Digital Dossier

I set up this blog a few weeks ago in I.T when the teachers asked us to so we could record all the things we do in TY. In order for us to know how much we need to post and what about we are giving challenges each month. One of the challenges this month is to watch This Video on YouTube to find out what a digital dossier is and then we have to write a post about our digital dossier.

When I read that I had to do a post on this I had no idea what it meant but now I know It is basically your digital tracks. It is there for your whole life and even after you die. It all started when I wasn’t even born. 5 months before I was born my mam got a scan done and the picture is emailed to friends, family and kept in a file in the hospital. When I was born pictures and/or text messages got sent out to my family, friends and kept in a file in the hospital. My digital dossier has been growing and growing day by day as I use social media constantly.  Even from the age of four and five my digital dossier was active. It got bigger when I created accounts online to play games when I was younger and today when I create accounts on social media to communicate with my friends it grows and until I die it things will keep getting added even after I did my work on the internet and on my phone will stay there forever.

I'm just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but I'm doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. Hope you learnt something when reading about my digital dossier ! - Miss.Galligan x

A Wednesday full of Work

By the end of the day I had paint all over me and I was singing nursery rhythms. Is that what happens each day when you’re a teacher? For my first term of work experience I went to Scoile Naomh Bríd in Celbridge and was helping my third class teacher with her junior infant class. I can’t remember much of being in junior infants but I thought in junior infants everyone was all quiet and cried at the start of the day because they didnt want to leave their parents but it looks like I was wrong! None of the girls cried when they came in and from the minute the class door opened and they came in until the minute they all left the class room always had a least one kid talking. It was like reliving my childhood if I have to be honest. The worst part of the day was by far the tiny chair that I had to sit on for the day.

Once the class came in I was introduced to the class and the teacher told the girls that I was going to be helping them with their art and work for the day. All of them were so fascinated and interested to see me sitting on the tiny chair at the back of the room in their "art corner" as they called it. Once the class was settled I was given A3 pages, the role, paint brushes,l tissues and the basic colours of paint. I wrote each girls name on the top right hand corner and then poured the paint into the pots and put a paint brush in each pot. Once the table was set up and ready for the girls to paint I looked at the list of where each girl sat and got them to come down two by two to paint a picture of themselves. I made them trace what they would draw with their finger so I knew they would fill the page. Watching them paint and helping them hold the paint brush was surprisingly fun. It wasn’t all fun and games though with the painting. Some of them didn’t want to stop painting because they liked it so much so to make sure they didn’t have too much paint on the page and you could see their paintings I had to take the paint brush off them. As mean as I felt telling them “all gone” when they asked for more paint I had to or else there would really be no paint left. I had the pleasure of cleaning some them because you can’t expect a five year old to paint without getting it on their uniforms, hands and even their faces. God knows how they got it on their faces but one minute they were clean and next they had orange paint straight down their jumpers. Painting was fun but I must say being a teacher would be hard because as they painted I had to get them to try say the colours they wanted not just point at them because they wouldn't learn anything if they just pointed at a pot full of paint. I had lunch and then continued painting with them after.

Once everyone did a painting I cleaned up all the paint and wiped down the table. I then helped them with the cutting and then got all the worksheets they had done in the past while and put them into their folders. While I did this I got to listen to them singing and a story being told.Then I had another lunch and then when back to the class and did that again until they went home. When they went home I put the chairs on the desks, made sure they had one of every colour crayon in their crayon bowls and then out the colouring books onto the desks for the morning.

I’m just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but I’m doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. Hope you liked reading about my first day of work experience  – Miss.Galligan x

Two Days of Team Building

At 7am on Monday the 15^th of September everyone who was going to Carlingford for two days and one night met at Esso petrol station to get on the bus for a long bus ride to the centre. We arrived at around nine and then sorted out who was in what room as soon as that was all figured out we all ran to the rooms to claim our bed for the night, even though we all knew with 12 teenage girls in one room we would get hardly any sleep.

Day 1 –After we all knew where our rooms where we got put into two groups and everyone walked down to the beach for our first active of many. To wake us all up we went into the ice cold Irish Sea. We put on out swimming togs, wetsuits, helmets and life jackets and then group B (the group I was in)  got into kayaks to do kayaking. There was me and two of my friends in one kayak and I must say it was a team building activity because if one person stopped rowing we ending up going in circles. After a few minutes of hard work and non-stop rowing the kayak finally made it to a little beach across from where we started. On the beach we played games, and then headed back to have showers and have lunch. After lunch group B met in the laser lane to go to the forest to do laser tag. This was by far the best thing we did. The instructors didn’t lie when they said it wasn’t that long a walk but it was mostly uphill so wouldn’t be easy to walk. It was well worth the horrible walk though, it was so much fun and I think everybody enjoyed it. We played a few games of it and it was team blue verses team red. I was Team Red and we got an inspirational quote before each game to help us win and they will forever be in my head. 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take’, ‘Aim for the moon because even if you miss you'll land among the stars' and ' it’s not what can the red team can do for you it’s what can you do for the red team'. When all the games were finished we hiked back down to the centre for dinner, which we all were in need of after all the walking and running around. When it was dark we went back up to the mountain again for nightline to the same place but an easier way but it felt like a much longer walk. In the place where we did laser tag there was a rope tied to the trees and with blindfolds on we held the rope and the person in front. It may not sound scary but walking around a very uneven area with a blindfold on, only depending on the person in front of you and the instructors saying stuff in your ears unexpectedly was very scary. Once we reached to start again we took off our blindfolds and all became very great full of our sight and then walked back to the centre for the rest of the night.

Day2 – To make the most of our last day we dragged ourselves out of bed and went to breakfast running on very little sleep. Even though the day before had been full of actives and we were all so tired we still managed to fill ourselves with so much sugar that we could stay awake for most of the night. After breakfast it was back down to the beach and team B did canoeing. This was most defiantly a team building exercise. There were three boats tied together and 10 people and an instructor trying to make our way to a different beach then the day before so we could go to the fountain of youth. Once we reached the beach we went into the cave to put our heads under the water fall to supposedly gain an extra day to our lives. I didn’t put my head under but the splashes that came of it that hit me told me the water wasn’t like the water in a kettle after it has been boiled, it was ice cold and I don’t think anybody really enjoyed it. After that we went back for lunch then we went for another walk that was at least five times longer to the challenge course. I say if we weren’t all so tired we might have enjoyed this lot more. It was fun and was really funny attempting to figure out how to do the thing when we were all half asleep. After the challenge course we went back to the centre and packed up the bus and then we all went home.

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I’m just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but I’m doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. Hope you liked reading about my two days in Carlingford adventure centre in Co. Louth – Miss.Galligan x

The First of many Wednesday

Every Wednesday we have work experience but our first term of work experience won’t start for a few weeks. Wednesday the 3rd of September was our first day of workshops because we have no classes scheduled so the school arranged a day for us were we could learn how to act in an accident, become better young ladies and have fun and laughing with our new class. For the day to be fun and also a way to prepare us for life after school we had a first aid workshop, etiquette workshop and a positive party.

To my surprise the first aid wasn't boring as I expected. Many laughs were shared once we became comfortable and weren’t afraid to talk. Along with laughing and having fun we learnt things some of us didn’t know before the day. We were told when an accident occurs you stay calm and we learnt what to do in some situations. I learnt how to do a sling and that you put your head forward when you have a nose bleed not back.

After the first aid workshop we changed room and went to the etiquette workshop to become the young ladies we already are. To start the workshop we tried to find out things that we didn’t know about the people in the class. Then we walked a red carpet. Yes you read that right! We learnt how to stand up straight and walk in our heels. For the “lesson” to be more fun we did it on a red carpet. I say it was funny for the teachers to see us stumbling in our heels as they walked by to get to their classes. After we removed our heels and complained for a few minutes about our feet hurting, we exfoliated our hands and they smelt and felt amazing for the rest of the day.

In my opinion the best party of the day was the positive party. If I’m 100 per cent honest it was a very weird but an extremely fun way to end the day. We did laughing yoga which was to make us turn a fake laugh to a real laugh and it oddly enough it worked. It was all very out of our comfort zones and nobody really wanted to do it at first but when we did, we were all surprised that we were almost in tears from the laughter!I can’t wait for work experience but I don’t want to start at the same time. I’d rather do workshops every Wednesday because it was so fun and everybody got to talk to one another. After the day I feel like our class has become closer together. But on the 24th of September I will be able to wake up happy knowing I don’t have to go to school but at the same time nervous as I walk out into the work world for my first day of work experience.

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I’m just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but I’m doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. Hope you liked reading about my thoughts on my first Wednesday of workshops – Miss.Galligan x

It all began on the 28th August 2014

I’m happy to say that I survived my first day of transition year. On Thursday 28th of August 2014 almost 90 excited, nervous and overly tired teenage girls walked into St.Wolstans Community School. I think it’s safe to say after a well-deserved summer after we all stressed out and studied hard in third year for our junior cert we are looking for a year full of enjoyment and a break from study.

I would be lying if I said I was excited to see who was in my class. When I walked into the hall all I could think was “what if none of my friends are in my class”, “what if nobody talks to me" and many other negative thoughts. With my eyes half open I sat patiently waiting for our year head to read aloud all the classes. First Ariel was called out, then Bell and then I looked around the hall to see the row I was sitting in was mostly full and most of my friends would be in class Aurora with me. Not loving the name I went to tutor class and laughed as our tutor told us reasons why we should like the name and be glad not to be called the other ones. Then the bell rang and it was lunch and next thing I knew I was at home again telling my parents what I thought of my first day and then that night I went to bed not wanting to go asleep and having to get up early again but at the same time I was looking forward to the next day with my new class.

The worst part about the day was waking up early and dragging myself out of bed but I’m sure in a few weeks I’ll be able to do that in a few minutes because there is so much things I’m looking forward to do this year and I can’t wait to do everything!

I’m just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. Hope you liked reading about my thoughts on my first day in TY – Miss.Galligan x