Everyday Is A Fashion Show And The World Is The Runway ~ Coco Chanel

This week was the much awaited St. Wolstan's Fashion Show. The fashion show was held over two days, Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th of November in the Celbridge Manor Hotel. Rehearsals had been going on for weeks and I think that all the practice  that models,singers, dancers went through really paid off on the two nights. The models looked great, they had gotten their clothes from shops in Liffey Valley, Naas, Maynooth, Celbridge and Leixlip. I discovered some shops that I had never heard of before and without a doubt my Christmas list has grown....A lot.

The Entertainment

Ty Models

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 The Transition year Mini Companies also got a chance to show their products . This meant a lot of work for the TYs because we had to get our products ready to sell and organize our display along with most of TY busy doing other things for the Fashion Show and we also had our school work on top of it. It has been a busy few weeks.

This is my Mini Company

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On Tuesday we went to Carton House to see an Art Exhibition. It was called Vanishing Art, the idea behind it was that artistic techniques were being lost in modern art and in the exhibition there was pieces of modern art that were made using old techniques. 

On the way we were told that the Irish Rugby team was going to be there !! We were sitting on steps writing about what we saw that day and none other than Johnny Sexton came out the doors!! We were all very excited and happy 

Business Meetings

This week we had a workshop for our Mini Companies. We spent four classes in the library. In these classes we got to hear about what we needed to do to make our products. Serena (She gave the Workshop) told us about keeping records of what we spend, how to get the best results from our surveys and some clever and not so clever marketing techniques.
 This meant that we could get a lot of progress done on our product. In my group we are making a make up bag with a wrap around bamboo make up brush holder. To keep your make up and brushes together but keep your brushes as clean as possible.
  We started production on Monday and after breaking a hot glue gun and burning our hands a few times( hot glue hurts !!!!!) We completed the first ever Bam Beauty Make Up bag.
 We are very excited to be selling at the fashion show in Celbridge Manor Hotel on the 25th and 26th of November.

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My Digital Dossier

Digital Dossier is an accumulation of digital tracks you have left behind on the computer

Your digital dossier begins before you are even born, when your mother gets an ultrasound of you. This is the first picture taken of you it may be sent to other people through email etc., a copy is also kept in your file in the doctor's office. This is the beginning your digital dossier. Then when you are born and your parents text or ring friends and family to tell them that their baby was born,the time and how much they weigh this may even include a photograph. All of this information is also kept in your doctor's file as well.
 As you grow older, your parents take photographs of you. Your first step, first pair of shoes, first day of school and other milestones. These photographs may be put onto social media sites such as Facebook, twitter etc. Your digital dossier is already very large before you even contribute to it yourself.
 When you get older you join computer games like club penguin or stardoll, you give your name age and gender on these sites. This adds even more information to your digital dossier. When you get even older you join social media sites such as Facebook and twitter. Here you give out your likes and dislikes, your  birthday, where you live and what school you went to. You also post videos, pictures and post about things that you have done. This is all adding to your digital dossier.
 As you grow older you add more to your digital dossier. When you get a credit card, every time you buy something it is recorded. When you buy a house or get married there is documents that you have to fill out this will add to your digital dossier. Everything that we do adds to our digital dossier sometimes it is positive other times it is negative and sometimes we don't even know that we are adding to our digital dossier.

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Walk in my Shoes

Today is Mental Health Day. To raise awareness for mental health we gave a donation of €2 to the St. Patrick's Mental Health foundation to help raise awareness for positive mental health in young people. We all wore funky shoes along with non uniform to show how we were walking in other people's shoes.

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It was great to see everyone's funky shoes and to see everyone supporting such a great cause because people rarely talk about young people's mental health 

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Wake Me Up Before You Go Go .....

This week was very busy. I had Work Experience on Wednesday. The school mass and our funwalk was on Thursday too.
  In work experience I did a lot of office work, this meant scanning, answering phones,writing addresses on envelopes and sorting the post that had to be sent out. It was good to see how in a lab it is not only about testing things there is other aspects as well.
 In the school Mass I was singing along with my music class, another TY music class and a 5th year music class. This was good as I have never sung in a choir before so it was a new experience.
  After the mass we had our funwalk. We had been preparing for this all week. All the TYs had to wear yellow and each class in the school had to preform a dance. My class, Aurora danced to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by WHAM!. We had great fun showing the school and the judges our dance moves that we had been working on all week. After everyone was finished dancing we set off on our walk. When we got back to the school it was time to go home. The day flew by.
  When I went into school the next day we waited for the announcement to see who won the dance from our year. My Class Won! We were all delighted and got a box of chocolates as our prize. I was delighted that we won because I hadn't won before

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Work Experience Wednesday !!!!!

This week was the first week that we did work experience. I was very lucky and got the chance to go into the Micro-Biology lab in St James's Hospital. My mam drove me in St.James's, it is in the city centre which meant we left at 9:00 am to get there by 10:00 am. When I arrived I was greeted by my supervisor Ms Barry. She brought me up to her office where she explained to me about what is done in the lab. She also told me to be very careful in the lab and to wash my hands after every time I go in there. I washed my hands a lot more than usual on Wednesday.

 I was then given the oppurtunity to accompany three medical students as they were told about the lab. The three girls were very nice and it was very interesting to learn about all the different bacterias that cause illness even though it semed like they were talking in a different language. I saw how to make a gram stain. You have to do this before you look at a sample through a microscope. I also got to look in a microscope to see if a sample was gram negative or gram positive, this is just putting bacteria into two different categories. 

 After this I had lunch with the med students. After lunch I then went to Journal Club. This is where one person talks about a case study they recently encountered that they found interesting. On Wednesday it was about a woman who presented with signs of a stroke but it was later found out that it was infact a brain aneurysm. They were still unsure of the cause but some people thought that it was because she had gotten a tooth pulled out and this led to the aneurysm.

 After journal Club I went back into the lab to learn about how to test for susceptibility in bacterias. This was very interesting but again I felt like they were speaking a different language but I undestood some of it. 

 After this part of being in the lab I then went into the office where i was given lots and lots of papers to scan into a machine and then put it into the system so when a person wanted to know about a test that had been done in James's they could ring and give there code and all the information on the pieces of paper that I scanned would appear on the screen of who ever looked for it in the hospital.

 I finished my day at 4:00pm. It was very interesting and busy aswell. I can't wait until I go back next week.

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Shower in the 'Fountain of Youth'

This week we went to Carlingford on Monday and Tuesday. We had a very early start, we all had to be on the bus at 7am. We arrived in Carlingford about two hours later where we were assigned to our rooms and then went straight to the beach to put our wet suits on and get into the water. I was in group B. This meant that I did kayaking it was lots of fun even though we were not able to go in a straight line. When we were finished we had lunch and had some free time.
         After lunch group went to the laser lane where we were given our camonesies (camouflage onesie) and we headed up the hill with guns in hand which may have scared a few of the local people. When we reached the top of the hill we had lots of fun trying to shoot each other. After laser tag we went down the hill to have dinner. We were all were very hungry so we couldn't wait to get our dinner. We then had free time until 7 which was when we were going to do our next activity, nightline. Nightline was when we walked up a hill in the dark while being blindfolded. We had one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of us and held onto a rope with our other hand. It was very fun but also very scary.
     The next day we were up bright and early to go back into the water. This time we did canoeing. This was very fun we went out to the sea trampoline where we jumped into the sea. After this we went to the 'fountain of youth'. We climbed into a dark tunnel where we had freezing cold water thrown over us. We then tied all of the boats together while Peaches, one of the instructors brought us back to the shore with the speedboat while we sang a song about a bird with a yellow bill.
    After lunch we went to the challenge course, this was about team building. I thought that it was very fun. After our challenge course we sadly had to go home. We all got on the bus and made or way back home.
        The next day we were all very tired and had very bad colds but we luckily had a day of workshops which was a lot of fun. We had an etiquette workshop, a personal development workshop and a workshop about work experience which I will be starting next week, I am very excited and nervous for it .
 We also went to NUI in Maynooth where we had a presentation about our mini company. I am very excited to get started on that aswell.


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Receiving Results

      This was the week that many of us were waiting for. Most of us were dreading it but we were still waiting for it. We got our Junior Cert results on Wednesday 10th September. We all gathered in the hall and lined up in our base classes. We were given our reusults in a brown envelope and were then allowed to leave. I was very nervous to open my results but once I did I was happy with my results. It was good to see how all of the hard work over the past three years was worth it. That night most people went out to celebrate. It was great fun, I really enjoyed it. However I did not enjoy the next day. We had to go back to normal. School started at 9:05 am and everyone was expected to be present. The TYs went around the school looking like zombies.
             
     Next Monday and Tuesday we are going to Carlingford. I am really excited because I have heard thatn it is very fun. I will write about all that we did next week.

                                   

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Let the Fun Begin.......

Last week was our first full week as TY students. This meant that we had our first workshops. On Wednesday morning everyone came into school dressed in our full school tracksuit. My class, Class Aurora began the day with a first aid workshop. We learned many things from how to tie a sling if you hurt your arm to how to preform CPR. The workshop was very interesting.

   

    After our break we had an etiquette  workshop. The two ladies told us all about body image and body shapes. After this we brought our heels and a book to the second year mall where there was a red carpet set up for us to walk on . We started by walking in our normal shoes. We had to keep our heads up and shoulders back. Then we moved onto putting a book on our heads and not letting it fall off. We then put on our heels and walked the runway.When we returned we talked about tights and many other things. We ended the workshop by exfoliating our hands and putting moisteriser on. We all left the workshop with hands like babies bottoms.

  

      After lunch we went to our last workshop of the day which was called Positive Parties. This was a very fun workshop. We got lots of sweets and did lots of dancing to happy positive music.Although it was a party I learned a lot of things about being positive and how to stay positve. We were told to listen to  happy music,exercise or dance, laugh , watch a feelgood film or read a positive book.

  I really enjoyed these workshops and I cannot wait to do more in the future.

                  

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                                Aoibhin x