Every year, The Otherworld Festival stakes place in Ballymun at Halloween. There are many events organised including a Zombie Parade, Pumpkin carving competition, live entertainment and fireworks on Halloween night.

As part of this event, we were invited along to Muck & Magic Community Gardens where Aifric brought us through a fantastic storytelling and drama workshop where we helped the Witch and the Vampire reunite.

Thank you Aifric for lighting our imaginations on fire.

As part of Ballymun Safety Week, third class were invited along to the Open Day in Ballymun Garda Station.

We gained a great insight in to the daily life of a Garda - from dressing up in heavy jackets and hats, putting on the sirens in a speed chase and interviewing a make believe criminal. What a great day!

Today we cooked up a storm in Room 5.

We decided to make some chocolate apples in the lead up to Halloween. We melted some chocolate over a pot of hot water, smothered apples in the melted chocolate and topped with some sprinkles too. They were so yummy and easy to make.