An paráid
Inné chuaigh go leor daoine go dtí an paráid i mBéal an Mhuirthead. Bhì banna drumaí ná scoile ag seinnt ann. Bhuail muid lé cheile sa complex ag a leathuair tar eis a dó. Chuir mé orm mó drumaí agus mó hata dearg agus dubh. Thosaigh an paráid. Chuaigh gach duine síos go dtí an cearnóg. Stop muid ar an gcearnóg agus sheinn muid cupla port. Shiúil muid timpeall an bhhaile mór agus ar ais arís go dtí complex. Bhí sé go maith. Bhí an-spóirt agam. Ansin chuaigh muid abhaile🏠. Fuair mé uachtar reoite🍦. Bhí am deas ag gach duine.
Le Kian, Róisín agus Sophie
Our trip to the Fire station
On Thursday I went to the fire station . The fire mans name was Joe. He showed us the jaws of life and the fire engine. He put on all of his gear including the oxygen mask and tank. He turned on the beeper. It was very noisy. He showed us pictures of the factory fire. It lasted 4 days he told us. They had to use all the foam in Mayo Sligo and Roscommon.
Seán
Ag ullmhú do Lá ‘le Pádraig – Preparing for St. Patrick’s Day
Beidh muid ag tógáil páirt sa pharáid i mBéal an Mhuirthead i mbliana. Ta muid ag foghlam cupla píosa ceoil ar na drumaí faoi lathair.
We are participating in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Belmullet this year. We have been practising some drums tunes for it.
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A story of St. Patrick
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Scratch projects
Try Ava and Rosaleen’s game here:
See Sophie and Amy’s Scratch animation here:
Gaelic Football
Our Quadblog partners asked us what Gaelic football is. So here goes:
Gaelic football: an Irish Sport
Gaelic is an Irish sport and is a bit like soccer except you are allowed to touch the ball with your hands. Gaelic can get a bit rough at times. Our school has a Gaelic football team, we actually have two, the boys team and the girls team. Their jerseys colours are black and red. Gaelic is a fun sport. We have to wear football shorts, Gaelic boots, football socks and a body warmer.
Our trainer is James Mason. He trains us every Friday. When he trains us, we do hand passes and solos.
The Gaelic ball is hard and round.In school, we play Gaelic football matches a lot in a series of Gaelic football games for schools which is called the “Cumann na mBunscol”. Last year our teams even won the Erris final!
Nearly every county in Ireland has a Gaelic football team. Our own county Mayo has a football team too. Every year the country has a long series of gaelic football games and in the very end the winning county’s team wins a big trophy called the Sam Maguire. Our county’s team gets to the nationwide final but sadly they haven’t won the Sam Maguire in over 60 years! Last year Mayo and Dublin were in the final but sadly, Mayo lost to Dublin and they took home the Sam Maguire. We were very disappointed but we all hope that Mayo will get to the final this year and win it!
Other countries have their own type of sport but I think that everybody is Ireland is happy that Gaelic is our own country’s sport!
The End!
By Amy and Grace
Trip to the Fire Station
Last Thursday we went to the Fire Station in Belmullet. First we went into the main room where we saw some pictures of the fires and rescues. The man that showed us around was called Joe Murphy. He is has been there for 36 years. There are 10 men on the fire team.
First he showed us how to wear an oxygen tank on his back. Then he put on a special hood for health and safety reasons. Both of these things need to be worn when they are putting out fires.
Then he showed us the radios that the firemen use to communicate to each other. Next we went into the equipment room. There were 6 lockers.All there equipment was in there lockers. They have a radio on there helmets.
After that we went in to the garage were they keep the fire engines. There was a new one and a old one. Then he showed us all the gear on them. Out the back there was a fire jeep.
The last room he showed us was where they service the oxygen tanks and wear the special suits.
I had a great day!!!!!!!!!. 🙂
By Kian
Today we went a all the school went to the fire station in Belmullet. When we went in to the station we looked at some pictures of fires. They looked dangerous. Then we asked some questions. They were good questions. Then the fireman put on the gear that they wear. It was heavy. Then we went out to the fire trucks. They were class🚒. Then we went in to a place were they fill the water. When I grow up I would like to be a fireman.🚒🚒
By Seamus
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Welcome to our QuadBlog partners
Our School: Inver National School
We love our school Inver NS! Our school is 129 years old but yet it is still standing tall! Sadly, we are a small school and only have 29 pupils in our school, two teachers, a help teacher and a secertary, but luckily that’s not keeping us down! Our school football teams’ colours are black and red and our school is painted white and purple. We are a green school and an active school.
A green school means a school is environmentally friendly and recycles. When you become a green school your school gets a special flag called a green flag.
When we became a green school we were very happy and we had a special raising the flag ceremony and all the parents of the children in the school came. One of the years we got the green flag Jedward came to our school! Lots of people and schools from around the area came to see them! Being an active school means that all the children in your school are involved in sports. We also had a raising of the flag ceremony for that too!
When our school became 125 years old we had a very special ceremony that lasted a while. We used to go up to the community centre, right here in Inver, and have some celebrations there, as well as the ones in the school! One night there was a party up in the community centre and lots of people went to it. We got a very special cake that was in the shape of our school and Rosín, who was the youngest in the school at the time, cut the cake. We all got a slice. It was very nice!
We love our school and we think it’s one of the best schools in Ireland!
The End!
By Amy
Our school
Our school is a nice small school with three class rooms and three toilets each for the boys and girls. We have two teachers in our school. One teacher teaches all the younger classes and the other teacher teaches 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th class.
We have 2 green flags. We are working on our 3rd one which is for conserving water. Our very first flag was for reducing litter. Jedward came to raise the flag. Our second flag was for conserving energy.
There are 29 pupils in our school. The colours on the walls of the school are cream and purple. We got an astroturf on our field. We have an interactive white board. Our teachers names are Múinteoir Máirin and Múinteoir Máirín. Our break times are at 11:00 o’clock and 12:30.
The end By Grace
Seachtain na Gaeilge
This is Seachtain na Gaeilge. As our QuadBlog partners Horningsham Primary School at http://horningshamowls.wordpress.com
Humberstone Junior Academy at http://humboblog.primaryblogger.co.uk
and Bidston Avenue Primary School at http://kidblog.org/Miss_Taylor/ look at our blog, we would like to explain what Seachtain na Gaeilge is. Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) is an international Irish language festival and one of the biggest celebrations of our native language and culture that takes place each year in Ireland and in many other countries.
This year’s festival is running from 1 – 17 March 2014.
The festival gives an opportunity to everyone to enjoy Irish, whether you are a fluent speaker, learner or have a cúpla focal, with a calendar of entertaining and fun events for every type of interest and every age group.
Voluntary and community groups, local authorities, schools, libraries, and music, sports, arts and culture organisations organise events for Seachtain na Gaeilge in their local area.
Irish is for everyone, Seachtain na Gaeilge is for everyone – Croí na Teanga, It’s You!
Bain triall as!
Quadblog
We are now in our third week of our Quadblogging project with three other schools, which are all based in the UK:
Horningsham Primary School at http://horningshamowls.wordpress.com
Humberstone Junior Academy at http://humboblog.primaryblogger.co.uk
and Bidston Avenue Primary School at http://kidblog.org/Miss_Taylor/.
This week our school will be the focus class allowing the other three classes to visit and comment on the our class blog.
Over a cycle of 4 weeks, each class has their week as the focus class. Each Quad gets to decide how many cycles are completed and when you have completed the cycles, you simply come back and register for a new Quad. More information available at http://www.quadblogging.com.
Water week 2014
Last week was so much fun! We were learning lots about water. We learned all about the water cycle which was great fun! We learned some songs about water and did lots of estimating and measuring with water in Maths. We also enjoyed doing lots of experiments based on water such as floating and sinking, dancing raisins, lava lamps, alkaseltzer pop and much more. We even measured how much air was in our lungs using water. It was really cool! All the Mums and Dads had a good time during our Open Water Day in school! They were very happy when they got to take home a tub of Eco friendly hand scrub! We hope we can do another water week soon!
The mysterious package: please help!
Today we received a very mysterious package in the post.
There were strange (but delicious!) sweets, maps of places in New Zealand and brochures about various aspects of tourism in New Zealand in the package… but no card; no letter or no hint about who sent it.
We don’t know who sent it but we do think it came from New Zealand, because of the postmark, the maps and the brochure. The only thing is…we don’t know anyone there!
Our clues seems to point to the South Island and an area named Haast or Taihaipe.
Look at our clues below and see if you can help us, please!
Acrostic Poems
Whales.
Have
A
Long fat body.
Eat plankton.
Sea mammals.
By Aoibhe (rang a haon)
Rabbits are so cute
Are fast
Boxes are the good place for rabbits to live
Burrows to live in also
It has a fluffy tail
Twitchy nose
Smiles when he sees a carrot!
By Hannanh
Footballs are spheres
On the pitch
On top of the net is where it shouldn’t be
Teams for football
Barcelona is a good team
A goal for Man United!
Loads of teams
Love football!
By Seán
Hay
On the farm
Rides
So pretty
Excellent
Saddles
By Siobhan .
Fire
Foam, like a blanket on the fire.
I would like to be a fire girl
Run as fast as you can.
Engine – big and red!
By Eve
Water week 2014
