Anti-Bullying Week

 

On the 11th of October it was Anti-Bullying Week in Erris.

All the schools, sport groups and Youth groups in Erris were doing Anti-Bullying Week. It was to help people to deal with bullying and not to bully others. On the 14th of October there was a football match and all schools in Erris went to play football. Children from each school were mixed with children from other schools. We also did raps, poems and chants. 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th wrote poems and raps. We brought the raps and poem to the football match to perfomed theirs.

On Friday it was Blue Day. We had to wear blue and we got blue wrist bands. After big break we watched a movie called Daddy Day Camp it was really good. All the schools in Erris are against bullying.

 

                        By Alanna.

 

On 3^rd of November my class went to Ballinglen Arts Centre in Ballycastle.

 When we got there the women in charge brought us in to the printing room do print making and etching. I really enjoyed the etching .

 

After we were done we went outside. There was a big tree there… it was so tempting, but we weren’t allowed to climb it.

    

When we came in we went to an art studio. The artist’s name was Kim. I liked his paintings. After that we had a look around the building.

  

Than we went on the bus to go to Ceide Fields. We had a good day.

By Padraic 6^th

Our school went to the Ballinglen Arts center in Ballycastle yesterday. On the way to Ballycastle we watched a movie called ‘Mall Cop’. It took 40 minutes to get to the Arts centre.

When we got there we had to take out a photo that we had brought and go down to the printing room.

When we went into the printing, we did not know what we where going to. They gave us etching pens to etch around our photo. When etched  around our photo, we put ink around our photos, and then we took off some black ink. We got a wet page and put our prints through a printing press.

When some of us were finished we had a run outside. We saw a pond and a tree. We came in and had lunch. After lunch we went up stairs and went into a artists studio and looked at his work. His name was Kim.

I really liked his art.

I would love to go again. I will recommend Ballinglen Arts centre to people next year because it is closed for the year.

 

 

                    By Padraig 5^th

Ballinglen Arts.

 

On Wednesday, the 3^rd of November, 5^th and 6^th class went to the arts centre in Ballycastle. It was called Ballinglen Arts. We had a great day!

 

We left the school at 9:20am. It took us about 40 minutes to get there. It didn’t seem that long though because the bus driver put a DVD on for us. It was called Mall Cop.

 

When we got there we did some printing with the photos we’d brought with us. First we etched them, then painted over them with very thick, blue and black ink. We cleaned the photos then put printed them onto special paper by putting them through a big machine. The first one I did didn’t come out as I had wanted it to so a woman called Catherine helped me do another one with the same picture. The second one came out much better!

 

After the printing we had our lunch. Then we played outside in a little garden at the back of the centre. We played catch and had great fun but the grass was very wet and slippy.

 

We then went to see a man called Kim who was working in his studio. He showed us his paintings and how he mixed the paints together. His painting were very good. It was very interesting!!

 

Finally it was time to go home. We had a great day and had lovely art to take home with us. I would love to go there again soon!

 

BY HAYLEIGH