This week was a very busy week. It was the final of our mini companies and it was very stressful getting ready for it. We had to work hard and we were very proud that we got it all done. We got our stand ready on Thursday morning and it turned out looking really well. It was a long day of waiting for everyone to talk about their companies to the judges but eventually it was our turn. We were very nervous and might have missed a few things but overall we done very well and we were happy. We didn't go through to the final but we didn't mind because we had made a profit in our company and that was enough for us. We know that we put in our best effort and that's all you can do. Even at the start of the mini company we weren't expecting to get through because we knew our idea wasn't different but we didn't mind. We learned so much over the few months and it made me realize that I like to do that type of thing. I  hope the girls who got through Iprotect and Bam Beauty do really well because they worked really hard and they deserve it. Mini Company was one of my favorite projects of the whole year.

This week there wasn't much going on. We sold our t-shirts for mini company in the science corridor at lunch. We had work experience on Wednesday and next week is our last week. We're making a music video in music of a song we made up and its fun. We're using garage band to record it and it sounds really good. We're preparing for the presentation of our mini-company next Thursday and we're not ready so we need to hurry up and get something done. We also heard that we are going to be making pancakes and selling them in school to raise money for Temple Street.

Briary Gap

On Tuesday we  performed our play for the Briary Gap Competition in Mullingar. We had been working on it for months. It started off with different groups in the class coming up with ideas and grew from there. We chose to do a play called 'Willow'. In summary it was about William Shakespeare really being a girl and how she was inspired to write the well known play 'The Merchant of Venice' when she was transported through time to WW2. Our play highlighted issues such as antisemitism and sexual discrimination.

I played a Jewish man in the play. It was a small part but I was still nervous before I went on in case I messed it up. Overall i think the play went really well. Everyone performed brilliantly, the sound effects and lighting turned out well, our costumes and make-up looked good and everyone done their part to make it a success. 

All the other plays were also really good. We don't know who got through yet but  were hoping for the best. Even if we don't get through I don't care because we had a lot of fun working together to make the play and to perform it. We all learned alot about performing in front of an audience and how there's so much more going on behind the scenes of a play that you don't even realize. It reminded me of going to see Elf the musical and how much effort must have gone into making the sets, costumes, doing the make-up, writing the script, composing songs, and of course how much the actors must have rehearsed it to make it perfect. 

Fashion Show

This week our school had a fashion show. Lots of people took part. Some were models, some sang, danced and all the mini companies sold at it. Our mini company is selling tie dyed t-shirts.

 We didn't sell any on the first night but we sold four on the second night. It was really fun and i got to see a bit of the fashion show. Everyone looked really good doing the modeling.

I also played guitar at the fashion showand people sang christmas carols.

Road Safety

This week we had a road safety talk from two Garda. It was two hours long and we learned loads about road safety. We watched some really sad videos about victims of var crashes and their families. It really makes you think more about how dangerous driving can be because you don't really think about it much. The talk was kinda boring after a while but at the end we watched some funny videos.


There's lots of stuff i didn't know about road safety before the talk. I thought I knew more about it than I did. We learned that there's alot less deaths from car crashes now than there used to be but this year it's going up again. I hope that the numbers of people that die in car crashes keeps going down until there's none anymore.

Work Experience

This week I started a new work experience because I didn't like the place I was doing it in. I didn't have much to do there and it was really boring. I started my new one in 'The Waverley Academy.'

I got to do some of a hairdressing course there. It was really good. I learned how to dry hair, curl it and do up-styles. I hope that in the other weeks I'll learn how to cut and dye hair as well. I was also working in the office which wasn't as                                                         fun but it kept me busy                                                                                                                                           so it was good.

Young Scientist

We were also getting ready for the BT Young Scientist this week.


My group is doing an experiment on How screen time affects our eyesight. We need to get information from different people so we decided  to e-mail an optician to see if we could go and ask them some questions. I e-mailed Miriam Porter opticians in Celbridge and they told me to ring them so I rang and got an appointment for half one on Saturday.

 Were also going to have to go somewhere to do surveys on people asking about their eyesight. We can't do them in the school because we need boys and girls and people of all ages, not just the people in our school.

Fun Walk

This week was friendship week. We spent the week getting ready for the fun walk. When we were making our dance it was slow at first and we couldn't think of anything to do but once we got our music sorted out it was better. Mr. Lawlor is our tutor so we could use the hall to practice.
Our class is Belle so we wanted to do a dance about beauty and the beast. We dressed Mr. Lawlor up as Belle and Sinead dressed up as the beast. It was really funny when Mr.Mr. Lawlor was wearing a dress and makeup.
We didn't win the dance but it was still fun.
The fun walk was on Thursday because it was supposed to rain all day on Friday so we had the school mass and the fun walk in Thursday, it was a really busy day. It turned out well because it was really sunny on Thursday and it rained really bad on Friday.
The TY's sang in the choir for the mass and I played guitar. I done a guitar solo during the mass.

Work Experience

This week I was hoping to do more in work experience because I didn't do much the first week but it was worse than the first week because I done less.
I don't think I'll learn anything working there so I'm going to try change it.
I done a makeup course over summer so I asked the college I done it in if I can do work experience there.
They said they will think about it and get back to me as soon as they can.
I really hope I get it because it's getting boring working in the hairdressers. Even though everyone at the hairdressers is really nice I still don't think I'll learn much there.