Last Friday was a non uniform day! This is because St Wolstans were taking part in the 'Walk in our shoes' charity. http://www.walkinmyshoes.ie/
This is a charity about mental heath illness. The charity was estblished by St. Patricks Mental Health Service which is Irelands( largest independent not-for profit mental health service provider). The idea is about by trying to put yourself in some elses shoes -' walk in your shoes'
We all came in to school in our own shoes and there were some funny slippers and wellingtons
and we strutted down the hallways. I think that was just me ;) anyway everyone was a great a great sport and everyone brought in 2euro and raised some money for the charity!
This week we had three workshops, this included a first aid workshop, a ediquette workshop and a potitive parties workshop. My class,Aurora had the first aid workshop first. The instructor used a human like mannequin to demonstarte cpr. Although we did learn a lot from his demonstration like what pace to go at and where to place your hands the noise the mannequin made when he was pushing down on the mannequins chest was very funny and how it kept deflating and inflating abruptly. In groups we had to practice putting bandages on each other and I failed putting it on my friend Ciara and she ended up looking more like a mummy then an injured person!
The next workshop we had was the ediquette workshop we were told to bring in heels for this workshop. We all ended up going to the 2nd yr mall where the instructors had laidout a red carpet and we had to walk up and down balancing our journals on our head then we all put on our heels which which looked quite strange as we were all wearing our
Pe tracksuits! It must have looked really funny to the other year groups seeing us walking up and down a red carpet in our tracksuits and high heels. But, any day to wear heels in school is a good day right? After that we watched some clips on self confidence and then we all got to exfoliate our hands with these amazing smelling exfoliators I used the lemon one and it was so nice our hands were really soft afterwords!
Then finally we had the posh parties workshop we all got sweets and wore these flower necklaces like what they wear in Hawaii and did funny laughing excersies we also had a weird challenge of putting underwear on ourselves but not in the usual way ie. put it on your head. We learnt to be more postive in life.
Over all the workshops were really fun it was a good first week Ty!
Aislinn xx
