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Aoibhe also won a number of races and competitions at the sports day in Barnatra. Well done you!
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The other day Terry Mc Donagh came to our school. He gave us a workshop on writing as part of Aras Inis Gluaire’s writers’ festival: An Béal Binn – Erris Festival of Words. If you have never heard about him, he is an Irish poet. In his poems, he doesn’t rhyme, he just writes beautiful poems.
He showed us two books that we thought were fantastic! 😊 Then, he told us to grab a pen and paper and start writing a 50 word Saga about Clouds! At first we were confused but then he started making up stories about them that were very funny and interesting.
After, he got us to read them out! He then read out his poems and put a little bit of action into them. He was a really great poet!
After all, we had a really fun day with him! ☺️😃
By April
(Taken from April’s Blog)
Last Friday a Poet called Terry McDonagh came in to us because the Festival of Words was on last weekend In Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet He was really funny.
First he introduced himself and then he started talking about clouds. He sasked ” What are clouds like?” Someone said ‘Nice’. He said ‘nice’ had no meaning! Someone shouted ‘Candyfloss’. He said ‘That’s more like it’! We actually wrote a whole story about clouds and the cloud family. We had to write for 5 minutes nonstop about clouds!!!
He told us to write about anything we wanted then. I wrote about a family going on holiday it was called ” Holidays are Bad.” It could only be 50 words long though, that’s called a mini saga!
He read a couple of his poems from his book called ’Boxes’ and it was great.
I hope Terry did well in the festival and I hope he comes again!!!!
By Ailsih
(Taken from Ailish’s blog)
On Friday the 6th of June 2014 a poet and writer called Terry McDonagh came into our school to talk about writing and poems. First he told us about his work and life and showed us some poems and a book he wrote.
Next he put some coloured boxes out on the table and we did mini sagas witch means a 50 word story and we had to pick a coloured box. This was my mini saga. It is called Ching Ching,
John Joe Gorilla walked into the pub with his friends Lenny and Matt. They got drunk and spent all their money. So the went to the g-casino. Then John Joe put a cent in the machine and ChingChing all the money poured out.
That is my mini saga.
Next he read out some of his poems.
i enjoyed Terry’s visit to our school.
By Kian
(Taken from Kian’s blog)
On Friday a man called Terry McDonagh came to our school. He is a poet. He brought in two books called “Cill Aodain and Nowhere Else” and another book called ” Boxes”.
We had to write a mini saga. That is a story with 50 words no more or no less. My title was called “Hotel For Animals”. You had to chose a box to put your story in to I put mine in to a blue box.
I really enjoyed writing the mini saga. I would like him to come again. It was a good day.
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By Seamus
Taken from Seamus’ Blog
Terry Mc Donagh is poet. He writes poems. My favourite poem is ‘Boxes’. He wrote books called Cill Aodain and Nowhere Else. This story is about when we was a kid.
We did a mini saga. That is a story but it was to have 50 words only. My story is called ‘Stuck in the Bog.’ I engoyed writing with Terry.
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By Liam
(Taken from Liam’s Blog)
Congratulations to Ava who received a blue belt award at a recent grading! Well done Ava! Keep up all the practice!
Today at school a woman called Brenda came to do athletics classes with us. It was really fun! We did different activities with her. The first thing that we did was called the long jump. We didn’t do the long jump as long as they do in the olympics but it was far enough. I jumped to a little bit after the half way mark.
Once we had finished that we went on to a new activity. I forget the name of it but it was very fun! There was a type of mat set out on the ground and on the mat were yellow triangular prisms. What we had to do was jump over each triangular prism and once we had jumped over each prism we had to put our two feet down before we jumped over the next prism and if we didn’t we would have to do it all over again! It was hard at first but then it got easier.
After that we did another activity and in that activity there was a small carpet and in the middle of it there was a small board. What we had to do was jump back and over the board and we had to do it five times. After that we went straight on to the next activity. It was sort of like a small balance beam and we had to stand on it for five seconds. It was quite hard at times to keep your balance but if you have a good balance you would find it easy. We did those two activities a few times.
Afterwards we went on to our last activity. We were put into groups of three for this. Brenda, the instructor who was doing the athletics, stood at the top of the field and we were at the halfway mark. Each team had one foam rocket. The object of the game was to throw the rocket as far as we could and the group who got closest to her were the winners.
I really enjoyed doing the athletics! It was really fun and enjoyable!
By Amy
(Taken from Amy’s Blog)
Today an instructor came into us to teach us athletics. Her name was Brenda.
First we did a thing where you had to bend and jump on to a mat.
Then we jumped over mini-hurdels and put your two on feet in between them. Then we had to jump back and over a hurdle 5 times then hold your balance for 5 seconds.
It was a good day.
By Seamus
(Taken from Seamus’ Blog)
Today a lady called Brenda came into the school to do Athletics with us. It was great! She took a couple of minutes to set up. She has lots of equipment. She talked about what sports in the Olympics involved Athletics. Then we did a lap of the pitch. She thought everyone at Inver was very fit!!!
The first thing we did was a couple of stretches.Then we got started, we did the long jump I think. You had to bend you legs slightly, then jump as far as you can. I wasn’t very good at that one.
After that we did something with a weird piece of equipment. It was like a blue sheet on the ground with yellow blocks sticking up. They were a far bit apart! We had to run through/over them. That was my favorite one.
Then we did something like Javelin but we used foam rockets. Brenda was the target and I could only hit her feet. I liked that one too! 
I really enjoyed Athletics and can’t wait for Brenda to come again!!!! 
By Ailish (Taken from Ailish’s Blog)
We had lots of fun with Brenda today in our second athletics session.
Congratulations to Ailish and Liam on their wonderful achievement. Just this week, Ailish was awarded a blue belt and Liam a green belt in their karate grading. Well done guys!
Today an instructor called Katie came to our school to do Zomba.
First she did the Zumba with the small children in Muinteoir Deborah class. When it was our turn, we did a dance. The dance was called Sparkle (I think). The second dance I think was called YOYO. I can’t remember the next two dances. When it was done we did some stretches. The stretches where really good and stretched our bones and muscles.
I really loved doing everything. The music was so cool.
By Shauna
(Taken from Shaua’s Blog)
Bhí an-sport againn ag déanamh Zumba le Katie inniu. Míle buíochas Katie. 
We have been having lots of fun with our visiting artist Kate. Here we are working on our personal art pieces using oil pastels. We cannot wait to share them with our new friends in Haast! Thanks Kate!
Here we are enjoying our fun session with Brenda. Activities included mini hurdles, soft javelin, speed jumps, balance, long jump and ball throwing. It was lots of fun. We are looking forward to our next session already! 
