World War 1 Comes Alive!

Last Friday, the 21st of November our class went to the Irish Military War Museum. The bus left at a quarter to ten full of excited children!

When we arrived in Collon, the location of the museum, we were broken into groups. Fifth class went upstairs to see a powerpoint presentation made by our tour guide, Neil. It was really fascinating and there were some great pictures. Stephen even got to dress as a German soldier and Luke as a British one. We also got to handle authentic World War 1 weaponry such as shrapnel, grenades and rifles.

After that we came downstairs and had our lunch. Yummy! We then watched fourth class go upstairs for the slideshow and my class walked into a room full of artifacts from the world wars that fourth class had been in before lunch. There was artillery, weapons and vehicles that were found in old battlefields on the Somme nearly a hundred years on. We also saw other artifacts such as medical equipment, medals and badges . It was very interesting . When we emerged from the room we had to put on our wellies and raincoats to go into a replica trench .

On our way out,Neil fired blanks from a rifles . It was deafening,  but Neil said  it would be twice as loud if there was a bullet in it. We then arrived at the trench and clambered in . It was filthy but we made our way around getting very dirty in the process ! It was such great fun . We got changed out of our bottoms and wellies and said goodbye to the tour-guides .

Luke dressed as an English soldier in WW1.

We were holding one of the bullets that came out of the tanks.

Neil is about to shoot one of the guns.But don’t worry the bullets were blank!

Stephen, Jared, Fionn, and Colm  holding  Lee Enfield rifle.

Rathbeggan Trench Warfare!!

In the trenches with Museum curator William.

Arran & Scott in No Man’s Land

Stephen dressed as a German soldier

Ian is showing us one of the WW2 army tanks.

We  all got back on the bus and had a sing-song on the way home . We arrived back at school at ten to three. It had been a great day!!!

 

Written by Jared

Photos by Aimmee & Ruth

A Flood And Some Mud!!

THE BIG FLOOD

Last Thursday our school flooded. At around 10 O’ Clock It started to rain. The window was open and a bit of rain was coming in so we shut the window and cleaned the windowsill. At 11 O’ Clock the yard had alot of puddles scattered around the place. The water level started to rise very quickly. Our classroom had a tiny leak so we got some blue roll and ignored it. But then it got much worse so we got newspapers to soak up the water. The hall then started leaking but it was much worse than our classroom so most of the newspapers were used in the hall. Half of the people in our classroom had to go to another class. Flood services then arrived. Sandbags were put at all the leaking places and the flood was so bad we all had to go home at 2 O’ Clock. We had to use benches to get across the flooded car park. We all had hoped that school would be cancelled on Friday but it wasn’t cancelled.

The hall after it started to leak.

Look how high the water level got!

A car driving through the flooded car park.

Sloshing through the water.

The flooded car park.

We had a dramatic day at Rathbeggan!

TAG RUGBY

On Monday 10th November we had our first Tag Rugby session and it will continue up until Christmas. Our coach is John from Ratoath Rugby club. It was lots of fun. We played lots of fun games like No Mans Land. We play rugby every Monday. John starts by warming us up with Sea,Ship,Shore. We then do a few streches and play Bulldog. We then play either No Mans Land or Bomb.

One of the teams in No Mans Land.

The 2nd team in No Mans Land.

We had some great kicks.

Another great kick.

Everyone running away from the taggers.

We have heaps of fun with John!

By Declan & Niamh

A Great Week :] !!!!!!!

The Sponsored Walk !!!!!

Our school, Rathbeggan N.S, had a sponsored walk last week on Friday. It was a great hit. Everyone was having a great time with their family and friends. The walk was about 45 minutes long. All the children were having a great time in the castle and the mini slide. Each family got a sponsorship card to fill in and get some sponsors for the schools sponsored walk. The children at the sponsored walk were all mucky and wet. Unfortunately, some children had to stay at school until 3 o’ clock because their parents couldn’t come and collect them to bring them down to Rathbeggan Lakes but they got to stay at school and play with games and help out with the teachers. At the end of the walk the children got Tayto crisps and a Capri Sun and the adults got a coffee or tea if they wanted one. The walk was great and everyone had a nice time. On the way out of Rathbeggan Lakes, everyone got a 4 euro coupon. Everyone loved the walk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE BIG MATCH

Last week the boys of Rathbeggan had a Gaelic match. It was the semi final. We wore blue and the other team wore white. That day we were playing against Killmessan. The match was fun and it was a horrible day. At half time Ms. Devine  called us in and talked to us about what we should do in the second half. We had a one nil goal lead. As we went back on the rain got heavier as we couldn’t bounce the ball. The match was getting tougher as Kilmessan were coming back at us. As the parents were cheering us on the match was coming to an end.

 

 

Team photo

 

Fionn going in for the tackle

 

Jared fighting for the ball

 

Jared running with the ball

 

 

Scott getting out of a tackle

 

Peter running freely

 

Cathal and Emmanuel running

 

The match was great and everyone had a great time. In the end sadly we lost but next year we will try again.

 

By Anna and Emmanuel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!