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For our end of year graduation we made a video as we aren’t able to do a show in person for our parents.

We decided to do a sketch, presentations for each subject and dances.

I was apart of the dances, we decided to do a dance from each decade starting at 1920s,1950s,1960s,1970s,1980s,1990s,2000s, 2010s.

We made about a 30 second dance for each decade and split the dancers up into groups for each dance. I was in 1920s, 1970s,2000s and 2010s.

It was really fun and I really enjoyed the experience and made memories while doing it.

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Daniela and I organised a sports day for the year as one of the last activities of the year. We organised games to do for the last three classes on Tuesday the 18th.

We walked to SuperValu to get sweets for everyone and other equipment we needed to have a fun day.

After lunch we had everything ready to go and everyone went into the pitch and we started the games.

We did dizzy penalties first, where both the goalie and shooter both spun around ten times before stopping and taking the shot. The overall winner was Ruairi.

The second activity we did was an obstacle coarse race. We split into two teams and went to the starting line where there was a bit let of water and a cloth at each teams start.

You had to dunk the cloth into the bu let of water, run through the obstacle coarse, then squeeze out the cloth into an empty bucket.

There was a slip in slide before the end of the Race and that was really fun to add. It was the team who had the most water in the end bucket who won.

The last game we did was a water balloon fight. We had filled water balloons and put them into a big bin, mr Reilly called out two names and them people went and grabbed a balloon and tried to hit someone with it.

I really enjoyed this data dm felt Daniela and I did good organising it because everyone seemed to have fun as well.

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We did a project on a brand who was sued for false advertising in our Business class.
This was mine and I did it on Red Bull being sued for false advertising for their slogan "Red Bull gives you wings".

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On Tuesday and Thursday Mr Reilly set up a handball tournament for the year.

He split up the boys and the girls and put people against each other. Each person that won their game went onto another round until there was only 3 boys left and 3 girls left.

I got into the girls three person final on Thursday. Thursday morning we had the final and I was up against Manon and Fawizyya.

Manon was winning 4-0-0 for long and then Fawizyya and I caught up. In the end I won the match 5-4-2. I won an early lunch for myself and three friends on Thursday.

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Tiktok transition~ start of the year till end of year

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A Spanish project I did this term in our Spanish class, I did mine one a Spanish actress Penelope Cruz.

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On Thursday the 29th of April we had a zoom call with a guest speaker.

We went on a video call with a man who is training as an airline pilot.

He told us all his choices he made to get to where he is in his career and the courses he had to do.

He made a slideshow presentation to us photos and videos of the plane and inside where the pilot flies it. He also showed us the views from where he trained over Finner.

It was really cool getting to see the inside of the plane and interesting to listen to his career choice.

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On Thursday the 29th we went on a zoom call with a guest speaker.

This guest speaker was a speech therapist. I sat in on this call because it is a good career choice as you are helping people with their speech.

The women told us her story of the path she went through in her life to get to her current place and career.

It was a good call and I found it interesting.

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On Wednesday the 28th of April we had a fitness class with a women who owns a gym.

She went through everything and taught us the proper form when weightlifting. We got a pvc pipe to mimic weights, to make sure we get the right form and to practice.

We also learnt how to squat properly and then we went into a burpee competition.

It was a fun class and I found it interesting and helpful to learn the proper form of lifting.

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On Tuesday the 27th, the second guest speaker I sat in on was a man named Paul.

Paul is an event manager and runs Perform Ireland.

He talked to us about everything that goes into his career and the type of stuff he does. Paul told us how he got to where he is on his life even though he didn’t go to college for the career he is in now.

It was interesting listening to Paul to get all different career talks.

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On Tuesday the 27th Suzanne organised loss of guest speakers for us.

At half 10 I sat in on my first guest speaker of the day who was a voice over actor and an actor. His name was Keith and he is living in Belfast to have more options in his career.

He talked to us about his journey and how he got to where he is in his career. He told us all the stuff he does and the work that he has to put in.

It was interesting to listen to Keith talk about his career because I wouldn’t know much about an actors career.

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On Monday the 27th we played card games for two classes.

A few of the girls in the year were taught how to play rummy and they set up tables and playing cards to teach the rest of the year how to play.

We all learnt how to play and then got to play a few games. It was fun to play a few games instead of doing a class.

We will be playing rummy for the next few weeks and having a tournament.

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For maths class Ms McGlynn let us play chess for a class. Some of us  played games against each other and others were taught how to play by Ms McGlynn.

It was a really fun class and we all enjoyed it and were still using our brains to try and win.

I hope we get to play games like this more often in classes as I really enjoy them.

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On Wednesday the 21st of April Ms Patton set up a live zoom call workshop.

Two women hosted a zoom call for schools all over Ireland, one of them was there to ask questions  and give feedback from schools and the other woman taught us about fast fashion.

We were able to interact and send in questions and answers and to give our feedback and thoughts on topics we talked about.

It was interesting to learn how bad fast faction really is and to learn more about the topic.

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On Tuesday the 20th we had a dance workshop with Michelle Bell.

There was a very small group of students who wanted to do the dance class. Michelle took us in the hall for the two classes after lunch.

She warned us up and then taught us a bit of a dance. We practiced the dance a few times and just enjoyed ourselves.

Then we all brainstormed together and came up with some dance ideas for our TY graduations video to show our year and parents.

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On Tuesday the 20th we had a workshop for a class on cars.

Brendan Tierney school of motoring came in to us to teach us loads of skills we will need to know to get our drivers license and skills we will need to know when we get our own cars.

He should us videos on how to change a tire, open the bonnet and how to correctly position the seatbelt, steering wheel and head rest.

All the information Brendan taught us was really useful and will help us in the future.

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On Monday the 19th Ms Patton set up a live workshop for us over a zoom call. We joined a live zoom call with a host and other schools around Ireland.

We learnt about climate change and how to make changes to try and stop it. We learnt that Ireland is one of the highest countries for waste.

Schools and students were able to send messages with their opinions on the topics we talked about.

It was an interesting zoom call to listen in and it helped us understand more about climate change and stuff we can do to make changes.

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As part of designated days committee, Erica, David and I decorated all of our earth messages on a board in a Nature theme.

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During transition year I used my time to the fullest and started my own baking business.

I have a Facebook and an Instagram page where I market my products and take orders. I bake all different baked goods and get orders for special occasions, special days and random wants for sweet treats.

I was baking for orders everyday of lockdown and the weekends I was sold out nearly every weekend from Christmas on. Now I have a few orders during the week and mostly birthday orders for weekends.

I really enjoy baking and am so happy I had the time in TY to work on my dream and start a business because when I’m older I would like to open my own bakery. 🎂

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In February of 2021 during lock down I decided I would start public speaking lessons and take an exam in it to help me with my  public speaking.

Before I started lessons I hated public speaking and getting up in front of a class and found that I would get nervous and awkward talking to people other than my close family and friends.

Since I started up my own business I have had to talk to a lot more people and I wanted to get more confident doing it.

I started my zoom lessons with Karen Murphy speech and drama. Karen was very helpful and easy to work with.

I did a zoom class for an hour every Monday. Karen helped me giving me advice on writing speeches and how to present it. I wrote two speeches for my exam and practiced them over a few classes.

After six classes with Karen she felt I was ready to do my exam. I did my grade 6 public speaking exam. I  got my examiners name and a drop box sent to me to record my exam and sent it on to the Irish board to be examined. In my exam recording I had to present my two speeches and then also talk about my public speaking journey and when I have used it during my life.

My exam went well and I should be getting my results within the next few weeks. During summer I will do my Grade 7 exam and then go on to do my proficiency in public speaking.

This will really help me in my oral work in the leaving cert and college presentations. It will also really hep me for my business and when I get older with a job and talking to new people.

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Over lockdown we had to do a project on an Entrepreneur that we thought was good, I chose Jeff Bezos.

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‘Taking Action’ Project

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On Thursday the 11th of February Mr Reilly held another quiz night on google meets.

He set up a quiz on questions about Ireland. Only a few people joined the quiz but I find that the quizzes that only have a few seem to be better.

The questions were guesses for most people including myself. Throughout the questions everyone was so close in points except from Rachel she was way ahead of everyone until she got disconnected and everyone else got to catch up and over take her.

I came in second place to Lana in this quiz, we got the same amount of questions correct she was just faster. I didn't mind not winning this quiz because I have already won before.

I really enjoy these quizzes and look forward to them every week as it gives me something to do.

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Artist: The Beautiful South

Album title: Carry On Up The Charts

Year released: 1994

Favourite song:  My favourite song from this album is ‘Song For Whoever’

Least favourite song: My least favourite song from this album is ‘Old Red Is Back’

Rating out of 10: I rate this 8/10 album

Short paragraph outlining your reasons for the rating: The album ‘Carry On Up The Charts’ was the first album my mum bought herself. She had been given an album when she was 7 for Christmas of ‘Mini Pop’ but when she was 17 she was able to buy an album herself and it was this one. I gave this album the rating 8/10 because I really liked  most of the songs in the album. I already had heard most of the songs before but I also got to listen to new songs that I haven’t heard and I liked them. I didn’t give the album 10/10 because I wouldn’t buy it myself as I prefer artists such as Lewis Capaldi and Ed Sheeran but I still really liked listening to the songs in this album.

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I really enjoyed the Chinese Studies module and wish we got longer to do this subject.

It was very interesting learning about a completely different culture and learning a new language.

We got to try some Chinese snacks, learn the language and learn how to play a Chinese game. I liked getting to try new foods  because we have nothing like them over here.

I wish that we could of gotten longer doing the Chinese module as it was another one of my favorites.

This subject made me want to be able to travel to China and learn more about the culture and language in the future.

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The Tourism module was good. We learnt about all the different types of holidays people go on and reasons that people go on them.

In my opinion it was kind of boring as we didn't get to do much but it was okay learning about the holidays and tourism locally.

I enjoyed having Mr Fitzgerald as the teacher for this module, he made it more  fun to be in class as he is always making everyone laugh.

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I had the creative skills module this term, unfortunately I was only in one class due to other activities.

The class I was in I really liked, we got to use clay and make clay pots,

I liked Ms Higgins as an art teacher, she was very helpful to the students who didn't do art class before and was able to help with everything.

I wish I was able to go to more art classes because it was fun to do a subject that I didn't do in junior cert level and learn new skills.

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I really enjoyed the few weeks that I got to do the home economics module. I love baking and stuff to do with home skills so this was one of my favorite module that I have done this year, it was also one of my favorite subjects in the junior cert.

We got to make chocolate chip muffins and they were very nice. I also enjoyed that we got to make Christmas decorations and Christmas cards for people in the Ozanam house.

overall I really liked this module and can't wait to be able to do this subject again in 5th year.

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Key points of interview with Niall Moyna

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I found out interesting information about where my family came from.

My great granny Sheila Fernandez was born in India and her parents

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On Thursday the 28th of January Mr Reilly held the third quiz night of lock down.

We logged into a google meet, there was only 9 of us but it was still fun. Mr Reilly found a quiz on movies and we all did that one, it was very hard and everyone had to guess basically them all.

The top scores were all so close throughout the whole quiz, I had 0 points for the first half of the quiz then I got a few right and was on the top 3 within a few questions which shows how close the points were.

I was so happy when on the last 5 questions I got up to second place, then on the second last question I overtook Erica and came first.

This was my second quiz to win so I was delighted and I really enjoy these quizzes and can't wait to do more.

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On Thursday the 21st Mr Reilly set up another quiz night for us to take part in. He organised a “beat the intro” quiz and set up a google meet video call for us all to join if we wanted to take part.

A “beat the intro” quiz is when the quiz master plays a bit of a song and everyone has to guess what the song is before it is announced. Who ever says the right answer first gets a point. And at the end of the quiz the person with the most points wins.

Mr Reilly set a prize for the winner which always makes it a bit more fun and gets you more determined to win.

I had fun doing this quiz and it was fun to do and a break from schoolwork. It was nice to get to talk to classmates that I wouldn’t normally text and I had a laugh taking part and was happy because I won

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Poster on ways to help your mental health

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How Climate had changed

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Life in the Roaring Twenties

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5 ways to maintain your mental health

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My mum reviewing my come dine with me task.

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Vegetarian project 🥗

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On Thursday the 14th of January Mr Reilly held a video call for us to take part in a Kahoot! quiz.

He sent us a link to join a video call where we all got set up for the quiz. Mr Reilly had put together 19 random questions for us to answer. We all got competitive when we were told the winner gets a €10 voucher online.

Unfortunately the quiz didn’t go too smooth because of bad wigs and we had to start all over again. This was bad for me because I was In the top 3 for the first quiz until it stopped working.

We got it up working again and got ready to start it over again. For the first 8 questions I was coming first then I dropped down to 3rd for a few questions and got one wrong and went all the way down to 11th place. This was very annoying because I thought I had a chance of winning. Within the next few question I got myself back up to 6th place behind Alicia by 11 points.

This quiz was good fun but unfortunately my bad WiFi made it hard at times to hear what people were saying and it kept freezing. Other than that I found it good to have something to do while stuck at home all day.