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PREP SCHOOL MISCELLANY
MOMENTS TO REMEMBER
Between September gatherings around the 'Marble Tree' and the
Prizegiving on the chapel steps in June, many different learning
experiences occur, the following being but some.
Autumn soccer leagues fill the lunch breaks, rugby togs retrieved from
under stairs, gruesome Hallowe'en pumpkins prepared in Art class;
burning eyes in a feast of reading for Cerebral Palsy; burning candles
on the Advent wreath. Days of atonement for parent-teacher meetings,
promises to improve in subsequent parent-pupil meetings! Holidays follow
Prep. 2 Christmas play.
New Year tours are all the rage - Old Dublin, Bull Island and the
National Museum Treasury, seen, commented on and explored in writing.
Save the Zoo, the campaign launched by boys in fellow feeling. The
Passion presented by Prep. 3 in dramatic form; resurrection joy assi sted
by the Easter holidays.
Marching with Mrs Crosbie in tercentennial remembrance of William
and James at the Boyne. Prep. 1 to the Concert Hall and meeting Madame
Butterfly. Visits to Buck Mulligan followed by St Kevin. Scouting in
Avondale Nature Trail and recollecting the sad life of Parnell. Wide-eyed
prospective students greeted with benevolent disdain by existing urchins.
Teachers become pawns as maestros parade their mental dexterity and
chess prowess. No bookings or bad temper as Prep. 4 are outgunned by
Meath Junior Football champions, Kilcloon. Religion substituted for
Oriental Studies and Japanese written homework in Prep. 3.
American tennis is the signature to the year played like so much else
with sportsmanship not gamesmanship, delightful to see, a fitting end to
a fun-filled and fulfilling year with teachers as much as pupils welcoming
summer.
THE BUTTERFLY tropical butterflies. The Guide said that
FARM in the Hot-house the temperature was 98
degrees. When we came out we were
We went on our school tour on 21 May. sweating.
First we went to the Concert Hall. My Did you know that a butterfly onl y
favourite tune was the 'Thunder and lives for up to 6 days? Some of my
Lightning Polka'. After that we went to classmates saw nine butterflies hatching
the Butterfly Farm. When we got there from a cocoon. A butterfly eats honey ,
we ate lunch in a field. Then we went into kiwi, orange, and bananas. There are
the house and looked at all the dead thirty-five different species in Ireland .
butterflies. We also saw a treefrog, We also saw four species of tarantulas.
scorpions and a lizard. Then we went into The pink-toed tarantula can jump six feet
the Hot-house where there were lots of in the air if it hears noise. I bought a
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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER
Between September gatherings around the 'Marble Tree' and the
Prizegiving on the chapel steps in June, many different learning
experiences occur, the following being but some.
Autumn soccer leagues fill the lunch breaks, rugby togs retrieved from
under stairs, gruesome Hallowe'en pumpkins prepared in Art class;
burning eyes in a feast of reading for Cerebral Palsy; burning candles
on the Advent wreath. Days of atonement for parent-teacher meetings,
promises to improve in subsequent parent-pupil meetings! Holidays follow
Prep. 2 Christmas play.
New Year tours are all the rage - Old Dublin, Bull Island and the
National Museum Treasury, seen, commented on and explored in writing.
Save the Zoo, the campaign launched by boys in fellow feeling. The
Passion presented by Prep. 3 in dramatic form; resurrection joy assi sted
by the Easter holidays.
Marching with Mrs Crosbie in tercentennial remembrance of William
and James at the Boyne. Prep. 1 to the Concert Hall and meeting Madame
Butterfly. Visits to Buck Mulligan followed by St Kevin. Scouting in
Avondale Nature Trail and recollecting the sad life of Parnell. Wide-eyed
prospective students greeted with benevolent disdain by existing urchins.
Teachers become pawns as maestros parade their mental dexterity and
chess prowess. No bookings or bad temper as Prep. 4 are outgunned by
Meath Junior Football champions, Kilcloon. Religion substituted for
Oriental Studies and Japanese written homework in Prep. 3.
American tennis is the signature to the year played like so much else
with sportsmanship not gamesmanship, delightful to see, a fitting end to
a fun-filled and fulfilling year with teachers as much as pupils welcoming
summer.
THE BUTTERFLY tropical butterflies. The Guide said that
FARM in the Hot-house the temperature was 98
degrees. When we came out we were
We went on our school tour on 21 May. sweating.
First we went to the Concert Hall. My Did you know that a butterfly onl y
favourite tune was the 'Thunder and lives for up to 6 days? Some of my
Lightning Polka'. After that we went to classmates saw nine butterflies hatching
the Butterfly Farm. When we got there from a cocoon. A butterfly eats honey ,
we ate lunch in a field. Then we went into kiwi, orange, and bananas. There are
the house and looked at all the dead thirty-five different species in Ireland .
butterflies. We also saw a treefrog, We also saw four species of tarantulas.
scorpions and a lizard. Then we went into The pink-toed tarantula can jump six feet
the Hot-house where there were lots of in the air if it hears noise. I bought a
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