Green Day

On the 13th March 2015, we had our annual 'Green Day'. Everyone was to come in wearing something green. Anything at all, be it a hairband or sparkly shoes. We were to also donate 2 euro to charity. It was a fun day for a good cause.

At lunch, there was a little show at the courtyard. I saw girls Irish dancing and it seemed like great fun. Everyone was cheering and overall having a good time. 

If you walked around the school, you would see different types of unique costumes. I saw leprechauns, fairies, soldiers, football players, farmers and many many more. The school was all green, literally. 

Selma

On Tuesday 10th March 2015, the whole of transition year went to go see the film 'Selma'. We went to the Liffey Valley Vue cinema to see it. The history teachers thought it was be a great way to let us learn more about the Civil Rights Act.

We left the school at around 12:30. When we got to the cinema, everyone raced to the cashiers to get their snacks. You could just see the line packed with students from our school. After we got our snacks, we went and watched the movie.

The movie was about an hour and a half long and I liked to be honest. It really opened my eyes to what happened not very long ago. The ending was the best part. Things were starting to look brighter and Martin Luther King did one of his inspirational speeches.

                               

Our Drum Session

The drum lesson was great but my hands were aching by the end of it. We got to play on these bongos and some were big, some were small. Each drum had a beautiful design to them and it was hard not to look away.

Dave, our instructor was really cool. He gave us these cool rhythms and rhymes to sing when we were playing and it helped when trying to keep the beat. My favourite one was "catch the fish, lets go catch the fish".

Whenever we played the djmebe (the african drums), the whole room would be filled with the sound of our hands banging on the drums. I bet you could hear our drum playing all the way in the other building!

Overall, it was a fun experience.

                                             

SciFest

On March 6th 2015, St. Wolstan's Community School held the Scifest Event. All the transition years had projects to present and I was very excited to present mine.

My project was "The investigation into the affects of retention of information amongst teenagers". In all honesty, I actually enjoyed doing the project. Yes, it was stressful and time pressuring, but in the end it was all worth it.

When I was presenting to the judges, it was no surprise I was nervous as heck. I even broke the scifest wistband that was given to the group. Although, by the time the second judge came to our table, the nerves were beginning to go away and I felt that we presented our project very well. I was proud to be doing this topic for our project. It made me learn a lot and I can use the information I found out in the upcoming future.


When the judges were finished judging, other school years came into the hall to look at our projects. A few came to our table and they asked us a few questions. We gave them tips on how our information would help them with exams and studying and I hope they learned something from our presentation.

At around 3:00, the results were being announced. My nerves started kicking in again and I prayed we would get through to the next round. And we did! Woohh!!

When they called out our project, I was so surprised, happy, shocked all at the same time. It took me awhile to stand up and stand with the rest of the winners. I couldn't stop smiling. I was a great feeling to win something for your hard work.