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Issue No.1 Inside This Edition- Crosswords Jokes Reviews And Much more…… Contents: 1. Welcome Note to the first edition of 2. Changes in Youthreach / Recycling The Youthreach First 3. Projects for All Included in this magazine are puzzles **CHRISTMAS SPECIAL** recopies, photographs and articles for all. 4. Crossword We hope you have as much fun reading as 5. Traditions- Irish vs. Polish we’ve had creating. Traditional Irish/Polish Dinner: 6. Starter The Magazine Team in action 7. Main Course 8. Dessert 9. Word search/Trip to Lapland 10. Visit from the ombudsman for Children/ Activity Week 11. A Youthreach Word Search/ Reviews 12. Crossword 13. Photographs This year in our lovely Youthreach centre we have had quite a few changes. HOW YOU CAN HELP The timetable is very different. Instead of five classes • Begin by understanding the which were one hour long, we now have seven classes value of the waste which you put each day. They are now forty five minutes long and our in your dustbin. lunch break is forty five minutes long as well. Also we no longer receive our dinners in which everyone here loved • Develop a recycling mentality. Separate your so much. household rubbish into glass, newspapers, aluminum cans, and plastics. New teachers I would also like to welcome all of our new staff. Karen is • Bring to the nearest collection point in your area. our new fitness instructor, Mark our new art teacher is replacing Anastasia while she is on maternity leave and we also have Nicola as a new numeracy and literacy Information Action Sheet! teacher. Seek the co-operation of your local authority. ‘Projects for All’ Every Wednesday afternoon instead of our regular . Draw up a directory of locations for recycling classes we now get to do different projects for 8/9 weeks materials in your area and distribute it widely. at a time. Mary did this Magazine with us, Mark is doing photography, Marie-Anne is baking, Ina in teaching how . Campaign for the economical packaging of goods. to transfer skills, Marie is helping us with Getting a Job and Ailish is teaching Innovation. You can read more . Encourage your neighbours and friends to recycle. about these later in the magazine. Bring your own bags to shops instead of getting new ones each time. Refuse to choose what you cannot reuse. Returnable containers are preferable and should be returned promptly. Refuse a bag when all that is needed is a receipt. Recycling saves on: • Energy • Raw Materials • Waste Disposal Costs • Import Bills LATERAL PUZZLE • Trees A man lives in the penthouse of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby • The Need for Landfill Sites and leaves the building. Upon his return, however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of SO WHEN YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT THINK the way - unless it's raining. What is the explanation for RECYCLE!!! this? Kerrian Storey Getting the job with Marie Transferable skills with Ina The class is called “Getting the job”. The object of the class is to go in depth about how to get the job you want. This group is about looking at skills which may be of use It also teaches you how to recognize jobs you might to you at some time in your life - not necessarily now. want! Another topic the class covers is how to make a What do you do when a friend has a problem? C.V. It shows the key topics to include into your C.V to What do you need to do when you have a problem make it effective. We will also be doing interview yourself? training. This will be very useful for instilling confidence How can you mind yourself in these situations? into the students when they go for interviews. We hope How to be a good listener? to video the interviews and replay them so that the Looking at anger and how to manage it – keeping students can identify for themselves where they may be your cool? going wrong and, equally importantly, what they have How to relax and take time for yourself when the done right. world is falling down around you? In this project we hope that you will learn the techniques to deal with all of the above. Exploring Social Issues with Ailish This Projects involves exploring a social issue of choice. Newsletter with Mary The aim is to increase people’s awareness and encourage them to look after themselves, others and the world we live in. If you believe in it, Act on it and others This project involves learning how to use MS Word will follow. Group one are aiming to help teenagers have effectively. You learn how to participate in a group, share ideas, layout a magazine and look at other magazines to realistic and positive feelings towards their bodies. A survey was taken and it confirmed that 84% of boys get ideas. You decide on the first week who your editor aged 14-21 prefer women with curves. Women don’t is going to be for the project. have to be skinny or a size zero to be sexy. You get to write articles, edit, look for jokes, design the layout of the magazine, how many columns you need, Photography with Mark numbers of pages, what articles you would like to see in the magazine. The arts project on Wednesday involved the participants Some one gets to take some photographs for the conducting a series of photographic workshops, and magazine and decided with the editor where they are exhibiting them in the canteen. The project involved an going in it. introduction to digital photography and a series of All together it is fun, fun, fun with some hard work so anyone who loves to write and see their name in print workshops. We learned how to capture the moment and this is the project for you.. express our views of the picture and how to use a digital camera as opposed to a normal one. We did some So why not join us for what is a fun 8-9 weeks. outdoor photography by using the ‘rules of thirds’ meaning we learnt how to compose our pictures. We also took photos of outdoor activity. Baking with Marie-Anne Every week during the baking class we learn how to make different sweet things. So far we have made Viennese finger biscuits, Apple tart and ice-cream Chocolate caramel slices and fruit sponge. At the end of class we get to eat what we have made or bring it home. Everybody seems to enjoy baking class. How many deer would a reindeer reign if a reindeer could reign deer? Across Down Q. What do you get when you cross a 4 Merry 1 A sock filled with Snowman with a vampire? ______________! (9) goodies on Christmas A. Frostbite 7 Brings presents to day. (8) good boys and girls. 2 Circular decoration (5,5) often hung on doors (6) 9 These are made of 3 A red and white treat wax and have wicks. (5,4) (7) 5 A gift (7) 6 The sound bells make. (6) 8 Ice crystals (4) 10 A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow. (6) Old Irish Christmas Traditions Old Polish Christmas Traditions -A distinctive feature of Christmas There was a belief that on Christmas decorations is the very large candle Eve water in a well turned into wine. placed near the front window and - At midnight, animals speak human voices, but it is bad luck to overhear lighted on Christmas Eve. them. According to one belief, the candle long served as a symbol of - Winning at card game that day welcome to Mary and Joseph who brings happiness for the whole year. sought shelter in vain on that first - In a region threatened by wolves, leftovers from Christmas Eve. The ceremony of lighting the candle is Christmas Eve supper was placed outside the gate to one of simple ancient rituals during which prayers are invite the wolves, which when treated well, would not said for the departed and the privilege of striking the harm the host. match is usually given to a daughter named Mary - One plate at the table was always left for the dead relative. - For centuries it has been a practice in Irish villages to - There was no leaving the table at supper; it supposed set the kitchen table after the evening meal on Christmas to bring bad luck or even death. Eve. On it is a loaf of bread filled with caraway seeds - Before sundown, everything from the outside had to and raisins, a pitcher of milk and a large lit candle. The be brought into the house. Anything brought after supper door is left unlatched. Thus, hospitality is extended to was going to be eaten by mice. the Holy Family or to any traveler that might be on the - Mistletoe was cut off, dipped in wax, and placed in a road. Also it is said that the candles were "kindled to beehive to bring a lot of honey. guide the angels who on Christmas night direct the New - People make sure they wake up early on Christmas Born from the Heavens". Eve - this will ensure we will never be late. - After supper, tie all the dirty spoons together - it will - In the Irish language Christmas is called "Nollaig" ensure that the family will stay together. which comes from the Latin "natalica" meaning - After supper is also the time to blow out the candles - birthday.

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