We thought we'd start the new year with a bang and invited a whole school to the party! Well, 3rd Class from Holy Cross School in Dundrum at least. They are our DJs For A Day for the next two weeks, and they wrote the following article all about their school and their show. Take it away class!
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The School
There are nearly 300 boys and girls in our school. We are located in the village of Dundrum in Dublin. We are lucky that our school has a long history and we have lots of space to play games and chat with friends at break time. Our school is at its present location since 1944 having previously been located in the main street near the parish church.
We are fortunate to have lots of activities in school including GAA, athletics training, chess, speech and drama, rugby, tennis, hockey, swimming, multi sports club and Irish dancing.
We have school tionól ( assembly) every Friday where one class performs a poem or song for the entire school. We put particular emphasis on our school work and children are awarded réaltaí ( stars) for working hard at handwriting or making progress in different subjects.
Our Class
We are a very busy class in Rang a Trí! There are 13 boys and 12 girls in our class. We went to the Seamus Heaney exhibition in October which was fascinating. We joined a farm webinar from a dairy farm in Galway called 'From Grass to Glass’ looking at how milk is produced.
We loved examining artefacts and ecofacts from the Stone Age workshop that visited the school in November. A pharmacist visited in December exploring the world of germs, viruses, how best to prevent getting sick and we learned about how medicines are made. We place particular emphasis on our written work and we have great fun learning Irish through making up funny sentences!
Our Songs
We loved the idea of becoming a ‘Dj For a Day’. There was huge excitement discussing songs, noting dedications and preparing for the recordings. We hope you enjoy this musical journey with us!
- Charlie and Finn picked "When I play for the County" – By The 2Johnnies.
We chose this song because we are huge GAA fans. This song is dedicated to our local GAA clubs, Ballinteer St Johns and Naomh Olaf GAA Club. - Síomha and Harry – "I like to move it " – By Will I Am
We picked this song because it is lively and upbeat. We dedicate this song to everyone in Holy Cross School. - Carrie and Mazin picked Hard Clap
We chose this song because it gets us to dance and it’s a very positive song. We dedicate this song to the students , staff and families of Holy Cross school. - Esme and John picked Cats on Mars
We chose this song because it reminds us of the solar system and cats. We love cats. We dedicate this to family and friends around the world. - John picked Free from Desire
I picked this song because I heard it at the Aviva Stadium when I attended a soccer match when Ireland played New Zealand. It is a very upbeat song. We dedicate this to all the people who work at RTE Junior continuing to make fantastic programmes. - Cormac and Poppy – Poppy by Poppy
We chose this song because the beats are electronic and there is lots of energy in it. We dedicate this to all family and friends around Ireland. - Annabel and Cian picked Shotgun by George Esre
We chose this song because it’s a very catchy song and very popular. - Nicola and Matthew picked Bad Hair Day by John Philips
We chose this song because we have great memories of this song been played as a class and we all sang together. - Nicola picked Out of the Silence by Aeoliah
We listen to this song in class to be relaxed and peaceful. We invite you to listen to this song with us and be relaxed and peaceful too. - Ruth picked Agadoo by Black Lace
I chose this song because my dad and I were chatting and I asked him to pick a song. He told me to look up "Agadoo", and when I played it, it made my dad and I laugh together. It was a lovely morning. - Emilia and Alex picked Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran
We chose this because it reminds us of a sunset and the sunset makes us feel calm. - Alex and Mariam picked Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars
We chose this song because it’s energetic and makes us feel in a good vibe. - Vojta and Ruth picked Sunflower by Post Malone
We chose this song because it reminds us of a movie we really like called Spiderman into the Spider-verse. - Dylan and Faya picked Believers by Imagine Dragons
We chose this song because it has good sound effects, and makes you feel happy on a sad day.
If you, your friends or even your whole class would like to be one of our amazing DJs email junior@rte.ie.
