Talbot Senior National School

Do they all have new ones?

We—Mr Molloy’s 5^th class—collected data
on the 6^th October 2014 to find out!

This is what we found out…

• The cars were from 2000 to 2014.
• There were 55 staff cars in all (including workers building the new classroom, and including staff of Nano Nagle school right beside us).
• 11 of them (11/55 or 20%) were 5 years old or newer… which means that 80% were over 5 years old! We think this might be because people can’t afford to buy new cars.
• There’s more older than newer cars. In fact there were 18 cars over 10 years old—that’s 18 out of 55, or 18/55, which is 33%–that’s like 1 in 3.
• There were 5 cars from 2005, 5 from 2006, 9 from 2007, 4 from 2008, 6 from 2009, 6 from 2010, 1 from 2011, 1 from 2012, 2 from 2013, and 1 from 2014.
• 2007 was the year with the most cars bought.
• Half the cars were bought in 2007 or before, half in 2007 or after.
• Only 1 car was bought this year (so far).
• We expected to see more than one jeep in the carpark but there was only one.

Have a look at the photo to see the detail.

Next year we think it would be good to collect just the data for Scoil Talbot’s staff. We’ll be in 6^th class so we might do it—we’d like to. #Excited!

Written by Daniel Olokun, Daragh Fleming, Samantha O’Donnell, and Grace Adenola

Three years ago, another class did the same thing. Click HERE to see what they found out. What was similar (like) and what was different? 

Today, Wednesday, Class Munster (Mr Stuart’s 3^rd Class) investigated just how old are most teachers’ cars. Are they all new? All old? How old? Before you find out, what do you think?

Well, first the class went into the teachers’ car park (not just teachers—also SNAs, visitors, and Nano Nagle staff) and looked at the registration plates. They tallied how many cars were bought in each year (90s, 00, 01, 02, … 10, 11). Then they checked their data before making a bar chart. What did they find out?

1. There were 54 cars in all.
2. 19 cars were 5 years old or newer; 35 were over 5 years old.
3. 12 cars were over 10 years old.
4. Half the cars were bought in 2004 or before, half after 2004.
5. The years that most cars were bought in were 2003 (6) and 2007 (9).
6. Only two cars were bought this year.

Last year in October another 3^rd class did this investigation. There were 57 cars last year. Are more teachers ‘Walking on Wednesdays’ (W.O.W.)?

Here’s a few photos of Mr Stuart’s 3rd class last Friday busy collecting data. They were trying to find out just how old are most teachers cars? In class they then used the data this week to prepare a bar chart. What did they find out? Well, there were 57 cars in all at 9:30am between the two schools (teachers, SNAs, visitors, others) and 16 cars were over 10 years old. Twenty-one other cars were over 5 years old, while 20 cars were under 5 years old. We found only 3 cars bought this or last year.

By Eva

5th and 6th class went to the Deansrath open day on 27 September. We left school at 1.30 and went on the bus. I thought we could have walked. Oh Well!

When we got off the bus we walked over to the school gates and I saw some of my old friends who were past pupils of Talbot SNS. They showed us around and brought us into the English room. It was fun! After that we went to the woodwork room and I saw my brother’s friend, Josh. We were then brought to the metal work room. I saw two boys making fidget spinners which I’m not very fond of but they still looked cool. Everyone knew my brother because he wears flip-flops to school almost every day so everyone knew me as ‘flip-flop’ sister which I didn’t mind at all.

After we had been brought to every room it was time to leave, or so we thought. We were brought back inside and showed the transition year room. I looked at all of the pictures and I saw my brother making a home-made pizza.

It was finally time to leave and we all got a dairy milk bar and capri-sun. I got to sit at the back of the bus which is the hotspot.

When we got back to school it was already home time so we all went home.

By Carlie

All 5^th and 6^th classes went to Deansrath community college on 27 September. It was the open day.

The first thing to happened was that we all got stickers. We then went down to the hall and into the first classroom which was English. The teacher seemed very nice and kind. We left that room and went to the history room where they had a little fairy garden in the class.

After that we went into a class and got to play Kahoot on i-pads. It was enjoyable to play on i-pads. It was like it was my first day leaving Talbot and that I was now a pupil in Deansrath. Following on from that, we went to my favourite class. Art! I loved seeing the numerous other paintings and drawings and the sculptures which had been made. It was amazing.

Next we went through the P.E. hall where they were playing table tennis. We saw people we knew that used to be in our school. Shortly after that we went to religion and we took a moment to pray. I prayed for the sick and people with special needs and the homeless. Finally we headed to the music room and there was a person singing. There was also a choir in the room and I knew some of the people in it.

At the end of the tour we got a dairy milk chocolate bar and capri-sun. If I could skip sixth class I would because I had a great day. I give it 10/10. It was an excellent day.

By Jake

On the 27 September we went to Deansrath community college to the open day. My class and all of the other classes got tour guides.

My group went to the woodwork room and saw all the projects and two of the students that were working on their projects. Then we went to the metal work room and saw loads of fantastic projects. The first year students had made cars and planes. The second and third years made enormous cars while the fifth and sixth years had remote control cars and helicopters.

After that we went into the science lab where they showed us micro scopes and I saw a cat stomach and liver. Next we went to the home economics room where students were making pizza. We heard it only costs €20 for ingredients per year.

Following on from that we went to the English classroom and we saw all of the books they studied like Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. We then saw the Irish/French room and the teacher and some of the art they did in Irish and French. Shortly after we saw the art room and it was really cool. We got a demo of what we were going to do if we came to Deansrath. The final place we gt to visit was the business room where we were shown a slide show about the credit union

I really liked it and I want to go to Deansrath now.

By Anastajza

On Wednesday September 13, my class and I went on a trip Deansrath Community College for the open day.

When we first arrived we got a friendly welcome and the guides gave us stickers. After that we got shown to the first room, meanwhile our teacher got shown to the staffroom. When we got to the second room we played a game of Kahoot and Jake came first and I came second.

Following on from that, we got to see the woodwork room. I loved it because there were lots of structures and I saw a bedside table that a boy made. After that, when we arrived at the art room an art teacher called Mrs. Ryan showed us lots of drawings and I saw a big sculpture that I liked. Mrs. Ryan painted a picture and it was brilliant. We were going to leave but the bus wasn’t there yet so we went back in.

Our group then went to the P.E. hall and I nearly got hit by a ping-pong ball.  Our next stop was in the metalwork room where we saw students making fidget spinners and I saw cars and aeroplanes on the shelves. Finally, we went to the music room and a girl sang to us. The bus was there so we had to go but we got chocolate and capri-sun.

I had the best time and I can’t wait to go back in two years.

On Tuesday 10th of May, students from our Enrichment Club with Sr Catherine, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Stuart went to Google offices on Barrow street in Dublin city centre.

In Google, we were accompanied by Georgina and Andrew who work there. We were first given proper name tags so we wouldn’t get lost! Next, we headed to a conference room where we talked about the history of Google, had a quiz and talked new projects that they are working on, like driver-less cars and wifi balloons!

After that we went on the tour where we got to see really cool places like the play ground, quiet thinking rooms, chill areas, offices, gaming rooms, the hyperlink (which is a bridge which connects three buildings together), mini kitchens, a swimming pool, a gym, a spa area and there’s a doctor too! Google office’s don’t look like a work place – it looked like a play place!

Overall we had lots of fun and learned lots of interesting facts. We learned to work there you have to be able to work in teams, be hard working and smart, and having lots of other non-school interests and pastimes is really important too.

Robert, Britney and Zainab – 6th Class

Here, for you to enjoy at home, is one of the two winning stories (of Talbot’s Got Writers! Christmas 2012). Congratulations, Megan.

Like I said at Assembly, I am still blown away by Megan’s stunning writing style. Read it one time to enjoy it, and another time to learn from her how she creates entertaining stories.

1985

It was December 24^th. The afternoon before Christmas Day. I wanted to go to Horlock Cemetery where my granddad was buried. I like to visit him every Christmas but never as late as I was planning.

It was only me going to the graveyard all alone but I wasn’t afraid.

It was 11pm when I got there. I was planning on coming at 7:30pm but I got delayed because I was feeling happy-upset. I was happy to visit but upset because I missed him so much. He was very close to me. He understood everything. I felt I could tell him anything.

There were rumours about the graveyard being haunted by the ghost of Christmas. But I was not afraid.

I walked through the big black creaky gates. Granddad was near the back left hand side of the graveyard. I found his grave. When I seen it the horrid sight met my eyes.

Someone had dug up the grave and there were steep steps down to a blood red door!! I very slowly walked down the steps. My heart was racing! I reached for the knob covered in blood. I opened the door and I seen: The ghost of Christmas, Scrooge, Evil Jack Frost, Evil Snowmen, other evil men covered in scars, AND… MY GRANDDAD!?!?!

This was where the scary living-dead Christmas Creatures hid from the living.

“Hello”, I said.

(To read the rest, click on this and read it, maybe even save it to your computer!)

Winner Xmas 2012 The Blood Red Door by Megan Thorpe (5th)

On Friday we did a walkability audit on some routes to school in the area with Kathryn from An Taisce. We turned left outside the school and walked up towards Melrose. We turned right at Melrose Green and walked towards Lindisfarne Park. Then we walked along the path by the main road and turned right into Lindisfarne Drive and back to school.
Ten children from the Green Team came. Lauren was given the job of recording the good and bad things we saw on our walk and Karina recorded where we saw them on a map of the area.Then everybody took it in turns to take pictures of the things we saw.
Most of the things we saw were good – the lines at the gate where the cars cannot park so that our children can come in to school safely – the barrier outside the gate, our good footpaths, lovely trees and green spaces and we even heard the birds singing which makes it a very pleasant journey when walking to school.
We saw a few bad things like the litter and some graffiti and a boy very dangerously riding a motor bike on the footpath.
But our conclusion was that the route we took is a very good and safe walk to school and there is no reason that all the children from these areas shouldn’t walk to school every day and leave the cars at home