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T.Y. Times
Volume 1, Issue 1
B r o th e r s o f t he R i s i ng :
Inside this issue:
T.Y. P r od u cti o n
The annual drama production for
fourth years this year is based on
the Easter Rising to commemorate
the centenary anniversary of the
events in 1916. The play is taking
place in Rossmore Theatre on the
3rd of February. The story is told
through two best friends on opposite sides of the conflict, Michael
Collins and Sean O’Donovan. The
script was written by Mr. Doyle and
directed by Nora Scannell. There
are three groups organising the
play: The Actors, Set Design and
Marketing. The Set Design team
are in charge of developing props
and making the scene and background. Marketing is in charge of
creating a name for the production;
marketing and advertising the
event and calculating a price to
charge for tickets and design a
poster as well. The Actors, of
course, are performing and acting
in the play with different characters
Transition year 2015-16
being portrayed from that time.
There are also students involved in providing stage lighting and sound effects on the
night. New to T.Y productions,
this play is a lot more drama
based as opposed to being a
comedic show, of course there
are comedic moments but
overall this is quite a serious
play. We wish all those involved
in this year’s production the
best of luck.
Titanic Centre
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School Open Night
2
Rochestown Career Day
2
‘Zip It’
3
Agricultural Science
3
Community Care
3
Science Week Speaker
4
School bank
4
Word search
5
Cinema Trip
6
Gaisce
The students of transition
and doing a good deed for
year have the opportunity to your community. In order to
participate in Gaisce.
qualify for the award you
must spend an hour a week
Gaisce is the President’s
performing each of these
annual achievement award
tasks and you must get your
for young people in Ireland.
Gaisce form signed by an
Gaisce involves completing
appropriate person
thirteen weeks of physical
(e.g. sport trainer for the
Activity; learning a new skill
physical activity) to prove
you have done your activity.
Most of the students in transition year are using this opportunity to improve themselves (and their CV), and are
doing well in their efforts to
obtain the president’s award.
EDITOR: Rory O‘ Connor 4.3
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TY Trip to the Titanic Centre
On the 22nd of September this
year, the classes of 4.2 and 4.3
visited The Centre for the Commemoration of the Titanic in
Cobh, Co. Cork, and, like every
other trip that we have done in
Transition Year so far, I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of
the tour.
We started off the day with the
bus leaving the school at 9:40
am. We headed for Cobh without
a notion of what was ahead of us.
We arrived at about 11:10 at the
titanic centre. The instructor told
us lots of cool things; like that
the Titanic was the biggest ship
of the sea back in 1912, weighing
around 46,000 tons! And that
over 1,500 people tragically lost
their lives in the accident. It was
very interesting to learn about.
titanic centre is open all year
round, and you find out loads of
cool stuff there.
After we finished up in the Titanic
centre, we decided we would go
to Mahon Point for our lunch,
where I, my friends and the rest
of Transition Year thoroughly enjoyed going to.
At about 2:30pm, we finished up
at Mahon Point and decided to
head back to school at around
3:40pm that evening.
Overall, I truly enjoyed my trip to
the Titanic Centre, and would
highly recommend this trip to
anyone in and around Cobh at
any time of the year because the
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This year we had a great time at the
open night as always. I feel that the
night is a great opportunity for incoming first years to get a feel for the
school and see what we do and meet
all the teachers.
My role on the night was to play music to all the parents and incoming
first years to show them what we do
for entertainment.
As always the science labs were a
great hit for the kids because the
teachers and students of the school
show the incoming first years all the
best and most fun experiments such
as the van de Graff static electricity
conductor and the flame tests (my personal favourite).
Upon arrival at the school parents/guardians
received an application form by one of the current students and were greeted by the School
Principal and the Deputy Principal. Everyone was
then directed into the assembly area for speeches by the Principal, Students and School Chaplain.
The Speeches lasted roughly one to one and a
half hours. After the speeches students directed
small groups of students and parents around the
school to show them everything on offer.
The night was a great success and enjoyed by
all.
Rochestown Careers Open Day
In October all transition year and LCA students went
to the Rochestown Park Hotel to a careers open day.
We left in the morning at 9.40 after first class and
travelled by bus to the hotel. The purpose of this trip
was to help us learn more about what we might want
to do in the future after we finish school. At the hotel
we were each given a ticket and then we were allowed
go in and view the different colleges. There were colleges there from all around Ireland and also others
from the United Kingdom. Each college had a stand
and at each stand you could ask about different cours-
es, learn more about the college and pick up brochures. There were also different organisations there
if you weren’t interested in college such as the army
and the navy. We spent approximately two hours in
the hotel before leaving. During this time we got to
learn a lot about different options for college and different careers we might be interested in. Afterwards,
we were allowed spend some time in Mahon Point to
get food and also look in the shops. We then returned to school. This was a very enjoyable and interesting day out.
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Zipit in Farren Woods
Transition year for me has been an
exhilarating experience so far, and it’s
not even Christmas! Our first trip of
T.Y. took us to Farren Woods, a new
forest adventure centre called Zipit,
which has only been open since March.
We arrived at the forest and were met
by top quality equipment and adventure trails, which I think brought a
cheeky smile to most of our faces. We
could tell that our instructor knew what
he was doing, he looked like the climbing had an impact on him, he looked
fierce hardy!
We were first shown the ropes around
the place (literally), and how to use all
the safety equipment. It all sounded
like gibberish for the first 5 minutes
but we surprisingly caught on fairly
fast. We were split off into our smaller
groups then and sent to different
courses to complete.
The first course we did was very handy
to learn on and we got the swing of
things in no time. We progressed
through to the more difficult and demanding courses, which increased the
enjoyment. The last course we did was
definitely the most enjoyable. It contained one of Irelands longest zip lines
at 160m and contained a total of over
600m of zip lines!
The day was very successful and everyone was buzzing to go back before
the end of T.Y.
Agricultural Science
Agricultural Science is a TY
module about animals and
plants involved in agriculture in Ireland. In this
module I learned about different things such as
earthworms, veal and how
butter is made. I learned
how earthworms and about
how they are the most important animal to Irish agriculture. I dug up worms
using washing up liquid
and then dissected them
using a scalpel. I learned
how they live, eat and reproduce. I also learned
about veal, where it comes
from, and how it is produced. I discovered how
butter is made by rapidly
shaking cream in a jar.
When we did this at school
we ate the butter on bread
that the teacher brought
in. I also had to complete
a project about different
breeds of a certain type of
farm animal. I chose dairy
breeds and I researched
Community Care is a TY module which
took place over the last three classes
on a Tuesday evening. We went to
the hospital to do our community
care. While we were there we would
do various games and activities with
the patients for an hour. For example
we used do games of bingo, quizzes
and one day we even played bowling.
Some days we wouldn’t play any
games or quizzes we’d just sit and
talk to the patients and it was really
nice getting to know them and the
stories they’d tell were some of the
best I ever heard. Arthur, Matthew,
Thady and I would walk the long,
tough, nasty trek up the hill to the
hospital but it was well worth it when
we got there. Over all I would have to
say that I extremely enjoyed my time
doing community care in the hospital
and I would gladly do it again.
ten different breedsand
found pictures of each of
them on the internet.
These breeds include: Friesians, Dexter and Irish
Moiled.
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Science Week:
guest speaker
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On November 18th we had a guest speaker in the school
to talk to us about his charity called “Ugly Animals”. The
charity is aimed at helping animals ignored by most charities as they are labelled “ugly” or “not cute enough”. He
felt that it was wrong to ignore these animals for these
reasons. He showed us an advertisement he made for the
charity and explained his reasons for starting the charity.
He held a competition online to find the worlds ugliest
animal as a way of promoting the charity. The winner of
the competition was the “Blob fish” or as it’s also known,
“Blobby”.
The talk itself lasted about two hours, and was both educational and interactive. He showed us animals that were
unique but unheard of due to some of their attributes or
their defence techniques. He asked students to volunteer
to come up to take part in interactive games that involved them pretending to be the creatures. One of the
games involved two people pretending to be two animals
that were blind that defended themselves by firing projectiles at their attacker.
To simulate blindness, he covered their eyes with scarfs
and as projectiles he gave them silly string.
The Blob FishThe World’s Ugliest Fish?
We greatly enjoyed the talk and learned interesting new
facts.
Our School Bank:
Who are we?
We are a group of 7 Transition Year students participating in the Bank of Ireland
‘Build a Bank Challenge’. The team consists
of a Bank Manager, an Assistant Manager,
2 Sales and Marketing Managers, an Auditor and 2 Customer Service Officials. The
team is:
Darragh O’Donovan- Bank Manager
Cormac Coleman- Assistant Bank Manager
Moss Downey and David McCarthy- Sales
and Marketing Managers
Maurice Shanley- Auditor
Brian O’Donovan and Clodagh MaloneyCustomer Service Officials
What are our aims?
Our aims are to setup a School Bank with
the purpose of helping younger students
who may not be familiar with banking get
more used to it and encourage them to
save money. We also aim to help students
save money for usage on school trips or
other outings as this will get the students
into good banking habits and will mean
parents don’t need to pay big sums of
money out for school trips.
‘CCC Savings’
What have we done so far?
Where can you find us?
So far we have done a few different events
to help promote our school bank. Cork Dual
GAA Star, Aidan Walsh, came in on the 11 th
of November to meet the students and to
promote the school bank. The students
were very excited to meet him and very
happy to be able to get pictures taken with
him. We also have a number of prizes such
as a Munster rugby team photo signed by
the players and a Munster rugby ball signed
by the players to raffle off. We also are
close to raffling off an iPad to the first 50
students to have opened accounts. For
every 25 accounts activated through our
school bank the school gets €250 which will
be reinvested into trips and other activities
for the students. One of the big prizes to be
won is a ticket to go watch a Munster Rugby match for every single one of the first
100 people to open and activate accounts
with the school bank.
We are open every Wednesday in Room
6 from 13:00-14:00 where we will be
happy to sort out any questions or inquires
you may have; we also have a Facebook
page where we can be reached at any
times throughout the week outside School
Bank hours, to find us simply search “CCC
Savings” on Facebook and we will be happy
to help.
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T.Y. Cinema Trip
Yesterday,
Tuesday
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1
December,
our
whole TY group attended Clonakilty cinema as a day out to
go watch “Bridge of
Spies”…
Every week each of
the TY groups have a
module on a Tuesday,
which may involve,
active leisure, self defence, GAA coaching
or community care.
These modules are
changed every seven
weeks in order for
each student to get
involved in different
activities.
Then on such short notice, we were
told Monday that we were going to
Clonakilty cinema instead to see a spy
movie, which worked out well on the
teachers behalf as the movie was
about the cold war, but it was very
interesting to watch.
We had all bought
food and tickets were
already pre ordered, so
we were able to go in
straight away without
any delay. We were
the only people in the
cinema, so we were
able to choose where
we wanted to sit. I
think overall it was a
very good day out and
the movie was also
very interesting at the
same time, so it was a
win win for all…..
1.COMMUNITYWORK
2.GAISCE
3.MINICOMPANY
4.MODULES
5.PRODUCTION
6.SCHOOLBANK
7.TRANSITIONYEAR
8.TRIPS
9.WORKEXPERIENCE
10.YOUNGSCIENTIST
11.YSI