Hamper Packing SVP

Every year SVP ask TY students to put together Christmas hampers. The hampers are given to people who are much less off and can't afford certain luxury's that  we take advantage of at Christmas time.

We headed down to the sports hall in the morning for a briefing. There was stacks of food and drinks laid out all around the sports hall. The teachers explained that we had only the exact amount of supplies we needed for the hampers so we had to be careful not to put too much or not enough in each hamper. We were split into groups, each group led by a 5th year, given a list and set to work on sorting the hampers. The hampers included simple but must have foods at Christmas time, for example roses chocolates.

Because we were working some quickly and there were some many boxes beside one another, things got messy. So my job at the end was to sort out the boxes so the lids could close! Myself and the rest of the group then loaded all the boxes into a van bound for SVP.
Hampers = Tick

Community Service 1st-5th December

This week I will be working with Wicklow Local Sports Partnership, with the Sports Co-Ordinator Garvan Hickey. The Wicklow Sports Partnership was established in 2008, and aims to increase participation in sport and physical activity throughout  Co. Wicklow. The Vision of Wicklow Local Sports Partnership is to “Increase participation in sport and physical activity in County Wicklow through the co-ordination and delivery of quality programmes, training and services”. The Mission of Wicklow Local Sports Partnership is to “Provide sporting and physical activity opportunities through partnership”.

Day 1:  I began my work with Garvan at 9.30 in his office based in Shoreline Leisure Centre Greystones. He gave me a desk and a laptop and put me straight to work. Most of my tasks throughout the day involved the use of Microsoft Exel. Garvan has to deal with a lot of contact information on a daily basis, so I helped him create tables to clearly show this info. Later on, he introduce me to a primary school and montessori programme called Buntús. Buntus is a motivating multi-sport programme set up by the Irish Sports Council, enabling a network of Local Sports Partnerships to provide teachers and childcare practitioners with training that can benefit children by introducing them to sport and physical activity.

Day 2: Today involved much of the same stuff as yesterday, although today Garvan allowed me to update the Wicklow LSP socail network sites. I was also looking at invoices from a few different sport companies regarding Sports Equipment. I had to calculate the price per unit after VAT and then display the info on a table in Exel. I looked at all the different companies and told Garvan which was working out the cheapest. Garvan then showed me some very interesting infographs on the participation of Irish people in sport, like the one shown below.

A more in depth version of these statistics can be seen in the Irish Sports Monitor 2013 Annual Report.

Day 3: Today was mainly focused Operation Transformation, which I found out today was set up by the Local Sports partnership but RTE seem to have taken over. I was again using Exel to do spreadsheets on places and times of walking and running events as part of getting the community involved in operation transformation. I then moved onto the facebook page where I posted several status regarding operation transformation and other sporting events such as Stephanie Roches journey to a FIFA award. The last task on the facebook page was updated an old and out of place cover photo to an up-to-date relevant one.

New cover photo

Day 4: Today was much less exciting than the rest. Garvan needed all the work I had done over the week to be transferred onto his computer so..this meant I had to review all the work and all the numbers to make sure that nothing was incorrect. This took me quite I long time but I was surprised by the number of mistakes I had made.

I only had a four day week because Garvan was off on Monday the 1st so I asked Garvan for a few days next week. (I ended up going for the whole week)

TY Musical

CAST LIST - THE WIZ

Dorothy - Leonie Delaney
The Wiz - Gavin Dowd
The Scarecrow - Evin Kierans
The Tin Man - Sam Shepard
The Lion - Dominic Corrigan
Aunty Em - Kirsti Connole
The Gate Keeper - Art Punch
Evilene - Robyn Jones
Glinda - Emily Byrne
Evilene's Slave - Muireann Farrell
Uncle Henry - Caleb Powell
Munchkin 1 - Jamie (Lord Jully) O'Sullivan
Munchkin 2 - Sean Kirwan
Munchkin 3 - Killian Beashal
Munchkin 4 - Bríd O'Donnell
Flying Monkey - Ethan Forbes-Roe
Crows - Eoin Blunnie, Liam Noonan, Mark Cullen, Rob Keating
Yellow Brick Road -  Claudia McCabe, Rebecca Rock, Lucy Warde, Marfa O'Connell, Cameron Brady