Community Games Art Competition

On Monday the 28th of January 2008 we started to work on our pictures for the community games art competition. We all drew many different pictures, some were of sports like hurling and football. We have entered for many years now and have won many prizes. Hopefully we will be lucky this year!

By Aoife Keane

Our memories from Coole Park

When we returned to class after our trip to Coole Park 3rd and 4th class wrote about our memories from our visit. Everyone had lots to write about. We also drew our favourite memories from the trip! Miss Lardner and Karen made a book with all our work. Miss Lardner took a few pictures of us in Coole Park and stuck them on the front cover.

By Megan Waldron (3rd class)

Our visit to Coole Park
On Thursday the 24th of January third and fourth class went on a school tour to Coole Park. When we got there a lady named Hilda showed us around the visitor’s centre. She told us a lot about the history of Coole Park. She also told us about Lady Gregory and her grandchildren. Lady Gregory’s grandchildren names were Ann, Catherine and Richard. Richard spent most of his time at boarding school while Ann and Catherine stayed at Coole. They played a game called find the thimble.They played it with G.B.S- [George Bernard Shaw]. G.B.S cheated all the time and they were very upset when they found out! We also saw a stuffed Whooper swan and other stuffed animals in the centre.

After our tour inside we went outside. We met a man named Gordon D`arcy. He brought us on a nature walk around Coole Park. Ian was in charge of noting down the flora and Aoife was in charge of recording the fauna we spotted along the way! We saw lots of birds and trees. We also saw the famous Autograph tree. All the famous writers who came to Coole signed there name on this tree. We came back on the bus again. All of us had a great day.

Written by: Ian o’ Shea, Eoin Burke, Shane Kindregan and Donal Coppinger.