Category Archives: Mrs. Lawlor’s 3rd
Wishing for the Cloths of Heaven
We recently studied the life and poetry of W.B Yeats. Here is a PowerPoint about his life (thank you Dylan!)
We also painted some pictures inspired by the poem “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”.
Our Day Out in Dublin!
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.
Our Performance for Proclamation Day
As part of Proclamation Day 2016, Mr. O’ Brien’s 5th Class and Mrs. Lawlor’s 6th Class performed “The Foggy Dew” and “Óró, Sé do Bheatha Abhaile”.
“The Foggy Dew” was written by Canon Charles O’Neill (1887-1963), a parish priest of Kilcoo and later Newcastle, County Down, sometime after 1919. This song chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British, as so many young men were doing in World War I.
The version of “Óró, Sé do Bheatha Abhaile” we sang is the version written by poet and revolutionary Pádraig Pearse, welcoming volunteers back to Ireland for the 1916 Rising.
Here are videos of us practising on Monday:
World Book Day
As part of World Book Day, we are entering the Design a National Book Token Competition. We had to design a book-themed National Book Token. A panel of judges will select a winner and runner up in each category. One overall winner’s design will be made into a real National Book Token and distributed to bookshops nationwide in time for Christmas.
Here are some of our entries. Fingers crossed!