April | Aibreán |
Thank you for visiting our website. Our names are Conor, Kealan and Stephen . We are in 6th class, and we are the current editors.
We already have two Green Flags in our school. We got them because we look after our environment. We got the first one in 2003 and the second one in 2005. We hope to get another one this year. We keep the school grounds clean by doing litter patrol. We recycle paper, batteries, old mobile phones and ink-cartridges. We have a compost bin where we put the left-overs from lunch. We have signs in the school to remind us to turn off the lights and close the doors. This saves electricity. We have a Green School Committee. Mrs. Fennell is in charge. This year we must save water.
Ailbhe, age 8
I was at a party. The door slammed on my nail. I could not play most of the games. We had a treasure hunt. I found modelling clay. It was under a towel. The towel was thrown on the grass outside. Today is Monday and I am at school. I am back in school today. My sister Emma is sick today.
By Kate.
SCHOOL
Our school is in Ballinameela. It is a primary school. There are about 113 people in our school. We are about 7 miles from Dungrvan. There are 7 teachers in our school. Their names are Mr. Culloo, Mrs Collins, Mr. De Burca, Mrs. Fennell, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Fennisssey and Mrs. McHugh. Our subjects are maths, history, geography, irish, english, music, P.E., art and computers. Our school is very very very very very very very very very very good for education for children in the school. We do buddy reading in our school @ Ballinameela. Our school is really really great.
My name is Jade. My auntie got her baby at 9 o’clock yesterday night. I don’t know what they are going to call her. I am going to a concert on Friday. My mammy and daddy and me and Debbie are coming. My mammy Debbie and Amy I think Kelly is in the band. The end of part one.
When my nanny was young in school.
When they were bold the got slapped on the hand. When my grandad was young….. he had to walk to school even if it was raining because they had no other way of getting there because they had no cars then. They had no water then so they had to go to the well. And they had no electricity then. They had no radio and had no tv and no computer.
By Clodagh.
The Salmon of Knowledge
Finegas was a wise man. He wanted to know more. He wanted to catch a magic fish. Whoever ate the fish will know everything. He was a teacher to a young boy called Fionn. One day they caught the fish. He asked Fionn to cook the fish. When he was cooking the fish he touched it with his finger. He sucked his finger and he got all the knowledge.
The Green Flag
Hello our names are Mary-Kate, Micheal and Ryan. We are all eleven. We go to Whitechurch NS. We have two green flags and we are getting our third one next week. We did a project about water this year to get the green flag. Ireland, Poland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, England Romania, Finland, Germany and Greece are all doing a project with us called SEVEN SCHOOL WONDERS. Each school will tell the other schools about special things about their schools. We are telling the other schools about our school. They send us pictures and gifts. The gifts are very cool.
The parade in Dungarvan
The parade started at 3 o’ clock. Jamie and Jessica were in the brass band marching. Lots of people were there. There were lots of other bands there too. Dungarvan Rugby Club was in the parade. Miss Fennessey was taking pictures of the parade and people who were watching. There were clowns there too. There was a hummer, hotrods, police, civil defence and the fire engine. The army was there. The paintball club was there too. It was a lot of fun. It ended at a quarter to five. It was better than last years parade.
By Evie, Maurice, Rae-Anne and Cian.
Rachel won a colouring competition
Rachel is in Mrs. Fennell’s class. She won a colouring competition. It was the Folens Christmas Poster Competition. We asked Rachel about it. This is what she told us… I was colouring a playground. It was very fun. I got a lovely prize. It was a booklet. I got a certificate too.
St.Patricks Day
It was St. Patrick’s day on Saturday 17th of March. There was a parade on in Dungarvan. It started at 3 o’clock. At the start there was only old tractors and the army were there as well. The Dungarvan Brass Band was there. Jamie and Jessica were in it. There were lots of people there. Before the Parade started there were people playing Irish music and Irish dancing. There was a stretch hummer there too. There was rally racing cars there they were very loud. The rugby club, paint balling, police, lady birds and lots more took part in the parade.
By Michelle, Mary-Kate and Nicole
Hi my name is Sarah and I go to Whitechurch national school. Everyday l go to school l look up and see a green flag blowing in the wind from a pole in my school yard. It makes me proud to see this flag because it took a lot of effort by my school to get this flag. For a Long time we worked hard picking up papers planting flowers making the garden look nice, cleaning the yards, the classrooms and making my school look good. Because of this my school was awarded a green flag as a reward for all our hard work. I am proud of this and every day I look up at this flag I know with hard work I can achieve a lot.
Sarah
Green Schools
Our school Whitechurch NS are trying to receive our third green flag. This year the theme is about Water so we made lots of projects about Water. This year 5th and 6th class created projects for the green school flag renewal. Our school has received two Green Flags already so we are trying to get our third flag. Fifth and Sixth class made charts on the computers, made graphs, did experiments and made books. Some people laminated and binded the books, others drew pictures and typed up stories to add to the books. We had great fun making the project.
By Tom, Heather and ???
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Last week was the finals of my show jumping Competition .I was jumping in the mini league class. It was on in Colligan Equestrian centre .I go there every Tuesday for riding lessons. I was nervous on the day. The horse I rode was called Buster and he is a fast pony. I had to jump over nine fences twice, without knocking down any poles. We did very well but I thought I would come last. When Louise called out my name and said I came first I was very excited and happy. I got a lovely horse plaque and rosette. By Gretta |
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Gretta |
Our names are Jack and Sarah. We are in first and second class.
We went around counting the sinks and the taps in the school. We counted 18 taps altogether.
The are 3 taps in the Infants class.
There are 3 taps in first and Secons Class
There is one tap outside. It is outside Mrs. Collins’ class.
There are 3 taps in Mrs. Collins’ class.
There are 3 taps in Mr. Culloo’s classroom.
In the halla there is only 1 tap.
There are 2 taps in the teachers’ toilets, and one tap in the cleaning room.
Our school
Our school is called Whitechurch N.S. It is in Whitechurch (Ballinamella). We have a green flag. It is about seven or eight miles from Dugarvan. Our uniform is bottle green jumper, a grey shirt and pants. We got a new tracksuit. It is navy and green and it has our crest on it. Our school is a small school. The biggest class in our school is junior infants. There are about twenty or more in junior infants. The green flag this year is about water conservation. We are trying to save water. There are about 100 children in our school.
Colours
There are a lot of colours in the world. Everywhere we look theres colours.The rainbow has seven colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue ,Indigo and violet. You see a rainbow when its raining and then it gets sunny and that’s when you see a rainbow.I like colours,my favourite colour is blue I would to do a survey on whats your favourite colour. I would say blue would win.
The room I’m sitting in now is full of colour because the walls are orange and the floor is brown. If we didn’t have colours we would be boring.
By laura mary and kevin.
Just to finish off for this month, you might like to take a look back to this time last year.