Thursday 31 January 2013

Mini Company Presentation Day

Last Monday the judges for the mini company competition came to our school. We all had to set up presentation stalls to display our product.
    As our product is "Hair Couture", a book of step by step styles we made pink posters, got pink fairy lights, pink marshmallows and bon bons and we brought in hair straighteners and curlers. The judges went around to each stall where we had to simply explain to them what our product was. When the judges came around to us, our stand was light up and Willow Smith's "Whip my Hair" was blaring from my laptop. They seemed really interested in our idea and very impressed with our product.
    Next each mini company had to get up in front of everyone and talk about their mini company and then answer questions. We were really nervous but when it came to our turn near the end everything went well and no one got stage fright.
    We found out that 4 companies from our school were going to be shortlisted for the Kildare final. We were so excited when we found out that we were one of the companies! We can't wait to find out if we get through.
    On the day we also got an innovative award which we are proud of! Looks like all of our hard work paid off !

Thursday 17 January 2013

SCIENCE!

We went to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the RDS last Thursday. One group from our school was entered and they got an award for their display. There were loads of secondary school projects. Some of them were really interesting and some of them made no sense.
   The business displays were really good and gave out lots of free stuff. There were loads of people and schools there including my sisters school. It got very stuffy after a while and after a couple of hours we got quite tired and so we went to a 3D movie about Space.
    The day was really fun and it was a great day out!


Tape Art!

In Art we have started our new project. We are making portraits of celebrities out of the tape inside record tapes. It looks really hard but looks really good when it's done! I am not very good at art but hopefully my finished result will in some way resemble the celebrity I am doing, I am either doing Beyoncé or Taylor Lautner! I can't wait to give it a go!

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Teddy Bear

Now that Junk Kouture is over in TY Design we are making a teddy bear! Over the Christmas break we had to get material and thread and stuffing for our teddy bear. We have started cutting out pieces which we are going to sew together to make our teddy bear.
    I can't wait to get started and see what it will look like when it's done!
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Back in School!

We are back in school after what seemed like the shortest Christamas holidays ever! I don't know how two weeks ends up feeling like a couple of days. The days are colder and the prospect of snow is what is getting people through the school week.
   We have started cooking in home ec as Junk Kouture is over. Last week we made scones and this week we made apple crumble. It was yummy!

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