Our Visit to the Dun Mhuire Theatre

 On Thursday 2nd of Febuary 5th and 6th class went to the Dun Mhuire theatre for the book launch of the  'Spirit of the Titanic'. Many other schools were there too. Every school performed on stage, we sang ' Sailing ' by Rod Stewart.

The author, Nicola Pierce, was also there. She made a small speech about the book. She spoke about how emotional she became when she heard the song ' Nearer my God to Thee'. This was the last song which was played by the band aboard the Titanic before it sank.

The Mayor spoke about how special this book is to the people of Wexford because of its long standing sea faring tradition.

There were people, 'the Titanic Crew', from secondary schools helping out at the event.
We had a terrific day and we can't wait to read the novel.

Green School Committee

On January the 24th, Dara Dever from An Taisce came to visit the school. We are setting up two 'Walking Buses' to promote walking to school, as part of our Green Schools Project on Travel.
Dara, along with some members of the Green School Committe and our parent volunteers did a 'walkability audit' to see how safe the routes the 'walking bus' will take are.

We found lots of positive safety features on our audit, such as pedestrian crossings and wide footpaths.
We also found some things that were not so safe, such as cars parked on the footpath.

Our walking buses will be up and running for our WOW days (Walk on Wednesdays). We are having a trial run with our community guard Thursday the 2nd of February and Wednesday the 3rd February.
We have two routes, one going from Bernadette place, up to Maudlintown, down William Street and up Fisher's Row. The other 'bus' starts on King Street/Lambert place, passes Tesco, goes through the Folly and onto school. Thanks to Mags and Caroline for volunteering to do this, and to their volunteers, Jimmy and Siobhan. If any parents would like to help these buses or start their own please let Ms. O'Connell Room 10 know.