Ms Lane's Home Page

Welcome to Ms Lane's Class Web Pages. There are 28 boys in our class. This year we have a lovely new classroom in the school's new building. We have done lots of fun things this year. Click on the links at the side to learn more about our class.

Chess
Our School Tour to Galway
Special Olympics Art Competition Winners
Our trip to Lough Lannagh
Our Cooking Adventure

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	Chess We learned how to play chess this year, thanks to Mr. McHugh & the lads in 6th Class. Click here to see some photos of us playing Chess. Top
	Special Olympics Art Competition Congratulations to Mark & John who won prizes in the Special Olympics Art Competition. Their prizes included these lovely certificates, trophies and a day at the bowling alley with all of the other winners. Well done boys!! Top
	A Trip to Lough Lannagh We took advantage of the fine weather in June & we took a trip to Lough Lannagh where we had a picnic, played football, explored the lake's environment & got plenty of practice skimming stones. Click here for more photos. Top
	School Tour to Galway On Thursday 31st May we went to Galway on our School Tour. We had a great day. We went bowling, we visited the aquarium & we had a cruise on the Corrib. Click here for more photos. Top
	Ready Steady Cook!!! On Friday 12th January we had some fun cooking in class. We prepared some strawberry & banana milkshakes & some tasty pizzas. Click here to see more pictures. Top
	Green Schools Flag Renewal On Monday 11th of December we had a Green School's Inspection. The inspection was successful & we got to renew our Green Flag.
	Shoe Box Appeal This year our school will be sending 240 shoeboxes to Armenia. Our class brought in lots of shoeboxes. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed. We got a night off homework for all our efforts. To see more pictures of the Shoe Box Appeal Click Here. Top
	Hallowe'en Party On Friday 27th October we brought our Hallowe'en costumes into school & we had a fancy dress party. Our Teacher had a raffle for some Hallowe'en goodies & we had good fun. Click here for more pictures. Top
	MS Readathon We are currently reading lots of books for the MS Readathon. To learn more about the MS Readathon, Click here.
	Mayo Day 2006 On Friday 15th September, we had a Mayo Day in School, in preparation for the 2006 All Ireland Final against Kerry. We all dressed in the mayo colours & the whole school paraded through the town chanting Mayo songs. The TV3 film crew came to our school in the afternoon & they came into our classroom to interview us about the match. We sang the Sam McGuire Song and we were on the news that night. Click here for more pictures. Top
	Ryder Cup Steven's Dad was a marshal at the Ryder Cup recently & Steven brought in some memorabelia to show the class. Click here for more pictures. Top
	Swimming We have just completed a six week swimming course (Oct 06) at the Castlebar Swimming Pool. We really enjoyed learning how to swim. Our two instructors, Denise & Orla were great. We were in two groups - beginners & advanced. On our last day the two groups got together and we played soccer. It was class!!! Click here for more pictures. Top
	Lough Lannagh Lanterns On Friday 13th October we went to the Linnenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar to make some lanterns for Lough Lannagh Lake on Hallowe'en Night. We worked in pairs. It was hard work but we enjoyed it. Click here for more pictures.
	Cross Country In September, we went to Davitt College to participate in the School's Cross Country event. Congratulations to Kenneth, James & John who qualified for the County Event which was held in Westport. Click here for more pictures. Top
	Class Museum We have recently set up a class museum. It contains things people had long ago. We have some old money, an old camera, some old records, old books (including a Gaelic Games annual from 1964), an Eagles concert ticket from the 80's and two very rusty old horseshoes. Click here to see the bigger picture. Top

We love doing Art in our Class. So far we have done lots of nice things. See the pictures below.

	These flower collages were the first things we created in Art Class. They look really nice when they are finished.
	Is maith linn bheith ag tarraingt. Tharraingeamar ár seomra ranga nua.
	For Hallowe'en we created some paper mache pumpkins. Firstly we had to blow up balloons & then we covered them with layers and layers of newspaper using wallpaper paste to stick them. We then had to wait about four days for them to dry before we painted them orange with a green stem on top. Finally we covered them with a mixture of PVA glue & water to put a shine on them. Olga then cut the top off them & as a surprise on the day of the holidays out teacher put some lollipops & sweets in them before we went home.
	We learned all about the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh & we created our impressions of one of his most famous paintings 'Starry night's'. We drew them first. Then coloured them in crayon. Finally we painted the pachgroung using a watered down blue paint.


Images of our Class	Swimming Sept/Oct 06	Mayo Day Sept 06	Hallowe'en Oct 06

Cross Country Sept 06	Linnenhall Oct 06	Playground Sept/Oct 06	Cooking - Pizzas & Milkshakes .

We love to write stories in class & our teacher has great fun reading them. We hope you enjoy them too.

HORRORWEEN!!!!!!!!

You won't believe this story but it IS true. It all began when my friends and I were trick-or-treating. My friends' names were Kenneth, Sam and Cormac. We knocked on the door of an old house. The door creaked open. We went inside. Hello shouted Cormac. We walked further in. Suddenly Kenneth stopped. Did you hear that? He asked. No. What was it? I answered. I don't know he said. About 5 minutes later he stopped again. I'm sure I heard something this time he said. Unfortunately he was right. We all heard this time. It was very soft but able to be heard. We all turned and ran for the door. We ran true the door but we didn't hear the loud, happy noise we wanted to hear we only heard nothing. Then I heard Sam scream. I turned to see what was wrong and I saw a Ghost with 3 skeletons behind him. The ghost chased me and the skeletons chased the 3 others. He chased me all over town. I hid behind a house and then I saw Kenneth, Sam and Cormac all shouting and laughing like they never even saw that Haunted house. Why are ye all so happy? I asked, and where are the skeletons? Well the one that chased me ran into a rock and I threw his bones all over town" said Kenneth. Mine tripped over a rock and I built him up the wrong way" said Sam. What……. The words never got out. We had all heard a big bang. We ran around the front of the house and we saw the haunted house crash to the ground. Everything came back to normal and we never spoke about it ever again.
THE END.
By Finnian

THE GHOST OF GEORGE SHAKESPEAR.

One day on the last rugby game of the season.
It was the last minute of the game.
One of my teammates scored a goal and we won the game.
After the game I got on the bus.
Soon we came to a forest and the bus broke down.
I got of the bus and went into the woods.
I soon came to an abandoned campsite.
My friend followed me into the woods.
We went into the mane tent.
We saw a chessboard.
With ships and army tanks.
Then a cold shiver ran up my spine.
Then a cold hand touched the back of my neck.
I turned round and there floating right in front of me was the ghost of George Shakespeare!!!
My friend heard me yell and turned round as well and we both legged it back to the bus
THE END

By Sam B.B.

Trick or Treat

One night my friend and me were walking down the street. We knocked on the door of a house.
We went inside and we went up stairs and we saw a golden ghost. We saw a horse running and it knocked us down the stairs. We went up the stairs and we thought the wall was invisible and we walked in to it. Conor G's friend got injured. We went in to a room full of blood.
Conor went in and nothing happened and after a minute Conor saw a ghost.
He got scared. Our friend got killed and we ran into a room.
We went into the press and the headless horse looked for us. He never found us.
THE END

Hallowe'en Town

You wont believe this story but it's true…………
It was a dark and stormy night when I went out and I fell into a black hole.
Then I was in a place called Halloween Town.
The witches were real and the skeletons were real. Everything was real.
I tried to get into a nice house but they ran after me. I went in to a bedroom they burned it down.
I finally found my way home.
The end
By Ryan D.

Spooky Story

It was a very spooky night. I was nine years old when it happened knocked on the door and then all of a sudden I got sucked into the house. It was pitch dark for a second then a candle lit up and a ghost said my name. He had an axe in his hand. I ran as fast as I could ran through every in the house until I found a door that let me out. It was guarded by the ghost threw a sweet down the hallway and the ghost went down to check what it was. I ran as fast as I could. The ghost was coming behind me but I just got out in time.

The End

By James M.

Watch this space. We have lots more stories to come.

Some of the boys in our class have been busy concocting some spooky web sites in the Thursday Computer Club. Check them out by clicking on the links below. Well done boys they're really cool!

Enter at your own risk!!!!