Senior Room Poems 

Big Silver Moon

The night is dark and quiet,

Lit by a big silver moon.

Reflecting in the dark pond .

The old lady trudges through the

Frosty field collecting twigs

For her cottage fire.

She shivers in the dark with her big purple cloak.

With only a lantern to light her way.

Owls hoot in the night

Flying over the old lady’s head.

She wanders into the blackened forest.

Searching for her old thatched cottage.

She suddenly stops and stares into the moonlight

Watching foxes hunt for food.

The old lady spots her warm cosy cottage

She shuffles into her house.

Stars glitter in the dark

Holding up the sky

Deer prance lightly over the logs

Calling to their friends,

Far away wolves howl at the big silver moon.

By Lily  

The Moon

The moon  gliding across the sky in her silver vale,

Leaving a silver trail

The moons silver light

Brightening the carpet of the grass like an ocean light

The moon she glides the sky greeting the clouds one by one

As they fly by

The moons vale shine

Over the water

Lighting it up like a star on earth

Soon the night will give birth to the sun and the day will come.

By Ben

Night

The moon sends her beams

 To the ripped lake

Like the silver frosting

On a moonlit cake

She stirs them up

In the heavens above

And sends them down

With a silver dove

The silvery ripples

 On a moonlit stream

Fill those fish’s eyes with a silvery gleam

And the little spider

Spinning her web

Can rest until morning

Once again

By Shane

Cross Country Relay Race September 2015 

Cross Country Relay Race

On the 21^st September 2015, St. Saviour’s N.S. classes from 3^rd to 6^th class were brought to the beautiful Avondale Forest Park to take part in the Cross Country Relay Races. Teams of four (boys and girls in separate races) had to run a very big and wet slippery track. The track was really a field. We left school at around 9:40, but the races didn’t start until 10:30. Some of the other schools there were Ashford N.S, St. Kevin’s Greystones and the Glebe Wicklow. Unfortunately, St. Saviour’s didn’t win any medals even though their teams were superb and the children worked well together, displaying great team spirit. Everyone there could tell they worked hard, as did the other schools.

Everyone headed back to school, at around 12.30, the children and teachers from all schools enjoyed the 2 hour event and went back to school, still chatting about the wonderful day they had had.

By Camille

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Report on Cross Country Race

On Monday 21^st September St. Saviour’s N.S. Rathdrum attended the schools Relay races at Avondale Forest Park. 3^rd to 6^th classes ran in the event. There are four children on a team and they entered seven teams. They left school at 9:45 and travelled by bus to Avondale. 3^rd and 4^th classes ran 250m and 5^th & 6^th class ran 500m each. Parents came to support along with the kids who didn’t race.

The races began at 10:30 with the first race 3^rd class girls followed by 3^rd class boys all the way up to 6^th class girls and boys. For the older classes it involves a lot of hanging around as they wait for their race to start but they all had a great time cheering on the other teams. Some of the schools that were running also were the Glebe N.S , St. Kevin’s, Ashford N.S And lots more.

Unfortunately St. Saviour’s didn’t win any medals as the standard is very high, but all the children who ran should be very proud of themselves as the race was quite tough and they ran really well and besides there is always next year.

By Rhiannon

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Young Scientist's Exhibition 2016

On Friday 8th January, the 3rd-6th classes were delighted to travel to the Young Scientist's Exhibition in the RDS in Dublin. It was an amazing day where the children were awed with presentations and demonstrations. We had an action packed day with a presentation about aeronautical space, a visit with Titan the Robot, a 3D celestial voyage, the world of robots, an insight into the life of a mentalist with David Meade and visiting the wonderful exhibitions from the primary and secondary schools. It was an amazing inspiring day and hopefully we will be back next year exhibiting!

Science Week 2015

Julia Marzoni and Pat Lacey From Merck came in to speak with us. 

Today we were fortunate enough to have a presentation by Pat and Julia from MSD as part of our Science Week.

Julia spoke to us about the history of medicines, from natural remedies such as tree barks used in ancient times to modern pharmaceutical. She spoke about John Snow’s identification of cholera, of Louis Pasteur’s research in microbiology, and his chance discoveries of penicillin.

Pat discussed the operations of a modern pharmaceutical facility, like the M.S.D factory at Rathdrum. He compared the operation of the factory to bread making. I found this a great description very useful in helping me to understand exactly how the batches of tablets and medicines are made.

We were very fortunate to get to talk to Julia and Pat about the interesting jobs in science.

By Adam

Science Week

On Monday 9^th of November 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th & 6^th had a speaker come in and talk to them about engineering. The lady’s name was Karen and she talked to us about engineering. Karen showed us videos about engineering, the video was about when you wake up to an alarm. Engineers have made and invented that you have toast for breakfast. Engineers have made the toaster eg Karen showed us pictures of when she worked in Jaguers Land Rover in England.

She showed us all the tests she did on the cars like the water test when she drove really fast in a car around a wet motorway and tested which tyres were best for that test. She did a really good job and I learned loads!

Ø  Being a Mechanical engineer means they work with cars and engines and robots or factory machines.

Ø  Engineers think a different way to normal people do.

Ø  Engineers are always thinking what they can do to make the world better.

Ø  You would have to be good at maths to be a engineer.

Ø  Some engineers work on making bridges and structural engineers.

Ø  It takes four years of study at college to be a mechanical engineer.

By Zoe

Engineers

On Wednesday Catríona came in to talk to us about engineers and what engineering is all about.

Basically what engineering is, is fixing problems in our homes or making things possible so hopefully in the future we could have hoverboards etc

Catríona is a software engineer so she works with computers. She does alot of coding with her work. Coding is basically telling the computer what to do and how to react in different situations.

*        Maths is an important subject if you won’t to be an engineer

*        Coding is telling a computer what to do

*        Engineers fix problems, they ask the questions.

*        Software engineers do lots of coding.

*        To be an engineer you have often to travel alot to work with different people

*        There are lots of types of engineers like civil engineers who design roads and bridges, mechanical engineer who make and design cars and robots, software engineers who programme computers and chemical engineers who work with materials.

By Laoise

What a Troubled World

Look at it this way the world may be ok at the moment but in 10, 20,  50 years what is it going to be like? Why don’t we look up from our everyday lives and actually see what we are doing to our lovely planet.

Just think about if a few million on earth put a real effort into this because not one person can do it alone, but as a united nation it is more than possible.

Just think if we stopped driving our cares and polluting the planet we could change the world into a better place.

Imagine a world with no starving people and polluted lakes and rivers with no big polluting chemicals. I know the world will never be a perfect place where the new born human baby will play with the adult lion but why not make it the best we can because a lot of people are happy at the moment.

Just think how much of a better place we could make it because a lot of people think going out an extra few miles in your car won’t hurt, but it will.

If we continue the way we’re going, we’re going to be over populated, rundown world with half of it impossible to live in due to global warming. The British and the Americans fought Germany for their future and ours. Now we need to fight for our future and our descendants future. We want to live a full life so make it happen, now.

By Ben 

Science Week 2015

St. Saviour’s National School, Rathdrum celebrated the 20^th anniversary of Science Week with a variety of events and activities. The week’s events included informative presentations from Karen Fitzgerald who is studying a PHD in hip replacement technology, Catriona Shannon a senior computer software engineer in IBM and Pat Lacey/Julia Mizoni from Merck Pharmaceuticals. All of the presentations gave the children an insight into how important science is in our everyday lives. On Tuesday, it was the children’s opportunity to be scientists when the children hosted their own science exhibition. The children from 3^rd-6^th classes conducted and presented experiments for the rest of the school. The experiments were across a variety of topics including designing a lava lamp, robots, creating fire extinguishers, investigating how strong eggshells are, designing a paddle boat and lots more. The week also included science logo and poetry competitions, science raps and whole school assemblies on famous scientists such as George Boole, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. The event concluded with awarding certificates of participation in the Science Exhibition. Everyone agreed it was a great event and we look forward to our participation next year. The school’s activities during Science and Maths week (October) will count towards applying for an excellence award in Primary Science and Maths which will be awarded in 2016.

Yeats Poetry 

4th , 5th & 6th class studied the poetry of W. B. Yeats and inspired by this they wrote wonderful poems, and some have been chosen to be entered into The Blackrock Education Centre,Yeats Poetry Competition. 

See some of their poems below: 

The Enchanted Forest of Oak

The first light of a new day unfolds

The sun blankets the ocean,

Rays of sunlight break through

the enchanted forest.

For the spirits have finished

their party.

Flowers are being showered

by fiery sunlight,

I see a girl on a white horse,

She whispers in my ear,

                     Come away! Come away!

                          Come away!

By Adam 5th class 

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Epiphany

Walking down the beach with the orange sun setting,

I think to myself many depressing dark thoughts.

As I reach the forest my anger brews,

The sun soon sets leaving me in pitch black.

As the small thin layer of hard, dead leaves

Starts to thin, I realize I am not where I thought.

My ever ageing lamp soon starts to dim,

The orientation of the land is changing.

Suddenly there are no trees around me,

I am lost, the only indication of land

Is the small pitter-patter of a nearby stream.

My anger changes to sadness and fear.

With this sudden change of heart,

The dark is extinguished like a blazing flame deprived of air.

The presence of death is removed from the land,

To be replaced by a blinding light.

I tried to turn back but I could not

I took a step forward and I was on the beach,

Just as I had been only moments ago.

By Harry 6th class 

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Dancing with Nature

I was walking slowly through the trees,

With the awakening winds,

Flowing through my unbound hair.

The carpet of leaves and moss,

Soft on my bare feet,

As I made my way swiftly by  the trees.

The light spilled from the gaps

Between the branches,

And the sound of the running water,

Flooded to my ears.

I followed it,

To find a beautiful ancient oak tree,

With a stream and waterfall at its side,

The sunrays dancing,

On the silver water.

I tried to get rid of my mortal dreams,

To live this moment for as long as I could,

Until the sun disappeared,

 Until the stains of light fade away…

By Nele 6th Class 

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Lovely Sligo

we are young,

we are in love,

and we are wandering Sligo together,

we sit up above the water,

and I persuade him to jump in.

we love all sligo’s beautiful features,

the carpets of leaves in the hazel wood,

where we walk in bare feet,

where he hauls himself onto the tree,

and he pulls me up after him,

we sit up there for hours,

admiring the beautiful views.

 By Jazmine 5th Class 

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The Fairy

The fire flaming in early dawn

In a mystical forest,

In lands far away

The fire fairy is  dancing in the flames,

Her fiery hair blowing in the wind

Her flaming dress flowing in the breeze

Running out of the fire

As I see her fading away into the dark forest.

I follow her to the waterfall

Which trickles  into the silver pools

In mystical lands afar,

She skates on silver lily pads

Jumping from boulder

 To boulder covered in a blanket of moss.

The little  fairy is dancing

Hiding shyly in the waterfall

From the sight of  me.

By Isabelle 4th class 

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SHADOW!!!!!!!

Sunbeam, Emerald and all I can see,

I spot a cairn ,no lock no key,

The stony mountain overlooking a gleaming fountain,

The crystal water,

Reflecting the fairies flutter,

The winds cry,

Making the lake sigh,

Sunbeams of emerald,

Are all I can see ,

I spot a cairn, no lock no key.

By Nadia 4th class 

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The Mists of Sligo

The Mist of Sligo,

Invading the tops of the mountain

As the wind flies around,

Silver mist trickling

As the magical fairies

Were blowing tiny bubbles

Into the hurricane of grass and leaves

The salty sea is spraying the shore

The waves crashing against the rushy bay

The sun’s reflection sparkling

Against the crystal  ripples.

Of the shiny rock pools.

By Robert 4th class 

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Grainne’s Dance

Grainne is wondering the magical

Country-side of Ireland,

Spreading beauty everywhere,

Her golden hair wild,

As she jumps the crystal waters,

Runs over dew tipped grass,

And climbs the highest mountains,

No one sees her,

But she’s there,

Wandering the bright country-side,

Unknown to the mortal world. 

By Lauren 5th class