Dear Niamh, 
My name is Lorna and I am eleven years old. I go to Carnaun N.S. My father and my aunt are the teachers. There are 34 pupils and two teachers in our school. I am in sixth class. I like school most of the time especially when we do crochet. I made a starfish last term. 
 My hobbies are horse riding, swimming and reading. We swim in the sea during the summer. I have great fun riding our cross-country course with my pony. His name is "Dusky Traveller" and he is a dark bay (which is dark brown) Connamara Pony. He is twelve hands high and is famous for being the best pony in the Galway Blazers. My brothers ride our horses Moonlight and Donovan. My sister's pony is called Dawn. 
 I am a member of the County Galway Hunt Pony Club and I will tell you about it. My father is the District Commissioner. It is a countrywide organisation with branches all over the country both north and south. In the Pony Club we learn about horsemanship. We have great fun at rallies, which are held every week during the Summer and Autumn. Very often they are held in our land where we have nice little jumping paddocks for dressage and a cross-country course. I like the jumping and cross-country and as you might guess I do not like cleaning or grooming at all. My father and brothers and sister are also very good riders. 
I have a pen-pal and her name is Regan Mc Carthy. She lives in Indiana in the U.S.A. We have a small farm with Horses, Cows and Sheep. I would like to hear from you soon! 
    Bye For Now 
    Lorna 

How are you? My name is Marcella. I am looking forward to the visit to Derry. I hope Finbarr arranges it. We had Inishbofin School here for a visit. 
We are learning about birds. I like birds and I know a bit about them. During the winter many different types of birds came to our feeder. We had the Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Bluetit, Coaltit and the Robin nearly every day. We are going to sow shrubs with berries to attract more birds to the playground. 
I live near Castle Ellen wood where a huge number of birds live. The shape of a bird's beak gives us a clue about what food it eats. CastleEllen house was the home of Edward Carson's mother Elisabeth Lambert. Teacher said he played hurling when he came on holidays here. We have great fun in school. My friends in 6th class are Mary , Marilyn and Lorna. We play basketball every day. I hope you come to visit us in Carnaun School. We will have great fun. 
Bye for now Marcella

  My name is Cathal. I am eleven years old. 
My favourite games are soccer, hurling and football. I play soccer for Athenry under eleven and under thirteen. In the winter we play soccer in the gym. We are playing well under thirteen this year. We are forth in the league. We beat Corrib Rangers, Gort and Barna. In the New Year we will have a new soccer pitch. We have 36 children in our school. It is good for sport. We play soccer, hurling, basketball and rugby. 
I am a keen Soccer fan. I support Newcastle United. I also follow hurling. Our club St. Mary's Athenry were the all Ireland champions two years ago and we hope they will be this year. This letter is in our club colours. 
    Bye for Now 
    Cathal, 6th class. 

Hi There! 
My name is Stephen. I go to Carnaun School N.S. in Athenry Co.Galway. I would like to say hello to the boys and girls in St. Columbia primary school. I would like to tell you something about my school. It has two teachers and 36 pupils. The principal who is called Mr. Finbarr O'Regan and our other teacher is called Mrs. Anita Coffey. I am in 6th class and there are 3 boys and 4 girls in our room. Our school is about three miles from the town of Athenry.  It was made more famous by the song The Fields of Athenry sung by Paddy Reilly. It also has a great hurling team called St Mary's who won the all Ireland club championship last St Patrick's day in Croke Park. 
Now I would like to tell you about myself. My hobbies are football, hurling and soccer. My favourite team is Liverpool. The player I most enjoy watching is Robbie Fowler. I also have a dog, three cats, some hens, sheep and two heifers calves which I bought during the summer. In my family there are four people: my father, my mother and my older brother Martin and I am the youngest. That's all for now , 
    Yours sincerely 
     Stephen. 

Hello there! 
My name is Eoin. I will be 13 years old on the 14th. of November. I am in sixth class. We play a lot of sports like hurling, football, soccer and basketball. It is a good school. There are two teachers in the school. It is a small school with 34 pupils. I belong to a big family, 6 boys and 6 girls. I am in the middle of the family. My father is a farmer. We have suckler cows and over 200 sheep. My job is to look after the sheep in the winter when they are in the sheep shed. We had about 300 lambs and it is hard work but I like farm work. I drive the tractor. Some times I bring feed to the cattle. My dog's name is Lassie but she is not a very good sheep dog. She drives the sheep wild. I hope you will write back to us. 
    EOIN 

Dear pupils of St Columba’s Primary School. My name is Marilyn. I live in the country. I am eleven years old and I have no brothers or sisters. I live on a farm. We have cows, calves, horses and hens. We check them every day. I also have two dogs and a budgie. My pony's name is Smokey. He is very good. My hobbies are horse riding and camogie. I play for Athenry under 10 and under 12. I go horseriding every Saturday in the equestrian centre in Claregalway. I hope you enjoyed my letter. 
 Sincerely, 
  MARILYN 

Dear Fiona 
My name is Mary. I am age 10 years old. My hobbies are Basketball, Swimming, and Camoige. My favourite TV progames are Father Ted, ER, and Friends.   My best friend is Marcella Costello. We have been best friends for seven years. I have one brother James and one sister Laura. They both go to the Vocational School in Athenry. I live in Castle Ellen where we have a suckler cow herd and my Father and Mother run a milk buisness. I help them deliver the milk very early in the morning and I like it very much. 
 We have a bog in Newcastle. Newcastle is about 15 minutes away from my house. My uncle [Geard] shares the bog with us. We cut our turf by machine then it is left out on the bank in rows. We save it by turning every sod by hand and it is hard work. When all the turf is dry we bring it home with the tractor and trailer. When we bring it home we have to put it in the shed so that it won’t get wet. We burn our turf in the fire and we also give away some of our turf to our granny. Sometimes I like to sit down in front of the fire and read a book. We hope to go on a field trip to the bog soon. Every day we are learning more about the animals, insects, birds and plants on the bog. 
 I play camoige with our parish team under 10s, 12s, and 13s.We practice in Athenry town and we got to the semi-final last year. 
      Mary .