Both 5th and 6th Classes were invited to pilot a new Educational Awareness Programme on Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying in Primary Schools.

This project is funded by the Department of Education and Skills and is a partnership between BeLonG To Youth Services and St. Patrick’s College. It is supported by an Advisory Group whose membership includes: INTO; INTO-LGBT Teachers’ Group; IPPN; National Parents’ Council; CPSMA; PDST, Educate Together; Community National Schools-DDL; Church of Ireland – Board of Education; GLEN; TENI.

The classes learned about human rights and equality, bullying and responding to bullying. They learned, through group work and discussions, that we should treat each others equally and with respect.

Here are a couple of photos of our class during the lessons:

We recently studied the life and poetry of W.B Yeats. Here is a PowerPoint about his life (thank you Dylan!)

William Butler Yeats

We also painted some pictures inspired by the poem “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”.

6th Class went on their second school tour of the year last Friday, April the 8th. We left the school at 8:20am and our first stop was the Museum at Collins Barracks.

Our next stop was the Arbour Hill Cemetery where we met UN Peace Keeping veterans from Ireland and Norway. One of them spoke to us about the history of the cemetery and about the 14 leaders of the Easter Rising buried there.

We continued our day at the Wax Museum Plus in the city centre. There was a great variety of characters there and some of them were really convincing.

Our last stop of the day was to the Pearse Museum in Rathfarnam. We had planned to play hurling and football in the beautiful grounds there but we couldn’t because of the inclement weather. We visited the museum and the nature rooms beside it. Afterwards we treated ourselves to ice-cream and treats in the coffee shop and headed home. A great day was had by all.

Our next tour will be to Dunmore Adventure on Thursday the 2nd of June.