At Christmas, we went Carol Singing with Mr Burke. All of the TY's wore festive clothes, we even had our own Santa Claus and Elf to sing with us. We practiced a lot and sang songs such as "Silent Night", "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and "Let it go". Many children from the local Primary Schools and Playschools visited our sing along for the opening of the Live Crib. Many people enjoyed our singing and joined in. As it got closer to the opening of the crib, the Rose of Tralee came by in a horse and carriage. She joined in with our singing and we even got a "selfie" with her. She officially opened the live crib and a turkey escaped from it. It was a very good day. We all got a box of chocolates each for our singing.
By Aine Fitzsimons
Both of our Transition Year classes - Ledwidge and Yeats went to see the play "Dancing at Lughnasa" by Brian Friel at the Solstice Arts Centre Thursday the 26th of November.
"Dancing at Lughnasa" is a play written by the Irish Playwright, Brian Friel, who sadly passed away recently. The play is about five sisters, better known as the Mundy sisters and their uncle Jack who has just arrived back from his many years in Africa. The story is seen through the eyes of a young boy called Michael who is one of the Mundy sister's sons. It is set in County Donegal. This performance in the Solstice Arts Centre was put on by the Navan Theatre Group staring Fiona Madden, Jim O'Leary, Nichola McDonagh, Craig Regan, Loretta Byrne, Cathy O' Brien, Robbie Clarke and Joanne Donoghue. Overall I think that all of the Transition Years enjoyed the night. By Aodhamair Reilly Myself and my two classmates entered the BT Young Scientist's Exhibition back in September of this year. We were completely unaware that the judges of this competitor would be even remotely interested in our idea.
We set out to find out the benefits of Equine Therapy for autistic children. The day our Science teacher told us that we had been accepted to go to the RDS in January, we went to Brookfield Stables to interview an Equine Therapist. We went to Brookfield Stables every Saturday for four weeks to do our own observations. We observed the same children over the four weeks. The children we observed were all young. Most of them communicated non-verbally. Throughout the four weeks we observed the children's reactions and the bond they created with the horses. by Abbie and Kerrie As part of our TY programme, we have been doing a programme called Gaisce. Gaisce is the President's Award which is earned by Young People 15-25 fro participating in several activities. There are three different types of awards - gold, Silver or Bronze. We are doing the Bronze award. As part of the award each student must find one community activity, one personal skill and one physical activity fro 13 weeks and they must choose one to do for 26 weeks. I think the Gaisce is great because it gets you doing something during the week.
by Katie Corduff As part of our Transition Year Curriculum both Ledwidge and Yeats classes have been learning Irish dances such as "An Dreoilín" and "Baile Luimnigh". We have also been learning "Grá mo chroí" which is an Irish version of Kodaline's "Love like this". Ms Moore taught one class the dancing, while Ms McCollum taught the other class "Grá mo chroí".
After around four classes, the groups switched. We perfomed the song and dances on Mercy Night and we will be preforming again during "Seachtain na Gaeilge" Durng our other Irish classes we have been focusing on improving our Grammar skills and also we have been debating in Irish! by Ciara O Mahony Here in TY, we do something called integrated studies after lunch every Monday. We are split up into four groups of 12 and each group does one of the activities for four weeks and then we alternate the activities. The different activities we do are personal development, sign language, hair and beauty or the elderly.
I'm going to talk about sign language. We are taught sign language by a deaf man called David Breslin after lunch on Monday's. He has a lot of experience teaching it because he has taught many people in other schools. Even though he is deaf, he is very good at communicating because he is able to write and he acts things out very well so we are all able to understand what he is trying to tell us. In Week One, David taught us to sign the alphabet, our name, prepositions and greetings. We each got a book with the sign alphabet and now to sign different words. In Week Two, we learned how to sign numbers, our birthdays, question words and words relating to special events like Christmas, New Year's and birthdays. David wished Niamh a Happy Birthday that week because her birthday was coming up soon. In Week Three, we learned the days of the week, colours, emotions and we all acted out a scene from the book we got where a boy was picking an apple from a tree. In Week Four, David taught us to sign the song Silent Night which we are going to sing at our carol singing in front of the Live Crib, near the Shopping Centre. We also asked each other questions using sign language and we leaned other random words. David is very sweet and funny and we all enjoyed learning sign language from him. by Ciara Mullen In TY we do a thing called Personal Development we do Hair and Beauty.
My experience of Hair and Beauty was amazing. We learned about skin care, how to apply makeup properly and how to style and look after your hair. It was an experience I'll never forget and I've learned tips that will help me a lot when it comes to Hair and Beauty. By Laura Crahan In TY we have a class called Faith Development. Each week for both of our classes we have a double class and a single class. Faith Development allows each student to undergo a personal journey of gaining more knowledge about themselves and their beliefs. The course is done in a way where you get to share your won opinions and not be judged . For every double class, students take it in turns to bring in baked goods.
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