Scoil Naomh Aingeal, Caisleán a'Bharraigh, Co. Mhaigheo

The following poem was included in a published collection of poems selected for the Mayo Intercultural Poetry Competition 2008. The aim of the competition this year was to encourage pupils to write a poem with an intercultural/anti-racism theme entitled 'All different all the Same. Well done Clodagh Mae!



All Different All The Same

We're all different,
Yet all the same.
Some of us can swim against a current,
Some of us have unusual names.

If you're from Africa,
It doesn't mean you're better
Than someone from America,
Antarctica or Qatar.

If you tease someone
From anywhere in the world,
Just stop and think
And apologise for what you've done.

I think we're all equal,
In every different way,
We are all like shining sequins
Every single day.


Clodagh Mae, 5th Class

They say the world revolves around
Education, that's what you gave to us,
And the ideas you gave
Could last a lifetime
However long into the future
Even a hundred years we'll be
Remembering you like it was yesterday!

The audience is waiting
Everyone is tense
A drop of sweat is running down my face
Contestants smirking at my hesitation
How I wish I could faint, but then
Everyone cheers when I get it right,
Right there next to me it's you helping me along the way!
By: Aishlinn


Lonely black and white
I can see
Going up
High up
To Heaven
Only I can see
Unbreakable standing there
Shining every day and
Every night
By: Magdalena

Lonely and bright
I could look at it all night
Gigantic, some small
Hail them all
Tall and towering over me
Happy and broad over the sea
Over and up higher than trees
Under and down but not as low as me
See the lighthouses, see them clear
Every lasting lighthouse is standing right here

Fifth class were very busy conducting experiments and they even made electricity!

On 17th November 5th class attended the Linenhall Arts Centre to view an exhibition by Dublin-based artist Stephen Rinn. Following a talk the class attended a workshop based on the exhibition.




Review of Stephen Rinn Art Exhibition

I thought the art exhibition at the Linenhall was very interesting. I liked Stephen Rinn's paintings because there were lots of hidden pictures in them. He includes many texture compositions and they are very colourful. After we looked at the paintings a lady came and talked about the artist. She said that Stephen Rinn goes out to the seaside or countryside, explores everything there and then paints using all the colours he sees.

After the talk we went into another room and were given six square pieces of cardboard to create our own personal space. We stuck the pieces together to make a cube and decorated each face. Before leaving we wrote on a blackboard all the things we liked and anything we would have changed about the day. I thought the exhibition was really nice.

By: Nadia








Sample of cubes designed: