think. There are many other things we are doing. I will put up pictures from it :) 

Rachel x

Sci-Fest :)

Yesterday, The 9th of May all TYs headed off to the sci-fest science competition in Tallaght IT. My project is with Meg and Aoibheann and we did ours on the North Atlantic Drift and it was called "Could this be a Cool Current". It was really interesting and we were doing it on how Ireland's weather and how it could be effected in years to come because of the icebergs melting and global warming. It was a really good project to do and we learned about how animals are being affected. Yesterday we got to go around and see everyones projects and it was good :)

Geography Project :)

So for our next geography project we have to pick a topic and do the geog of it. So I decided to do mine on the geog of cocoa beans in Ghana and the primary, secondary and tertiary activities. Its such an interesting project to do as it really explains where the Cadbury chocolate we eat comes from and I love cadbury chocolate. It's weird to think where our chocolate comes from and how much of a process it goes through. Other girls are doing projects on hurricanes to the geog of dance and their is a wide variety. 
Thats all for now, 
Rachel xo 

Gaisce :)

On Friday all TY's headed off to Kippure Center in Wicklow to do the hike for Gaisce presidents award. To do this award we had to take up 1 new skill, 1 new sport and a community involvement for 13 weeks and in one for 26 weeks so since I have started volunteering in Rapheal's every Wednesday, I have done tennis since September and I've also done piano since September. Then we go on a 25km hike in the Wicklow Mountains which is where we went on Friday and we stayed over. On Friday we did 13.5km and then we went back to our houses and stayed over and we had to cook our own meals it was great fun :) We got up on the Saturday at half 7 and we did another 13k it was hard but everybody motivated each other and we finally got it done we were home by 6 and id say everybody had a great sleep that night! 
Thats all for now
Rachel x