Busy Week!

Im not going to lie I really loved how much class I missed last week.

Monday  17^th - I had most classes but I missed double IT at the end of the day.(explains my late blog) I didn’t just decide not to go to class, myself and aisling went around to each class room and took the numbers off the projectors and then I typed them all up for Mrs. Ward. We got really confused at one point at what number we had to take down but got them all in the end.
Tuesday 18^th -  I had double science in the morning and we started making soap but then ran out of time so after break myself and three other girls missed half the day to go to liffey valley with Mrs. Leonard to get clothes for the fashion show that’s is on the 25^th and 26^th . I say in total we spent about a half an hour in the shop and then we had 40 minutes to walk around the shops while Mrs. Leonard went to get other things for the show. When we got back to the school we had 10 minutes of Irish. (Longest 10 minutes of the day) Don’t get me wrong I loved missing class to go shopping but the best part of the day was after lunch when the whole year had the pleasure to go to carton house to see the vanishing art expedition. Well to be honest most of the year weren’t interested in the art after we heard that the Irish rugby team were in the grounds. That’s when the art went out the window and almost everyone started looking for them. Seeing them in the gym was pretty good but the best part of the day was when out of 86 girls in ty 9 of us meet Johnny sexton! Loads of the other girls got pictures with Tommy Bowe but that was after we got a photo with Johnny sexton and we were gone to do the work we were set when he was there.



Wednesday 19^th – as every Wednesday is I went off to work experience and had such a fun day like always. I never would have thought I’d like doing work experience in the primary as much as I do. The book fare was there for the week so after I did some cutting I went down and re-read the same frozen book allowed. (I think I can say it off at this point) surprisingly they didn’t get distracted like I thought (Well hoped) they all listened to the end. After that I had to draw and paint a picture of an elephant to stick up with their pictures but the one I painted was called Elmer and was all different colours because the story they were reading was about an elephant being left out because he was different but at the end he was accepted. I did so much other stuff but painting and going to the book fare were both by far the best things to do!
Thursday 20^th – I had most my classes on Thursday but I missed the last three because we had a road safety talk.  I learnt that Last year saw the first year-on-year increase in the number of road deaths in Ireland for the first time since 2005 when 190 people lost their lives compared to 162 in 2012. Do you wear are seatbelt? Well in 2008 it was recorded that 89% of adults in a car wear seatbelts and that sounds like a lot but that 11% is a lot of people and are more likely to be killed on the road. 12% of all car drivers killed in 2007 were not wearing seatbelts. The talk was three classes long but not once did the speaker lose my attention!
Friday 21^st – we had another talk but this time it was about the millennium goals. Our school is thinking about writing a book about raising awareness about achieving goal 6. After the talk we had a class to work on our mini-company products so we would be ready to sell at the fashion show.

Im 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 what I did last week and I apologize that this blog is late. - Miss.Galligan x

Work Experience

5 days in school and only 2 days off each week isn’t enough and I think we can all agree with that.  No matter how much free time I had in the past week I couldn’t bring myself to sit on the laptop and write a blog post. The first thing I did on Saturday morning after I got up was sit down with a blank white screen in front in me and hoped it would take like 10minutes to type a full post. I failed miserably .My phone kept buzzing from across the room and all I wanted to do was start texting my friends and go out so I did that. But so I wouldn’t forget everything I did I typed out the dates and a few bullet points and today Monday the 3^rd of November im going to attempt once again to write a blog post including what I  did. Bear in mind when you read this that I did all these things almost 2 weeks ago and I have a terrible memory, if I have to be completely honest. (I’ve a memory like a gold fish as they say)

On Friday the 24^th of October at 3.20 every single girl and teacher in the school ran out the door to get home for a week off. This isn’t going to be short blog post on what everyone dressed up as on Friday but I want to give credit to everyone who did because everyone look amazing and to the people who didn’t WHERE IS YOUR SPIRIT? I really can’t say much I think this was the first year I put in any effort! But I did and that is all that really matters!

Now it’s time for you to hear about the best part of the week. Work experience on Wednesday the 22^nd.Last Wednesday the 29^th since we were on midterm we did’t have to go into work experience (well I couldn't because the school was closed anyway!) Since the kids won’t be in school the week of Halloween I helped with Halloween art on Wednesday the 22^nd. I helped make trick or treat bags. Well that’s what we told the kids they could be but of course you know how five year olds are we had a child disagree and she said it would rip so we can’t use it but thank god one of them said that they can use it as a Halloween handbag for dress but and obviously the teacher and I took what the girl said and told them to do that if they already have a trick or treat bag or if they think it will rip.

It was harder then it sounded to make the bags. Each bag had a ghost, witch, pumpkin, start and a moon on it .Once again I had paint on me at the end of the day. But this week surprisingly I only had a small bit of paint on my hands and on my jumper. Instead of going home and putting everything in the wash I went home to wash my hair because I was cover in glitter for a change.

Life lesson number 1 – Don’t use glitter with kids, they get it EVERYWHERE!!!!

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Throughout the day I brought two girls down to the back to the things that would be stuck onto the bag. If I knew how messy the glitter would have been I would have left it until the end but I didn’t and I did it first. To make sure the glitter would stick with the print stick I got to do a star and since they were both on the same page I did a moon after. (I always test that the art will work and honestly I love it because I feel like a six year old again and its ok if I do it wrong im not being graded on it)  Each girl came down and I put glue onto the star and moon and then they sprinkled gold glitter onto the star, sliver glitter on the moon and both glitters on the floor, table, themselves and me. Once that was done I attempted to clean the table off and left the floor until later. Im not over reacting when I say it got everywhere, it really did!

So the girls knew not to just paint the whole pumpkin with their figure I filled the pumpkin with dots of paint (once again i felt six and loved it) and then I showed it to them so they knew what to do. In the end some of the pumpkins where just covered in orange paint but sure what can you do?

There weren’t enough ghosts for me to one but I got over it. I spent at least 10 minutes cutting out ghost and putting the girls names on the back and the handing them out. While I did that the teacher handed out cotton wool and told ever one of the not to touch it and continue colouring until we were ready. Once every girl had a ghost and cotton wool the teacher and I went around and made sure they all spread it out and pressed it to the picture. They didn’t even use glue and most of them had cotton wool stuck to their hands.

Life lesson number 2 – don’t use glue sticks to stick down cotton wool because it doesn’t work very well.

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On Tuesday they all coloured in a picture of a witch so I got them from their folders and I handed them out. On the top of all the girls tables there was a bag and all there art from the day and once they went home the teacher and I had great fun jumping from chair to chair making the biggest mess ever trying to cut everything out and stick them on the bag. The glue we used really failed to keep the glitter and the cotton wool on. Every time I picked up the star and moon to cut the out half the glitter feels off the page. Originally only the back of the room had glitter everywhere but by the tie we finished the room was cover in glitter and every desk had paper all over it. The teacher picked up all the paper and put it in the bin, while I cleaned the glitter off the tables, well as much as I could anyway. The day was almost over but the last 10 minutes consisted of both of us sweeping the floors and I say we only got rid of have the glitter.

I did have a picture of a bag and a picture of all the things individually that were put onto the bag but I lost them(oooppps) well there's the disadvantage of wanting to enjoy your midterm and not doing a blog post when you really should.

Im 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 how I tried and most likely failed to portray how fun it is at work experience ever week! there might be a new problem every minute but I don't care I think it is amazing. - Miss.Galligan x