October Newsletter 2019
Congratulations to Alisha Tate who was a pivotal player in O’Neill Shamrocks. The team won the under 12 Gaelic Final.
Congratulations to Vicky Donaldson who received a trophy for being ‘Players Player of the Year 2019’ in Blayney Rovers soccer club.
And congratulations also to Ben Lowey who won most skilful player for Clontibret GAA team under 11s.
We are extremely proud of Alicia, Vicky and Ben’s achievements in their football clubs. They also display great sportsmanship during sporting activities in school and we wish them continued success.
Congratulations to:
Students of the week – Vicky and Bonny Sports Player of the week – Scott
Gaelgoir na seachtaine – Danielle Kind Act of the week – Olivia
We are delighted to have Mrs. Flack as our Special Education Teacher while Ms. Johnston is attending the Graduate Diploma in Inclusive Education, Learning Support and Special Education in DCU, Dublin.
Elections for appointing 2 new parent reps will be taking place soon for the new BOM.
Reminder: Brennan Insurance €5.30 and Book Bills €60 per child is now due. If you have not done so, please forward to the school.
Cash for Clobber: This collection will take place on Wednesday 6th November, so all your good quality second-hand clothes, shoes (in pairs) bed clothes may be left into school before this date.
Dates for Your Diary
Halloween Half Term School is closed Monday 28th October-Friday 1st November.
School will re-open on Monday 4th November
Cash for Clobber Collection Wednesday 6th November
A Report on County Monaghan by Aaron Wallace
Firstly Monaghan is a great town filled with lots of towns and monuments, but let’s starts with some simple facts. Monaghan is located on the border of Northern Ireland. It is one of three counties that are in Ulster but in the Republic of Ireland. Monaghan’s population is approximately 60,000. Monaghan is the 6th smallest county in size.
Landmarks in Monaghan: beautiful landmarks in Monaghan are the Big Tom memorial statue in Castleblayney, the Rossmore monument and Monaghan courthouse in Monaghan town. There are also lots of natural landmarks that are terrific, for example Muckno Park. Muckn o has a wonderful forest and playground. Same goes for Rossmore Park.
Famous people in Monaghan: there are alot of famous people that come from Monaghan, for example Patrick Kavanagh, an Irish poet. Thomas Bracken another poet, Charles Duffy a journalist and poet. Tommy Bowe a Rugby player and of course Big Tom.
Monaghan is a great county filled with great landmarks and beautiful towns. I really enjoyed learning about Monaghan and can’t wait for our tour around Monaghan town.
French Revolution by Olivia McChesney
My dearest Sally,
I am writing to tell you lots about King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France. At the moment they are being very rude and unfair. My family and I are starving, while the King and Queen are living in luxury. It takes about one week of work to get one piece of bread. In the King and Queen’s Palace they have 100s of rooms, where in our houses, we have only one room! It is horrible but the real reason the revolution actually took place, was because of the storming of the Bastille. We burst into the jail and freed the prisoners. We also seized all the weapons. That was on the 14th of July. And guess what! There was an Irish man in the jail! He was one of seven prisoners there. One day when the peasants went to the bottom of the palace gates, we pleaded for some bread. One of the Queen’s peasants’s told her that we wanted bread. All she said was, “Well, if they have no bread, let them eat cake”. I think that was extremely rude of her. We decided we had to stop King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. So a man named Dr. Guillotine invented a machine. The machine can chop off sixty heads in less than an hour and a half! He named it the “Guillotine”. We used this machine on the King and Queen, the clergy and the King and Queen’s friends. Also some people that disagreed with killing the royalty got their heads chopped off too. The day we started using this machine, there was blood streaming down the streets, covering my feet in blood. Since we got rid of our King and Queen we made up our own government. We call it “The National Assembly”. We will have no King and Queen now for a long time. We will set the taxes and laws. We also have made up a new flag. Its colours are blue, white and red. Our slogan is “Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!
When the rich people were killed we burnt down their houses. But we kept their animals. They had very unusual pets. We put the animals into zoos. Now people can go visit all the different types of animals. France is now such a nice, friendly country. People no longer starve. Thank you so much for reading my letter, Sally. Goodbye. I hope to write to you again soon.
Your loving friend,
Olivia.