...Our school was built in 1964 and had one teacher at that time. There are 3 teachers now and 75 pupils in our school. The nearst shop is 3 miles away. There is a power station about a half a mile away and it burns peat from the bogs to make electricity. There are two towers in the power station and they are knocking one of them the 9th of this month.

Lumcloon is on the road to a town called Kilcormac. There is a river that flows at the back of our school yard called the Silver River.

We start school at 9:20 am and we finish school at 3:00pm. There are two yards and two football pitches outside the school. We have a basketball court that the girls mostly play on. We built a shed to hold our papers which we recycle and send to a factory which makes paper flowerpots.

Our school consists of one prefab, two classrooms and a staff room which is also used as the remedial teaching room. Our school uniform consists of a navy jumper, tie, skirt or trousers and a blue shirt. We do Irish in the mornings and sometimes singing or Science.

Our first break starts at 11.OO am. After break we do maths and religion until the second break that is at 12.25. We eat our lunch then. We bring sandwiches and drinks and eat them in our classrooms - we don't have a lunch room.

We have a worm bin in our school. We throw our scraps of food in here and the worms compost them.

Near the end of the school year we go on a school tour to somewhere in Ireland.

Some people come to school by bus and other people come by cars or some people walk or bring their bikes.

Our school has 4 computers and we use them a lot. The Internet means that even though we are a long way from anywhere we can take part in fun exchange projects easily with other schools.

Goodbye from 5th and 6th class