My National School Memories.

Junior Infants-In junior infants Mrs Lyons was my

teacher. She used to read the books Winny The
Witch and it was really funny. For our school tour
we went to Go Bananas and we also went to the
Library in Tuam. When it used to be raining and
we couldn’t go outside we would have our lunch
and watch peep until Mrs Lyons came back.

Senior Infants-In senior infants we were split up

where half was in Mrs Lyons and the rest
were in Ms Byrnes. So in the morning we
would go to Mrs Saverys all of us would go to
her for maths and English until small break
and then we would go back to our own
classrooms. For our school tour we we went
to Rendeer pet farm. A girl called Sona joined
our school and was in same class as us.
First Class-I was in MS Byrnes classroom. On a
Thursday we got to go to music like the rest of
the school and we learned how to play the tin
whistle. We also started getting small spelling
test with English and irish spellings and we
had a work it out test.For our school tour we
went to Athenry Castle.

Second Class-This year I changed classrooms and

we had a new teacher Mr. Tevenan. After
break if we were good he always read us
Roald Dahls books and for every different
character he would but an accent on to make
it more interesting for us. Mr. tevenan also
used to do a lot of drama with us and he did a
play with us called Snow White And The Seven
Dwarfs. We did a lot of practising for us and
when we had it perfect all the school came
down to watch it and everyone loved it. That
year we also had our first Holy Communion.
My job was to sing and there was four of us.
There was Aoibhinn ,Tracey,Roisin and me.
We sang like a sunflower. The day of our
 Communion when it was finished we went
back to the community center to get sweets
and pictures taken. For our school tour we
went to NUIG in Galway.

Third Class-This year I was in the same classroom

with Mr Tevenan again. We also got to start
choir and that was really fun. Mr Ronayne did
training teaching with us and he read to us
aswell and did a lot of games and pe with us.
Mr tevenan also did reading with us as well.

Fourth class-This year I was in Mrs Lyons room

.We had 2 people doing training teaching Ms
Dunne and Ms Summers. The girls and me we
started to collect cups and do jobs. For our
school tour we went to Galway museum,Pure
skills and we climbed Castlehacket.

Fifth class-In fifth class we were split up where

half was in Mrs Lyons and the other half was
 in Ms Finnegans. I was in Ms Finnegans. We
learned a new instrument it was the
flute.Normally the sixth class would go to the
nursing home so because we were in the
same classroom with the sixth class so we got
to go with them .It was really fun. That year
Mrs Lyons and Mrs Mahoney retired so for
the last day of school we got ice-creams were
a ice-cream van came to us and we got cones.
There is two trees planted in front of the
school so when we come in it reminds us of
when they were in the school.

Sixth class-This year I am in Ms Finnegans

classroom again. I have a lot of good
memories were Aoibhinn was dancing with
the skeleton in Ms Saverys classroom so when
we were going to the bathroom Aoibhinn
didn’t realise Ms Saverys was there .The girls
and I used to always play the next step when
it used to be raining out and we would play
tag under the tables and play the X-Factor
which was really fun. I really enjoyed doing
this stuff with the girls.For a change we
decided that we were going to learn a new
instrument which was ths ukulele and we
learnt songs and all of thatwas really fun to
learn a new instrument.We also got to go to
the nursing home aswell for special occasions
like Christmas and we would get sweets after.
When corona-virus came when it got bad we
didn’t realise that when we got school off it
would mean that we couldn’t see our friends
and we would have to homework at home.
We thought it would be fun .It’s really sad
that we can’t finish sixth class like we would
have liked to like doing tie dye t-shirts and we
don’t get to graduate like we would have
normally.I do have a lot of good and bad
memories of national school and I do really
miss it and miss all my friends.But the eight
years of it was really fun.