Busy October

The past two weeks have been busy in St. Wolstan's. Last month it was announced that St. Wolstan's would host a Fashion Show in the Celbridge Manor Hotel on the 25th & 26th of November. I will be dancing in the Irish dance in the fashion show and will also be involved in the 'Christmas choir.' We have been busy rehearsing for the fashion show at lunch the past two weeks.

                 

Yesterday was our fifth week at work experience which means that we have reached the halfway point. I am really enjoying doing mine at Avoca and have become really comfortable working in the cafe.

           

We have all been working at getting our second work experience placements and I am doing mine in Walton's music shop in town. The second work experience will start in January. Last Tuesday I went to see Jake Bugg play at the Olympia and it was so good!

Tomorrow is our Halloween dress up day. Our theme as TYs is 'Zombies'. I'm SO excited for Midterm tomorrow and I'm also excited for Halloween!

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-Eve xx

Millennium Development Goals

In Religion this month we are learning and researching about the Millennium Development Goals.The MDGs are eight international development goals that were established in 200 and were hoped to be achieved by 2015. These are the MDGs:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. 
2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
4. Reduce child mortality.
5. Improve maternal health.
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability.
8. Develop a global partnership for development.

We were put into eight groups and each group was given a development goal to research in detail. Our group researched MDG no. 4 'Reducing Child Mortality'. The target for this goal was to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality. We found out that:

• One child in seven dies before the age of seven in Uganda.
• A child dies every 3 seconds.
• 6.3 million children under the age of five died in 2013.
• Children in sub-Saharan Africa are more than 15 times more likely to die before the age of five than children in developed regions.

Globally, significant progress has been made in reducing mortality in children under 5 years of age. In 2012 , 6.6 million children under-5 died, compared with 12.6 million in 1990. Between 1990 and 2012, under-5 mortality declined by 47%.

If you would like to find out more about the Millennium Development Goals click here: Unfortunately, despite these improvements, the world is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of a two-thirds reduction in 1990 mortality levels by 2015. 

Millennium Development Goals 

- Eve xx

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Here is my sentence using only images:

- Eve xx

Walk in My Shoes

Today our school had a non - uniform day for the 'Walk in My Shoes' campaign. We were asked to make a donation of €2 and also encouraged to wear 'funky' shoes to support teenagers and young adults with mental health difficulties.

Text "Shoes" to 57802 to donate €2 to Walk in My Shoes.

We also had our third Home Ec cooking class today. We made raspberry and lemon cupcakes:))

-Eve x

Digital Dossier

I never knew what a my Digital Dossier was until I watched this video >>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA&feature=youtu.be

I learnt that your Digital Dossier is your 'Digital Footprint' on the Internet. It is about any post you've made, image or video you've shared and even Google searches online. Most of our Digital Dossier is because of social media sites like Facebook, Instagram etc. Your digital dossier starts before you are even born and as a baby.

When I learnt what my Digital Dossier is, I realised that mine is extremely big. I am most social media sites; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and more. I have been on these social media sites for a few years. Any post I have made on these sites have been added to my Digital Dossier. Everyday my Digital Dossier is growing. This blog post is just another part of my Digital Footprint that will continue to grow throughout my life.


-Eve xx

Fun Walk and Ed!

On Thursday we had our annual Fun Walk for friendship week. Each year had to dress in a colour and each class had to do a dance. Our colour as TYs was yellow. It was so hard to find something yellow to wear.. Who even wears yellow?

Fun Walk.. Sadhbh, Lauren

As we are class Ariel we did our dance with The Little Mermaid as our theme. We all dressed as flounders with Mr. L dressed in a homemade shark costume and we wheeled Sarah Mc out in a wheel barrow as Ariel. Although it was stressful trying to organise the dance the morning of the Fun Walk, it turned out great! We should have won, just saying... TYs led the walk and we were stationed around Celbridge. It was a good day.:)

On Friday, a few of us left school early and went to see Ed Sheeran play at the 3Arena. We waited for three and a half hours in the lashing rain with crappy umbrellas and got soaked, but we got to the very front of the standing section at the barrier. It was absolutely amazing! We were so close and it was a brilliant concert. It was so worth getting drenched! :))

Ed <3

Today was my third day of Work Experience in Avoca and it's going really well. I now know my way around the cafe really well and am enjoying it!

-Eve xx

Work Experience

Last Wednesday was the first day of work experience and we got to see where we would be working for the next 10 weeks. I'm doing my work experience in the Birdcage Self Service Cafe in Avoca in Rathcoole. Honestly I was extremely nervous. I had never had a job before and didn't know what to expect!

After arriving I realised there was no need to be nervous because everyone was so friendly. I met with the manager and workers who showed me around the cafe. Eimhear S. is also working in the cafe so we were shown everything together. In the morning I worked at the hot food counter, serving food to customers. We took a break in the morning and afternoon for a half an hour and we were allowed free food. :) In between our breaks I worked on the floor, cleaning tables and collecting trays. At the end of the day I worked at the cakes counter serving cake and coffee. The cakes were amazing! I literally wanted to eat all of them. Luckily we both were allowed take home a free cake at the end of the day. It definitely tasted as good as it looked!

I'm looking forward to the next few Wednesdays of work experience in Avoca because the first day was really good and I want to see what other jobs I will be doing!

-Eve xx