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*TY OFF-TOPIC THREAD* 2014/2015
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smiles_1998 wrote: »That's awful!
they do the same in our school if you don't go on the end of year camping trip- which is utterly unfair, especially when you consider just how expensive TY is, meaning that by the time we reach May, many people are simply not going to be able to afford to pay €200 to go camping!
TY has been a major disappointment since Christmas- we have had the grand total of three workshops. We go on work experience after the midterm though so it works out that we only have three weeks in school from midterm to Easter!
Apparently the few weeks after Easter are the best all year so hopefully things will pick up after that!
How has TY been for everyone else since Christmas?
Average enough - we had debating until the end of January but we unfortunately got knocked out it'll pick up though after midterm, going to UCD for a course the week after midterm and then I suppose we'll start planning our fashion show. We have a week of work experience in May and then a week in Cappanalea 0 -
TY has been fairly boring for me since Christmas. There was much more going on before Christmas. A lot of the time lots of people are missing for various reasons so we don't do much.
I have work experience soon so that should be a nice break.
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Average enough - we had debating until the end of January but we unfortunately got knocked out it'll pick up though after midterm, going to UCD for a course the week after midterm and then I suppose we'll start planning our fashion show. We have a week of work experience in May and then a week in Cappanalea
The fashion show is so much fun!0 -
smiles_1998 wrote: »That's awful! they do the same in our school if you don't go on the end of year camping trip- which is utterly unfair, especially when you consider just how expensive TY is, meaning that by the time we reach May, many people are simply not going to be able to afford to pay €200 to go camping!
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How has TY been for everyone else since Christmas?
Since Christmas? Dismal to say the least. Went to one horrifying yet insightful workshop on road safety and that's about it. Certain degree of exclusion or even alienation of the students not going on the foreign trip... by the teachers, not the students actually going.
But still I maintain that it's a small price for me to pay, considering that September to Christmas 2014 was the best time I've had in my entire time in school, thanks to our school musical0 -
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Apart from our carlingford trip at the start of the year, TY has been fairly boring. I've been busy, but thats mainly because of a crapload of projects we need to do to get credits. There's a hike/go karting on tuesday, which should be good, except that only about 20 people who've been deemed to have 'pulled their weight' will be going. I know I'll end up hiking
We're also doing subject choices. How does it work in other schools. In mine, you give a list of preferences and then a timetable is made, and its constantly changed until it suits almost everyone. Do other schools go to so much trouble?0 -
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I think accounting and art are definites for me, and then its a toss up between biology, business and geography, though I'm leaning towards biology so I have a good mix. I don't think my parents are too keen on me doing art, but I'll do it anyway I don't think that combination will have too much rote-learning (except biology) which suits me. What about you? 0
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We're doing work experience every Friday, and if you don't have work experience, you get a lie on, cause there's no insurance for us to be on the school property! I just missed the past week by doing work in BT2 which was amazing, but overall TY has been boring the past few weeks.
Out of 140 of us, 74 are going on the UK trip to Alton Towers as its like 330 euros! We're also going to the ghaeltacht for two days in may which is 140 euros and then carlingford was the same.
Ty is so expensive. Hate going home to my parents asking for tenner sand twenties for day trips nall0 -
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smiles_1998 wrote: »It looks like Hamlet is our Shakespearean play for Leaving Cert. http://www.education.ie/en/Schools-Colleges/Information/Curriculum-and-Syllabus/Senior-Cycle-/Syllabuses-and-Guidelines/?pageNumber=4
Overall the syllabus looks nice enough but I don't know many of the poets...
They're not the worst, I know about two of the poets. Though, I'll know enough of them come the Leaving Cert 0 -
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smiles_1998 wrote: »True unfortunately
When do ye have to have your subject choice forms back in? Mine has to be in by March 6th
We had to write down an idea of the subjects we were going to keep on last Tuesday - well have to do that another few times so they can work out time tablong for us to give everyone as many if their subjects as possible. Our years the biggest in the school and there's still a waiting list so it's gonna be fun.0 -
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Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »How's everybody's TY holding up?
Mine has slowed down a fair bit, and attendance is going down the toilet for roughly a third of my year (not including myself mind:D, I was told the other day I still had 100% attendance this year...in TY like.....TY of all things!). But we are still ticking along and always find something to do whether it's for the yearbook, or a project, or playing music or drama, or designing our TY hoodies.
A positive mentality seems to go a long way in TY
I just finished my last week of work experience today got an Easter egg though!
TY slowed down a lot (and I mean a LOT) for us between Christmas and the midterm but it picked back up again after that luckily! I was so glad I had loads to do outside school those few weeks though!
Favouritism is a major problem in our year with certain people being constantly chosen to help out at different events or help our year head organise different events. This is despite man of us going to the year head to complain about this :rolleyes:
I had perfect attendance from 1st- 3rd year...then I had to get sick in January and miss four days
Overall, TY is okay- there's definitely room for improvement in terms of how it is run and how it is structured, though. At this stage, I feel I am ready for fifth year and a bit of routine again- which I suppose is kind of the point of TY! 0 -
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March has been pretty busy, with loads of presentations, Work experience, Workshops and finally first aid starting monday. I've been looking forward to it all year. Then after the easter holidays we have our trip to amsterdam and I am doing a sea survival and fire safety course. Then I think we just go outside and play soccer for the rest of the year 0
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