During the school year we learned a lot in our career's class about how to discover what career best suits you, and we found out what types of careers interest us each, as individulas, the most! In addition we spent time learning about the different types of qualifications we can achieve and we talked about the points system in Ireland, and the requirments for getting into foreign universities. I was very impressed with the Careers Portal website and the Career's book we received at the start of the year, as they are so detailed and they contain a lot of useful and interesting information. After completing various tests on Careers Portal, including the career's interest test, and the personality test and carefully analysing the results, I finally decided on which career to do my project on! I choose a career that I was both interested and suited to, but also a career that I did not know much about so that I could use this opportunity to learn more about the career. This project was a lot of fun to do and incredibly interesting, the research I did proved very informative and has helped me decide on what type of career I might want to pursue in the future and is has shown me what university courses are provided by various universities! Here is an excerpt of my Career's Project, to view the full project please click the link below:
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We have been learning about punctuation in English, since in the times we live in, Punctuation is often ignored and fogotten. As young people nowadays spend hours texting their friends using language, that is commonly known as 'text speak', which mainly consists of abbreviations of words and barely any punctuation. People these days lead very busy lives and don't seem to have the time and patience to write out texts with correct spelling and punctuation.
However, punctuation is extremly important, as it can completely change the meaning of a sentence. Mrs Flanagan asked us to create an eye-catching and clear poster on punctuation, in groups. The purpose of the project is to remind people walking through the corridors at school of the importance of punctuation, and to educate them on the rules involved with the different forms of punctuation. I found it a fun and educational project, and I discovered some rules and facts about punctuation that I didn't know before! Together with Camille, I made a project on punctuation that you can view below: When we were assigned this project in Economics, I was to say the least excited! I find Foreign Exchange and relationships between countries very fascinating. Although it took a lot of research to complete this project, I learned many new and interesting things during the process. Below, you will find a copy of my Economics Foreign Exchange Project:
At the moment in history we are learning about the 1950s. We were assigned to do a project on a 1950s rock and roll artist. Carla and I decided to do our on Elvis Presley, as he is THE 1950s rock and roll king! It was a lot of fun, and very interesting to learn information about Elvis that I wasn't aware of. You can view our project by clicking here
I really enjoyed the Junior Cert Business Studies course, therefore I decided to continue it for the Leaving Cert. I also decided to do it, taking into account that I would have the opportunity to create a mini company, something I looked forward to! After lots of brainstorming, collaborating and researching I finally decided what I would do for my mini company. I first wrote down on a piece of paper all the things, services and products that I personally would like to purchase. By doing this I got a lot of inspiration as I was motivated to create a company that I would enjoy developing. Something else that gave me some inspiration was a big school ‘festival’ called Foot Fest. At my old school in Belgium we would have an annual big market and celebrations. Each section(meaning nationality of people) would have their own stands, selling products from their countries and also providing services. At Foot Fest each section would have their own football team, and the teams(each representing a country) would compete against each other. That’s a bit beside the point, but thinking about all the products and services each section sold opened my eyes to all the possibilities there are for my Mini Company! I have decided to sell candles in jars and pots(as seen in the picture above and below), with decoration and seasonal themes. I choose this idea since I think candles are lovely presents for friends and family of all ages! Also I enjoy crafts, therefore I could use this skill to decorate the candles and present them to a standard that they could be sold at. I plan to create many different sizes of candles in various jars and pots. I hope my company will be original and it will catch people’s attention. I plan to sell my product at a series of different venues, from local markets to school markets and possibly online. About a week ago I created a survey on my company for people to complete, which you can also complete by clicking here. The results prove very interesting and useful in the planning, manufacture and promotion of my product. I learned that people didn’t necessarily want an organic, or natural products, but people did like the idea of having personalized products. I discovered that most people would buy relatives and friends presents at either Christmas or Birthdays, so I will ensure to create candles that suit these events. The name of my company will be “Sophie’s Little Candle Shop”. I will promote my products using social media, hang posters around the community such as on shop notice boards and at the local societies and clubs and posters around the school and also telling people about it. As my product has quite a broad target market as candles are great presents for people of all ages and of both genders I plan to promote my product in as many places as possible. In the next few Business classes I plan to design an advertisement that will communicate important information such as the nature and purpose of my products, where and when you can buy the products, the cost and where to find out more information. I am currently working on a logo that will help my company stand out and make my product easy to identify. I will also think of a slogan to make my company even more memorable The only negative aspect to my product is that it costs a lot of time to handcraft each of these candles. Unlike some products that can be mass produced in a factory, my candles take time and effort to create.
Lastly something I must keep in mind while making, promoting and selling my product is that I must keep an account of the money I am investing into my company in order to avoid ending up with a deficit. I must not invest a large sum of money into my company, but enough to allow me to create a worthwhile product! I hope my company “Sophie’s Little Candle Shop” will be a success!! Le Français c’est une des mes matières préférée parce que j’adore la langue. Comme j’ai grandi en Belgique je parlais français depuis très longtemps. Madame Fanning nous a demandé à faire un projet à deux sur un pays francophone. Emma et moi avons choisi de faire notre projet sur la Corse. On a divisé des sujets spécifiques sur la Corse entre nous deux. J’ai recherché la cuisine typique de la Corse, le climat, la faune et les personnages célèbres de la Corse. Après nous avons recherché toutes l’information et on a collé les images sur la page, Emma et moi avons présenté le projet à la classe. C’était très chouette et intéressante de découvrir des choses sur la Corse que je ne savais pas avant! J’ai aussi aimé à travailler avec Emma et de présenter le projet à la classe!
The very first thing we were asked to do in History this year was to notate all the sporting venues we knew in Ireland for various sports. It turned out we knew a lot of sporting venues in Dublin and barely any outside of Dublin! It was fascinating to see how different people knew more things than others on different sports. I choose to do my project on Semple Stadium in Thurles, Tipperary. I choose this GAA sporting venue because I had been there before for a few hurling matches and my Dad is from Tipperary. I discovered many facts about GAA and Semple Stadium that amused and surprised me!
The first assignment we had in Maths this year was to create a project on a famous mathematician. We had to pick the name of a mathmatician out of a hat, Carla and me picked out the Greek mathmatician Euclid. Together we created a detailed project about Euclid's: Early life, Contributions to Mathematics, the Awards he attained, his Influence on Mathematics and Soceity Today and lastly his Later life. Once everyone had finished and shared their projects we were to have quiz on the mathematicians. Therefore everyone had to make it their priority to make their project as clear and accessible as possible, so that the other students woud be able to comprehend and remember the facts for the quiz!
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