Past Pupils 2002 Writing

		Past Pupils 2002

		Contents

	1.	The Greedy Dog by Janine Geoghegan.
	2.	Tuesday's Diary by Jacqui Hickey.
	3.	Breithlá Liam le Michelle Kavanagh.
	4.	A Good Book by Andrew Watters.
	5.	Worst Place in World by Brian Ebbs.
	6.	Worst Place in World by Conor Molloy.
	7.	Worst Place in World by Janine Geoghegan.
	8.	Worst Place in World by Andrew Watters.
	9.	Worst Place in World by Elizabeth Jones.
	10.	An Seanfhear le Alan Crofton.
	11.	The X Files by Conor Molloy.
	12.	Aliens by Jane O'Brien.
	13.	Worst Place in World by Michelle Kavanagh.
	14.	3015 by Alan Crofton.
	15.	A Strange House by Eoin Murray.
	16.	Should Homework be Abolished? by Andrew.

The Greedy Dog
by
Janine Geoghegan

Once upon a time there lived a hungry dog called Sparkey. One day he went searching for food. He found a bone. He picked it up in his mouth and walked on. He came to a bridge. Under it there was a little stream. He looked in the water and saw another dog. In his mouth there was another bone. Sparkey wanted his bone too. Sparkey snapped at him. The bone fell into the water. Sparkey was still hungry and sad.

Tuesday's Diary
by
Jacqui Hickey

I woke up today and went to school. It was nice out today. When I got home my cousin Zoe was there. Then we went to Power City to buy some CDs. In the queue Zoe said "Look, Jacqui, look! There's Steve out of Boyzone". I said "No, it's not". Then he looked around at me and I nearly fainted. It was Steve, so my cousin asked him for an autograph. I just stood there with my mouth open like a codfish. My knees knocking together. My mam had to nearly carry me to the car. Today was the best day ever.

Breithlá Liam
le
Michelle Kavanagh

Breithlá Liam a bhí ann. Chuaigh Daidí go dtí an siopa. Chonaic sé an teidí ar an seilf. Teidí álainn agus bhí ribín dearg air. Cheannaigh Daidí an Teidí. Tháinig sé abhaile. Thug sé an Teidí do Liam. Bhí an-áthas air.

A Good Book
by
Andrew Watters

My book is called "Pickles Sniffs It Out". I suppose you're wondering who Pickles is but I'm probably wrong. Well I'm going to tell you anyway. Pickles is the main character in the story. There are also two children. The boy's name is John and the girl's name is Frankie. The story is all about a football match. I don't know who the teams were. There is a robber who robs the cup for the winning team. But the teams don't know that yet. And the two children were at the match too. They brought Pickles with them. But then the security guard said "No dogs allowed in the stadium". So they had to tie Pickles to a post and asked the guard to mind him but the guard fell asleep and Pickles got loose. Then Pickles wandered off and found the robber and the cup and saved the day.

The Worst Place in the World
by
Brian Ebbs

The worst place in the world to me is school. Five days every week I have to get up early in the morning even if it is a cold wet day. I have to wear a uniform and sometimes it is too hot for it. I find most lessons are very hard and my brain hurts from all the thinking and learning I have to do. Sometimes I would love to be able to jump up and shout in class but Rules Rules and more Rules say I have to sit down on hard chairs, while the teachers have nice, soft, comfortable chairs to sit down on. Even when school is finished for the day I am not free, because I have homework to do.

The Worst Place in the World
by
Conor Molloy

The worst place in the world is the airport, because when we were in the airport our flight was delayed for five hours. Our flight was at half seven a.m. and we got up at half three. It was delayed until half ten a.m. and we could not go on for another hour because of the boarding and telling you what to do. Finally we got on and went to Lanzarote. Two weeks later we went to the airport in Lanzarote. We wanted to see if it was delayed and it was, but only for an hour. But still I hate airports. An hour later we got on and went home.But the airport is the worst place in the world.

The Worst Place in the World
by
Janine Geoghegan

The worst place in the world is Kerry. I went there on my holidays last year for a week. The first bad thing happened in the car on the way there. My dad started singing along with my Britney Spears cd. Trust me, he is a really bad. Then half way there the car broke down. We stopped a car and asked for help. Luckily he knew how to fix it. But his voice was so annoying and he wouldn't stop talking. Finally he went.
When we got there we went straight to our caravan. It was horrible, it was dirty, it was small. We were not going to stay there all day. So we went for something to eat and the food was horrible. My brother nearly got food poisoning. We went back to the caravan and we all went to bed. There were only three beds, so I had to sleep on the sofa. But how was I meant to sleep with a light right outside the window and a baby crying in the next caravan . The next morning we went and had a one day holiday.

The Worst Place in the World
by
Andrew Watters

Well, if you think about it, there are lots of bad things in the world like school or being on the losing team. But for me it's being sick in bed during the summer holidays. You can hear people having lots of fun. You have to take horrible medicine when they get coke 7up and orange. Even though I got through this summer without being sick, last summer I had tonsillitis and I couldn't eat or drink. I nearly got dehydrated. So that's what I think is the worst place in the world.

The Worst Place in the World
by
Elizabeth Jones

I think the worst place in the world is a traffic jam. When I am going to school in the car we run into a traffic jam. I sit in the car getting cross. I feel the minutes ticking away. Impatient drivers honk their horns. People get annoyed . I wonder will we ever get to school on time. It is the same old story on the way home from school again. We get caught in another traffic jam. This time I think of all the nice things I could be doing at home. I am very hungry and tired and fed up with being stuck in a hot car waiting for the traffic to move on. I always dread being stuck in a traffic jam. It is the worst place in the world.

An Seanfhear
le
Alan Crofton

Shiúil Nora agus Liam síos an bothar. Stop siad ag na soilse tráchta. Sheas siad ar thaobh an bhóthair. Chonaic siad fear glas ar lasadh. Chuaigh Nóra agus Liam trasna an bhóthair. Chonaic siad nóta deich bpunt ar an gcosán. Bhí an seanfhear ag caint le garda. "Chuardaigh mé mo chóta ó bhun go barr." Thug Liam nóta deich bpunt don seanfhear. Bhí áthas an domhain air.

The X Files
by
Conor Molloy

One night I was asleep in my room. Suddenly I heard a strange noise and I looked out my window. I saw a strange object falling from the sky. The light was blinding but I could still see. I sneaked out and ran to the green outside my house. It was a saucer-like shape with little windows, a door and little legs. Suddenly the door opened and little creatures with skull shaped heads and antennae came out. Their bodies were like a human's body only it had three fingers and was green. It said to me "Our ship has broken down!!" I was shocked. I couldn't keep it a secret any more. I ran back into the house and grabbed a key and ran across the road and opened my cousin's door. I had to be really quiet going to the attic and into the room. I crept up to my cousin Cillian's bed and woke him. I whispered to him "Cillian I've found aliens on the green". "What the hell are you talking about?" he yelled. "Be quiet", I said, "Come with me". I brought Cillian to the green. "Wow", he said, "this is cool". I told him what had happened. "We better help them", he said. I sneaked to my brother's room and took his metalwork book. Finally we fixed it. They said thank you and went home. As they left they left a message in the stars: it said "Thank you Conor and Cillian". Later we went back to our houses. In the morning we tried to tell our friends but they didn't believe us but we know the truth is out there.................

Aliens
by
Jane O'Brien

One night I woke up. I was lying in my bed and I heard a strange noise. I looked out the window. I was amazed to see that a large silver spaceship had landed in my back garden. A ladder came out of the spaceship. Two small green aliens climbed out. I couldn't believe my eyes. They walked towards my window. I was scared. "Hello", said one of the aliens, "We are from Mars". He said, "We have travelled down to Earth to see if there is life on it". I wasn't so scared now.
They invited me into their spaceship. I climbed out the window onto the grass and followed them into the spaceship. "Wow!" I said. Everything was controlled by computers. There were lots of buttons, some were flashing. There was a table there and we all sat down. I told them all about Earth. They were very interested. Finally it was time for the aliens to go. I was sad. They said "Goodbye, we will visit again". I wonder if they will come back. Maybe…

The Worst Place in the World
by
Michelle Kavanagh

I think the worst place in world is Dublin Airport. You may think this is strange, but a couple of years ago I had a terrible experience in Dublin Airport. You see I was going on my holidays to Bulgaria and our flight was delayed several times from 10:00am in the morning till 12:30pm that night. Sitting around Dublin Airport unable to leave for a long time is really the worst place world.
Eventually our flight took off. We were about an hour in the air. I was looking forward to my holidays. Then the captain announced that the flight had difficulties and we had to return to Dublin Airport again while they took our luggage off one plane and put it on to another. Our flight took off again but this time we got there. I had an excellent holiday but I still think Dublin Airport is the worst place in the world, even though I go there every year.

3015
by
Alan Crofton

When Commander Ericson and his crew saw Earth they were horrified at what they saw. They saw not Earth's beautiful grassy landscape but a horrible barren land. They decided to land but they were not sure whether the air was still breathable, so they put on their space suits and drove off in their moon buggy to search for life.
They had been driving for hours and they still hadn't found anything until they saw a huge ….what was it? It looked like a mine. Humans were chained up pulling mining carts. Commander Ericson couldn't believe his eyes, things were whipping them. He had never seen anything like them before except in STAR WARS, they were either aliens or evolved humans. But they couldn't be evolved humans, could they?
They had been away from Earth for five years and it was now the year 3015, but could humans have evolved that much? They had long necks (like giraffes except they were flexible) and on their necks were what looked like a spider's head with lots of eyes and fangs.
What could Commander Ericson do, he couldn't just leave them. But just then he had an idea, there were only about 100 aliens and there were thousands of humans. He could start a rebellion. He and his crew went back to the ship to get all the weapons and drove back to the mine. In the middle of the night the captain and his crew got into normal clothes and ripped them to make it look like they worked in the mine. When they had that done, they got all the weapons and hid them under their clothes.
Getting into the mine was hard, but persuading the workers to join the rebellion was easy. Every worker was given a weapon. One of the workers told the captain that the things were not evolved humans but aliens called "Spierrafs" and that they landed last year in Washington D.C. and destroyed everything, and built this mine and enslaved the humans to work for them.
When Captain Ericson had the workers on his side and a plan worked out, they charged at the "Spiderrafs" sleeping quarters. They killed off all the "Spiderrafs".
Two years later it was like the "Spiderrafs" never landed on Earth. The only evidence that they existed was a statue of Captain Ericson with an inscription underneath saying:

The man who saved the world from the Spiderrafs

A Strange House
by
Eoin Murray

One Wednesday evening on my way back from soccer, dark clouds gathered overhead and within half a minute the heavens opened. I had forgotten my jacket and hat, so I was getting very wet. The first house I saw was a two storey wooden house that looked derelict. I raced up to the huge front door. I knocked on the door about ten times, but there was no answer. I decided to open the door and go in. In front of me I saw a long stairs and a hallway full of cobwebs. There was a door at the end of the hall. I walked nervously towards the door. I reached for the rusty door knob.

I opened the door only to find an old creepy kitchen full of dust and spiders. There was not a person in sight. I turned and followed the long hall to a living room. In the far corner of the room sat a television set on an old table, in front of it were to old armchairs. On the walls hung pictures of a family of six. They looked like the Adams family with pale faces and dark hair. I left the living room and made my way up the stairs. At the top of the stairs, I could see two doors. I opened the nearest door to me and inside were four small wooden beds. Next I entered the other room, to find a giant double bed. This must be the parents' room. I crossed the room to a large window. Outside the rain had stopped and the sky had brightened up. I decided that it was time to get out of here. I ran down the stairs two steps at a time, out the front door and I never stopped running until I got home. I guess I'll remember my hat and jacket next time.

Should Homework be Abolished?
by
Andrew

I think homework should be abolished because we have six hours of work in school and when we come home we have to do more. If we can't do something in school and we have to do it at home what is going to make us be able then?
The teacher enjoys giving it to us so if we can't do it at home we get a page of lines the next day. We are expected to walk in the door and get straight to it and if we don't we might get in trouble. If we don't do it we get lines and we sometimes have to get it signed by our parents and then we get in even more trouble.
A reason why I do think we should do homework is some people in the class don't listen and they should do it at home. It will teach them a lesson that what you don't do in school you will have to do at home. But to be fair on the people who do listen in class they can get spelling champion and then they will get a homework off. So if they don't work in class they will get it at home and if they do listen they might get a homework off.