Forensic Science Module

  Forensics Module      Logbook

This term I undertook a forensics module taught by Ms. Aylmer along with my class. I found it fascinating to learn about what it is like to be a forensic scientist and I was very happy to receive 95% in this module. 

Below are some pictures of the logbook I filled out throughout my forensics classes.

A day at Dublin Zoo

Dublin Zoo

On Thursday, 8^th of October, all TY students along with Ms Young, Ms Roy and Jason headed on a day trip to Dublin Zoo. Most TYs went because they were doing biology and wanted to learn more about conservation and animal species, I just went for the fun!

It was a beautiful clear sunny morning when we arrived at the zoo and we were quite eager to start our journey around the Zoo looking at the various animals.

For about an hour and a half we were let loose around the Zoo, taking in the vibrant atmosphere and giggling at our friends trying to interpret the monkey's speech. A few friends and I spotted a Costa so we rushed over to it to buy iced coffees which were delicious.

 

After our wander about which I really enjoyed, we were taken on a Conservation walk, where John our guide told us many interesting facts about conservation in the Zoo. John told us that Dublin Zoo takes part in a worldwide breeding programme where they try to keep unique animals from going extinct. The ultimate goal with conservation at Dublin Zoo is the preservation of animals who are threatened with extinction so that they can be reintroduced into their habitat in the wild in the future.

Finishing the talk with rumbling tummy’s we set off to have our lunches, with some people buying food from the lovely cafes and others bringing 

packed lunches. 

At about 2 o'clock after lunch, we were allowed to wander around the zoo again which I found to be brilliant as it gave me the chance to take in some details of the animals which I had missed on my first walk around the Zoo. We got to see the penguins get fed with their food flying up in the air, a piece of fish even landed in my friend’s hair! After that, we saw Cassie the sea lion, doing absolutely superb flips and tricks. She had us gasping with amazement the whole time, mouths wide open.

Dublin Zoo was a fantastic experience overall and it was a great day out.

  

A day in the life of George Boole - Maths Project

    George Boole  

My first project of transition year was a maths project on George Boole, a famous mathematician. Coming back into Mr Drummy’s first maths class of the year you never really know what to expect. We were delighted to be split up into groups and given each a different, inspiring mathematician to work on. But as always with Mr Drummy, there was a fun element to the project. Each group was told at the start of presenting their project they had to come into the classroom and do some sort of ‘maths pose’. We all giggled when Mr Drummy tried to show us examples of what we could do for our pose.

 I was in a group with Mia and Jackie and we all decided we were going to win the best maths pose. While completing our project, we thought long and hard on how we could make our pose innovative and unique to everyone else’s. After a few days of brainstorming, we sat there hopeless, unsuccessful in coming up with a magical maths pose. Suddenly Jackie’s stomach rumbled and I said out-loud to Mia and her ‘I wish we had a nice apple pie right now’ Then it dawned on us. ‘PIE’ we all exclaimed. Pie is a continuous number in maths used to solve different problems. It starts as 3.14 and goes on forever. We had finally figured out what our maths pose was to be. We would bring in an apple pie as a pun on the actual maths term and stand there with the pie while the ‘pie song’ would blare out. Believe it or not, there is a pie song which is a very catchy tune with just the same numbers repeated over and over again!

Needless to say our maths project was a success with Mr Drummy scoffing the pie while we presented our project on George Boole to the class. We attained an A and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process of this project. 

My Irish Project on Myself.

Irish Project on Myself

  As part of our Irish class with Ms Fair, We were asked to do a project on Me Fein or ‘Myself’. Ms Fair kindly supplied us with the posters and we immediately got going creating a board representing what we like to do. My objective was to tell as much about myself as possible ‘as gaeilge’. The whole class had a lot of fun creating the perfect poster and I must say that there was a lot of glitter sprinkled in people’s hair (especially the boys!) throughout the process of making the posters.

 

  I found this project very worthwhile as I learnt new vocab which I will be able to use in my Leaving Cert Oral exam and in future situations where I need to speak Irish. We had a presentation and everyone said a bit about themselves alongside their sparkling posters. I was extremely impressed with the effort my class mates put in and I found it very interesting to listen to them speak about their hobbies and themselves. I was very appreciative to receive an A grade on this project and I enjoyed creating my project immensely.