Here’s How to Take Part in “Talbot’s Got Writers!”

 

SHORT VERSION!… 

Steps To Enter:
1. Read a great book
2. Retell it in just a few lines
3. Change the story and write it your own way—make it different, make it one that others will really like to read
4. Email it to Mr Stuart (or just bring it in on Thursday, 30th August)
5. You can enter as many times as you want!
6. Win a prize! 🙂 Maybe win extra prizes! 🙂

LONG VERSION!:

This summer, for the first time ever, we are going to give you a chance to write a fun story and have a chance to win many prizes.

It’s easy. All you do is read a book you like, re-tell its story in just a few lines, and then re-write the story—your way! This means you can change the story any way you want. Change any part of the story—maybe put in new characters (good ones, evil ones,…), new events (new things that happen in the story), new locations (Dublin, Africa, Poland, America,…), and maybe take out some characters, events, locations… You are free to write the story YOUR way.

When you are done, you can email the story to Mr Stuart at talbotmrstuart@gmail.com or, if you don’t have a computer, just give it to Mr Stuart when you return on Thursday, 30th August. Mr Stuart will put up many of the stories on the school website during the summer. (If you are emailing it, make sure you write your name and what class you are going into.)
Everyone who enters will get a prize. AND the people whose stories are voted the best by other children and by other teachers will get extra prizes–the more children who enter, the bigger the prizes.

 

Talbot’s Got (Ten-Finger) Typists!

 

picture of a child typing
a child typing


Wow! New School Record! Congratulations to all the top typists from each class who fought for the title of Top Typist in the computer room today.

The winner had an amazing net speed of 36 words-per-minute!! A new school record! Beating last year’s record of 31wpm (Kayleigh Perkins).

Who was it? Teigan Walsh in 6th class. Second place went to Joe Okewumi (6th class) with 28wpm, 3rd place to Kyle Shorten (3rd class!) with 22wpm.

Who will win next year? It could be you. Especially if you spend a little time each day practising on www.typingweb.com But you will have to beat Megan McGrath in 5th class (28wpm) and Leah Sanusi in 4th class (17wpm).

Here’s how… just place your left-hand fingers on the letters asdf and your right-hand fingers on the letters jkl; and off you go. Use typingweb.com to help you. It’s amazing.

Good luck! And major congratulations to Teigan and her whole class.

Smoothies!

Mr. Gilmartin’s class were very busy this afternoon making smoothies. 


Green Team and Student Council Trip


On Wednesday the Green Team and the Student Council went on a trip into town. We left the school at 11.15 and went to the Natural History Museum first. It was amazing – Anna liked the butterflies best and Reece was very interested in a monkey from Peru as they’re studying Peru in his class.
When we finished there Ms Walsh got a guard to stop the traffic! and we went across the road to Merrion Square Park where we had a picnic and played in the playground. We were very lucky that it stayed dry.
After that we walked to Leinster House where we met with our local TD Derek Keating and got a tour of the Dail. It was very interesting and we saw lots of famous people.

Thanks to the Student Council and the Green Team who worked very hard all year and a special thanks to Josie who came with us to help on the day.

 

One Book Competition

The reading of our two chosen books has been well under way since Monday! 5th and 6th classes are reading “Arthur Quinn and the World Seprent” by Alan Early. 3rd and 4th classes are reading “Billy The Kid” by Michael Morpurgo.

For our first competition, I want to hear your thoughts on the books so far!  Can you make a prediction or a connection? What great images has the book created in your head?

Good Luck!