Our Local History Project

Every class in the school completed a history project on an area of the local history of Clondalkin.

4th class researched information, and completed a project based on the shops of Clondalkin village, both past and present!

We worked together interviewing shopkeepers, teachers and parents and completing surveys as a way of gathering all of the information we needed. We also looked up information online and in library collections over the two weeks when we were preparing our project.

We learned lots of interesting things about what it was like to shop long ago in the village and also elsewhere in Ireland. Many of the shops in Clondalkin have changed over the years and new ones have been built and we learned the reasons for all of these changes!

Here are some pictures of our class completing and presenting the projects, take a look!

 

Here's a closer look at our displayed project!

 

We even made our own shops using old cardboard boxes, coloured card and cellophane!

 

Our shops included a tailors, bakeries, sweet shops, newsagents, an African shop and a cobblers!