Today we had a wonderful visitor to our school who shared some of his prized pieces of history with us and some of the amazing stories behind them. Students from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes spent time with Aidan and got the opportunity to share some of their own artifacts with him and their classmates.

Take a look at some pictures from today…

See below the thoughts of some of the 5th and 6th class students about the visit…

It was really interesting learning about his Uncle Joseph who died in World War 1.

I really liked Aidan.He was really helpful and interesting . He is a huge stamp and coin collector and has countless cool artifacts.

What I really liked was the way he told us all about his family. It was really interesting how he had some of his Uncle Joseph’s possessions.

It was so interesting! He told us about his uncle Joseph who got shot through the belt he was wearing and died. Aidan has the belt at home and he said it has a big bullet hole in the back of it, and 3 days before his uncle died, he wrote a letter to his mum to say that he was fit and healthy. He was so interesting and ms Ward was taught how to hold a cigar.

He read us a poem about war called ‘the box’ and it was really moving.

I liked when you were talking about your uncle Joseph and when you were showing me the golf stuff at the end. He had a hat signed by Shane Lowry.

I loved seeing all the amazing antiques people brought in!

I loved how he spoke about antiques and the sad story of his uncle.

I loved it! It was so interesting. The display was really nice! The best part was when he did a poem called ‘The Box’. One of the letters that Joseph wrote was really gruesome and in the trenches, Joseph was fighting and a shell blew off one of the soldiers’ heads. Mainly I loved it!

He is a very interesting man and he had so many things.
I found it interesting when you talked about your uncle and showed us things from World War 2 and World War 1.
Thank you so so much Aidan.
I loved the poem the box because it taught everybody how bad war actually is because when you see it on the news you feel sad for the people in the country but you don’t know how horrible it is and you know that the person that started it is selfish and really mean.
I liked when he was talking about his uncle and I really found it interesting that he had so many different stuff and he put a gas mask on someone.
Aidan was a really nice man who taught me what the biggest lake in Ireland witch is Lockney and about ww1,ww2 and about his brother in the war he was very helpful when people were asking questions. thank you, Aidan.

I loved learning about the stamps and coins and postcards.