The End of the Series of Teachers

     Our series of teachers have come to an end now that we've run out of teachers to write about that actually thought us this year. (Even though I'd love to talk about the best looking teacher ever known as Mr. O'Meara) Hope you enjoyed our little series thing and if not, too bad and remember if you're going to complain tell us what we can improve. Stay tuned for other series things that we might make.
      Goodbye my munchkins,
      Your master, Weronika

     I got bored of the series half-way through, once I'd done all my rants and the only teachers left were ones that didn't affect me that much, either negatively or positively. I only kept doing it because Weronika kept bugging me to do it, so if my stuff gets boring at any point it probably means that it's where I got bored so sorry that you had to read my rubbish, if you bothered that is.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms. Callaghan

     Ms. Callaghan, often called Ms. O'Callaghan, was also a replacement for Ms. Costello but also a replacement for our CSPE teacher Ms. Guinanne who was a student teacher. She replaced Ms. Costello in religion and Ms. Guinanne in CSPE obviously. I think she was mostly a good teacher, I don't count either of the two as proper subjects but she made class pretty interesting, even though I did homework during them. I don't like religion but didn't mind it with her. The only bad thing about her really is that she was overly stressed with our projects, making us really stressed too. I didn't have to worry because I finished mine fairly quickly, although there were other people that took longer and were put under a lot of pressure because she missed two of our classes. All in all though, she was a good teacher, even if what she taught us was religion and CSPE.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

So I can't be bothered to write a big thing on Ms. Callaghan but I'll just tell you a little story about her. I was telling one of my friends, Bobo, that I was going to get my hair cut soon and her response was "Fine, just don't let your mum do it, because last time she did you looked like you were in the Hitler youth" which is true and I began to agree with her. I was interrupted when Ms. Callaghan burst out laughing at the comment as she passed behind us.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms. Rogers

     Ms. Rogers was my third year PE teacher. She was much better than my previous one, because she actually remembered my name, well except for the occasional mix up when she called me Victoria. She was a good PE teacher I think and she seemed to like me and Ruska. Annoying thing about her though is that even though she seemed to like Ruska and I, she never let us be on the same team, it's like she knew we were going to talk non-stop. Despite that I still liked her as a PE teacher and would love to have her next year.
      Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika


     I really don't have anything much to add to that and I can't be bothered to repeat what Wero said, 'cept that she also teaches maths and is apparently horrible when she does so, but really good at it all the same (neither of us had her).
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms. Davitt

     Ms. Davitt was my history teacher this year.  Last year I had one of the best teachers ever, Ms. Costello, who unfortunately moved to a different school and Ms. Dvitt took over for her. Ms. Davitt was an alright history teacher but I just don't think it's her thing. I had her for English in first year and I think that subject suited her a lot more. She likes to talk which is good for English but not so much for history. I do like her as a teacher though, she is one of the nicest ones for sure, always coming to class with a smile on her face.
    Goodbye my munchkins,
    Your master, Weronika


     Ms. Davitt is really, really sweet and nice. She's very likable and I don't think anyone dislikes her. Apparently she's great at teaching English, that doesn't surprise me very much but I've never had her for English. History most certainly is not her strong subject she teaches ok, but not great it's like she doesn't quite know what's going on but makes is seem like she does, or something like that... I've just read Weronika's bit and realised that I'm kinda repeating what she said so sorry 'bout that.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Mr. Doyle

     Mr. Doyle was my maths teacher for three years and I fear what will happen when he doesn't teach me maths anymore. I'm afraid I'll fail maths without him because he is like an amazing teacher. He explains everything so well and often makes us laugh with things like his fraction buster song and coming up with names like Jacinta for examples. Last year there was this big thing I'm not going to explain about me writing notes and stuff with my friend in class, which I really regret because there was some bad stuff about him. It makes me feel really guilty because I don't actually think it and I love him as a teacher. Luckily he is really cool and didn't hold a grudge or anything and things soon went back to normal, although  I don't think he liked me as much as he did in first year, when I was always ahead of the class (because I'm so amazing at maths, well was), anymore. I cried in my last maths class and wish I hugged him because I will miss him so much and I don't know if I'll be able to do maths without him (I'm probably exaggerating but still).
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms. Gaynor

      Ms. Gaynor was my art teacher in second and third year, who I found to be much better than my first year teacher. A lot of people complained about her and to be honest they had legitimate reasons but I never disliked her. She had her bad moments when she would just shout at you but also had her good moments when she'd be laughing with us and making jokes. I think she was a really good teacher and thanks to her my art skills improved (and trust me, they needed improving). She helped me improve my shading, which I had a tendency to overdo, and I'm proud to say I got  B in my drawing exam for the mocks.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
      Your master, Weronika

Ms. Caniffe

      Ms. Caniffe was my Irish teacher. Now, I don't like science and don't plan on doing it for Leaving Cert, even though I'm good at it, but thanks to Ms. Caniffe I actually enjoyed class. I sat at the front so I payed attention most the time and answered questions, which proved to be useful in exams for which I didn't study. Ms. Caniffe is a really nice teacher who occasionally talks with us about topics not so science related, like the X Factor. Also, she often let us watch science DVDs and a few times played us movies, like for our last class we watched The Simpsons. She managed to get us ahead with our course work so our science classes were really relaxed. Often we did work while talking to each other during class. I, once again, was sitting beside Niamh Smith, who I frequently talked with in science, and also talked with Nicole Wyne who sat behind me. Science with Ms. Caniffe was really fun, especially with her funny comments, I'll definitely miss her as a teacher.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms. O'Sullivan

    Ms. O'Sullivan is my favourite teacher ever, I love her. She teaches me French but I wish I had her for Irish as well (she teaches ordinary level).  She has taught me so much over second and third year, she explains everything so well and helps us understand what we're learning rather than expecting us to just learn it. She is also really cool and she makes jokes a lot which makes class more fun, like the one about the ghost of the french man who died reading our French letters. I really miss her now and actually cried after the last class with her because I was so sad that I might not have her anymore. I really hope I have her in my senior years in school because she is so damn amazing.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms. Sharkey

      Ms. Sharkey was my Irish teacher in second and third year. She, along with Ms. Forde, teaches higher level. It's really annoying how ordinary level got the best teachers. I must admit I hated Ms. Sharkey in second year. Mostly probably because she wouldn't let me and my friend Alex sit together. Also, to be honest, she isn't the best teacher.
     However, in third year, I began to like her. Well, I started doing better in Irish and answered questions in class all the time. As you can see I'm quite the teacher's pet. Anyway, this caused her to like me more, in turn causing me to like her. I like being liked by teachers. She is actually not that bad and can be quite funny at times. I can safely say I'm glad I had her rather than Ms. Forde.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms. Muldoon

     Ms. Muldoon has been my English teacher for two years. For those two years I hated her.
     She had a seating plan for as long as we had her, meaning I never sat with Ruska. It wasn't that bad though because I was sitting beside a cool girl called Niamh, who I always talked with in English.
     Now, Ms. Muldoon is a really bad English teacher. English is meant to be creative however, she doesn't let us be creative with our answers. She gives us sample answers we have to learn and when correcting our work she changes what we want to say.
     Also, she has a tendency of repeating herself and cutting into people's sentences. For example, she would ask someone to read something and then would cut in and start talking while they're reading.
     Another thing, she is almost always late for class. Now, I'm not complaining but she shouldn't give out to us for being late when she is usually like ten minutes late. Once, she was half an hour late and class lasts forty minutes.
     Furthermore, she takes very long with correcting our work. We get work to do over night and she gives it back after like two weeks. Near the end of third year she was giving us back work from second year. She is very unorganized and quite forgetful.
     I could go on but I don't feel like ranting (I'll leave that for Ruska).
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika


     I like Ms Muldoon, I know she can't teach but I like her. She can be annoying, never letting me and Weronika sit beside each other and yes, she does limit our creativeness in class but as long as you go into the exam thinking 'she's never going to see this, I can write what I want' you'll be grand. She really likes W.B. Yeats, I find his stuff a bit dull. I don't even know why I like her, I could list all the bad things about her but I wouldn't be able to say what's good about her. Now the homework thing, that bugs me. We get given a two page essay to do in one or two nights, we expected back a few days later, we won't get it back for at least a month. I gave her a long poetry answer in mid April, I still don't have it back. I like the fact that she's never on time, its like a little catch up session for me and Weronika. The cutting through other people talk would annoy me if I hadn't learnt to ignore it because there are members of my family, who will remain unnamed, that do that quite a bit. That's basically my comments on what Weronika wrote, she didn't affect my school life all that much after all.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms Forde

      Ms Forde taught me, what is easily my least favourite subject, Irish. Now the language itself is actually quite nice and I've been to the gaeltacht (Irish speaking camp) twice now, but the way it’s taught in schools is atrocious, having an awful teacher doesn't help much. I honestly hate Ms Forde, she’s no good at teaching, she’s condescending and she’s just horrible in general. I could rant on and on about her but I won’t. I will rant a bit though. Since Irish is compulsory to everyone who’s been here since a certain age, if anyone moved to Ireland after that age (about 9 or 10) they don’t have to do the subject but they do have to sit in the class, they just do homework or something. In my class there are two non-Irish speakers, Ms Forde will, quite often ask them to do her a favour, like to get something from the photocopy room or something, but she hasn't bothered to learn their names, no, she would say ‘Foreign girl can you…’ or sometimes just point and say ‘You, get me…’ I’m generally quite quiet and wouldn't answer much in class, about halfway through second year I answered a question and she said ‘Aww, shy little Ruska answered’ that was the last time I willingly gave up information in her class. I hate her more then I knew I could hate someone I barely know and I haven’t learnt a thing from her class. Next year I’m dropping down to ordinary level so I’ll never have her again, that makes me very happy.

     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms Kelly (Treacy)

     Ms Kelly, now Ms Treacy, has been my geography teacher and year head for the last three years. She was a really good geography teacher, even if she did lull me to sleep on occasion (my own lack of sleep may have contributed to that though). She was fairly strict and had no problem with making you feel ridiculously guilty for not doing but she wasn't overly strict. As my year head she was pretty amazing and she's always been there when I was going through a bad stage in my life. If I needed to talk I had the option of going to her and she understood me better than any other adults I've had to tell about it. I really hope that I have as year head next year as I'm honestly going to miss her. I regret not saying thank you to her when I left the school on the final day of my third year (and last Junior year) there. I still call her Ms Kelly because I think it suits her better than the name she took when she got married.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

     Ms. Kelly is one of the most awesomest teachers. I didn't have her in first year and during that  time I hated geography and wasn't too good at it, the only thing to keep me going was my friend Bobo who I made loads of ridiculous theories with (like the creation of mermaids). In second year, Ms. Kelly became my geography teacher and I fell in love with the subject. I started doing really well in class and put a lot of effort in. This is thanks to my marvelous teacher, who manages to get facts stuck in your head. I really will miss her. She took care of all of us and had this thing where when she gave out to you, you didn't mentally curse but felt guilty. The only minus was her talking about 3L but I guess it was a form of motivation for us to try harder. On a different note, I got to know her as Ms. Kelly and forever Ms. Kelly she will be (no matter who she marries).
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms McDonough/Ms O'Connell

     My music teacher is pretty awesome, her name is Ms McDonough. She's a really good teacher,she makes us work fairly hard, she's nice and she can take (and make) a joke. I really liked her but unfortunately for my last term in third year we had a different teacher as our deputy principle, Ms McDonagh (note the 'a' in place of the 'ou') left on maternity leave, cos she had a baby (obviously) and our music teacher had to fill in for her. In her place was Ms O'Connell who was great, she came in two weeks before our practicals and devoted all our time til then to them. Afterwards, as we had covered the course already, she just did revision and was really good at it. I wouldn't be able to tell you which I preferred because they're both great. I really wish I could continue music next year but my school is annoying and it's not available for me to do but that's a whole different rant for another day.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Ms Capper

     My German teacher, Ms Capper, is probably my least  favourite teacher in the school, for a few reasons, the main one is that she has favourites. Weronika and myself most definitely were among her favourites, we would get away with almost anything in her class, Weronika always did her homework in that class and we would regularly be late and completely ignored, we didn't actually do much work in her class but she liked us anyway. Another reason I don't like her is that she really doesn't seem to care about the students but more of her record, which at the moment is very good, there was a student in my class who wasn't great at the language and really didn't have much interest in it who she basically picked on, this girl wasn't very respectful to her but I don't think that Ms Capper, in this case deserved the respect that she expected.She was an alright teacher other then that but she wasn't as amazing as she seemed to think she was.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

     I have the same German teacher (Ms. Capper) as Ruska, which if you're smart you would've figured out. Ruska and I sit together at the back of the class and talk without ever, well almost, being given out to. She never says anything. I basically sit there every class and do homework for other classes and she doesn't say anything, even though I'm pretty sure she notices. I always have my work done though so I guess that helps. Then there is also that whenever someone is late to class or forget books they get given out to. When it happens to me and/or Ruska she doesn't really do anything. Now Ruska complains about he whole favouritism thing, I other hand love it. I really enjoy it and to be honest I'm a total teacher's pet in class. I don't mind Ms. Capper, she is nice to me and all. Although sometimes I disagree with her and she isn't the best teacher, like she is no where near as good as my French teacher. I still think she is nice and like German though, and I'm quite disappointed that I can't do it in 4th year.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Your master, Weronika

Ms McLoughlin

     My Home Economics teacher, Ms McLoughlin, who was really strict and absolutely terrifying if you got on the wrong side of her, which I may have done on occasion, told us, in our last class with her, that our grade doesn't matter and that as long as we're happy with what we got then she would be too.This made me so happy, because none of my teachers has ever actually come out and said that the grades don't really matter, as awesome as some of my teachers are, I think she's the one who I respect the most. She has been a bit of a horrible b***h in the past but she only did it to make us work as hard as we could, I didn't really realize this until our last few classes with her and I honestly wish that I hadn't hated her so much over the last few years. She teaches what is probably my least favourite subject in school but I think that she's a great teacher anyway.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

Teachers

     We're going to start a kind of series thing, we're going to write about some of our teachers and what we think of them. I'm not sure why we're doing this but we are so if you're interested do read them, if you're not don't.