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.