Monday 17 June 2019
Book Launch 29th May 2018
Saturday 15 June 2019
Class production
We are proud to announce that our mini production of 'Joseph' will be performed in the school hall on Friday 21st June at 1.45pm sharp. We look forward to seeing you then!
Thursday 13 June 2019
Clara Lara
Even the dismal weather couldn’t dampen the boys’ spirits in Clara Lara yesterday! A great day had all round, apologies for all the bags of clothes that were added to the laundry pile last night!
Thursday 6 June 2019
Visit from the Anne Sullivan Foundation
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| Louise from the Anne Sullivan Foundation visited us today and we learned about some of the many obstacles that face people that are deaf blind in our society. It taught the boys yet again to be more understanding, patient and compassionate with people that have disabilities. |
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Monday 27 May 2019
School Trip
Annual 5th class trip to Clara Lara will be on the 12th June. Hopefully the weather stays fine for us! Will post more details in the next week.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
Printing
We are working with print at the moment and made collograph prints out of cardboard. We cut out cardboard and created raised images which we then painted and used to make our prints. Have a look!
Drama performance
| We are putting on a little performance in the next few weeks. Date to be confirmed, watch this space!! |
Persuasive writing - emails
We recently co-wrote an email to Creative Ireland, asking them to consider subsiding the cost of self-publishing in schools. Have a read of what we wrote...
Creative Ireland have since responded, thanking us for our email and giving us a contact number for a SDCC Creative Ireland co-ordinator! We'll let you know if we get anywhere with it!
To whom it may concern,
Creative Ireland have since responded, thanking us for our email and giving us a contact number for a SDCC Creative Ireland co-ordinator! We'll let you know if we get anywhere with it!
To whom it may concern,
We are 5th class students in Ballyroan Boys School, Rathfarnham and we have
recently published a book of poetry and stories through the Emu Ink School
Publishing Programme.
We are writing to you because it has come to our
attention that the printing price per book is very high. It is great to have the
opportunity to see our stories and poems in print and we have had a great
time creating and publishing our anthology. However, the prohibitive price of €10
per book was a lot to ask parents to pay, especially if they wanted to buy more than one copy.
We live in a country that has a wealth of talented young authors, poets, songwriters
and playwrights. The Emu Ink Schools Publishing Programme is a fantastic way
to encourage more young people to be creative and imaginative. It gives them a chance
to see their work in print. Therefore, we think it would be great if you could find
a way to subsidise or help schools to meet the high costs of the printing programme. We think
that a lot more schools would avail of this programme and publish their collections of stories
or poems too.
We hope you agree that by giving a little financial assistance to schools like us who are
embarking on self-publishing, you are investing in the arts and culture of the future.
Kind regards
5th class Ballyroan Boys' National School
Monday 20 May 2019
Book Launch
The official launch of our publication 'A Book by Boys who dare to be authors' will be next Wednesday at 1.45! Mums, dads, grannies, grandads, aunties and uncles are all welcome!! Hear poems and extracts read aloud by the boys, listen to our guest speakers and have a canape or two! Come and celebrate all things literary!
Yoga
As part of active week last week, we had a yoga class in the hall. An outside yoga teacher brought the boys through a series of yoga poses and relaxation techniques and it was fantastic!
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