Junior Spider Awards

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So this week we came back to school after 2 weeks off for the Easter holidays. I must admit, I wasn't particularly looking forward to coming back, although since we only have 4 weeks more to go, I'm not too badly off!
To make getting back into school even easier, I got to go to the Eircom Junior Spider Awards representing Radio TY!

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The awards were held in Google HQ in Dublin, and there were stands from different companies like Microsoft, Eircom, Spin 1038 and Dublin Zoo (who brought lots of snakes and reptiles!). These stands were there to provide entertainment for several hours before the actual awards ceremony, and I really enjoyed spending the time looking around!

Radio TY (which I posted about a while ago here) was nominated for both Best Project and Best Concept in the Tera Category, and we were delighted to find out that we had won the Junior Spider for Best Concept!
It was a great day all round concluding with a bonus of winning one of the categories, so I was certainly delighted with the outcome of the day!

Radio TY

This year, Mrs L decided to set up a TY media team. Around 30 students volunteered, and we were all really excited about the work that we would be doing! So, armed with dictaphones, an Audioboo account and Audacity editing software, the media team set out with the task of interviewing students, teachers and any speakers who come to the school.

Interviewing 6th years at Halloween

  So far we have interviewed students on dress-up days, production team members of our school musical, cast members of the school musical and many more!
  I am really enjoying being a part of the media team, and I'm looking forward to hopefully reaching our goal for the end of the year, of recording our own radio show!
  Check out the Radio TY blog here, follow @StWolstansTY on Twitter and search for 'St Wolstan's TY' on iTunes to download all our podcasts.

  I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll be updating soon! :)