Songsters and Songstresses Scór na bPáisti

We are currently preparing for the Scór na bPaístí with Aleisha.
There are five in our group. We are singing two songs as a group and two solo singers are performing. Aleisha has come five days already to prepare it with us. The songs we have picked for the group are Phil The Fluters Ball and Galway Bay. Scór na bPaístí endeavours to promote the cultural aspect of the G.A.A. Our school will be participating in figure dancing, solo singing, group singing, musical group and question time. We are all practising hard for the big event. The solo singers are singing Spancil Hill and Fields of Gold. We are enjoying our practices and hopefully will enjoy the final performance. Watch this space!

Bryan Keely and Aine O'Donnell

Dancing Feet Scór na bPáisti

Four pupils from our school are participating in Scór na bPaístí. We are doing the Four Hand Reel. There are two pupils in 5th class one in 2nd class and one in 4th class. On the day we will wear a white polo shirt and a black skirt.There are a lot of movements in the Four Hand Reel. The 1st movement is the Lead around, 2nd is the Square, 3rd is the Sevens, 4th is the Wheel, 5th is Down the centre, 6th is the Chain and 7th is the First Figure.We hope to get placed in Scór na bPaístí. The shoes we wear to do the Four Hand Reel are called pomps. Fiona Keely

Plates in the Air

There are two boys and 4 girls in our juggling group .We practice every dayfrom 2:00pm to 2:15pm. Our teacher's name is Katharina Baker. She is a really good teacher and we are really fortunate to have her. She teaches us how to spin plates, throw them in the air and catch them again. She also teaches us to throw the plate up and turn the stick while the plate is in the air. We practise our routines to music. Katharina comes on a Wednesday but while she is away we practise with the plates. It is good fun because we learn new things and then perform in front of the whole school. She is a very good teacher.
John Coen

Juggling Mania

In January 2007 Katharina Baker approached the school to enquire whether our school like to take part in a juggling progamme. We were pleased to accept her offer. We started with one ball, then made our up to two and finally worked our way up to three. Juggling with three balls is called the Cascade. There was a number of tricks we manoeuvred such as, pillars, badminton, tennis, under leg throw ,reverse cascade, right hand tennis, left hand tennis and two balls in one hand. With two people we learned these tricks: three three ten, over head throw, the machine ,three balls with two people, the feeding and the line .In the future we hope to learn new tricks and also perform at a fundraiser for the school and at the Raising of our Second Green Flag. Our juggling teacher Katharina is involved in the multi--cultural festival Gort at the end of May 2007. We hope to take part in this event. Juggling is a great skill and we would like to thank Katharina for letting us have the opportunity to learn. Juggling is an intense activity and we would like to recommend it to others.
By David Sherry and Shane Cooney

School Choir

Every Tuesday, Ms Howley visits our school and teaches us
religious songs for one hour. 2nd up to 6th class participate.
We sing harmonies with solo parts and full choir. Right now we are
preparing for First Holy Communion. We’re singing The Light
Of Christ, A Mhuire Mháthair and Father We Adore You in two parts.
Two girls, from the senior classes, are singing My Shepherd Is The
Lord - we sing the chorus and they sing the verses. We also sing at Christmas Services and confessions before Communion. At the opening of our new Extension Ms Howley played the keyboard for us. She has been coming to the school for the last few years. We are so lucky to have such a dedicated volunteer. Clare Caulfield

Mini-Sevens 2007

It was here at last, the Mini Sevens. We were all anxious to hurl because it was already cancelled twice. We were psyched up to all get out of school at 11:20am. It took twenty minutes until we arrived in Loughrea. We changed into our hurling attire and our manager made out the team. Our team jogged out onto the pitch. The team did a slight bit of training before our first match against Loughrea. It was an intense contest but we managed to claw out a victory. We had a break and then we squared off against Balinakill. Unfortunately we were defeated. After another break we faced our neighbouring parish Kilchreest. It was a marvellous game with plenty of action but we just came out on top. We were proud of ourselves the way we represented our school.
Ross Caswell and Niall Connors

GAA Fun at Peterswell

Lizze Flynn our hurling trainer first came to our school in November 2006 .She comes every Friday. It’s the one day we look forward to. She teaches us skills such as soloing, hand passing, striking on run, controlling the ball and side lines.
She takes us in two groups:first she takes 3rd and 4th class for one hour and then takes 5th and 6th for another hour. We all like Lizze’s training and it’s a doss off school work. In wet conditions we all go in our newly built sports hall. The training is for both boys and girls. Due to weather conditions our training may be cancelled. We didn’t get to hurl much during the winter.
We respect our trainer Lizze Flynn very much.