Our Visit to Coole Park
On 24th
April, the students from third class visited Coole Park Coole Park Coole
Park
William
Butler Yeats (Lady Gregory called him Willie) was a close friend of Lady Gregory.
Much of his work was written in Coole
Park Ireland and trees from half way across the world
were in Coole Park
Many
famous people visited Coole including George Bernard Shaw (he visited very
often, sometimes for a month at a time). These people would sign a tree called
the autograph tree. When Lady Gregory was travelling, she would bring her fan
and the famous people she met would sign it. Sir William Henry would travel
mostly with the abbey theatre .The abbey theatre is a theatre set up by W.B.Yeats and Lady Gregory and is still
standing in Dublin today.
Lady
Gregory and Sir William Henry Gregory had a son whose name was Robert. Robert
married Margaret Carraig and had three children Richard, Anne and Catherine (aka
Nu). Once World War I started, Robert joined the army and Margaret was very
busy so the children stayed with their grandmother, Lady Gregory. By this time,
Sir William Henry Gregory had passed away, so Lady Gregory always wore black to
show she was a widow. Of the children,
Richard was the eldest and Catherine, the youngest. Richard was away at
boarding school so the two girls played together. One of their favourite games
was ‘hide the thimble’ which they sometimes played with George Bernard Shaw. They were never bored at Coole Park
When
3rd class visited Coole
Park
By
Molly McHale
On the 24th of April 3rd class
left school at ten O’clock to go to Coole Park for fun and adventure .When we
arrived
There where lots of trees, kind of like a forest. We
looked at the flowers and trees there and then met a man that was going to tell
us the names of trees and flowers there. His name was Nick. There was another
woman there called Aine.
Our class was split into two different groups. I went in the group with Nick. Before we started Nick brought us over to a bench. He sat down and we started talking about Hedgehogs. We talked about how they hibernated and when they’re scared or tired they curl up into a ball. Nick gave us a clipboard with buds, flowers, leaves and habitats. We had to tick off the things we saw. Then everyone had to get into a group of three. I went with Nadine and Heather. There were lots of animals there like birds. We heard the robin, sparrow, the great blue tit and a pigeon. Nick brought us to a big shed door. As we approached the door, Nick shown us that on the door there were bat droppings.. Ewww! Then he removed a box from his pocket. He opened the box and inside was a dead bat. Along the path we saw loads of trees like the oak, beech, ash and sycamore tree were some of the trees we saw. We also saw flowers like dandelion, cherry, bluebell and daisies.
Then we went inside and watched a short movie about a family whose Dad went into war and his three children Anne, Richard and Catherine have to be minded by they’re grandmother (Lady Gregory.) The youngest girl Catherine has a nickname called New. Then we went upstairs into the girl’s bedroom. I wouldn’t have liked to sleep in the beds they slept in because they were so hard. There was a cylinder shaped thing in the corner of the room that no one knew what it was. But then Aine said it was kind of the start of cartoons. Then Aine spun it around and I looked through the holes in it and saw a swan flying.
Then we went into the library and learned about how W.B Yeats (William Butler Yeats) became a very famous poet and used to perform in the Abbey theatre with Lady Gregory. After this we met up with the rest of the class and had lunch. Thanks to all for a brilliant day. I had a great day atCoole Park
Our class was split into two different groups. I went in the group with Nick. Before we started Nick brought us over to a bench. He sat down and we started talking about Hedgehogs. We talked about how they hibernated and when they’re scared or tired they curl up into a ball. Nick gave us a clipboard with buds, flowers, leaves and habitats. We had to tick off the things we saw. Then everyone had to get into a group of three. I went with Nadine and Heather. There were lots of animals there like birds. We heard the robin, sparrow, the great blue tit and a pigeon. Nick brought us to a big shed door. As we approached the door, Nick shown us that on the door there were bat droppings.. Ewww! Then he removed a box from his pocket. He opened the box and inside was a dead bat. Along the path we saw loads of trees like the oak, beech, ash and sycamore tree were some of the trees we saw. We also saw flowers like dandelion, cherry, bluebell and daisies.
Then we went inside and watched a short movie about a family whose Dad went into war and his three children Anne, Richard and Catherine have to be minded by they’re grandmother (Lady Gregory.) The youngest girl Catherine has a nickname called New. Then we went upstairs into the girl’s bedroom. I wouldn’t have liked to sleep in the beds they slept in because they were so hard. There was a cylinder shaped thing in the corner of the room that no one knew what it was. But then Aine said it was kind of the start of cartoons. Then Aine spun it around and I looked through the holes in it and saw a swan flying.
Then we went into the library and learned about how W.B Yeats (William Butler Yeats) became a very famous poet and used to perform in the Abbey theatre with Lady Gregory. After this we met up with the rest of the class and had lunch. Thanks to all for a brilliant day. I had a great day at
