There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

Today our mini company met in Louise’s house to do some more work on our magazine. There was only half of our group because the rest of our group are either in a foreign country or are nowhere to be found. Anyway we had a kind of productive day today. We got some work done. We began to use Microsoft publisher to begin to design our magazine. The day started off ok and then some people like Jessica began to get very hyper. But it was all good fun. We were all laughing together and having some good fun. We got some work done. By the time that I had to leave we had got two full pages completed….. you see we managed to get lots of work done… lol  not to worry we still have lots of time left before we need to get the magazine to the printer. We soon realised that Microsoft publisher was hard to use. Even though the printer gave us a book on how to use Microsoft publisher we didn’t really use the book. At least we were able to kind of figure it out along with having lots of fun too. ...

Today we had a talk from Accord. this talk was all about relationships and how we deal with them. This was a very good talk because we got to learn about how to deal with relationships. We learned about ourselves and what we would like in a relationship. We also got to fill our a sheet on what we would like our ideal partner in a relationship would be like. We had the talk from 9.40 until 1.20.  We were thought about relationships in the family and the different parts of the family that people see. We were told that it is best to not get angry with the people that you are having a fight with. We were told that when we are angry and shot that the people that we are shouting at are not hearing what we were saying that are more focused on how you are acting. This talk was very good and that i learned a lot about how to deal with problems in a relationship. it was a very worthwhile talk and it was also very interesting. Dress up day tomorrow but still trying to find something to d...

Today we went for another mini company workshop in Naas. This was very good because we learned about marketing and a bit about finance. We also got to hear about different ideas that the other schools that were there had. Some of the other schools had some really good ideas. We were told that the next time that we go we have to tell how the group is working as a team and how we are progressing. It was a very fun day especially on the way home. We had a quick stop in mc Donald’s when we were finished and then we got on the bus to go home. We were on a double Decker bus and it was so fun. I and Kelly were laughing the whole way home. We kept annoying Roisin who was trying to sleep and we were also playing with the tables.  It was a great day overall and I am looking forward to the next trip into Naas for mini company. 

In science today we were working on our young scientist projects. we had planned to start it today to show how fast the germs spread. to do this we had planned to put lemon juice on our hands and go around and touch different things. we wre sure that this was going to work because we had done some research on this on the interne. but it didnt work. when we found out that the lemon juice was not going to work we went to the home ec room to borrow some washing powder would work. first we mixed the washing powder with water and put it on our hands to see if it would work but it didnt so then we tried to do it by just using the washing powder on its own but that didnt work either. we then decided that flour would work so we went back to the home ec room and got some flour. we thought that the flour would work because all that we had to do was put it onto our hands and then touch things. it did work but we were told that we were not allowed to use flour because it was too messy and it wou...

On Saturday our mini company all wend to Louise's house to do some more work on our project. We had a very good day overall. there were a few ups and downs and some disagreements. But we over came all over difficulties and talked about them and came up with solutions. We got a lot of work done on Saturday. We rang up some places to see if they would like to take out some advertisement with us and we were also talking to the printer again to confirm that we were going to print with him.We also decided what would go into the magazine and where we are going to put everything in the magazine. So far we have raised enough money to be able to print our first issue and we are all feeling good about the magazine and that we will be able to get all the magazines out to the schools before Christmas. On Wednesday the Ty's are going back to Naas again for another Mini Company workshop. This is going to be a very good day because It will gives us a chance to do some more work on our magazi...

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On Monday Oral from the county Kildare enterprise board came in to talk to each of the mini company groups. The whole ty year group spent the first two classes on Monday morning in the library telling Orla about our different mini company ideas. We have been doing a lot of work for our mini company project "Green Hero" this week. Today we had double mini company. In mini company we did a lot this week. We rang some more companies to see if they would advertise with us. We also began to organise the layout of our magazine. Today we arranged what we would be putting on each page of our magazine. This week we also raised 3/4 of the money that we need to produce our magazine. This was a great achievement for our mini company because we are now allowed to follow through with our project. Everybody in our group is really looking forward to being able to produce our first issue of the Green Hero magazine.

On Saturday our mini company group all gathered together to work on our mini company. We had a very productive day as we made a lot of progress on our mini company. We sent e-mails to people that we would like to advertise with us, we designed a website, we made a facebook account and we also designed business cards and headed paper for our company. While the purpose of the day was to work on our mini company project we also had a lot of fun with each other and it all felt very businesslike with all six of us sitting around a table with laptops. We all felt like we were in the boardroom on the Apprentice.  On Monday we had a visit from the Oral O' Carroll from the county Kildare enterprise board. She came to our school to talk to each group individually about our mini company project. This was great because she was really helpful and gave us lots of good advice and helpful hints and tips n how we could make our mini company better. Our mini company is starting to take shape as ...