TY Days

Hey people,

                 This week has been a busy one for us Transition Years, even busier than usual. Firstly this week we had our Mini Company presentation day yesterday on Monday twenty first of January. Two judges came to our school to see our projects and listen to us talk about our different sectors of the project. Just to help you keep up our mini company is Cray8 Colour we recycle old unusable crayons and produce them into new colours, shapes and sizes. We after all the judging was finished our mini company won best business report in our class and we will find out the finalists sometime next week.

In Religion we are still doing an area of conflict in the world, me and my partner have chosen to do the Mexican Drug War. This will help us to learn about an area of conflict that we were unaware of previously, before we embarked on this project.

In Art we are still doing our cassette tape portraits. We have drawn out our pictures of the chosen celebrities and today we are starting to stick down the tape from the cassette tape onto our pictures.

In History we are learning about the reformation. Today we were set a project on religious reformers, John Calvin and Martin Luther we must research them and do a presentation on them.

In Geography I am doing a project on Cuba, we must learn about  the aspects of their culture, places to visit whilst there and other things about Cuba.              

In TY design we are currently making a teddy bear from fabric. We have cut out all our pieces and must sew them together and we are currently taking our arms and legs and will start machine sewing next week. We have also decided on names for our bears. 

In Home Economics we are cooking every week. This week we have made profiteroles. They were delicious and we did it quite well in a short space of time. Next week we are making chicken risotto.

In Science we are working on our Scifest projects and mine is Is Public Transport as Clean as You Think. I am looking forward to carrying out our experiment for the competition.

 TTYL
         Shannon

A New Year..................

Heyy people,      
                Happy New Year!!!!!! With a new year comes a new course of school projects and even though we've only been back a few days we've already been set to work on projects :)

   In Geography we are still doing our round the world trip in which we have to learn about two first world countries, two second world countries and two third world countries. My Countries are India and Cuba to learn about.

In History we are learning about the reformation. Today we were set a project on religious reformers, I have been given John Calvin and we also have to do a profile on the religious reformer Martin Luther.

In Religion we are supposed to research an area of ongoing conflict and to a project to learn about the life in that country.

In our Art class we are creating portraits of celebrities and putting them into black and white and using the tape inside a cassette tape to outline the dark pieces on the picture.

In TY Design we are making a teddy bear out of fabric. We are currently in the process of cutting out the shapes we need to put our teddy together.

This week in Home Ec we are making chocolate and strawberry cheese cake with the base of our cheesecake being made from chocolate chip cookies.

In French class we have been given a French pen pal who we must write letters to every couple of weeks. They are from Nancy in the north of France.

In Mini Company we are currently preparing our business report for the competition to submit to the judges so they can learn about our business and our ideas.

In Science we are currently working on our Sci-fest project which is due for the 1st of March.

                   TTYL,
                            Shannon :)