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We went to Causey Farm for our school tour. We went on a tractor ride to the bog. We got to jump in the bog and it was fun cause we got dirty! Then we went on an Obstacle Course and it was fun. There were monkey bars and we went through tyres. We played with turf. Then we looked at the animals. I saw a sheepdog, a goose, a goat, a rooster, horses, a chicken, a donkey and a rabbit. I got to feed the donkey and the horse and groom the goat’s beard. My favourite part was the bog, I loved it! It was a great day

By Faruuq (2nd Class, Ms Prenty)

The two 5th Classes went down to Tallaght Library last week and when we got down, we looked at lots of World Cup things. We were told we were going to do a World Cup Quiz. We had 4 people in our group. Their names were Dean, David, Liam and me Ciarán.

The World Cup quiz began and we were doing well. During the World Cup quiz, the 2006 World Cup was on the TV. Italy won it on penalties. There were 10 rounds in the quiz but I can’t remember the names of all of them! There was General Knowledge about the World Cup, there was History of the World Cup, there were Picture rounds, World Cup Managers, Winners, Greatest Players and Ireland at the World Cup especially.

Half way through the quiz we were 3rd, Team 7 were 2nd and Team 10 were 1st. They had Robert,  Cathal, Owen and Seán on their team. We did really well from then on. Near the end, Stephen Bradley (Rovers Player) walked in with some Shamrock Rovers  coaching staff. After the quiz, when the scores were being added up, we got to ask questions. Aaron asked him a question he should not have asked..he asked him if we like Bohemians but he didn’t answer!!

Then the scores came out. Team 7 came 3rd with 41 points, we came 2nd with 42 points and Team 10 came 1st with 47 points and we all got medals. The last place team got a World Cup football, but that was donated to the school. The teachers were given sweets to give to us when we got back. We played with the football, we played a match and we had our sweets!

By Ciarán O’ Doherty (5th Class, Ms Moroney)

Our class was invited to a very special workshop call the Bridge to College (B2C) at Trinity College to create some videos. We went yesterday, 10-06-10.

Report from Annch’:

We made groups of five and in our group there was: Ashleigh, Nadja, Nicole, Callie and Hero. It was called ANNCH. When we got there we played a game where there was a string which represented a bridge and we had to keep at least one foot on the bridge and get in order of our date of birth then name. After we went into another room, got  into our groups and made a charter and a role list, the charter was a list we made ourselves with rules like: everyone participating, no bossing and listening to each other! This was to help us work as a team. On the role list, there were jobs such as: Director, Music Editors and Video Editors. Then we  shot our video and edited it. We had great fun editing and choosing the music.  For editing we used Windows Movie Maker and for the music we used Audacity and Youtube. At the end of the day, the whole class got together and watched each other’s movies.We had lots of fun :) 

Report from ‘D!C3′ :

Our group was called D!C3…  we had a mentor. He was very cool and  we made a video on Movie Maker  about the World Cup. In our group were John, Ryan, Luke, Conor and Callum. Luke was the leader, John and Callum were the Music Editors. Ryan and Luke were in the video.  Conor was the camera man! It was great fun!

Report from ‘The Dubliners’

Our class went to Trinity College and we had a lot of fun. Our group’s name was The Dubliners…and we made a video of the World Cup 2010. Our song was the offical 2010 world cup song. We used Windows Movie Maker. Our mentors name was Kevin, he was really cool and he helped us all the way through. There were different jobs for everyone in the team. Reece was the Chief Director, Matthew was the Cameraman and the Video Editor, Jack was the Music Editor, and Seán was the Researcher. We went out into the grounds of the Trinity College  to make the movies . We used Youtube to make the World cup song play in the backround of the movie and we used Audacity to record the World cup song then we put the song onto the memory of the computer and then copied it onto our movie . It was a really good day it was really fun and enjoyable. When I’m bigger I want to come and study in Trinity (Rusmir)!

Report from The Tallaght Boyz:

Our team was called The Tallaght Boyz. We had 2 mentors and we had to make a little movie. Our team went out to the Trinity football pitch and shot our  video.We had fun and had some great pictures and video. Our video footage was about the World Cup! We went back in to the B2C (Bridge to College) hub and edited our video. We had lots of fun. We added special effects like a slowmode effect into the video. 

Report from ‘The Crazy Crew’:

Our class  went to Trinity College to create a movie. It was great fun!  We worked as a team to pick the name , and what we wanted to do. Our group was called The Crazy Crew . We had great fun making the movies , ours was called Tallaght’s Got Talent . We took pictures and videos to put in our movie.We used Audacity, Youtube and Windows Movie Maker.  We all had mentors. Our mentor’s name is Nicole.  There was Rubine, Laura, Lauren, Mollyand Rebecca.  The singers were Rebecca and Rubine. The judges were Molly, Laura and Lauren. After we finished practicing we each had a job to do. Rubine, Lauren and Rebecca had to get the songs off Youtube and recorded them onto Audacity and Laura, Molly and our mentor Nicole had to get the songs we got and put them on the images and videos so it can play music while it’s showing the video. Then at the end we all went to one room and sat down and watched everyone else’s work. A lot of them were funny and we asked our mentors questions about secondary school, cause we’ll all be leaving primary in a few weeks. 

Thank you to the Bridge to College team for inviting us in to such an amazing workshop: John, Kevin and Claire and to all the really great mentors and to Rita from our School Completion Programme for sponsoring the bus so that we could have the longest time there!

We all had a great time and we’d love to go back. On Friday when we were back in school, our principal, Mr Sweeney came to our classroom to see our fabulous videos and so did lots of teachers…they were very impressed! :-)

 By: Ms McMorrough’s 6th Class and our friends Aisham and Rebecca!

The two 6^th classes made their confirmation on Saturday 29^th May.

There were 38 children from St. Martin De Porres confirmed. Everybody looked so nice even the teachers!  The Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Martin confirmed us. He asked us questions about our Confirmation name that we took. We all had a great day.

We got Monday off school and had to come to school on Tuesday in our Confirmation clothes for our class photographs.

 Eniola Salami (6th Class, Ms Stanford)