Trip to Tanagh 09

Canoeing on the Dromore River

On the 2nd of April this year, the 5th and 6th class pupils went on a trip to Monaghan, to an activity centre called Tanagh. We went to meet up with  children from a school in Belfast.  Before the trip,  we were sending messages to them on the internet as part of  the Dissolving Boundaries project. When we were in Tanagh we did lots of activities like canoeing, archery, obstacle course and we went for a night walk in the woods! There was even a games room with a ping pong table and a small pool table. We were split into two groups, the first day, group number one did the watersports (canoeing and the slippery slope) the first day, and group number two did the activities on land (the obstacle course, rock climbing and archery). We stayed over night and the next day the groups swapped over and did the other activities! We all had great fun!

F.A.I Football

Newmarket 2009

Last week our school entered into a football competition. The competition was held in Thomastown. It was a competition for small schools in Killkenny. There were four groups involved in the competition. The teams were five a side, with three subs. The first match we played was against Monroe and we beat them 11-1!!. The last match we played was the final against Dunamaggin who beat us by 2-1 after a very tight game. Most of the games that we went through were very tough. The only match we lost was the final. The whole competition was good fun. We also got free homework and about a half a day off.

St. Brendan’s and the fox

Yesterday there was an unusual visitor to the school. A little fox cub!Her name is Minnie. She is about 3 weeks old and looks like a black kitten. She drinks milk from a baby bottle ( she won’t drink the milk unlesss it is heated ) and will sometimes eat some puppy food. She is not allowed cows milk so she is given SMA baby milk. She stays in a house with 2 terriers and in the wild the dogs would have killed her. My grandmother is rearing her as a pet and hopefully we can keep her if she doesn’t get vicious. She was an orphan and would have died unless she was found ( her mother was killed by hunters ). Minnie will turn orange as she gets older. She has little wisps of orange fur on her face.

By Katelynn Walsh