Best Pranks pulled at the Ardee Community School

luckyluce

So I've heard that at the ardee community school (many friends went) if you are to succeed you have to be determined! So if its as bad as it seems, tell me some of the best pranks that have been pulled over the years! or any generally amusing stories to have come from there! Its quite a random school with an eclectic mix of people so i'm hoping i wont be disappointed.

(Yep i need to get clued up for reasons that cant be revealed)

Conor S

HA!

I remember hearing that a certain group of lads who shall remain nameless robbed the baby jesus from the crib at xmas and put in a ransom note a few years ago.
The above mentioned students have all finished school now..:rolleyes:

PoppyG

ha, i heard that one too, and supposedly the person blamed wasnt even behind it

PoppyG

oh and when you say finsihed sch do you mean they were made to leave untimely

europerson

luckyluce wrote:

So I've heard that at the ardee community school (many friends went) if you are to succeed you have to be determined!

So it's like any other school: work hard and you'll succeed.

So if its as bad as it seems, tell me some of the best pranks that have been pulled over the years! or any generally amusing stories to have come from there!

It's all quite tame, actually. There's never anything really funny, just stupid and yobbish. The kidnapping of the model of Jesus was probably the maddest thing ever. That happened while I was there.

Its quite a random school with an eclectic mix of people so i'm hoping i wont be disappointed.

I'm not sure about that. The main diversities in the school are town versus country and hard-working versus eejits.


In general, I really do believe the school gets a lot of unfair criticism. If a pupil wants to do well in it, then he/she will, and the staff are all adept at what they teach. Is this meant to be a "Let's give out about Ardee Communit School" thread?

Atomic Pineapple

One fella pegged a water ballon at one of the teachers, she was crying for about two hours after it.

Some fella got pushed through one of the big panes of glass in the hall one day too.

one evening everyone on the bus home had water ballons, i mean everyone and the bus got destroyed, there was water flowing down the isle and everyone was soaking.

two lads tried to climb up the gym and break in through a glass window in the roof not realising that there was a glass section from the art rooms where everyone could see what they were doing.

cant think of more will post later....

luckyluce

its definately not a chance to have a dig at the community school, its actually giving them respect, cause they have to have guts to get away with thing, i wish more people were like that at my school, would have been a bit of humour to get us through the year!

Im loving the one about the bus home, we didnt even have a school bus!!! and the eejit with the art class

europerson

draffodx wrote:

One fella pegged a water ballon at one of the teachers, she was crying for about two hours after it.

That's called battery or common assault, is it not?

Conor S

Common assault...........:rolleyes:

Anyway on a more serious note,

There arent really a lot of pranks pulled these days,
I'm in and at it at the moment and the whole thing is overall pretty dull...

If there are any other Boards members currently in ACS gimme a shout and we will pull a prank to remember

Over and out,

Cake

PoppyG

europerson wrote:

That's called battery or common assault, is it not?

are we not taking this slightly serious

:Keith:

I was there last year. The place isn't big on pranks. Its usually more serious.

Last year, one of the teachers got hit with some wet tissue in the eye. She went up to Dublin to an eye specialist. She was freaking out over it. A couple of people got suspended over it.

Or three years ago when "One Ball" as I call him attacked another student and landed him in hospital.

luckyluce

Hmmm so not as rebellious a school as i thought! Maybe your all just trying to paint a more innocent image of the place

mickymg2003

Its not innocent really...The water baloons soon turned to milk baloons(on my bus anyway). Very few pranks...Just scobies with water baloons and bangers. Although that baby jesus incident was pretty funny....

carpothepunk

Yeah,worst ive remembered was when "Mr X" put "Mr T" headfirst into a locker and landed him in hospital for a week,that was a couple weeks into my first year.

marco murphy

Some school eh

carpothepunk

Shut up Daithi:p

:Keith:

The bangers being let off constantly during the year was pretty annoying to.

Atomic Pineapple

i remember some tool had a knife in his bag one day and some other poor fella fell over onto the bag which was on the ground and the knife went through his leg.

some ejits got up on the roof of the school one day and started playing football on it, another time the got up there and started throwing bangers in the windows.

europerson

draffodx wrote:

i remember some tool had a knife in his bag one day and some other poor fella fell over onto the bag which was on the ground and the knife went through his leg.

That wouldn't happen now. The school got into trouble for having bags on the corridor during a recent health and safety audit, which means that students must leave their bags in a classroom over lunch. So, say you have English class before lunch, you have to leave your bag there, and then go back and collect it when lunch-time is over. Yes, I know what you're saying: I can imagine the inefficiencies too.

:Keith:

draffodx wrote:

i remember some tool had a knife in his bag one day and some other poor fella fell over onto the bag which was on the ground and the knife went through his leg.

Forgot about that. The guy it happened to is one of my friends's brothers.

carpothepunk

europerson wrote:

That wouldn't happen now. The school got into trouble for having bags on the corridor during a recent health and safety audit, which means that students must leave their bags in a classroom over lunch. So, say you have English class before lunch, you have to leave your bag there, and then go back and collect it when lunch-time is over. Yes, I know what you're saying: I can imagine the inefficiencies too.

Yeah,its such bull****,how am i supposed to get my french homework done at break now?:p

slumped

let's just face it, ardee community school was crap, is crap and will be crap.

and i was there for 5 years and taught in the school too

Atomic Pineapple

slumped wrote:

let's just face it, ardee community school was crap, is crap and will be crap.

and i was there for 5 years and taught in the school too

same as every other irish secondary level school

europerson

slumped wrote:

let's just face it, ardee community school was crap, is crap and will be crap.

Now, hold on a minute: why don't you back up you argument?

PoppyG

aw come off it its not that bad, you can do well if you want to, the teahcings good, the criac is good, the trips are good and the whole thing is a gd experience

slumped

europerson wrote:

Now, hold on a minute: why don't you back up you argument?

Now remember I have been a student there AND a teacher right.

1. Too much bitchiness in the staff room. A lot of resentment shown to new teachers.

2. Teacher egos. OK some teachers were great, a lot however were on ego trips.

3. Poor building. Built in the 1970's to last max 10 years. Still there.

4. Poor facilities - gym is terrible.

5. Computers were terrible in my day (8 years ago).

6. The top classes (1.1, 2.1, 3.1 etc) were often put on a pedestal above others which was wrong.

7. Resources were terrible.

8. No Library to speak of.

9. Discipline problems were rife.

Shall I go on..............

europerson

slumped wrote:

1. Too much bitchiness in the staff room. A lot of resentment shown to new teachers.

Now, I was only a student, but I can't say I noticed bitchiness towards new teachers in general. However, some teachers were very bitchy towards certain other teachers (both established and new), all right.

2. Teacher egos. OK some teachers were great, a lot however were on ego trips.

We all know exactly who you're talking about.

3. Poor building. Built in the 1970's to last max 10 years. Still there.

The school building wasn't put there to last only ten years! I can't see the economics behind that. The school is based on a common plan for such schools, designed by the Board of Works in the 1970's. While it may not win any awards for environmental friendliness ot natural light or the like, the building isn't too bad and, you must remember, still houses all the classrooms and facilities. ACS must be one of the few schools with no pre-fab additions.

4. Poor facilities - gym is terrible.

What sort of facilities do you speak of here? The gym is one of the school's best assets, in fact. I have spoken to several teachers in the school, who have come from other schools, and who are amazed by our having a large gym in a separate building.

5. Computers were terrible in my day (8 years ago).

Maybe so then, but not so now. According to my contacts still in the school, there are now several computer rooms across a local-area network, with Broadband access. Every student has his/her own log-on ID and password, and has access to a large file-storage server, printing, scanning, etc. Each subject department (i.e., science, business, etc.) has a laptop and projection system now too.

6. The top classes (1.1, 2.1, 3.1 etc) were often put on a pedestal above others which was wrong.

This system hasn't existed in the school in the last four or five years. The classes are now of mixed ability, with students attending streamed classes only for English, Irish and Maths.

7. Resources were terrible.

I disagree here. I participated in many extra-curricular activities, all of which were funded in some way by the school.

8. No Library to speak of.

The school's one great shame, methinks.

9. Discipline problems were rife.

I don't think they were any more rife than in other schools. That said, I do think that a tougher line ought to have been taken against many students, who were persistently disruptive and ill-behaved. There could easily have been about five expulsions from every year, but the school never seemed to want to take that action.

Spiral Notebook

Yea went to the community and it was a pretty good laugh, witnessed the whole jesus thing and i can tell you for a fact that the correct person was caught, but only because a certain religion teacher (wonder who??) overheard other pupils talkin about who done it and that's how he was caught.

Other incidents include a litter warden gettin hit on the back of the head with a stone (which really was an accident, the lad who did it kicked the stone on the ground and it shot up and hit him).

The whole scandle when a certain irish teacher was thought to have given hints on the listening section of a state irish exam (think it was the leavin) cause she was on the tape.

The whole of a year being barred from the yellow corrador (sorry about the spelling) because they were intimidating teachers.

Countless vandalising acts on school property,

One icy morning slyding a teachers car (micra) around the side of the building,

Taking the center bar off handles of doors and replacing the front cover,

Anybody remember in the autumn when people would bring chestnuts into the canteen in the morning before class and all hell would break out??

A bus leavin the school one day and the back of the bus caught the side of a teachers car as it was turnin but the bus driver didnt notice and just tore off, the car had a couple of big dirty scrapes up the side of it.

ah good times people, memories to be savoured!

luckyluce

haha i love the one about the micra, never heard that one before! No the guy who got excluded for the prank didnt do it, him and his bro were blamed but it was another guy hahaha

europerson

slumped never came back to finish his argument. :mad:

FreeBwian

I know I'm a bit late here, but I found this thread and had to add to it, I finished in ACS in 1990.

Ardee Community School Pranks:
Science Teacher Steady Eddie left his car parked outside the Art Room one lunchtime. On discovering that it was unlocked, we bounced and moved the car, and rolled it out behind the Gym completely out of sight.

Another car was left unattended so we opened the back door and placed a massive 'Park Bench' thing half-in and half-out of the car boot (it took 10 of us to lift it). The bench was a 5th year construction project. I remember watching a few teachers struggle to remove it after lunch.

The Common Room. We were given the small room beside Buzzer's classroom as a quiet study place. Soon, we had a regular Poker tournament and a real Dart board in there. The Dart board was removed by Trix McDonald cos of safety issues. I also remember sitting in there one lunchtime, a few lads walked in and reached through the celing tiles and extraced a few bottles of Harp and headed off.

Christmas Tree. I don't remember the Baby Jesus thing. But I do remember on 2 separate occasions there was some special decorations added to the Tree. One morning we were all surprised to see a white Bra hanging from one of the branches, and another day there was a condom hanging there. Condoms were hard to get in those days so it deserves honourable mention.

When I was a first year, the 5th years used to block a sink and fill it with water, then unsuspecting 1st years would be made sit in the sink by the 5th years.
They also used to try to attach us to the corridor coat-hangers by lifting us up and hooking our belt on the hanger and leave us there, I think they may have only succeeded at this once.

One monday morning we arrived at school to discover that someone had added an extra chain to the first gate. The locked gate caused mayhem, buses everywhere.