Book Launch

BOOK LAUNCH IS TOMORROW!! HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL HERE AT 1.45PM SHARP!

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.

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,

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

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

For anyone interested in furthering their yoga practice!

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!

The books have arrived!!!

What a great surprise we got when our books arrived in the post today!! The boys received books if they had ordered and purchased them and they were so excited to see their names in print!

Active week

Welcome to Active Week!! Every day this week we are doing 'Active 10 and 10 past 10'. We get out and copy some moves from teachers on the roof (have a look at the photos). We are also doing a daily mile which is 11 laps of our yard. The boys are recording their time in their diaries and trying to match or beat their personal best each day! We are also doing yoga on Wednesday and a soccer blitz on Friday! It's all go! With this nice weather there's no excuse for you not to get moving at home too!

Save our Sea art!

We are passionate about saving the earth in 5th class and our recent art shows this. Look at how clean the water is for our turtles and jellyfish! Let your gaze follow up to the surface and into the light...

Bottle Cap Art

Our bottle caps have been used to create our fabulous art piece for our classroom and haven't ended up in the sea. Well done to all the boys who contributed to the creation and brought in bottle caps.

Poetry Day Ireland and 5th Class

This year, Poetry Day Ireland was on the 2nd May and all the boys got 'stuck in' and spent just 10 minutes writing a poem about any subject they wanted.  Poetry is a wonderful way for the boys to express themselves and their ideas better.
Here is a small selection of the wonderful poetry composed in 5th class.

The Mystery Ship

The mystery ship,

Named Mary Celeste,

Was a weird boat,

Quite unlike the rest.

You see, it went missing,

Far out at sea,

Nobody knows how,

It’s a mystery.

Perhaps it sank,

At the hands of the Kraken,

Maybe a mutiny,

Against the captain.

Still nobody knows,

What happened to it,

So let’s just call it,

The mystery ship.

                                                                 By: Emmet Callan

                                                                                 

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People say “It’s impossible”.

Nothing is.

Let your imagination run free

Anywhere you think you can be

Thoughts all jumbled about

And through your pencil you let them out

In your mind only ideas exist

Some dismissed with a flick of the wrist

In there, there’s nothing you can’t do

Really, the only limit is you.

                                                                           By:  Kieran Looby

                                                                                            

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The Secret Garden 

You want to go to the garden I see

You’ll have to wait and follow me

Up the bridge, round the bend

And you’ll see your journeys end.

Follow the hill and round the trees

Looking out for the small buzzing bees

Your journey ends, but do not fear

Yes, I see that little small tear

This garden is for yours to keep

So, jump around and have a leap

Now go run free on this misty night

Let the garden take full flight.

                                                                          By: Kealan Scanlan

                                                                                          

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I’m a Potato

I’m a potato

In the middle of the night

Suddenly,

I caught the blight

And now

I’m heading towards the light.

                                                                        By:  Rian O’Connor

                                                                                       

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The Octopus

The octopus swims

Under the sea

Into the depths of the beautiful blue.

Seaweed and coral grow on the rocks,

And the octopus swims,

Through the ripples of water.

Fish and sharks,

Whales and rays,

 Are all animals that the octopus sees.

He takes a rest

Against a rock,

Camouflaged on the grey surface.

When he wakes,

The ocean is dark

Night has come.

Again the octopus swims through the blue

The sea is now quiet

While most animas are asleep.

He keeps on swimming,

Through the dark,

Enjoying this peaceful night.

Sometimes his other friends appear,

He only meets them at dark,

Down further in the blue.

Giant squids,

Fish with lights,

The octopus sees all of these sights.

The morning is soon,

The octopus swims,

Another day done,

In the deep blue.

                                                                                        By:  Conor Watts

                                                                                                              

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IRELAND

I    Icy weather, almost never warm

R      Right beside England with Big Ben

E      Equally as cold as Iceland

L      Love being cooled down by the cold air

A     And summer is on the way

N     Now you know what Ireland is like, it may be cold but it is home

D     Dublin is mine and Ireland is good enough for me

                                                                                                  By:  Adam Cullen