Coole Park Visit

Our Visit to Coole Park

 

On 24^th April, the students from third class visited Coole Park.  Once home to Lady Gregory and her husband, Coole Park now remains a Nature Reserve. Coole Park is one of the few places where red squirrels still live. Red Squirrels are an endangered species that are being killed because of a disease that the grey squirrels carry called squirrel pox

 

William Butler Yeats (Lady Gregory called him Willie) was a close friend of Lady Gregory. Much of his work was written in Coole Park including the wild swans of Coole. Sir William Henry Gregory was Lady Gregory’s husband. They were both very fond of trees and planted lots of them in Coole. Trees native to 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 3^rd class visited Coole Park, we did a Nature Hunt and found what different twigs, flowers, birds and leaves look like.  We all enjoyed our visit to Coole and retuned home with smiles on our faces.

 

By Molly McHale

 

 

 

Coole Park Tour

 

On the 24^th of April 3^rd 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 at Coole Park!!   

 

 By Ailbhe Sexton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAI Girls Primary School Soccer Champions

Well done to our girl's soccer team who won the keenly contested tournament recently held in Drom, Salthill. They played excellently on the day, winning 7 matches and were eventually crowned champions. They will now represent Galway at the next stage of the national competition. Congratulations and best of luck at the next stage!!

Show and Tell 3^rd Class

      

19/4/2013

 

Yesterday 3^rd class did projects on old objects for an exhibition called “Show and Tell”. Here are some of the objects that we explained about. There were guns, lanterns, butter churns, baskets and even a game boy (an old version of the Nintendo DS). All the classes came around and saw the artefacts that we had to explain. The reason we did this was so we could learn about our families’ life in the past and objects they used in every day life. This exhibition has shown us how life could have been harder compared to our lives today with our modern technology. The End.                                             

 By Hugh Crowley.

 

 

 

Yesterday we had show and tell where everyone brought in something old like old lamps. When we were ready we invited each class to our class separately. Some items were over 100 years old and a lot older. All the classes were interested in what we brought in. It was on in our class (3^rd class) for along time. Everyone mad a good effort. My favourite item was the gun. It was over 200 years old and used gun powder as ammunition. Everyone enjoyed “Show and Tell”.

By Paraic Mcgrath.

 

Senior girls County Olympic Handball Champions 2013

Well done to Cregmore girls senior Olympic Handball team on winning their county final in  Claregalway. Well done to Niamh, Gemma, Katie, Amarachi, Vicka, Amy, Niamh, Sarah and Nicola!!! Here are some pictures from finals day. Ye were a credit to the school, both on and off the court. And most importantly, we all enjoyed our path to the finals, win or loose.
Well done again!!!