Heritage Council Visit
Below please find a selection of reports about
a recent visit from the Heritage Council to the
school where we learned about the natural
habitats and ecosystems in our environment.
Well done to the children for planning out and
typing these reports.
Múinteoir Sean
Lorraine’s Visit
By Charlie
On the 6th of February a person named Lorraine O'Sullivan came to saint brigid N.S. She came
inside the school and she showed us a few fun facts about animals. Like an otter, a fox a duck
and a hedgehog and a few insects.
Facts
The students learned how she got and had the animals.
We learned that some animals she was given and some she found.
We have learned a lot of facts about animals. One for a duck for example we learned that a
duck can't feel the wet and sometimes cant feel the cold.
Lorraine let the students inspect all the animals. And we saw some fish like a water bear, a
caddisfly and a flatworm and plenty more insects. And we saw other animals like ducks, otters ,
foxes and hedgehogs. And we also saw a wasps nest.
At the end of the day we were inspecting insects.
We would put a tray and we would put them under a microscope and view them closer up.
At the very end of the day we were creating our own animal with clay and sadly we had to go
home. but we got to paint them the day after.
Terrific taxidermy
Reported by méabh.
On the the 6th of february lorraine o'sullivan from the heritage council paid a visit to our
school and showed us
Her taxidermy.Taxidermy is when you preserve an animal's body for study purposes .
lorraine brought in a
fox 🦊, otter, duck🦆 and hedgehog 🦔, she also had, an otter claw , bat, fox skull and
otter skull i wonder where she
Found them!
Fun facts!
*Did you know that the word taxidermy is Greek ?
* Did you know that early taxidermy was often stuffed with sawdust?
* Did you know that birds are one of the hardest animals to taxidermy?
So overall it sounds like the children had a blast!
The terrific world of
taxidermy
By Kayden
Hello everybody im here from bbc news to talk about
lorraine o’sullivan lorraine o’sullivan went to kells on the
6th of february 2025 and she brought in taxidermy
animals taxidermy is a animal that has died being
stuffed and she brought in a fox which was shot in a
farmers field and she brought it to a taxidermist and
he taxidermied the fox and lots of the class liked it
and some maybe not quite as much and she brought in a
duck as well one of her friends found it and asked if
she wanted it and she said yes so she brought it back
to the same taxidermist and brought it in a lot of the
class liked it but some didn't but she also brought a
hedgehog and a otter which were found dead by her
friend and she brought them both to the taxidermist
and the class really liked them but some not the end
see you next time on bbc news
Breaking News!
The wilderness world of insects
Welcome back to bbc news today we will be looking at the wilderness world of insects.St.brights National school kells have had the oner of
meeting Lorraine ossolvine.
Facts about insects
On the 7/2/2025 she came in with some extraordinary things.Like stuffed animals and insects.But we will be focusing on insects.Lorraine came
to teach St.brights about biodiversity.She started with some amazing facts about insects.Like a flatworm can be cut into pieces and can still
live.It is also known that they were the first animals to develop brains.After some mind blowing facts.They went fishing for insects.
Activities
They found some amazing bugs including shrimps,flatworms,water worms,may bugs and more.They had a good look at the legs,eyes and
more.They even made their own enclosure.With rocks, little logs and more.
Microscope
When they were all finished.Lorrien brought out an extraordinary microph.They all looked at them on a big screen.They all saw how cool it was.
Now all the children loved seeing the insects. We hoped you enjoyed the BBC news goodnight.
Brought to you by bbc news.Writing and read by charlotte klute.
Made on the 10/2/2025
Writing and read
By charlotte
