Lollipop Day!

 Last Friday all the TYs helped fundraise for Lollipop Day to raise awareness for oesophageal cancer. The day was a great success! When we arrived to school we were given our t shirts and caps and we left at 9.15 to head into Dublin. We walked to Powerscourt where we got our collecting bucket, lollipops, stickers and balloons. We were put into groups the previous day and were told where we would be collecting so we walked to these areas. The lollipops were 2 euro to buy and were really nice! I bought a few myself :) We collected there up until half one when we started to walk back to Powerscourt to give back our collection buckets and t shirts. It was a very cold day and we were all freezing but was definitely worth it for all the money we raised!




                     

Pieta House Bagpacking

   During the midterm volunteers from our TY group went bagpacking for lollipop day. I went on Friday from 1-3. It was for a really worth cause and I'm glad I did it because we raised lots of money! 

                                   

JabbaJabbaJembe!

  Yesterday the TYs had a percussion workshop. Dave from "JabbaJabbaJembe" came to our school and we learned all about African style of drumming. The first thing he told us was that the drums that most people think are bongos are actually called djembes. 
   Starting off he did a beat on the djembe and we repeated after him. We then went around the class introducing ourselves and we did a beat on the drum. 
  My favorite part of the workshop was when he showed us a rhythm that we all repeated . We added other instruments to the beat and it sounded really good! Dave taught us a song that we sang with the drums. I really enjoyed the day! This is a picture of Dave and some of the drums he had :)

                               

Mini Company no more..

Today we found out we didn't get through to the mini competition :( We were all really disappointed by the news because we all put a lot of work into it. We felt that we deserved a place in the competition but we're happy with the work we put in and the outcome of our product. We watched a movie in religion though, that cheered me up