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May 2003
May 16th, 2003
GREEN
FLAG IS RAISED IN WHITECHURCH
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John Teacy is a great runner. John Treacy has raised the
green flag. The green flag is all about keeping our school
clean. We got the got green flag from Dublin.
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Day of
Action
Alissa
We had a day of action on Tuseday. We trimmed the grass. We picked up
barkmulch and pulled up dead bits of grass of the curb. We did it before lunch
and after. We had a different job after lunch. We got a number and we went into
that team. We wore our old clothes. We finished about 1 o'clock.
The
Play
We were doing a play on the 7th of April. Our play was called The Big Top
Circus. Stephen and I were Raymond and Lucinda. My friends were Acrobats.
Alissa was Bonzo. She had a big part in the play. Stephen and I were always
fighting in the play.
written by Heather
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Swimming
We are going swimming.We got a man as our teacher. He is not cross.We swam up
and down the pool halfways.When we were finished our seven weeks we got to go in
the jacuzzi. And then we got to go down to the deep end.
Mary
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The Shed
Elaine
Outside we painted our shed and now it looks like you are under the sea.
Lindsey supervised the work and helped us, but we did most of it. Everyone in the
school did a bit. It is for a competition and a lot of schools are doing it. Our
shed used to be brown and yellow but now it looks much better. I really hope we
win because we put a lot of effort into it. So if we win it would be one of the
best days I ever had.
The Day of Action
Lauren
We cleaned the yard and cut the grass, and moved branches from the trees.On
Friday John Treacy came to put the Green Flag up. We got sweets. When we were
putting the green flag up it was raining.
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Projects
Kealan
Our teacher decided that we should do projects.We could work on our own
or with a partner . I wanted to do it on my own. We were allowed do the project
about whatever we wanted. I picked tractors. I looked up the internet for the
history of tractors and I took pictures of my father's two tractors.
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School Tests
Sinead
School tests started 19th of May 2003. 1st and 2nd class get English
and Maths. 3rd and 4th get English, Maths and Irish. 5th and 6th class get
English, Maths, Irish and Geography. The infants get word tests. You see, tests
are very important.
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Evie
wrote this poem about her
dog. She wrote it for her project.
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Junior is my favourite dog.
He is black and white,
He stays with Grandad in the
day,
And comes up to me at night.
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This poem was written by Tony Bradman. It is called "Ibble
Obble", and it is great fun to say it aloud. We learned it recently
in 1st and 2nd Class. It is about meeting an alien. What would you say
to an alien if you met one? How about...
I once met an alien who said this to me:
Ibble obble bibble bobble bobble bibble ip
Dibble Dobble zing bang bop bibble bibble zip
zibble zabble I like scrabble
Dibble wibble dip
Ibble obble bibble bobble
dibble nibble ip
And I simply had to agree.
Why not try to make up your own alien
conversation?
Sunday on the farmyard.
The letters of the words of
this poem got mixed up. The first letter of some words has got mixed up
with the first letter of the next word. It sounds very very funny.
The mat ceowed, the mow cooed,
The bog darked, the kigeon pooed,
The squicken chuaked, the surds bang.
The quck dacked, the burch rells chang.
And then after all dacking and
changing,
The chacking and the banging,
the darking and pooeing,
The keowing and the kooing
There was a meautiful boment
of queace and pieate.
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DRAUGHTS
We had a tournament in the
school the week previous to the 22nd to find out who would be on the
under 14 draughts team. There were 13 people who wanted to be on the
team, Lucy, Bernadette, Marie, Karen, Jean, Sarah, Sharon, Tony, David,
Eddie, Brian, James and Sean. Everybody played each other. When all the
matches were played the children on the team were Lucy, James, Brian,
Karen and Marie and the subs were David and Sean. On Monday the 26th we
went up to Clashmore. The county champions were Ballinameela. We are
going to the Munsters in Limerick University in the summer.
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The
Community Games
In
the Community Games there are lots of different sports and games. Our
school is taking part in the draughts and the running. In the draughts
there is an under 10, under 12 and under 14 team.
The
under 10 team is Fiona, Jack, Richard, Joseph and Brendan and the subs
are Aaron and Brandon.
The
under 12 team is Jack, Kieran, James, Conor and John and the subs are
Stephen and Jenny.
The
under 14 team is Lucy, James, Marie, Brian and Karen and the subs are
David and Seán.
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Draughts
On
the 26th of May
2003 all three teams went to Clashmore to play in the county
finals. The under 10s, 12s and 14s got gold medals and now are
qualified for the Munster finals which will be held in Limerick
University. We will be going up to Limerick on the 12/7/2003.
Last year the under 12's and the under14's qualified for the
Munster finals. We played Kerry but got beaten.
SCHOOL
CONCERT
Miss Mc Donnell was teaching all four classrooms a
play. Juniors and Seniors were doing a play called 'Spring' , !st and
2nd were doing a play called 'The Clown who Couldn't Smile' , 3rd and
4th were doing a play called 'The Wizard of Oz' and 5th and 6th were
doing a play called 'Cinderella'. We set the play up in Carriglea hall
and it was a great success.
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Indoor
Soccer
Earlier this year a team from 6th class entered the
indoor soccer in the community games. We went up to Killmac. We played
Stradbally. Our team was made up of Brian, Keith, James, David, James, Conor and Seán. We
lost four one. Keith scored our only goal from a free kick in
the last minute. It was a quick match with people coming on and off. |
RUNNING
Every year all different schools enter a
competition for running in the Friary. On the first night Whitechurch NS
did very well. On Wednesday the 27th we will be running in the Friary
again. Whoever comes first, second and third will receive a medal
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School Tour
27/5/03
This year we are going to Limerick University for our school
tour on the 30th of May. As some people know we went to Kilkenny Castle and
Splash World last year which turned out to be very good.
This year we will be doing activities such as canoeing, rafting, swimming in new
olympic size swimming pool, diving, indoor bowls, archery, a soccer shoot out
and lots more.
That's it for this month. Here's
a quick index:
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