Hotel Rwanda Some Shock :O

Over the past few weeks we have been watching Hotel Rwanda in religion class.
The movie is based on a real life story which makes it so much more real.
It was about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, it was between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's. The Hutu's wanted to get rid of ALL the Tutsi's. The west of the world would not help any of the Rwandans just the White people from the west. This made me feel ashamed to be from the west as we just left people to be killed in such a cruel way. I believe this is unfair as we are all equal no one is better than anyone else!


Eventually the west helped move the Rwandans across the boarder!


It's incredible to think one man Paul (Hotel Manager) kept so many people alive and full of of hope, even when they thought they were all going to die. He never stopped believing that help would come to save them.


Paul now lives in Belgium with his wife three children, and also their two nieces who they then adopted.

Santry :D

Well yesterday everyone who wanted to compete in Santry had to sign up yesterday.
Santry is an Athletic competition, were in the west leinsters first and the top two of each event get to go on and compete in the Leinsters. If you come in the top two for Leinster you then get to go on to the All-Irelands!!
For the last two years Our school has one best overall girls school! We were the first community school to win it!
This year I am hoping to do javelin and discuss. Last year I came second in Javelin.
It really is a great day of fun and there are so many events to see, some of the people are so good!

Shake it out :D

Today is THE day :D

Music night is tonight!

As you can probably tell Banba are singing Shake it out by Florence and the machine Eríu Are singing with us!!

We have been practising since Christmas !!

I hope we do well and make Mrs. O'R Proud :D

First Year sports afternoon :D

Yesterday Banba organised a sports day for all of the first years! It was to get them interested in athletics because Santry is coming up at the end of April.
For the last two years we have won over best Girls school :D
I was based on the shot put, I had to show them the right technique and also had to measure the distance they were throwing to see who won :D
Class Pearl won the best class on the day but they all did really well !!

DEAR

Book week was a few weeThis is a quick summary of the hunger gamesks ago and the slogan is Drop Everything And Read!
I love reading can't go to sleep if I don't read at night.
My favourite books at the moment are The Hunger Games it's a trilogy based in the near future, it is a must read!!
The movie is coming out on Friday I cannot wait to see it :D

http://www.shmoop.com/hunger-games/summary.html This is a summary of the hunger games trilogy!

The end of a great hockety year..

Well yesterday we played in a Leinster semi final in hockey it was the first time the school had made it so far in anything in hockey!
In the first half we played really well the backs were amazing with all the pressure they were under by the other team.
At half time it was no score. When the second half started it was still very tough, then about ten minutes in Rathdown got a goal :(
We were very close to getting an equalising goal, but it just didn't happen :/
It ended up 1:0
We were pretty gutted that we didn't get into the final but we still believe we improved so much this year.
I think next year will be the year for St. Wolstan's!!!

Jabba jabba jembe!

Well I bet you have no idea what this means, on Monday we did a percussion workshop with a guy called Dave!
It was really good the drum we were using was called a jembe :D
I found it really interesting to learn about an African instrument as I didn't really know much about it.

A week in the world of work :D

Well I spent a week in Co. Cork at a Solicitors office for my week of work experience.
I spent two of the days in court watching what they do there and I found it very interesting. The other days I was doing different things from photocopying reports to witnessing wills, I thought it was really good as I got to see a bit of everything so I get a great insight into what it would be like to be a solicitor.
I also did a few deliveries each day which was good as I got to see a bit of the businesses that solicitors work with, which was mainly other solicitor firms and the bank.


Overall I really enjoyed my week in the Solicitors and I would consider it as a possible career. :D

Raising Awareness !

Well we're doing another Geography project :D
This time we're are raising awareness about certain diseases you can get when on holiday. We have to make brochure telling you all about the disease, how you can prevent it, what symptoms you may get and how to treat the disease.
I chose leprosy as I find it very interesting, also there is a very large stigma towards people who have leprosy. They are isolated from the rest of their community and people do not associate with them.
When I did my research I found out that it is wasn't actually proven to be the case.
This is why I want to raise awareness about Leprosy to get rid of all the false beliefs about this disease!

A trip to Kildare town :D

Well today is St. Brigid's day and the first day of Spring :D

St. Brigid is the second most known Saint. in Ireland, the first being St. Patrick.
My class and I are decorating the meditating room. It is meant to represent St. Brigid and all she did during her life. While doing all this about St. Brigid, I have actually learnt a lot about what she did for Ireland and the beginning of Christianity in Ireland
We are also going to visit Kildare town. To visit the Holy well, which is highly associated with St. Brigid!
It's also the first day of spring which usually means it should get warmer. But it actually was the coldest this morning than it has been in a long time! Just our luck.

Things we're doing in TY this week :)

Well it's a busy week!

• Well we just got our photos taken!                                                                                                They will be displayed around the school, for everyone to see!
• Four groups out of all our year got into The B.T Young Scientist ( basically a science fair!) it's a National Competition!
• All of TY and also 2nd years will be going to the RDS to see the B.T Young Scientist, we will spend the day there looking at all the different projects. Isn't that cool!

New Year New Goals :D

Well you always hear people talking about how they're going to do better in the new year. But how often do people actually achieve what they set out to do at the beginning?
My new year resolution for 2012 is to make a list of things to do, and to do at least half of them!
Do you think I can do it?
If you want to see the list look at my page :)
Wish me luck!