Giant History Books!

Chess Competition

Lake Isle of Inisfree

The theme of the poem is how Yeats wants to live peacefully in isolation in a place called Innisfree. Maybe he thinks that this will make him a better poet.
The image in the poem is that the poet is on the busy streets of London when he dreams of a bee hive and a cabin on the Lake Isle of Innisfree. Life is just a whole lot slower there.
In reality it is grey and dull in London and over there he is rushing to home and work.
At least Inisfree will always be in his heart.
By Luke Lewis

Oral History Project

In the last couple of weeks we completed an oral history project about schools in the past. We all interviewed an older person to find out about their memories of school. Some of the accounts were very funny. Lots of things have changed since then, including the abolishment of corporal punishment and the use of technology. We discovered too that some things have remained the same, like the games played in the school yard and the subjects studied. There is a lot to be learned by listening to older people. If you would like to read these accounts the project is on display outside room 15.

Lá Fhéile Bríde