Ho Hey, Hall of Fame and I Follow Rivers ....

                       St. Wolstan's Community School presents its Annual Music Night!

This week, we had quite a busy week! We had our Music Night! Which always promises to be a great night full of music and fun! As TY's we all wanted to do our Music teachers proud and raise the roof! Us, Class Síocháin had a medley of songs to sing. It began with Ho Hey by The Lumineers, then it went into The Hall of Fame by The Script and then finally into I Follow Rivers by Lykke Li! I was personally very excited to this medley because I love The Lumineers and I like the song I Follow Rivers(it's so catchy!) The other two classes were really good too! Cairdeas sang the song Hello, but it was really cool because they put in claps and stamps which was really amazing! Cinealtas had an Ed Sheeran medley to sing, it was really beautiful to listen too. I really love Ed Sheeran so I especially enjoyed that! The week coming up to the Music Night was filled with rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal! Especially the Thursday, just a matter of hours before the show was on! We were all told the dress-code, black appropriate clothing. We were not on til the second half so we had some time to hang around the first year mall and have a sing-song, which was personally my favourite part of the night but poor Ms.H had to endure our singing which I am afraid to say was probably out of tune at best, but it was fun none the less.  When we took to the stage all went well and we did great if I do say so myself! I was glad to have the opportunity to partake in the Night and had a great night!

Over and Out,

Corrie!

A Week of Fun!

Another week of TY has flown by in a flash! It began with double Art, first class on a Monday morning! Ms.O'S had us work on our cassette pictures. Mine isn't very good to be perfectly honest, Art is not my strong point at all! We played badminton in P.E too, I was kinda bad at that too! Later that day in double Science we got a new teacher, Ms.K, we are doing a Biology module now and it sounds like fun, we will be learning about  Genetics and Evolution! 

On Tuesday we had double Tech. with Mr.W and it was really fun! We had a great discussion about Les Misérables, it was quite fascinating really!  We had English too and we looked at The Artist, it is such a good movie! I love it so much!  I also had double Home Ec. and we made Thai Curry! It was so nice and really tasty!

Thursday, we had a trip to Trinity College for a talk by Intel. It was really good and fun! We learned about engineers and how in the future 75% of all jobs will be in either Tech or Science! I found this really cool as I want to go into the Science field when I'm older! When we got back we had Mini. Co. and we watched The Apprentice, it was really good and we saw how the other people branded there cereals!

Then it was Friday and so far today we had Maths which was fun because we are going things on Statistics so we got to count sweets and then eat them! I enjoyed the second part immensely!! We also found out we got awards for our drama, we got the adjudicators award for best atmosphere and  we we came runner up too! We also finished watching the Pursuit of Happiness! It was class! We got a talk from Ian Daly too, it was about how Swim a Mile came about, it was a sad story but it was quite inspirational too!

To Macroom and Beyond .... !!

Well, our drama get through to the Cork Finals of The Briery Gap Drama Competition. Our play was about Homelessness in today's society, how quickly life can change and karma. Basically, a really rich family that look down on homeless people end up on the streets. But disaster struck, the Wesley Choir Competition and Sci-Fest in Schools was on the same day! People had to decide which one they were going to attend and a lot of changing and swapping roles happened with just a small about of panic. In the end we had enough people to fill the roles! It was quite an experience in itself! We practiced everyday and got lots of great advice off all the teachers. So, at just after half eleven on Friday, we packed up the mini bus and we off to Macroom in Cork. It was a long journey but we had sugar and our i-pods so it was really fun, we all felt sorry for Ms.G and Ms.C who  very kindly agreed to accompany us because they had to listen to our out of tune and quite awful singing! When we arrived in the Briery Gap theater some of the girls got a bit nervous, it was really funny (at the time it wasn't funny but thinking back on it now it is!) we had a mini crisis with the music and lighting but it all went grand thanks to the lads from KH who helped us out in our little panic. Also, Ms. C helped us greatly with our transitions and which side of the stage we had to be on! The play itself went good (I think, I hope) after our drama it was time to hit the road again! It was a good bus journey home! We stopped in McDonald's and everything! As well, Ciara, Ciara and I told ghost stories as it was dark, it was really funny and to be one hundred per cent honest I was a tinchy bit freaked out, but I am kinda a coward when it comes to things like that! When we finally got into Kildare, we hit traffic and had to go the back roads back to Celbridge! We arrived home at about eight thirty! It was such a great day and one of the best experiences of TY, I would recommend anyone to try and enter if they can! It's just the best!
Over and Out,
Corrie!!

From Djembe to Lollipops!

It's Monday, the first day back after Mid-Term and we had a Djembe Workshop! It was the best fun ever! Dave, the instructor showed us all different types of Djembe drums and how to play the Djembe drum! It was really fun to get to see different West African culture. We started off with how to hit the skin of the drum properly without getting our hands sore, its all about making a triangle with your hands! Then we did a call and drummed out a rhythm and did cool little hand movements! After that we got a more difficult rhythm and added more instruments into the mix and Dave gave out traditional West African hats! It was a really great day and we all had a blast!

On Friday, we had another brilliant day! We got to collect for Lollipop Day, who are campaigning for the Oesphagael  Cancer Fund in Ireland. It was really good to do because we got to help a great cause. Myself, Ciara and Juliette we together in a group. We were kitted out in a Lollipop Day t-shirt and a Cap we also had two buckets that had pink balloons on them! We were then sent out, our group was on the corner of Molesworth Street and Dawson Street! People were so generous and friendly towards us! It was really nice to see people give money to such  a worthy cause.