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What a great year we had in Mother of Divine Grace!

Wishing our 6th Class a happy graduation and all the best for secondary school.

Wishing all our pupils, parents and staff a happy and safe summer holiday.

School closes Friday 29th June.

Our class made a tourist town.  It took a month to make it.  We started in May and finished on the 7^th of June.  It was made mostly out of recycled cardboard.  Firstly we all had to bring in used cereal boxes.  Next we covered them with paper maché. That took us two days.  After that we applied several layers of white paint.  The next day we had to stuff them to make them stand up because most of them kept on falling down.  We sealed the tops of them with newspaper.  Then we had to paint them.  We put roofs on them using black and brown paper.  Some people put chimneys on their buildings. 

Then we painted them. Some people had to repaint them. The next day teacher gave us plastic stars to stick onto our buildings if we wanted to for like if we wanted to have a five star restaurant or hotel.

We ripped open some large cardboard boxes and made the base for our tourist town. We had to put all of our buildings on the base and our teacher traced around them. We painted in things like car parks and round-a-bouts and made things like stop signs and trees.

Two girls in our class made a swimming pool with paper, and made toys to go in it.

Three boys in our class made a church.   As you can see the church is in the shape of cruciform.  A lot of churches inIrelandare in the shape of a cruciform.  You don’t really notice the shape unless you see it from above.  

We videoed ourselves placing our buildings on the base and we took photos.

The Tourist town is an example of how a town can cater for tourists visiting it.

 We hope you enjoyed our project.

4^th Class MDG Ballygall

                      Back Together again

‘Together again, together again, we’re back together again’

We are all back in school together again. We are in a new classroom. We have a new teacher. We have two new girls.

We painted a frieze that goes all along the wall. It has all the children holding hands together.

We are happy together in 1^st class.

                       Our Summer Holidays.

When we came into our new class we did ‘Circle Time’.

We talked about our Summer Holidays.

We all had great adventures. We painted pictures of our Summer holidays using Summer colours.

The long Summer holidays have come to an end and we are ‘Back Together’ again !

Here is just a snippet of the Art work from 2nd,3rd&4th classes.Ms Cookes class made some cool whacky mini beasts from paper mache,Mr Drew’s class have been creative with clay,Mr Kearney’s class used paint to express the emotions of calm, rage and excitment.Ms Predergast’s class have been drawing portraits of each other,Ms. Fanning’s class did creative writing and Ms Mangan’s class made beautiful dream catchers.The corridor looks great!

Check out this lovely art work from the senior corridor…

We had loads of fun creating underwater scenes using old shoeboxes. Our pictures are wax resitant paintings using crayons and paint.

We made this art using paint but we didn’t use paint brushes! We made the pictures using points/dots by using the ends of a pencil. This type of art is called pointallism because everything is made up of points or dots.

3rd class wrote poems,made art and did research about trees.