Swimming Gala
At
Ballymun Dublin finals yesterday Gerard Elliott won a bronze and silver
medals. Ciaran O’Reilly won two silver medals. The under 11-relay team won a
bronze each. The under 13 relay team won a
silver medal each. Congratulations to every
one in the Gala thanks Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Keane.
By Kevin and Ciaran
School Tours.
Here are some school tours.
Rooms
1,2 and 3 are going to Sealife in Bray on the 20th of June.
Rooms 4
and 5 are going to Fort Lucan on the 21st of June.
Rooms
6, 7 and 8 are going to Clara Lara on the 22nd of June. There is a lake to swim
in, we will leave at 9.15 and get back at 3.30 or 4.00. There is a huge water
slide, golf, go-carts and remote control boats. We can’t wait because it is
great fun.
Also
rooms 6, 7, 8 and 9 are going to the mountains on the 12th of June. When we go
to the mountains we will explore and cook. We swim in the river and we go up to
the hell -fire club.
By Martin Mackey.
OUR
ART PROJECT.
Every
Monday Jenn and Elaine come in to our class and bring us down to the school
hall and do art with us. 
So far we made small and big objects out of clay, tin foil,
matchsticks and other materials. We then covered them in gloss so they would go
hard and stay together. After that we made lids for our bottles, which the
objects will then be put into. The bottles will then be filled up with water
and be put on display. Half of the class made larger objects out of cardboard,
ice-pop sticks, tin foil and loads more materials. The two girls gave each pair
an object to work on for the whole art session.
All of
our art will be on display on the 19th of June in the V.E.C. on Emmett Rd. I
hope to see everyone there. This is a photo of my friends at work in the hall.
By Lisa Mc Partlan, age
12.
The Drama Class
The
drama class is very good. We are now doing a play called Only a Game.
I think it is very good and so do all the
other children. We all have our own part.
I am Charlotte the play. Charlotte is Jen’s
big sister. I think that my part is very good and I want to say thanks to Miss
Watchorn for teaching me how to do drama.
I think everyone who is in the drama is very good at acting.
The play will be on the 15 of June. It will first be on for the school and then at
night for the public. Hope you can make it. This is only the second play I ever
did in my life and this one is going to be
Deadly. Drama has only been on since I was in
room 7 and I love it. When I am going into first year I will try to come back
to the drama class if I can.
By Danielle Walsh.
Fianaies Project
The
Fianaies project is all about the history of Inchicore. It gives us a chance to
learn about old Inchicore. We had to interview people who lived in Inchicore in
the old days. It was a brilliant experience for me and Nic to listen to them. I
(Nicola) interviewed my ma.
I (Jason) interviewed my nanny. Then
We went to the V.E.C and interviewed some other
people from Inchicore
And after it we got coke and crisps.
Then we saw the main man Micheal
Cunningham. In June are interview will
be in the Inchicore festival.
By Jay and Nicky...
The Canal Clean Up.
On Saturday me,
Danielle Walsh, Lee McNamara, Lyndsey Kavanagh and Christina Kavanagh went to clean
the canal to make it cleaner.
We were very
surprised to see that we were the only children from our school there. Miss
Glanton was there too. Duncan Stewart from Our House was there. So was Noel
Dempsey minister for the Environment, and Derek Mooney off Mooney goes Wild on
Radio 1. We got plastic bags, gloves, and grabbers to 
pick up the dirt with.
When we were
just finished a man was talking to Miss Glanton about computers. The man worked
on the Internet and said that he would take two pictures of us and put them on
the Internet on Monday. So we got our pictures taken and then we were on our
way back up the Canal when we met Derek Mooney and he interviewed us and said
we would be on the radio on Sunday morning at 11.02. We all then went to the Black
Horse Inn to get a bite to eat. We got sandwiches, wieners, 7-up, biscuits, and
tea. We sat with Miss Glanton and Alan, the man off the Internet. We had a
great day that day.
Written by: Lisa Mc
Partlan & Lee McNamara
FOREST MAN
On the 2nd of May a Team Theatre came into
room 8 and 9. They were called Snout, Sly, Jasper, and Taylor. Jasper was like a baby. Snout and Sly were
robbers with Taylor. There were from a castle.
They escaped from the castle Taylor had 
followed
them for days to see if they had the great
treasure of Morula where they came from. But when she had found them they had
not got it.
They had great sound effects. They had used Jasper to get the book. They
had said in a tunnel, up spiral stairs, into a long corridor, into a diamond
shaped room and that was where the treasure was.
Then take key and open door,
He got the book and lived a happy live. BY DAVID TOBIN
Communion
First class had their communion on the 20th of May.
They loved it. Michael and myself interviewed two children from room four and
asked them a few questions. They told us about themselves, here's a little
thing about themselves we hope you like it.
Michael was talking to two people from room 4.
Their names were Graham Coombes and
Sarah Curran. Graham was wearing a wine jacket, cream trousers and cream
shoes. 
Sarah said Paul McGrath was there and gave
autographs out. Graham said he loved ever second of it. Sarah had to do a reading she was scared when she went up to do it. It was brilliant they really liked it. Graham had to do a reading too he was scared
too. When I asked them did the like it they said they loved it. Graham
said he liked
best when they
got the bread
and he said he liked it. Then they
told me how much
money they got. They
got a lot of money. Then I asked
if they went
out after it .Sarah said
she went to the Red Cow after it. Graham went to
the hall for
sweets. By Michael Coakley And
LYNDSEY KAVANAGH.
Confirmation
The
confirmation was on the 30th of May. My
brother Darren made his confirmation and he couldn’t wait to make it, they sang lots of songs and my
brother was very excited about the whole thing, and I'm sure that ever body
else is too. 26 boys and 10 girls made there
confirmation.They were the first
class of the Millennium in Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál. 
The
teacher who did the confirmation is Miss Watchorn and that is the end, good
luck to 6th class.
By Rachel Clynes and Natalie Kelly
The Confirmation took place in
the Oblate’s Church on Monday the 30th of May 2000. There were 36 out of our
school who made it. It was a lovely day too. We
interviewed 1 person these are the
questions we asked
him.
CONFIRMATION QUESTIONS
We
interviewed Darrel Coombes and
asked him these questions.
Q1. how much did you make?
I made a
lot.
Q2. Did
your family have
a good day?
Yes
they did have a
good day.
Q3. Who
was your sponsor
My Auntie
Phyllis.
Q4.How
did spend your
day?
I
spent my day
collecting.
Q5. Where
did you get
your clothes?
I
got them in
champion sports.
Q6.What
are you going
to buy?
I
probably going to
buy clothes.
By
John O’Donnell and Derek Bell.
My Book Review
on The Worst Witch
Just
last week I
finished the book The Worst Witch. It was
very funny and
I would give
it 10 out of 10. It is about two witches and one
of them is
very silly, she
gets everything wrong. One time
she put her
cat in her bag so
it would not
fall off the
broom. And that's all
I am going to
say just in case anyone
would like to
read it.
It
would be suitable
for anyone between the
ages of 10
and 13. But anyone
would enjoy it . There
is a second book called
The Worst Witch
Strikes again. By
Kellie Donoghue.
Pokemon Movie - Mutwo Strikes Back
The Pokemon movie was not
that good. It was
not good for
my age group. It was about
scientists who made
a pokemon and called it Mutwo. They wanted
to make it
the strongest Pokemon in the world. Soon Mutwo thought he wanted
to escape. When he tried to
escape a scientist caught him and
told. Then the fighting began.
Muwto ran after hitting all the
scientists. He escaped. He
built his own
place. Then he caught a girl
called Nurse Joy
and hypnotised her.
A
couple of years later word
got out that Mutwo wanted to
fight Pokemon. There was a boy called Ash
and he wanted to go. Ash and a couple of people
wanted to fight him but they
didn't know he was a pokemon. They thought he was
human. Muwto put a big strong
storm on to see who would be brave to go with pokemon.
Five teams only came. Soon after the
storm they ran into the place. They
were happy to have made it through the
storm. Ash said he was going if the pokemon master didn't come out. Then he
came out. He was a Pokemon they said that he was not a Pokemon master. Then
Mutwo said who would be the first Pokemon to fight him. Then Pokemon and people
started to fight him. Mutwo started to kill Pokemon and then he said I am
taking all your Pokemon and took out some special Pokemon balls and they were
black. He took Ash’s Pokemon and Ash grabbed Pikachu and ran. Then Ash said
Pikachu return so it went into its
ball. But the black ball smacked into the red
ball and Pikachu came out and
the black ball caught him.
Then a team called team rocket
went into a room and Mutwo was taken
Pokemon and taken a bit of the fur and putting it into a
machine and they were coming out to the
same Pokemon but stronger. And then the people got their Pokemon back and then
the good Pokemon stared to fight the bad Pokemon. After a while Pokemon started
to die and a Pokemon called Mu came down and Mutwo started to fight him.
Then when they were fighting they were going to kill each other and
Ash ran in front of them and the
magic hit off him
and Ash and he froze. The
pokemon stopped fighting and all of Ash’s Pokemon started to cry and soon all the Pokemon started
to cry and all magic went into
Ash. He woke up. And all the
pokemon started to make friends. Mu and Mutwo made friends and Mutwo said sorry
and all of the Pokemon Mutwo invented disappeared.
The End Sinead Connolly
Harry Potter.
The Harry Potter book is about
a boy who does not know that
he is a wizard.
His parents died
when he was a baby.
And he had too
live with his
aunt and uncle, they are called the
Dursleys. Then a
giant called Hagret
comes too pick him
up to bring him to
a school called
Hogworths and Harry
gets a wand, an owl,
and a cauldron . THE END
BY John Neville.
The Biggest Birthday of All
Ms. Green’s
Dad was 100 on 6th June. Ms. Wrenn’s class wrote this poem for him:
The
Biggest Birthday of all
Back in the old days you did things in different
ways
No cans
No vans
No heat
No Sweets
No fags
No bags
No telly
No jelly
No radio
No stereo
We know you are very old we hope you do not catch
a cold.
Happy Birthday from all of us.
We hope everyone makes a great big fuss. 
By
Nikita, Paul, Dean, Dylan, Sean and Keith.
THINGS
ARE ON MY MIND
THINGS
ARE ON MY MIND
AND
I DON'T KNOW
WHAT TO DO
AND
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW
THEY’RE
ALL ABOUT YOU
I'VE
BEEN TO MANY
PLACES
CORK, KERRY AND ALL
BUT
STILL IN THAT
SAME STAR
YOU
SHINE BRIGHT AND
TALL
THERE'S
TOO MANY THINGS
THAT I WOULD LIKE TO
DO
BUT
THERE'S ONE THING
THAT'S STOPPING ME
AND THAT'S THE THOUGHT
OF YOU
I’LL NEVER
ENJOY ANYTHING
YOUR
IN MY THOUGHTS ALL THE
TIME
THINKING
ABOUT YOU FOR
ME IS A CRIME
I THINK ABOUT
YOU WHEN I
AM LISTENING TO
A SONG
AND
I JUST DON'T KNOW IF MY
LIFE HAS GONE
WRONG
BY SHANE
BOWLER
In the shade
of the oaks
We both
went to the
mountains and picked
loads of flowers
for every
time I think
of
her I
had to pick a rose
that would
be rice an
red
I dreamt we
were in the mountain in
the shade of
the oaks an
let our minds wander
as we pranced in the
morning dew
for the
7 seas couldn't contain my love
for this mysterious wonder
I think
god gave me
the
Gift of
love
by
Paul Mooney and
Shane Bowler
Review Of Now
45
There's a new CD out called Now 45. It has all
the latest songs in it like Blink 182 ‘All The Small 
Things’,
Fragma ‘Tocas Miracle’ and Venga Boys ‘Sha La La La’ and many more. The song
that I don’t really like is Tom Jones and Stereophonic ‘Mama told me not to
come’ and the song I do like is Watergate ‘Hearts of Asia’. It is a really good
song. I bought it in Virgin but you can get it in any music store. It was £20
and it is well worth it. So if your going to buy a C.D I think you should buy
Now 45.
By Jennifer Gilbert.
Santry
On
the 29
of May these people were
running in Santry
stadium.
Starting with Room 6:
BOYS:
Mark Henaghan, John O’Hara, Conor Kavanagh, Omer Koreng, and Oisin Leong.
GIRLS: Aisling Nolan, Lyndsey O’Toole, Shauna
Gavin, Aisling Woods, and Rachael Bird.
ROOM
7.
BOYS:
Mark Bell, Barry Kenny, Keith Reilly, and Stefan Shelly.
GIRLS:
Wendy Dempsey, Rose Boylan, Tanya Dowling, Elaine Grendan, and Brona Maloney.
ROOM
8.
BOYS:
Steven Carey, Derek Bell, Wayne Doyle, Jason Dunne, Gavin Kinsella.
GIRLS: Nicola
Scott, Danielle Walsh, Sinead Connolly, Lyndsey Kavanagh, and Amy Dempsey.
ROOM
9.
BOYS:
Steven Walsh, Fergus O’ Donnell, Brian O'Toole, John Bell, Karl Mallin.
GIRLS:
Erica Reilly, Antoinette Nolan, Danielle O Connor, Kathy Kirwan, and Lisa
McPartlan.
The people out of
all these that
won medals are
Steven Carey, Derek
Bell, Jason
Dunne, Wayne Doyle and
Gavin Kinsella.
Nicola Scott,
Danielle Walsh, Amy
Dempsey, Sinead Connolly
and Lyndsey Kavanagh.
For the relay.
BY STEVEN CAREY AND WAYNE DOYLE
THE
OBLATES FOOTBALL TEAM
The
football is good fun. Out of my class there was only a few people. These were
John Kessie, Stephen Carey, Ciarán O’Rielly,
Kane
Clark, Gerard Elliot, Darren Clynes, Gary Fleming, David Hickey, Philip Moore,
Robbie
O’Keefe, Gavin Kinsella, Brian O’ Tool, Shane Bowler, Paul Carey trained us
nearly every Friday with 6th class.
FR.
Carolin brought us to the matches all the time in his van.
By Philip Moore and Robert O’Keeffe
ST Pat's
Pat’s are the best in the world. My name is John Kessie; I play for Pat’s under 11.
I play in defense and I am the captain.
I think the best player is the goal keeper .I hope I can play for ST Pat’s when I am older. They are better then Shamrock Rovers and Bohs. I think
they will win the
cup this year.
By
John Kessie
SWIMMING GALA
On the
11th of May
2000 the swimming
Gala was on
in Sean Dunne's swimming pool Ballyfermot.
The boys left at 9.30
in the morning .
It was a great event
for all the
schools . First there was
the heats, then the
finals. After the single
races there were
the relays. We drew
with Mary Queens
of Angles, 22
points each. We are
in the Ballymun
finals. The relay team
for the boys was made up of, Gerard Elliot, Darren Clynes, Ciaran
O'Reilly and Keith
Culligan. We came
first in the
heats and first
in the finals. The four
of us won a gold
medals. Stefan Shelly,
Aaron Wilson and
Simon O’Brien were doing
the under 11
freestyle. For the under
11 breaststroke, Keith Reilly, Paul Mitchell, Emmett
Gartland, Barry Kenny
and Oisin Leong. For the
under 11 relay
team, Emmett Gartland, Simon
O'Brien, Keith Reilly
and Stefan Shelley. They all won a gold
medal each .
For
the under 13
Freestyle Ciaran O'Reilly , Darren Clynes , and Gary Fleming. For the under 13
breaststroke, Daniel
Kavanagh, Karl Mallin
and Gerard Elliott. For the under 13
backstroke Keith Culligan, Kane Clarke and Daniel Gray. Daniel Gray was unable to race
and Kevin Bolger
raced for him. Gerard Elliot
won a gold medal in
the single races , Ciaran O'Reilly won a
Gold medal in
the single race. Simon O’Brien won a
bronze medal in
the single race.
Emmett
Gartland won a
gold medal for
the single race. Congratulations
to every one thank you Mr Mc
Carthy for being such a good
coach.
BY CIARAN
AND KEVIN BOLGER.
The
Swimming Gala
On the 11th of May, the swimming Gala was held in Sean Dunne’s
swimming pool in Ballyfermot. The girls left the school at 11 o clock. In the first race Kim Lynch,
Lyndsey O’Toole and Elaine Grendon raced in 1 length free style. Under 11s
breaststroke Rachel Clines came 3rd.
Under 11’s backstroke Ciara Ó Brian
came 5th. In the relay Kim Lynch, Ciara Ó Brian Rachel Clines and
Lyndsey O’Toole came 5th. Under 13’s freestyle Danielle Ó Connor came 4th.
Under 13’s breaststroke Dorothy Roe came third. Under 13’s backstroke Erica Reilly came third and got a bronze.
Under 13’s relay Lyndsey Kavanagh, Dorothy Roe, Erica Reilly, Danielle O'Connor
came second and got silver. Out of all the races the girls came second last.
Under 13’s breaststroke Dorothy Roe got a bronze. Congratulations to all the
girls who took place in the Gala.
Dorothy
roe and Danielle Ó Connor
WWF Review
Austin
and the rock are the best. Austin is
the best because the rock lost at judgment day. You mightn’t like it but I do.
In
1998 Austin won the Royal Rumble and in King of the Ring he won too. The rock
won the Royal Rumble in the year 2000.
And
in 1998 Austin came in to the walk way and sprayed DX and Vince with beer in
the ring.
The undertaker has returned to the WWF.
He
got a contract from Linda Mc. He returned at Judgment Day on a Harley
Davidson. He is set out to get DX and Vince and Shane.
The
Big Show had surgery last week because Shane Mc, with the help of Bull Bucannon
threw an electric box on top of the Big Show. When the Big Show returns be sure
he will be after Shane Mc.
Mick
Foley held the W.W.F. Title Tag team and Hardcore title. He was fired last
month by HHH but Linda hired him back for one night only at Wrestle Mania. He
was without a shadow of a doubt the best wrestler ever.
Kane
returned to the WWF for one reason only the WWF title.
Smack Down
Last week on
Smack down HHH Vs Kane in a
non-title match. The Rock Vs
Edge and Christian. The Undertaker Vs
Road Dog and Pac. All for the number 1 center
spot.
Too
Cool won the tag team championship.
By
Brian Grendon and GAVIN
KINSELLA.
And that’s the bottom line cause fifth class said so.