More than words...

Hi! Here's my attempt at our blogger challenge this week...

                                                       More than words........

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And! An added bonus of a qoute about words ;)

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Hi there!


In Religion we are doing projects on MDG's. The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
These eight Goals include

  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.

 Some interesting facts about the MDG Goals are.....

•  Roughly 2/3 of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has HIV. One goal is to cut the growth of HIV by 50%.

• The percent of underweight children in developing countries dropped from 28% in 1990 to 17% in 2011.

• Worldwide,1.2 billion earn less than $1.25 a day. The UN hopes to end poverty by cutting this number in half.

• 800 million people are undernourished and 153 million children are underweight. 

• Poverty disproportionately affects women, who represent 70 percent of the world’s poor and the current financial crisis is likely to affect women particularly severely. According to estimates, of the 771 million illiterate adults worldwide, 64 percent are women

•  Of the 680 million children of primary school age, 115 million are still not in school — 97% of them in developing countries

•  Every year, more than 10 million children die of preventable causes –  30, 000 per day.

These MDG's give children in some of the poorest and isolated communities in the world hope for a better future, we can make our generation be the generation that finally ends poverty.

Thank you for reading,

love Caroline x

Work Experience!

Hi!

If you didnt already know, Every Wednesday we TY's go on a Work Experience Placement. This is to help us gain an insight into our chosen profession, we each get three slots. For my first slot I am going to a Primary school in Milicent called Hewetson and for my second slot I am going to my old playschool 'La Petit Ecole', I havn't sorted my third slot yet.



So far, I have spent three Wednesdays in Hewetson. On the first Wednesday of my work experience I was quite nervous entering the school as I had never been in the school before and I didnt know what kind of duties I would be expected to preform. Luckily enough the biggest "duty" I was given was laminating. When I entered the school Ms Morgan the principle greeted me, she was extremly friendly and welcoming which calmed my nerves alot. Hewetson is an amazing school its numbers are small which means each class is split, for example there is a Junior and senior class, a first and second class, a third and fourth class and lastly a fifth class. There are fifteen students altogether in Juniors and Seniors, which I think is lovely as
each child recieves lots of individual attention.

I have been given the oppertunity to spend time in every class which gives me a great understanding of each class cirriculum. The teachers and students are as kind and friendly as ever, At luch time I usually go on 'Yard Duty' which gives me an excellent oppertunity to meet the students and get to know them better. In Hewetson I have been able to observe different class groups and I have also been able to actually teach a few students at the back of the classroom who find certain topics especially diffucult. Last Wednesday I helped two students from third class to diferentiate between which, witch, white and with also come, comb, cob and there, their, they're ect. I absolutly loved this oppertunity to be able to teach the students....I also loved being called 'teacher'

Each Wednesday so far has been brilliant! I really think I would love to be a primary school teacher when I am older. I cant wait for next Wedneday!

   < future me ;)

Carlingford!

Hello there!

Well, Last week was very eventful! We went to Carlingford Adventure Center!!

It all began at the unnecessarily early time of 7am Monday morning. After a fairly speedy two hours we arrived at Carlingford! The village of Carlingford was absolutely beautiful, so beautiful that Leah and I were convinced it was a fake village. We believed that this fake village was set up purely for The Adventure Center customers. (Ooops) 

When we arrived we were put into Groups, I was in Group B. We were then given the keys to our rooms, it was all very exciting. What made it more exciting was the fact that we weren't just given a room, we were given an apartment, complete with a TV and The Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie! We were pretty impressed to say the least!.........Our Apartment (Muhahaha)   ;)

We then headed downstairs kitted with towels and swimming togs for our first activity, which was kayaking. Needless to say, Leah and I found our undiscovered talent for kayaking! We kayaked to a stony beach where we played games and had fun. After, we headed in for a badly needed hot lunch!

Straight after lunch we put on our camonsies, and received our guns for Laser Tag! Which was without a doubt the best thing we did! We hiked up a never ending mountain until we reached the battlefield! Where we spent two and a half hours shooting, dying and capturing flags!

The following morning we were awoken with a fright to a booming, cheery voice over the intercom far too early for my liking! 

After breakfast we headed straight to the beach for canoeing, which was brilliant! We canoed to a floating trampoline in the sea where we jumped to stay warm! We then went to a little beach called 'Nun's Beach' where we took turns to climb though what seemed a big black pipe 'till we reached the 'Waterfall of Eternal Youth', where we each added a day to our lives!

Up next was the challenges! Where we competed in teams to gain Jewels. (To get off the mysterious Island....obviously) At 5ish we had our bags packed to hit the road for home.

Overall, it was an amazing trip! I loved every minute of it! It was worth every cough and sniffle!

Love, Caroline xx

JUNIOR CERT RESULTS!! O.o

Hello :)


Yesterday was the ever so stressful day of Junior certificate results. The three months of anticipation finally came to a close. After a night of waking up every hour on the hour, we got to see our results. We were due to be in school at ten to 12 Wednesday morning, although,unfortunately my dad wouldn't be my dad if he dropped me in before 12. My dad doesn't exactly believe in punctuality. So i arrived at an embarrassingly late 12;03, just before the handing out of the brown envelopes.

Luckily the results weren't too bad! I think its fair to say everyone did a lot better than they expected, and I am very happy :) Its so hard to believe we're now officially SENIORS, it feels as though we should only be going into second year.

Last night was pretty good too!! ;) It was an amazing night.

Caroline. X

First Blog!

Hi my name is Caroline and this is my first blog!
I have almost completed my first full week of Transition Year and to be honest it was pretty good!
Our old class groups Pearl,Sapphire,Emerald,Ruby and Amber have divided into Ariel,Belle and Aurora. I am in class Ariel.
         Yesterday, we had a full day of TY workshops. In our first workshop we learnt about Etiquette and Deportment. We brought in our high heels and walked up and down the Third Year mall on a red carpet to perfect our walk! We also had great fun exfoliating our hands with scented exfoliates. Our next workshop was The Positive Parties, where we learnt how to keep a positive attitude. We discovered that if we listened to happy upbeat music or did some exercise in the fresh air we would be able to change our attitude from an 'Eeyore' to a 'Winnie the pooh'. Then our last workshop was First Aid and was by far my favorite. I found it extremely interesting I learnt about how to carry out CPR and the Heimlich manoeuvre. It was fascinating and extremely enjoyable.
          The thing I most enjoy about TY so far is the fact that we get to test each subject for the Leaving Certificate, so when the time comes we can make an informed choice. We get to try History,Geography,Biology,Chemistry,Physics,Music and Art. So far in Art we drew a leaf, we drew the leaf five times each by different methods. The first time i drew the leaf without looking at it, the second time was without looking at the page, the third time was without pen leaving the page, by closing your eyes and finally by looking at the leaf and the page as we would normally. In Music we learnt about all the different types of notes and how to create those different types of notes using our voices.
         Our work experience begins on the 24th of September and i am really looking forward to it.