There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

Yesterday class Amina had a road safety talk called Driving for life. The talk was on for the whole day and it was given to us by a very nice man called Mr McNeely. The talk was very good but there was a lot of things that were shocking and some very hard to take in. We saw some videos and things to highlight how important it is to wear a seatbelt and to drive carefully. We seen videos from survivors of very bad car crashes and we also heard stories about other very bad car crashes. I did learn a lot and after watching some of those videos I know that I will always wear a seat belt in a car and I will never text and drive when I learn to drive. It was from the start of the day until lunch when it was the worst part watching videos and things like that but after lunch we learned about applying for a license, taking the theory test and some basic first aid tips of what you should not do at the scene of a crash. And after that Mr McNeely said that he like to see everybody go home with ...

Today was the second day of the Leinster championships in Santry. Before you could go to the Leinster you had to win a medal in the West Leinster. I came second in the discus and fourth in the shot put in the West Leinster so I was only able to compete today in the discus. I wasn't too disappointed with that because it meant that I had more time to focus on getting ready for the discus and meant that I only had to fit in time to throw the discus rasher than the discus and the shot put. I arrived at Santry early to see if I could get a chance to practice in the circle before the competition started but I didn’t so I was just waiting around for most of the morning. I watched the shot put that I would have been in if I had won a medal and it was no surprise when I seen the winners on the podium. I have competed against all three of them outside of school athletics at either county level or leinster level and they are amazing throwers and I knew when I saw them that even if I did...

Today all of the T.y’s headed off to Tallaght I.T to take part in the sci-fest competition. We left school bright and early at 8 o clock. We arrived in Tallaght around 8.45 and we first had to register. We had to also pick two talks that we would like to go and see. There were four different talks so we chose two and we got free tickets in to see them. Source. Once we had registered and found out where we had to set it we made our way over to stick our poster. It didn’t take very long and we were ready in no time. We walked around for a little while looking at some of the other projects that were being set up. All of the St. Wolstans girls were in different places depending on what type your project was. . After the opening ceremony the judging started. During the opening ceremony a few different important people talked about science and there was also a minister there too who talked to us for a few minutes as well. In total my group had two judges but after we had lunch other ...

Today we started to present our science projects to the rest of the T.Y classes. The science class that I’m in were the first to present and we were the second group of the day to present our project. It went really good we all knew our stuff so that helped a lot. All of the tys had to make a presentation to help us to prepare for the sci-fest competition  that is tomorrow but to also tell all of the other tys what or projects are about. How clean are your hands? View more presentations from School. .

We have been working hard on our science projects all year. I’m working with Bebhinn and grace and we are trying to show people the importance of washing your hands. We have done a two different things to show this and we have got very good results from our experiment. We have almost got everything ready for the sci-fest competition next week all we have left to do is to make our visual display.

For activity four of this week’s blog challenge we have to write a blog post about something that we are interested in and include links and images. I’m going to write about athletics because I love athletics. I have done athletics since I can remember it has been in my family four years. It’s not like I was expected to start it but I guess because my brothers were always talking about it made me want to start athletics. I have to say that I was never a good athlete. It has taken me years to find the event that I am good at. I tried everything when I was younger because I really only did it for the fun of it but now it’s a bit more competitive. I say it would have been about five or our years ago when I finally found the event for me. It was shot put. I took part in the league one year and that was the event that I had to do for my age group and it took to it and got on really well in it. I use to be really good at it but lately I have been going downhill in it and the people th...

For the second activity of this week’s blog challenge we had to go back and check on our posts that we made for the blog challenge so that we could make sure that we included the link to each of the challenges. I went back and checked all of my and I found that I had included the link so I didn’t really have to do very much for this activity.