Wednesday, 30 January 2013

The effects of War.....Drama

On tuesday, my class (siochain) when to Mullingar to compete in a T.Y. drama competition.
Just about 2/3 months ago in religion class our teacher told us she would like us to compete this competition.  We split into two groups based on a background idea war and homelessness because we learnt about about these topics in religion class. I joined the was group.

We decided to go with the effects of was instead of just the war. We began. brainstorming ideas. We basically very simply from when one of the girls said she wanted to die and another girl wanted to kill her lol :) :) :)

One and two girls decided to take our ideas and to the write the actual play/drama.
We began with a the basic script and added and changed it. We practiced for many weeks and eventually were ready to go! Are play was about how the effects of war are never ending. In the play we had one scenes where a therapist talks to people about their experience and effect of the war. After they talk they have flash backs about these experiences. I played a pregnant wife who finds out her husband has died in war :)

On the day everyone was very nervous but excited! We watched some of the other schools and practiced our own. We then all went to mc donalds as a class together that was great fun.

Our group went first out of our school. It was really good fun and it went very fast. All went well and I enjoyed it!!! :) :)
This is the stage we performed on
We will find out soon whether we get through to cork the all Irelands!!

Friday, 25 January 2013



After Christmas, I  started my second work experience placement in Boots Maynooth. For regular updates on how I am getting on check out my work experience blog! I will doing another work experience video soon....

Young Scientist!



Last week all the TYs went to the BT young scientist exhibition in the RDS Dublin.It was a great day where I learnt lots of valuable information and got a lots of free things :) One group from our school was actually in The competition. their project was on how school bags effect your back,neck and spine. Myself and two other classmates entered as group but we didnt get through!!
I really enjoyed the day overall!

Friday, 16 November 2012

Halloween dressup day!

this is two pictures from our halloween dressup a few weeks ago!
This is the song skyfall by Adele that was in the new Bond Movie!!!

Let the Skyfall...

Last Friday all TYs set off to the cinema in Nass for our second mini company workshop. When we got there we were waiting around for a while and were wondering what the the delay was. then a women came in and said that Orla (the women giving the talk) had unfortunatelybeen taken into hospital this morning so the workshop was to be cancelled.
We all thought that we had to go back on the bus and head back to school. But then she said that they were going to let us watch a movie....SKYFALL the new James Bond Movie. We were delighted we started to scream and clap! I really had wanted to go see it! :)
The movie was amazing, I really enjoyed it! It was the first Bond film I had seen in a while do that made it even better.
Then we got another surprise.....
On the way out a women was standing outside handing out goodie bags with popcorn,sweets, a Madagascar beaker and a free drink!!!!! This finished the day off nicely.
This had to have been the best day so far in TY; free cinema and food :)

The names Bond James Bond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Until next time..
Alanna :)