There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

Well yesterday we were meant to be getting all of our magazines from the printer and well we didn't. Our managing director was in contact with the printer during the week while the magazines were being printed. We had made arrangements for the entire group to go to Louise's house on Friday after school to receive the delivery and get our pictures taken. We had arranged to get time off school on Monday to go and give the magazines to the schools. We had also gotten permission from or year head and everything was very organized. At lunch time it was getting closer to the end of school and we were all getting really excited to see the final product of all our hard work. We have spent the last few weeks working very hard on this. In school and out of school. At lunch time I left art in a very positive and good mood. I made my way up to the lunch room and was telling everybody how exciting it was to be able to see th e final magazine in only a few hours. Then Louise stood up an...

So today was our first day back to school after our week of work experience and it is good to be back. We set off form school at nine o'clock and headed to Naas. We arrived a bit late but everything was ok once we got there. Today we talked about product that we are making and the different things that people are doing. Orla seemed very impressed with our sample magazine tat we had printed off to show her. She passed it around the room and the whole group felt very proud that people really liked our magazine. Our magazine is comming along very well. We have sent it off to the printer and it is in the process of being printed. We are getting 2500 copies printed. The mini company is very good and we have even made a profit. Today we also learned about writing up our business report and what we have to put into it. We were also told about how the judges will mark it and that it doesn't need to be very long. After we were given a break we were then shown a video of people actini...

So our magazine is starting to take shape. We have so far got enough money to print our first issue as well as having a profit. We have decided that we are going to get some of the pages designed professionally with the money from our profits. We had double mini company class toddy where we got some more work done on the magazine. We also decided that we would all meet u after school to dome more work on our magazine. There is a lot of work to be done and I think that in the beginning I under estimated the amount of work that needed to be done. We have all ready done so much work and we still have a lot more work to do. Out of all of the projects that we have to do the one taking up most of my time is Mini Company. I do enjoy doing all the Work and it is good fun spending time with the people in my group we get some good laughs while we’re doing the work. But it is just some much work and takes up so much time. It’s like all we think abo...

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 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. 

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...

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 ...

Last Monday all the TY students headed to Nass where we had a mini company workshop. This was a very worthwhile day overall. During the day we made our groups that we were going to do our mini company project in. We also had to come up 50 ideas that we could use as our mini company project. During the day we learned a lot about the mini company competition itself. We learned about how the judges mark the projects. We were also shown videos of past years and some of the mini companies that one the competition, this was a great help because it allowed us to see what the judges would expect form us and what the atmosphere is like at the final stages of the competition. During the day we learned about the mini company competition and we also got to hear lost of ideas from other people that we could all use ideas. At the end of the workshop we were then allowed to go to mc Donald’s until the bus came. It was a good day overall and everybody learned a lot and enjoyed themselves. Siobh...