Wake me up before you go!

This week was the week of our very exciting fun walk! We spent weeks preparing our dance. As our class name is Aurora, we based our dance on the movie Maleficent where Maleficent is an evil queen who wants to put Aurora to sleep. Mr Kennedy dressed up as Maleficent. He wore a black clock and a mask. We all danced around him wearing yellow which was the colour given to Tys. We danced to the song 'wake me up before you go' which we had spent ages choreographing. We all had great fun and cheered as the other classes danced. We then set off on our walk around Celbridge. We were very happy when the sun came out towards the end of the walk. I had a great day! To make it even better on Monday we found out that we had won!
Talk to you soon, 
Aisling x 

Work Experience

This Wednesday we had our first week of work experience in Ty!

I was very nervous that morning as I had no idea what to expect. This was my first time in a working environment so everything was going to be new to me. 

I was going to be working in Peamount hospital as I think that I would like to do nursing in the future and would love to see what its like to work in a hospital. 

We left home early that morning. When I arrived I was greeted by the supervisor of activities who was very friendly and understood that I was nervous. She told me that her name was Mary and went over what I would be doing during my time in Peamount.She told me that I would be working with people with disabilities and asked me a few questions about what I would like to do when im older.

My first job was to collect a man in a wheel chair and take him to mass. After this I met another two Ty students who were both lovely and together we went to a drama class with people with special needs. This was great fun the people taking the class were very nice and evryone had a laugh as we did a bit of acting. After this we went to have lunch in the hospital cafeteria. After lunch one of the other girls who was there for work experience and I were told to go to a women and do hand care with her. We spent the next half an hour chatting to this lady while doing her nails and massaging her hands. She told us that she was in an accident and was told that she wouldn't be able to walk again. But just recently after a lot of physio she was able to walk. I loved hearing about peoples lives as they are all so interesting. We then attended a music group where we sang old songs with patients in the ward. Some of them even got up to dance. We all had a great laugh and the two girls doing work experience and |I even sang some newer songs which the patients loved.

My first day of work experience was a success and I cant wait to come back next week.I definitly think that I could see myself working in a place like peamount when im older. Talk to you soon,

Aisling x