Dublin Museum Tour

Collins Barracks Museums & The National Museum of Ireland
On Tuesday the 13th of January form A and B went for the day to Dublin to visit Collins Barracks Museum and the National Museum of Ireland. Once we arrived in Dublin we split into our forms, we then went to the museums.
 My from visited the Collins Barracks first. The museum was very interesting and informative about the buildings military background and the armies various sections. My favourite part of the museum was seeing the military vehicles as they made everything very realistic.
 Once we had finished looking around in the barracks we swapped museum with the other form after we had lunch. We then continued to the National Museum of Ireland. We spent the remainder of the day at this museum. I found the bog bodies the most interesting part of the museum.
 Overall I really enjoyed the day out.

Musical

Our musical this year was The Wiz, which is Micheal Jackson's version of The Wizard of Oz. We had three night performances from Tuesday - Thursday, and then we also preformed our musical during the day in front of different classes and year groups around three times also. The musical took months of preparation but I felt that it came together very well and that all the time put into it definitely was worth it. I was a munchkins along with around twenty other classmates. I got to be in two dances and a little bit of acting before and after my dances. My costume was very colourful and bright. I really enjoyed the musical and think that it has been one of the best things I have done so far this year!

Community Service - Wicklow SPCA

During the week of the 8th of December I completed a weeks community service in the Wicklow SPCA in Sharpshill Genealey.

I enjoyed my time at the shelter. In the morning the majority of the work was carried out. On two of the days I began my morning cleaning out the cats pens and the other morning i cleaned out the dogs pens that were in quarantine. In the afternoons I walked the dogs individually, going for around 7 - 10 3km walks with a variety of the dogs at the shelter. In the evening we had to check over all the animals to make sure that they have everything which they needed for the night and then at 4 o'clock I went home. I enjoyed the week however it was very sad seeing all the animals with no home to go to.

UCD Tour

On Tuesday the 25th of November my year was invited to come to UCD for the day. When we arrived we were split into groups, with a student from the university as our tour guide around the grounds. The girl that was showing my group around was very informative. She was able to answer any questions we had, and spent a lot of time with us making sure that we had seen everything the university has to offer. Once she had shown us around we went for lunch on the campus. After lunch we then had a short amount of time to look at anything we didn't have a chance too, before getting back on the bus.

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NUI Maynooth

On Friday the 28th of November my entire year went to NUI Maynooth to their annual open day. We spent the day walking around the large campus and going to a variety of different lectures. The lectures informed us what the various courses were about and what careers you can pursue with their qualifications. I also learned about the large variety of clubs and society's the university has to offer which I found very interesting. I enjoyed the day out and found it very interesting.

Work Experience - Early Days Montessori

On Monday the 2nd of March I began my weeks work experience in Early Days Montessori. Every morning I arrived at 9.15 to help set everything up for the day. I was given the job of setting out all the wellies in a row against the wall for later. At 9.30 all the children arrived. We spent the mornings doing various activities such as singing songs, playing games, doing arts and crafts, reading. I was able to get involved in all the activities during the week. After lunch everyone had to get ready to go outside. I had to help them get their waterproof trousers and coats on. Once they all had their wellies on we would all go out and play. When their time was over outside we then had story time until their parents came to pick them up. During this time I would put away all the jackets and trousers. I then helped clean up the classrooms. I enjoyed the week a lot and I think that this week showed me that I might want to have a career to do with children when I'm older

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