Our Christmas Concert

Every Friday since September we practiced The Evolution of Dance. There were lots of different stages to the dance so it took a while, but fortunately Christina was very patient. Luckily, we got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Two months before the concert (October), we started rehearsing the cup song by itself and the singing by itself. It took a while to practice as we had to get the co-ordination correct. It took ages to perfect it.

There were lots of different scenes in our play and everyone had to have a part. This is the order of which they were in:

• Pope Francis
• The visitors to Ireland as part of The Gathering
• Clare win the Liam McCarthy Cup,
• Galway win the O’Duffy Cup,
• The Healthy Eating Policy and
• One Direction.

It was very hard going but we got there in the end.

We spent all day practicing down at the hall on the 17^th of December. We had to wait a while for our turn as the other classes went first. We were lucky as we got extra time to rehearse because the younger classes went home early. We were also a bit unlucky as we had to help setting up the hall. The entire concert lasted around 5 hours. It was our turn next. First we did the drama, then the cup song and finally the dance. It was all over pretty quickly. We had great fun. It was just a shame we had school the next day.

By Ethan and Robin

Our trip to the Turlough

On a cold day in December, we hoped weather would stay dry for our journey to the turlough. After lunch we met Susan, the bird watcher from An Taisce in our classroom. She told us about the fascinating birds in the Rahasane Turlough. After the discussion we walked to the turlough. Once we got to our destination, Susan took out her telescope and showed us the birds flying over the water. We lined up to have our own view. We were sad to see lots of rubbish in the bushes. Once everyone had their go we sadly started walking back to the school. On the way back we saw a big oak tree. Finally we reached the school and we took off our dirty wellies. It was the best day ever and everyone enjoyed it.

By Adam and Phelim