Nationals with Bressie

We were so nervous going to our national bank competition. We had no idea what would be in store for us that day. When we arrived we unloaded all our bags and had a lovely breakfast :) Then we went into the chill-out zone to relax before our important interviews. The chill-out zone was mad! There was a silent disco, a giant draughts set, penalty kicks, air hockey, a cinema screen and loads more! We practised our presentation on the big stage with our podiums and microphones. We were then called out to do our interview. It was in a tent looking thing called a 'hub'. It went on for twenty minutes and we each spoke about the different exciting aspects of our bank. The interviewers seemed very impressed. Next up, dinner was served in the hall. It was delicious! There was a great performance at the beginning of the presentations with loads of acrobats and dancers and stilt-walkers. It really got us in a great mood :D Then the host of the day Bressie came out! :o He also performed on the day which was great because it was like our very own private gig! The songs just kept on comin'! :) He awarded us with our plaque, renaming us 'St. Waltons' and admired our outfits :) It was such a great day and one of the highlights of TY for sure!

We are the champions!

Our school participated in the West Leinster school sporting events and we did pretty well. Students from our school took part long jump, triple jump, javelin, shotput, hammerthrow, relays, sprints, hurdles, steeple-chase, high jump and more all in the hopes of taking home the gold. The awards system was based on points so wherever you placed you got a certain amount of points for it. The girls did extremely well in all events and we managed to take home the first place prize for Junior Girls, Intermediate Girls, Senior Girls, and the most important, Overall Girls for yet another year! Most of the competitors will now be continuing on to the Leinster finals now and our school is so proud and excited to be winners again :)

Super $uper €uro's!

We had our Regional AIB Bank Competition last week. We got the bus early in the morning to Leopardstown Course and registered with our two student officers from the Celbridge AIB branch. We went to find our stand but it was incredibly easy as it was the first one you saw as you entered the big hall. We changed into our superhero costumes and then went upstairs for morning refreshments and received plenty of funny looks. After a rapid set up of our stand. everything was looking good and we were ready. 
The judges were introduced and then they walked around to look at the stands and question all of us bankers about the running of our bank. We were all extremely nervous but at the same time, who knows more about our bank than we do? The first judge came and went and it was all such a relief then that we had survived our first interrogation. Another woman came over then and she seemed very interested with our bank and the simple concept of 'fun'. We showed her our videos of us on Kildare TV, us running around the school in costume, and our slideshow presentation. We explained all our promotions and she walked away very impressed :)
At the prizegiving presentation, it was announced that the Super Euro's Bank from Celbridge had gotten into the top ten! We had to go up on stage and Caitriona our bank manager gave a 2 minute speech with the rest of us watching the countdown clock on the big screen! Caitriona was shaking so much I had to turn away to stop myself from laughing! But she did really well!

As the head judges deliberated on which four would go through to Nationals, we devised a plan of our own outside. We staged a flashmob and as the judges came back into the room they hadn't a clue what was going on! The first bank that was through to Nationals was none other than the Super Euro's Bank from Celbridge! Woop woop :D We couldn't believe it as we all sat there in silence thinking there must be another school from Celbridge! But it was us!!

This is us receiving our prize!

We were so so excited on our return to school and couldn't wait to tell everyone the great news! :D