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At the start of TY we were doing a show and in third year we were already told it would be Matilda. I wasnt sure what i wanted to do. I knew i didnt want to act so i wasnt going to choose that. In the end I decided to go with prop design and im happy with what I chose because it was interesting and I really enjoyed it I got to make props like the cake and medals, I help others with making them . I also helped paint some of the backgrounds for the set. After a few months of preparing we were ready. A lot of work went into the show and it was very good I think everyone who went to see it enjoyed it so it was worth the weeks of hard work everyone put in.

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I really enjoyed working on the show making props for it.  When  I was choosing what part I wanted in the show I knew I didn’t want to act so I was stuck between construction and art. My friends were doing art and because I didn’t mind what I was going to do I chose art to be with friends and I made the right choice. Making the props and painting with friends was a lot more fun than doing construction on my own.

I really enjoyed helping make the cake, it was very fun trying to decide what material to use and how to make it.

I’m happy with what I chose and really enjoyed it.

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In January I went on work experience and my first placement was in a garage where I learned stuff about cars. I’ve worked there before so I knew how to service cars but I also learned new stuff like how to fix spark plugs and how to replace break pads.

For my second placement I worked at Healys Honey I did 2 different jobs there I was packing the bottles into a box then putting them onto a pallet and then for the second job I was making tags for the bottles. I found this job very interesting because it was my first time getting to see how stuff works in a factory.

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In T.Y ive made a few projects for different subjects like for computers I made a website and a slideshow about work experience. For contemporary issues in a group I made a project about farming then for German I made one about the weather in Puerto Rico.

Then one of the last projects I made was about my future career.

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I got to do See My Skills where we got talks from lots of different people who worked as different things and they told us their stories. It  was very interesting we got to do a barista course where I learned how to make different kinds of coffee using the coffee machine which was very cool. We also got a talk about apprenticeships and the information we were given was very useful to me because I want to do an  apprenticeship in motor mechanics when I finish school. On the last day we did fake interviews were  we had to pick a job we wanted to apply for and then do an interview I chose  to apply to be a barista because of the barista course I did the day before and then all went well in the interview. It was one of my favourite things I did in T.Y

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As one of the rotating modules I got drivers education and I enjoyed it the most out of any other modules because I love cars and can’t wait to start driving. We learned about the rules of the road and we did lots of online theory tests which was good practice for when I do my actual theory test. Because I actually had interest in cars I was always happy going into the class I was always excited for it.

I enjoyed all the other modules as well but this one definitely stood out to me as one of the best because it was something I liked.

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This year I went on a few trips mostly with my enterprise class I went to Apple which was very interesting we learned about there company and how it works we also got talks by a few different  people and their stories about how they started working here and what it’s like.

Then we went to musgrave cache and carry which I also found very interesting because I saw how shops got all their products and where it came from.

Then I went to stryker which was my favourite trip ive been on because we got to see all the medical equipment they made and what it does. Then some workers came in told told us their stories about working at stryker. I liked this trip the most because i went with friends this time.

Then I went to the football pitch in Turners Cross which I didn’t find very interesting but we got a tour from a referee.

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At the start of the year for German we did a project on the weather and I chose to do it on the weather in Puerto Rico and this was at the start of the year and I really didn’t want to present. I was nervous about it coming up to the day of it and then I presented it to the class and I did pretty well and then after that the fear of presenting in front of the whole class went away I didn’t mind it anymore.

Then I did a project in computers about work experience and what happened so I wrote about week 1 were I worked as a mechanic.

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I enjoyed working in the garage the most for work experience I’ve been working there since 2021 so I already knew what to do it wasn’t new to me. I learned how to change spark plugs in a car and that’s really it because it’s mostly servicing cars its not very often we have to replace a part or fix something it’s only really a few times a week not everyday.

Healy’s honey was also very good I liked working there but it was tiring it was mostly standing in one spot for 7 hours doing the same thing over and over which was putting bottles/jars of honey into a box then putting it on a pallet. It was good experience for what it’s like to work in a factory but it’s not my kind of job I prefer a job that requires moving around a lot.

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At the start of the year we were given the choice to sign up for the Barcelona, skiing, German and French trips and I didn’t really want to go to another country with the school because I don’t like flying and none of my friends were going. I preferred the smaller trips to places around Cork also my friends did go on a few of these which made the trips a lot better. I think I enjoyed either Apple  or Stryker the most I can’t decide they were both really good.

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See my skills was good the talks from lots of different people was interesting I found out lots about the world of work and what it’s like. One of the main parts of it was the  visit  to Stryker but because it was more suitable to be put in trips I put it there instead of here so the second main part of see my skills was the barista course which I enjoyed a lot because it was something different that I’ve never done before and I did it with my friends so that made it even better. The interview we did on the last day was interesting because it started off as an interview but as they read my c.v and saw that I ha dc experience as a motor mechanic they started asking questions about that instead so it became more about that instead of an interview.  I didn’t mind answering their questions because I like talking to others about it.

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Drivers ed helped me prepare for the theory test that ill be doing 2 weeks from now because everything I learned in that class all came back to me when studying for it again.

I learned a lot just by doing theory tests every week in that class. Drivers Ed was the easiest class to go to because I was always excited for it.