Mayday! Mayday! Where are we?
On May 1st, we went to Wicklow, and arrived at Kilrudderry house – eventually . The wind blew us off-course at first.
Kilrudderry House, near Bray, is privately-owned, but open to the public during the summer.
We were divided into groups on arrival. Each group did two workshops:
music, writing or an enviromental walk. The weather was perfect, everything was blooming; perfect for the first day of Summer.
“The wild garlic was stinky, but there was a lovely fountain with spring water. We made birds’ nests, hid rocks and tested the wind.”
“The baby- ducks were very cute, the magnolia leaves were furry. There were many marble statues – they looked funny.”
The pictures were taken during our environmental walk and at lunch-time. The pupils you might not recognise are from Bennekerry N.S. in Carlow.
Poems
We went to windy Wicklow
for the day to learn
about Pushkin but in the end
all we learnt
was bus drivers aren’t very reliable
Killruddery House, so tall and lank,
with ponds full of garbage and waste.
The owners are strange, the statues are weird,
as naked and white as angels in sky.
For a trip we went to Wicklow,
Oh really, you didn’t know?!
The flowers were pretty the trees were strong,
That was before everything went wrong,
Thats right we got lost,
And here is the cause,
The bus driver went completely wrong,
It made our trip very long,
But when we got there we did workshops,
We wrote some lines and hid some rocks,
We built nests, It was the best,
It was great fun, and we got the job done.
Killruddery house was fun
the teachers got a bun
we went in groups
the ducks were cute
and then we went back home.
