Thirteenth week

This week was very good! We didn't have class on Monday and we did many awesome things this days. In Web Design and Art we continued working in our prototype and in Woodwork and Business we did posters for our sale project.
In English and History we worked in our blogs and in our character of the 1916's revolution in Ireland. In Languages we continued watching the film Untouchables and we did some activities about Silent Discos. In Science we learned something about genes and your own body characteristics.
In Home Economics we did a Christmas cake!!! It was amazing, we used a lot of ingredients like butter, chocolate, marshmallows, biscuits, syrup, cherries...
First, we mixed the butter, the chocolate and the syrup, we melted that and we put the other things like the marshmallows, the biscuits and the cherries.
Now we have to keep it in the fridge until the next week, that we will decorate it.
In Drama we represented some situations and we did some games. In Maths we explained our projects about civilizations and the mathematicians and important mathematicians, mine was Fermat.
In P.E. we finished our coaching Course and we played Badminton and in Careers we talked about a employer skills.
Finally in Religion we talked about the situation in Syria.
On Friday of that week, we worked all the day in the reception of the school.

 

 

 

 

Twelfth week

This week was one of the best weeks of all the year. On Monday and Tuesday we did the First Aid Course, (I did a post about it) so we continued with normal classes on Wednesday.
In Home Economics we did a Baked Chicken and Broccoli that was very tasty and I enjoy it very much. In Drama we did games about theatre, so we saw how the people starts in that world.
In Languages we did a work about a film or a book that we have saw or read recently and in Science we worked in our family tree.
In SPHE we talked about differents aspects of the Transition Year and in Maths we continued work in Statistics.
In P.E. we did touch ball and volleyball, in English we worked in our blogs and in Art we continued our prototypes of a giant shuttlecork.
In Religion we talked about the war and the situation in Syria and those countries that have a very bad situation right now and in Careers we corrected the work experience diaries of each others.
Finally on Friday we worked all the day in the secretary of the school and I have to say that it was a very good experience because it was like work in a real office, we attended calls, did a lot of works and we also write down message for the teachers. It was a great day!!!!

First Aid Course

On Monday and Tuesday of the 12th week we had our First Aid Course. We used all the classes of both days to it and we learned a lot of useful things.
On Monday, we arrived in room 3, and a man called Brian told us the introduction of the course. After that we started to learn things like the concept of First Aid, the types of bandages and how use them, the definition of shock, trauma, burn...
The first day was the theorist information, but we learned very interesting thing like how save someone from chocking.

 

 

The second day was the best. We were in the hall with a lot of masks, mannequins and defibrillators.

We saw some videos of incredible rescues of people in the beach or people who are working and they have a heart attack.



After that we practiced with the mannequins to do CPR, breathing reanimations... Many interesting things that we will have to use in the future.
Finally, we did the of 20 questions about all that we have learned that two days and the teacher told us that he will give us the results at the end of the year. After that we returned home.
Here there are some videos and pictures of our experience.

 

 

 

Open day and the eleventh week

In the eleventh week, all the classes of the school were doing exams, except us. In that week we worked and finished all our projects like the diary of our work experience or our Fairtrade Project for Religion. We also did many works for the teachers and the staff of the school.
On Thursday of that week we had the Open Day.
In the Open Day we decorated all the corridors with posters, flags... And we did a open mic night with musical acts.
As well, we show in each class the things that the different courses were doing, and we had a class for Transition Year. In Science was Second Year, in Home Economics, Sixth Year and in the Woodwork room there were a lot of projects of different classes.
The Principal talked also about the school, the projects... And finally a famous hurling player came and we took pictures with him.
We also met all our classmates, it was a very good day!!

 

 

 

 

 

Tenth week

This week passed very fast! After this week there is only one month left until I come back to my country.
This week in history we continued learning abou characters of the 1916's revolution, I had speak about Rabindranath Tagore in my group.
In Languages we continued watching the film ''Intouchables'' and in Careers we tried to finish the diary of our work experience.
In Woodwork we continued with our project of Christmas decorations and in Math and SPHE we continued learning about statistics.
In Geography we talked about steriotypes in men and women, in Web Design we continued our blogs and in Engineering and Art we started to work in the prototypes of our project, my group is doing a giant shuttlecork.
In Science we did some posters and we cleaned the Science class and in Home Economics we continued our seafood program.
In Drama we rode some Irish scripts and in P.E. we continued our coaching course and we did badminton.
Finally, in Religion we continued our work of Fairtrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shoebox Appeal

Some weeks ago a woman come to our class to explain us the Shoebox  Appeal project. It consists in buy some things related to the four ''w''. We have to buy things for the children to wash, write, wear and something ''wow''. That is a surprise for the kids like a toy, a Teddy Bear or some sweets.
When the woman was gone we had one week to buy all the materials for the boxes and give it to the teacher in time with some money (4 euros) for correspondence.



Another days we worked in the Shoebox Appeal in SPHE. We had to check all the shoeboxes and see if they had all the things required ( something to wash, something to write...)

Finally, some days ago they come to take all the shoebox and said us thank you, and that day we where very happy because we know that we have made happy a lot of kids.

Finally, I'm going to leave here a video about the shoebox appeal project. Good Bye!

Ninth week

This week we did a lot of things!
In History an English we learned something about the revolution of 1916 in Ireland and we had to choose a character of that period to do a researching about it.

In Languages we started to watch the movie "Untouchables", and in Careers we continued the diary of our Work Experience.
In Woodwork and Business we worked in our projects and in Maths we continued learning about Statistics.
In Geography, we were learning about the Hunger and the poverty.
In Web Design we continued our blogs and in Art we started to do a prototype of a giant shuttlecock, that is the idea of my group.

In Science we worked in a pin wheel and in Home Economics we started our Safe Food program. In Drama we finished to read the theatre piece: "An inspector calls" and in Religion we started a new project about trade market.

Finally, in P.E. we started a Couching Course and we played touch ball.

Spanish life (3)

Comparison Ireland vs. Spain:
1. Ireland:

The Republic of Ireland occupies most of the island of Ireland, off the coast of England and Wales. Its eastern capital, Dublin, is the birthplace of writers including Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, and home of Guinness beer. Nicknamed the "Emerald Isle” for its lush landscape of rolling green hills, it’s dotted with castles and ancient sites, such as massive 12th-century Cahir Castle.

Capital: Dublin

Dialing code: +353

Currency: Euro

Population: 4.595 million (2013) World Bank

Minimum wage: 1,461.85 EUR per month (Jan 2015) Eurostat

Geography
Location	Western Europe
Coordinates	53°25′N 8°0′W / 53.417°N 8.000°W / 53.417; -8.000Coordinates: 53°25′N 8°0′W / 53.417°N 8.000°W / 53.417; -8.000
Area	84,421 km2 (32,595 sq mi)[1]
Area rank	20th[2]
Coastline	2,797 km (1,738 mi)
Highest elevation	1,041 m (3,415 ft)
Highest point	Carrauntoohil
Sovereign states
Republic of Ireland
Largest settlement	Dublin

2. Spain:

Spain, on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, is really 17 autonomous regions, each with its own geography and culture. The capital, Madrid, is home to the Royal Palace and singular Prado museum, housing works by European masters, and Segovia to the north has a fairy-tale medieval castle and Roman aqueduct. Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, is defined by Antoni Gaudí’s quirky modernist architecture, including the Sagrada Família basilica.

Capital: Madrid

Dialing code: +34

Currency: Euro

Population: 46.77 million (2014) Instituto Nacional de Estadística

Official language: Spanish

Capital and largest city		Madrid 40°26′N 3°42′W / 40.433°N 3.700°W / 40.433; -3.700
Official language and national language		Spanish[c]
Recognised regional languages[c]		Aragonese                                              Asturian Basque Catalan Galician Occitan
Ethnic groups (2015)		89.9% Spanish 10.1% others
Demonym		Spanish Spaniard
Government		Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
-	Monarch	Felipe VI
-	Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy
Legislature		Cortes Generales
-	Upper house	Senate
-	Lower house	Congress of Deputies
Formation
-	Dynastic	1479
-	De facto	1516
-	De jure	1715
-	First constitution	1812
-	Current democracy	1978
-	EEC accession[d]	1986
Area
-	Total	505,990[4] km2 (52nd) 195,364 sq mi
-	Water (%)	1.04
Population
-	2015 estimate	46,439,864[5][e] (30th)
-	2011 census	46,815,916[7]
-	Density	92/km2 (106th) 240/sq mi

Seventh week

This week was long because the next week was the midterm holidays all of us were waiting for that.
In home economics we cook some taco chips and it was very fin!!!!
In Drama we continúes reading a script of a theatre piece and in languages we were talking about the film "Intouchables".
In Science we did the Egg Drop Challengers and in SPHE and maths we continued ours baby's project.
In English we worked in our blogs and in Art and Web design we were working in our sculpture project.
In P.E. we did some test of resistance and flexibility and in Carrera we were talking about them and doing our work experience diary.
Finally, in Religion, the teacher told us some horrible real stories about people of poor countries.

Law Course

On Monday and Tuesday of the seventh week a barrister of Galway called James Fahy come to our class to teach us a law course. We were the whole Monday and Tuesday and we learned a lot of things.
The first day we talked about the law in Ireland and the courts that you can find. We also talked about the barristers, the solicitors, the judges and the lawyers. It also explained us some civil cases that he did and the result of them.

I think the first day was the hardest because the law its a very difficult topic and more if it isn't in your own language.
On Tuesday we talked about a lot of different criminal cases, the buildings where the criminal judgments take place and the resolution for them. There were many interesting cases of murders, violations or only simply confusions that ends in the jail. Another thing that we did was try to decide the result of some very difficults cases like if we were the judges and was very difficult decide because both answer had reason.

Finally we simulated a real judgment of a case of violent behavior in a plane.
Some people were barristers, another solicitors, James was the judge, another people were witnesses like the captain of the plane, some staff of the plane, the guard that capture the suspect and some passengers. Finally the people left were the popular jury.
At the end of the judgment the accused was declared guilty and he had to pay a fine of 5 euros!!!
It was a good experience and my favourite part was to know strange real cases of criminals or normal people. See you in the next post!!!!!

Sixth week

This week passed very fast!!!
In History and English we talking about our books and
 we started to write a Gothic story.
In Languages we worked our French and we presented
 our Irish's works.
In Careers we worked in our book doing activities and
talking about careers.
In Woodwork and Business we started to do our products
and we started to plan the business part of the project, we
had to decide the name of the team, the price of the product, how many products we were going to do...
In Maths we continued learning about statistics.
In Geography we analysed a situation of a poor family and we had to decide which things can be improved for them.
In Web Design we continued our blogs, in Engineering and Art we drew sketches of our ideas for the project.
In Science we did a prototype for the Egg Drop Challenge and we started to do our definitive work to drop the egg the next week.
In Home Economics we learned about teenagers' relationships and in P.E. we did badminton.
Finally in Religion we talk about poverty, and was very interesting.
My favourite of the week was Friday because we did a lot of works for our work experience helping teachers and staff of the school.

 

 

Fifth week

This week was quite great!!!
In Drama and Music, we were reading a theatre piece.
On Thursday, we went to Moate to an art park (I wrote a post about this trip) and the others days in art, engineering and web design we continue with our project to make an sculpture and we continue with the blog of our Spanish high school.
In home economics we did the soup with our ingredients and it was good. We carried our soups to our houses to eat it.
In Maths we continue talking about statistics and in History and English we were talking about the book that we are reading and the Gothic literature.

In Geography we talked about the hunger and its effects.

In Woodwork and Business we continued making our products to sell them before Christmas.
Finally, in Science we planned our egg drop challenge and in Careers we were making our work experience diary and working in the work.

That was a summary of the week, I hope that the next week will be also good.

Spanish life (2)

Hello!! In this post I want to talk about a topic that some people asked me about Spain and I think they are not correct about it. They said me that if in Spain we like to kill bulls... Mmmm, OK. In Spain is a ''tradition'' do bullfights and finally the bullfighter kill the bull.
This tradition is more of the mainland of Spain than in the Canary Islands that the place that I live, and there are less bullfights than in the mainlands.
I think that this tradition, in my opinion is very absurd because you killing an animal, a living being, only for fun, not all the Spanish people like the bullfights and like see how to an animal die, it's more, there are a lot of people that think like me and a lot animal protection associations that are trying to ban this type of activities, but that it's difficult because many people like it and it's considered a ''tradition''.
I saw the obligation to do this post because many people was asking me and I think that is a topic that I had to talk about. Thank you for read it and have a good day :-)

Trip to Moate: Art in the Park

The Thursday of the fifth week we went to Moate, in Athlone, to a park called ''Dun na si''. We went there to find ideas for sculptures to participate in the competition that the park organise every year. We left the high school at nine o'clock and we arrived in Moate one hour after.
First we went around the park taking pictures of the sculptures and then we walk around it taking notes and sketches of the sculptures.

After that we walk to the centre of the town and we went to a Supermac's and a Supervalue and finally we return to our high school and we arrived there at quarter past two.
I think that it was a good trip because it helped me to find ideas for my art project and I also went to a new place in Ireland.
I like so much the park and the town and I would another day to that place. See you!!!

Fourth week

Hello everybody! This week was hard because we had to do and think about a lot of works and projects. On Monday, we did our second soccer training and we were ready to our match on Friday, but the other team was better and we lose thirteen-one but I pass a great time playing with my team-mates!
In History, we continue learning about protests song relacionated with famous moments of the History and in English we learned the characteristics of the gothic literature.
In Home Economics we studied the relationships in teenagers and in Maths we started to learned statistics.
In Geography we talked about the hunger in the world and in Sciences we searched information about different planets and if we can live there.
In Religion and Woodwork we continue with project of the past week and in P.E. we played Badminton and team games.
It was a very intense week and I'm learning a lot of things!
Bye, see you in the next post!

Baby's project

This weekend I had to look after a baby (is not a real baby, it's a doll) that cry and I had to change her nappies, feed her or help her to burp or to sleep. It was a experience to think about the responsibilities of be a young father. I didn't like it because sometimes the baby cried like 30 minutes and she also cried in the morning at four o'clock and the next day I was very tired. We also had to write the hours that the baby cried, what we were doing at that moment and also what care does the baby need.
I still have to do another works like the price of my baby's life that is put a total price per day, month and year for all the things that the baby need. And also I have to do a poster talking about a topic related with babies.
Conclusion: It was a good experience but... don't be a young father. See you in the next post!

 

Spanish Life (1)

In this type of posts I'm going to talk about Spanish life and customs. In the first post (this) I'm going to put here some Spanish music of my favourites Spanish singers.
This song is "Por fin te encontre" of Cali y el Dandee ft. Juan Magan and Sebastian Yatra.
If you like the music you can find more information in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_%26_El_Dandee . There are some of their songs with lyrics in English in Youtube.

 

 

Third week

This week was a normal week:
We did our first dance class in languages, we started to learn some information about the gothic literature, we continue analysing the musical Oklahoma, we continue doing our blog, I get the baby of the baby's project to take care of it from Friday to Monday, we started to learn some information about the hunger in geography, we started to analyse the planets of our solar system in science...
In sumary, we did a lot of things but, for me the best thing of the week was the start of the soccer team and its first training on Friday.
The next week we have our first match and I'm very happy.
In this week we also planned a lot of project and things to do.
I think it was a very exciting week and I hope that the next will be better!!!