Oops... Mistakes!

Sometimes in our room we make mistakes. You might like to work these out...

edge caters

on sweet
an S.A
pertickler
youseful


Well did you guess wright, write, right?

edge caters = educators
on sweet = en suite
an S.A. = an essay
per tickler = particular
youseful =useful

by Aoibheann Keoghan 4th class, owner of edge caters & youseful!

More about living with disabilities in Ireland today.

Living with a disability in Ireland today.

Do you think disabled people should have the same opportunities as able people?

There is plenty of disabled people in the world, they should be treated the same, don't you think?!

A human is a human, THE world shouldn't be split in half just because something's wrong with you!

just because people CAN’T afford the technology to make them walk, that doesn’t mean they should be thrown in the bin with rubbish!

Don’t just love disabled people that are good at something, if YOU’RE going to love the one, you have to love them all!

some can't walk, some can't talk. some CAN’T do either. but we should value them for what they can do and all that they can offer.

we should be GRateful for all we can do too.

By Lorcan Keoghan, 6th class   

Living with a disability in Ireland today

Living with a disability in Ireland today

In class today we had a long and  mature discussion about people who have a disability. Afterwards we typed a thought board on the subject. Here are my thoughts....

There are people all around the world in wheelchairs and homes, but why should they be treated any different from me or you?

Around 15% of people in the world are disabled, that’s about 1 billion people. This figure is increasing due to population growth.

              

There are about 600,000 disabled people in Ireland alone, that is 13% of the population.

Why don’t disabled people have the same education opportunities as able bodied people?

How can we treat disabled people on the same level as us?

The way that we treat disabled people or people less fortunate than us represents us and who we are.

If people don’t stand up and help disabled people, who will?

By Evan Clarke 6th class 

Hallelujah 14

This year our school took part in the Hallelujah Concert at City West Convention Centre on 3 December.

We thought the Hallelujah Concert was brilliant.  We liked the singers and dancers. We liked the way we got to meet HOME-TOWN. The other schools were very friendly. 

There was an 11 year old girl singing and she was really good. There was a boy singer there as well, his name was TABBY. And there was a group of dancers called THE BILLY BARRY DANCERS. They were great and very colourful too. 

The food was amazing! There were crepes, sweets and hot chocolate and much more. The chairs were comfy enough and there was enough room for our feet - not much arm room but we survived! Anyway it wasn't about that, it was about having fun and enjoying our selves - and we did. 

By Katie Cottrell &  Georgia Dennehy, 4th class 

Road Safety

This week two Gardaí visited us to talk about Road Safety. They showed us a PowerPoint presentation. Then they quizzed us on how much we had learned.

The main points we learned were:

• Stop, look and listen before you cross the road.
• When cycling, always wear your helmet.
• You have to be 150cm tall before you sit in the front seat of a car. (Being age 12 does not matter! You have to be 150cm tall!)
• We should tell everyone in the car to put on their seat belts - it's not rude to tell adults to do this.

Remember, there is only one person responsible for your own safety and that is YOU!

By Pádraig Kane, 6th class

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between Democracy and Communism during the Cold War.

This week we have been talking about the Berlin wall in memorial of its demolishing. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world.

At the end of World War II, the Allied powers divided conquered Germany into four zones, each occupied by either the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union. The same was done with Germany's capital city, Berlin. I  brought in a piece of the Berlin wall from the west side (because there was only graffiti on the west side, not the east) It was very interesting.  

By Cian Maguire and Lorcan Keoghan, 6th class

The Aboriginal People

This week we were set a mini-project about the Aboriginal people. We discovered all sorts of interesting things about them. Here are a few facts on the Aboriginal people:

• The Aboriginal people have been living in Australia continuously for  40,000 to 50,000 years.
• Constitutional and legal changes have affected the rights of Aboriginal people - would you believe that they were not recognised as proper citizens of their own country until 1967, before that they were classified as native wildlife along with koalas and kangaroos?
• Every different tribe has their own language. (There were up to 500 aboriginal languages at one point.)
• They lived for many years before the white man came.
• They hunted with boomerangs.
• They had many sports: ~ Coreeda is a combination of Aboriginal dance with a unique wrestling game. ~ Battendi is an Aboriginal game set up to enhance both spear-throwers accuracy and distance.
• Aboriginal art is based on story-telling using symbols as an alternate method of writing down stories of cultural importance. This art has ensured the passing on of Aboriginal History.

By Sophie Brosnan 5th class