The month of April saw the composition of wonderful short stories in the Senior Room and the production of beautiful books in the Junior Room. The children put their author and illustrator hats on and created fantastic literacy work as part of the ‘Write a book’ and ‘Write a short story’ project in collaboration with Carrick-on-Shannon Education Centre. These stories and books travelled to another school where they were examined and winners were carefully selected. Likewise, we received stories from a similar sized school to Boyle Parochial to read and critique.

This was a very worthwhile project in which to take part as it encouraged quality writing intended for an audience and learning about the structure of short stories, however it also gave the children a wonderful opportunity to read  and analyse the work of other students.

Great news reached Boyle Parochial School this week as the merit winners  and highly commended students of the project were announced. Two Merit awards for Boyle Parochial School  will be awarded  to Badger (Junior Room) and Ruby (Senior Room) at a special presentation evening in the coming weeks. Highly commended awards will be awarded to Amelie and David also.

Congratulations to all who took part in this great project and thank you to Carrick-on-Shannon Education Centre for organising this fantastic opportunity to celebrate writing in Boyle Parochial School.