During my spare time, I enjoy drawing life figures, as well as photography.
Last week, I walked down to a nearby river, and took some scenic photos of the wildlife and greenery surrounding me.
I took my two sheepdogs down along with me also. My father has sheep nearby the river so they are useful to train the dogs.
The weather was perfect for a walk, as it was a calm and peaceful day.
On Thursday the 6th of October, 5th and TY students from Crana College, travelled down to the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, to watch their country, Ireland, play a match of football against Georgia.
For some of the students, it was their first experience in the Aviva stadium in Dublin, which proved to be an extra advantage as Ireland came out the winning team.
Every student on the bus got illuminous green face paint, dotted across their face to show their support for the Irish team.
Before the match, the students stopped in Blanchardstown to get something to eat.
Overall, it was a fantastic night and was worth the long journey!
Within these past handful of weeks after returning from the summer holidays, the Transition Year students of Crana College, have been working on a presentation for their Irish class.
The students were divivded into groups and had to choose a specific historical Irish Myth or Legend based on Fionn MacCumhaill, such as:
Some students even decided to shorten these Legends and combine these together, creating a summary of The Legend of Fionn MacCumhaill.
The students presented their work in class last week, Monday the 10th of October, to ensure the Irish youth is conscious of their countries Myths and Legends.
The story of Diarmuid agus Grรกinne
Today, Transition Years from Crana College, toured the Giant’s Causeway along the sea coast of the basalt cliffs in County Antrim.
For some students, this was a first experience, as well as an educational one.
The weather was great also, especially for Ireland an the Giant’s Causeway.
The students capturedย manyย photos in Antrim, as show below.
This trip was undertaken as the Transition Years and their Irish teacher, Mrs. McFadden, had been working on projects/slides in the past few weeks based on Fionn MacCumhaill.
The Giant’s Causeway’s history is established around Fionn MacCumhaill, a mythical Irish warrior.
The rocks located in the Giant’s Causeway, are made naturally and the formation along the coast consists of about 40,000 interlocking, hexagonal basalt columns.
Fionn supposedly built the Causeway so that he could reach Scotland without getting his feet wet, as there is a similar rock formation 75 miles across the sea.
Ty’s have been working on their Woodwork project, a colourful wooden box, designed by the student using a specific theme they had to choose, since the start of the school year. Each student from the Transition Year woodwork class had to design a mini prototype of the wooden cube using a 3-D cube template. They drew on the template, using designs that matched their theme, and constructed the sheet into a 3-D cube by folding the edges and securing them using tape. The students took pictures of the mini cubes using a simple stand.
The following week, the students filled in a Development sheet for the Cube Project, explaining the story of their chosen theme, the design layout of the mini cube, explained how they are planning to make their Cube Project and included a few pictures of their finished mini cube prototypes.
Within the following months, the class hopes to have their Wooden Cube Project completed in time for its deadline.
On Monday the 26th of September 2016, the Transition Years of Crana College travelled to an Enterpise Presentation in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel. It took only a few minutes to walk from the school to the hotel and the good weather saved many of us from getting wet.
Once we arrived at the hotel, we entered the main hall, where there was tables set up neatly, they each had a little fruit bowel in the centre. There was students from many different schools there. After a while of talking and small activities, the students received a light snack and a break. Once the break was over, the presentation continued and the talking began, from the presenter.
We were given a small activity booklet to take home with us to help improve and understand more about what having and creating a business is really like.
The Transition Years arrived back at school at around 1:05 pm, they went for lunch and walked back to the school on time for class as usual.
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