Drink and Driving

During our Road Safety class we were given the task of creating a leaflet, highlighting the effects of drink driving and warning young drivers not to be consuming any alcohol whilst or before they drive.

Each student created a leaflet, which included facts and images that warned the dangers of drink driving. As the leaflets were created by the students, it may help the pupils who read them easier to understand as it will be made more clearer to read and highlight the most important facts.

The making of this project will also help the Transition Years with their Driving Theory test, as it is one of the key topics found in the driving theory exams and will help us to remember some important facts.

Drink Driving is one of the biggest factors leading to road crashes in Ireland. Even though this is a widespread topic when it comes to Car Rules, a lot of the population still don’t listen to the warnings and thus cause fatal crashes which lead to death.

A sample of the leaflet that I have created is attached below and can be printed if wanted.

Stop and think, don’t drink!

Kilmainham Jail

Last Wednesday the 1st of January, Transition Year and 5th Year History class students visited Kilmainham Jail and Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

We learned about some important figures in our Irish history such as Daniel O’Connell, who is currently resting inside the crypt in the bottom of a round tower, which can be seen from afar in Glasnevin Cemetery, as well as seeing some rather old and interesting architecture.

After about an hour of touring the Cemetery, we moved onto Kilmainham Jail, another historic piece of Ireland’s history.

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In this building, we learned about the stories relating to the prisoners who were living in certain cells, as well as Kilmainham Jail being the film location of the movie ‘Michael Collins’ in which the Irish actor, Liam Neeson portrays the character.

Overall, it was an enjoyable trip as well as educational and I never knew that one place could hold so much history!

Michael Lambert’s gold watch

Rope used to escape prison by James Stephens

 

Trailer of ‘Michael Collins’ in which the actor Liam Neeson acts:

Junk Kouture

On the 27th of January, Transition Year Art students of Crana college will be participating in a fashion show which consists of recycled dresses and other fashion from secondary schools all over Ireland and Scotland.

The students who complete their fashion projects within the deadline will then have the judges choose between their design and all of the submitted designs down to just 80 per region – north, south, east and west.

The successful designs will be announced on the 14th of February and then the students must choreograph a performance to showcase their outfit on the catwalk in one of five regional semi-finals held in theaters across the country.

The chosen model has 90 seconds to impress the judging panel on the catwalk and if successful he/ she will be one of the twenty designs progressing to the glamorous grand final in April 2017 held in the 3 Arena Dublin.

For the competition, myself and two other students, have been creating an angel styled theme, using recycled music note sheets, dyed in coffee to add a stained effect, cut and shaped into a specific shape, and glued together to create two wings.

For the top, we glued many bun cases together and got a flared skirt from a second hand shop for the bottom, each colour from every item of clothing blending well together.
More information about Junk Kouture can be found here: http://junkkouture.com/

The Laurentic

Since the end of 2016, crana college students have been working on certain Laurentic projects during their classes to celebrate its 100th anniversary for 2017.

The classes were divided up into groups to work on a project of their own, some of these projects included a map which indicated the places that the Laurentic ship traveled.

On Wednesday the 18th of January, Transition Year and 5th Year students gathered near Buncrana shore front to organise themselves to form the shape of the word ‘Laurentic’.

The following week, relatives of those who were aboard the Laurentic ship, from around the world, Canada and Ireland, arrived at Crana College on Friday to see the work done by the students.

The next day, Saturday the 28th, Crana College students laid wreaths at Fahan and Cockhill for the Laurentic Centenary Service in remembrance for the passengers.

Then finally, on Sunday, the students got a chance to aboard the Samuel Beckett, an Irish Navy ship which sailed out to the wreckage site of the SS Laurentic, where wreaths were placed as remembrance. All the effort done to remember those lost and discover more about them, as well as finding the Laurentic’s final passengers relatives was clearly worth the work-filled months and was a once in a lifetime experience!