St. Francis B.N.S

The Evolution of C.O.W Man to Zerohero By Paul 6th

I was really excited when I first heard about the green schools slogan and mascot competition. At first I just wanted to make a slogan but then I started thinking about Zero Hero aka Cow Man. I told Ms. Kenny about my idea and she asked me to draw a diagram. The next day I brought the diagram into her room and showed her, she said to go to Ms. McCann because she is a good artist and has done stuff like this before. She said we should gather all the materials to make him, after that we started to make him with toilet paper tubes for the body, wires for his hands and feet and paper mache to cover it and paint . We used a coffee cup for his head and paper mached it and painted as well. The journey for finding a name and slogan was a bit different because I went from class to class asking for them. I thought of cow man as the name and "cycling is fun so give it a go you will build up your muscles and save lots of dough" as the slogan . Ms. Kennytook pictures and sent it off and all wecould was wait . About two to three weeks later Ms. Kenny called me up at assembly and told me I won a prize and was going to go to An Taisce in Dublin. The day of the An Taisce thing my mother got me up so we could get ready. We got the train from clara up to Dublin and then we went on the Luas to the four courts and then we walked from there to the an Taisce building. We arrived there at about ten o'clock and we were greeted by An. Taisce workers who registered us and then we went down for some coffee, cookies and a smoothie which was really nice. Then we went tup to the presentation room where pictures of my mascot were on display along with a podium on which we put Cowman. The minister Alan Kelly arrived and looked at all the pictures and mascots and I chatted with him for a few minutes and I told him how I made Cowman . Then we all went outside and had photographs taken with the mascots, the other children and the minister. Some of the photos are on the An. Taisce website. After that we all returned to the presentation room where different people spoke and I became a member of An. Oige. They also presented Ms Kenny with a cheque for the school and a digital camcorder. Then we had more photos taken with the minister and the bikes.
It was then time for lunch and we all went down to the dining room for a buffet lunch which was delicious and I was very hungry . Then we went back outside and picked out the bike we wanted. I picked a black BMX and we were also given a helmet a bike chain and other bike accessories. After that it was all over and my mammy and nanny and I walked back to the train station as we had to bring the bike . We then got the train home and I brought the bike on the train. We had a great day and I really like my new bike.