TY Reflection

The final few weeks of Transition Year are coming to an end as summer nears closer. The past few months I have spent doing TY, I have had many  opportunities in many various topics from once in a lifetime trips such as being apart of the Dance Drama who won first place, being apart of the Laurentic Project and meeting a range of people with different stories to other adventures such as being aboard the Samuel L Beckett Navy ship and getting to meet “Googlers” in the Google Headquarters in Dublin. Although my most memorable trip was the Ireland Vs Georgia match in the Aviva stadium as it was my first ever football match and there was a very exciting atmosphere surrounding it.

There was also many projects that were discussed within the classroom, such as  designing and creating a children’s book which was published to local primary schools, Junk Kouture which involved designing fashion and creating clothes from recycled materials and science projects such as researching what a flower is composed of and how it grows as well as even getting the chance to grow your own chicks from eggs!

Some of the opportunities that you can have by choosing to do Transition Year in Crana College are as follows:

• Trips – Google Headquarters, Kilmainham Jail and Glasnevin Cementary, Samuel Beckett Navy ship, Ice Skating, Surfing and Hill walking, Giants Causeway, Letterkenny Institute of Technology open day.
• Classwork – creating a children’s book, researching details about our future career, Junk Kouture, Disability Awareness, The Laurentic, Cube Project, Science projects, Creating a product, Architecture Project
• Other activities include-  Sliabh Sneacht Community Centre, Dance Drama, School Digital Champion, Special guests such as Christy Toyle and visiting President Higgins, Fundraisers.

I think I made the correct choice in choosing to do the TY module as I got a better understanding of what I want to study in terms of my career as beforehand I had nothing specific in mind, and it may have been too late if I had decided half way through fifth year as I would have had my subjects already chosen.

Transition Year has also given me the chance of learning new things not only on trips but at work experience as I learn new skills working in new environments and getting a better understanding of what different jobs are and which suit my ability to work.

I would recommend most students who don’t quite know for sure what job they want to study after school, or who want to get a better understanding of the country that around them and create joyful memories in the process!

 

Malala Yousafzai – Woman I Admire

Within the past few days, I have been preparing a slideshow for my Drama class based on a specific woman that inspires me, who has had a huge impact on other lives and helped change something in this world for the better.

For this project I chose Malala Yousafzai who is currently 19 years old.

Malala Yousafzai was born in northwestern Pakistan, where her father was a school owner and was active in educational issues.

After having blogged for the BBC since 2009 about her experiences during the Taliban’s growing influence in the region, in 2012 the Taliban attempted to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on the bus home from school.

She survived, but underwent several operations in the UK, where she currently lives. In addition to her schooling, she continues her work for the right of girls to education.

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Healthy Habits

For Home Economics on Monday the 5th of December, Crana College had a visitor during TY’s cookery class. In this lesson, the students measured accurately how much teaspoons of sugar are added to popular foods, which included Tomato Ketchup, Starbust’s sweets, a Capri Sun juice drink, and many other sought-after household foods.

Teaspoons of sugar were placed into glass containers, which had the amount of added sugars in each of the products, using the label of information found on the back of the food packets.

Also, if you notice words in the ingredients section end in ‘ose’ e.g. glucose, this means there is sugar present, even if it tells you its sugar free. If you would like to measure how much sugar is in the foods in your home, follow these simple steps:

1. Look at the ingredients label, most commonly found at the back of your product.
2. Identify the grams of sugar listed per serving, and convert this quantity into teaspoons.
3. Then divide the grams by 4.

This will then show you how much added sugars we in your product. 

Via: www.ditchthecarbs.com/2015/12/15/cavemans-balls/

The Recommended Daily Amount for added sugars are 7 teaspoons. 

4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon

Ireland vs. Georgia

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!

Fionn MacCumhaill

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:

• The Giants Causeway
• The Salmon of Knowledge or
• Diarmuid agus Gráinne

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 Gráinne

Enterprise Trip

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.