Mr. Foley's 4th - St Patricks BNS

Collins Barracks Open Day

On Wednesday the 20th of May, Mr. Foley’s class went to the Collins Barracks Open Day. We went there because Michael Doyle’s dad gave us a free pass to look around. Half an hour before we went, it started pouring rain. We were all very disappointed because we had to go up there while we were getting soaked. Luckily, the scorching sun dried it up in ten minutes flat. We walked around. We got split into two groups and some of us even got our faces painted. We got to see and try out sniper guns, rpgs, cannons and camouflage suits. There were gas masks and a chemical truck. I was listening really hard so I got a gold badge. We looked around some more, and then we gathered around the display square. Mr. Foley brought us to the display square and we saw soldiers launching a pretend rocket. We headed over to the military museum and into the badges room. Overall, it was a lovely experience holding guns and getting into tanks and I hope we can come again next year.

By Iftikhaar Rizwan

A Visit to the Amazing Glen Park

On Thursday the 16th of April, Mr Foley brought us to the Glen Park. We went there to explore our local park.
The sun was splitting the stones  and the lush green grass glistened around us.
We went up to the Glen Park after big lunch and sadly everybody didn’t go there because a few boys had to hurling training. As we were walking through Dillon’s Cross, Mr. Foley stopped us.
He told us to look up, and we did. We saw a silver plaque that said Brian Dillon and Mr Foley gave us a brief history lesson on The Burning of Cork and the death of Brian Dillon. When we arrived at the Glen Park we got split up into three groups: Crossbar Challenge with Mr. Lettis, Tip the Can with Mr. Foley and finally a walk around the whole park with Martha.
My favourite part was when I hit the crossbar and also when John made a bet with Mr. Foley. I think it was really fun and I hope we go there again soon!

By Iftikhaar Rizwan

Winter Wonderland

On Wednesday, the 14th of January, it was basically the first time in forever that it snowed. The last time it properly snowed was in 2012. I, and many other boys got up to a surprise when we saw the snow tipped windows and pulled the curtains to see the roads as white as a paper sheet. Many boys found walking down hills as hard as descending Everest. Half of the boys in our class were not present that day. At half past ten, we headed to the bottom yard which was covered in a sheet of snow. We went over to the astro turf area and began to build two snowmen and a snow-dog. After that we went to the upper yard to take a class photo. Mr. Foley, us and part of 6th class watched RTÉ for a while. RTÉ were stating five orange nation-wide warnings for ice and wind. Near the end of the day, we started playing hockey in the sports hall. We started taking free pucks on Mr. Foley. Three boys scored and all our class got homework off. And that my friends, is that!

By Iftikhar Rizwan and Ben Heffernan.

Snow hero
It was 20/11/2014.  We were at the Glen Resource Centre. The day was Thursday and we got there at 1 o’ clock.  The girl named Evelyn and the boy named Oliver and another girl named Laura told us the rules of Snowtubing. It took 2 minutes to tell. After that some of them got to go first. I and some others went next we were going up the hill. On the hill we had to wait. It took one minute. We all had 5 shots on the 1 man and 2 man tubes. It was really fun. The tubes were hard and we had to hang our legs over the sides. We had lots of fun. We got back into our line and went back to school. On the way, some people were commenting about the Snowtubing. ''It was 10 out of 10'' said Frank. ''I loved it,'' said Michael. ''I want to do that again,'' said Ben.
Thank you to the Glen resource Centre for giving us such a fun day out.


BY ALEX MC CARTHY              

NOVEMBER:  Bowling

We were heading up to LeisurePlex in very bad weather on Thursday the 06/11/14.Mr Foley’s class went there because it was National Bowling Week. National Bowling Week is a very special week to celebrate the very entertaining sport called Bowling. Our class was very lucky as we were only one of two classes that actually got to go. After we got inside the Leisureplex it started getting torrential outside. It was getting vey stuffy inside the huge building. I was in lane 1 with 4 other boys including, Frank, Jake, Eoghan, Me and Jerick. We were there for about an hour. I got a total score of 96. Stephan was the overall winner out of the boys with a very high score of 109. Mr Lettis got the highest score on that day with a superb high score of 125. We left the staff members of Leisureplex with a goodbye and a thank you. We walked quickly back to school at approximately quarter to 3 and we were all exhausted after lifting the heavyweight bowling balls. My favourite part was when I got a strike. A strike is basically when you knock down all of the pins in your first shot. Overall I thought that was a very good day.

By Iftikhaar Rizwan (Mr Foleys 4th class).