Halloween Dress up Day

Today was Halloween dress up day in our school :D Every year was given a theme and the best dressed in each class goes into a parade. The juniors had the haunted house theme, T.Y. and 5th years were scary movies, and 6th years had Harry Potter. Everyone looked great, my favourites were Ciara who dressed up as the mad hatter (and made an amazing hat, so good she convinced Ms. O'C she should be a milliner) and Ailbhe and Leah as Cruela Deville and a ghost buster. Well done to all the girls who made the effort, and have a great midterm!! :D

Accord Talk

A representative from Accord came to our school today to talk with us about relationships. We had anticipated this talk and expected an awkward afternoon filled with laughter and embarrassment. Surprisingly that was not the case and I immediately warmed to our facilitator M. She made everything open and easy-going and although there was some laughter there was little embarrassment :L It was very informative and interesting to hear other peoples views and opinions on relationships.

Colour Me Beautiful :)

Last Friday we were lucky to have the opportunity to have two women from the Colour Me Beautiful Company come and talk with us. Colour Me beautiful is almost like a style advising company, but mainly focused on the colours that suit you best and compliment your skin tone. It was actually really interesting and definitely surprising. They started off by explaining that there are 6 different colour types. The fair people usually have blonde hair, pale skin and pale eyes, the colours that typically suit them are pale pinks and blues etc. The soft colouring can be compared to Jennifer Anniston with sandy brown hair and kind of sallow skin and pastels suit them also. Warm people tend to have reddish hair and fair skin with freckles and earthy browns, rustic reds and greens suit them. And then there were the clears, they have fair skin and then contrasting dark hair and bright eyes. Bright contrasting colours suit them eg. Bright reds and pinks. And last but not least there are the deeps, similar to Eva Longoria they have dark colouring and deep strong colours suit them like reds and purples and burgundy.

The two women went through the class categorizing everyone individually, altogether there were 4 fair girls, 5 clear, 5 warm , 3 deeps and almost half the class were soft :L  With great surprise I was put into the deep group, because initially I thought I would be a clear. It seemed I was a borderline! Overall It was definitely fun :D

Home ec. Design

  

In Home. Ec this year we are doing a fashion show!! It's very exciting because we are actually designing the outfits on the runway. The class was divided into groups and given a colour (black & white, red or purple) and a pair of white trousers and top. The challenge is to make an outfit out of these materials with a budget of €15, definitely a challenging project! My group and I were given the colour purple, and this inspired us to make an Alice in Wonderland themed dress. You’re probably thinking what has purple got to do with Alice in wonderland? Well we thought of the Cheshire cat initially and from there we put in different elements of the movie to make the outfit. We included a hat for the mad hatter, and on the hat we will have a butterfly and a deck of cards (the queen of hearts) and ribbons and feathers to top it off! The skirt will have an appliqué of a spade and a club and pink under netting. At the moment it sounds pretty crazy but hopefully it will al come together nicely!

                                                                 

Mini Company

Every year St.Wolstans T.Y.  Participates in the mini company Enterprise Ireland competition. Our school has always done well, two years ago a group of girls started a business called Digi-music and won the competition. My group and I have decided to produce a new product that seals the opening of a can (like coke etc.) so that you can put in your bag, and drink it later! :) It's definitely a challenging project because we have literally no business experience, but so far I'm enjoying it and today we finished the 3d design for the product. You never know maybe Wolstans could have another winner this year! ;) 

Trip Around The World

This year we have loads of projects to do, and one of them is our geography project where we must organise a trip around the world to 6 different countries. We were divided into groups of three and each person must pick 2 countries of their own to research, I picked Croatia and Laos. Croatia is officialy a coutnry for only 20 yeasr so it's relativley new but it has a rich history from when it was part of Yugoslavia.  Although it's not entirely relevant to the project, the boyband 'The Wanted' filmed there latest music video in the beautiful town of Dubrovnik, Croatia.