Each class will celebrate a particular part of our local heritage in our next calendar. We will ask each child to take a photograph related to their particular part of the project and would be grateful if parents could assist their children with this assignment. These photos should be sent to the school by email or on a memory stick (which will be returned on the day). We are aiming to have all photos with our creative artist, Kathleen Crosby, by the second week in October so that she has time to make a collage incorporating the class photo taken today.
Each class will work on a project around their particular area of interest and one project will go live on the blog each month next year featuring all the photos submitted for inclusion.
We have 8 classes so will have 4 extra pages to fill. Why don’t you as parents submit aspects of our local heritage for inclusion? Pictures from the ploughing, the steam rally, community events, community clean up, sport, musical events etc.
The children will be involved in the following
Junior Infants: Oral Heritage – pictures of adults who tell them stories
Senior Infants: Visual Heritage – the view from my garden/house
First Class: The old churchyard
Second/Third Class: Our school
Third/Fourth Class: Ballyadams Parish Church
Fifth Class: Local place names
Sixth Class: Ballyadams Castle
How about suggestions for a great day out in the locality or county? I think it would be ok if you crossed any of the surrounding borders. You may also have access to an important piece of heritage in the locality so please fell free to contact us with any ideas you may have. If you would like to share some local folklore we would be delighted. If you are interested in local history or the local environment please join in.
Looking forward to a fruitful community project. We live in a beautiful county so lets tell the world about it.
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