De La Salle College, Churchtown

St. Jean Baptiste De La Salle Poem

Rejoice! The Father of Education

founder of our schools

We can never thank your dedication

for giving us such jewels

Though you were born rich

with abundance of wine and gold

But the luxuries were not your wish

for you saw than the wealth you hold

To me you are more than a saint or priest 

you are wonder to my eyes

A hero you are at least

for your work in transforming lives

Please stay by me, until the end

shine on me, with your everlasting light

Don’t leave my side, my friend

Shine on me, tall and bright

Rejoice! The Father of Education

founder of our schools

We can never thank your dedication

for giving us such jewels

By Muyan Zhang

by Leon Babatunde & Sean Harford

Why I chose a powerpoint presentation on Jean Baptiste

Power Point is great for audio,images and videos to have a greater visual impact.  You have the freedom to customize your presentation and your theme for your Power Point.

I like doing slide shows and  for the people looking at the presentation it is very easy  to see all the information. 

I think the powerpoint is very effective because you have lots of images and visuals. This means that everyone can enjoy the presentation even if they are not great at reading or writing. 

 I think Jean Baptiste is inspiring because he helped poor children and he set up schools so they could get an education. They did not have have to pay for their education so everyone had a chance to be educated.

I think it was very important for poor people at that time to get an education so they had a chance to get a decent job. Before this nobody would hire them and they were often living on the streets and ended up in prison.

I hope this powerpoint gives a bit more information about how Jean Baptiste changed the lives for poor people

One man One life 

Rap Inspired by Jean Batiste 

Verse 1:   So my name John Baptist 

Born as you said, i live back 

As a boy in 1630, Born 

And raised by a champagne 

Family, None of that no 

no no But I'm inspired To help the poor 

Chorus:       

Living life is a hard thing 

having to cope with 

things is harder 

its feels like the world 

is going Extreme on me but hey 

that doesn’t stop me from being john baptist 

 Jos Jos Jos Jos 

Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jean (john) baptist 

Jean Jean Jean jean 

Teacher of the poor 

 And founder of our schools 

 John Baptist (jean) in background 

John baptist 

Jos Jos Jos Jos 

                   Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jean (john) Baptist 

Verse 2: Being a teacher of my Career is cool 

but that Doesn’t mean i can always have Fun, 

looking after the children who need help 

I decide to do everything i can it's a responsibility 

Chorus:          Living life 

                        Is a hard thing 

                        Having to cope with 

                        Things is harder 

It feels like the world 

     Is going Extreme on me but hey 

That doesn’t stop me from 

                           Being john baptist 

                     Jos Jos Jos Jos 

                     Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

                     Jean (john) baptist 

                     Jean Jean Jean jean 

                     Teacher of the poor 

                     And founder of our schools 

                     John Baptist (jean) in bg John baptist 

                   Jos Jos Jos Jos 

                    Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) Jean (john) Baptist 

Verse 3: I don’t know how long 

I can take this for 

I think might retire 

Because i'm getting old 

The children need me and 

I don't know what to do 

I'm coming to the stage Where i might give up is it really gonna end right Here right now wait a minute 

What am i doing i shouldn’t 

Be doing this its wrong 

I never quit me job on 

Helping the poor i was still 

The age of 60 Therefore i 

Continued and Continued 

Onward ahead and i should 

Never give up on getting old 

Even at an older age i still 

I will be man history that's 

                  What i desire so yeah 

                   Here we go to the flow Yo bro 

Chorus:    Jos Jos Jos Jos 

Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jean (john) baptist 

Jean Jean Jean jean 

Teacher of the poor 

And founder of our schools 

John Baptist (jean) in background 

John baptist 

Jos Jos Jos Jos 

Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jean (john) baptist 

Jean Jean Jean jean 

Teacher of the poor 

And founder of our schools 

John Baptist (jean) in bg 

John baptist 

Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jos Jos Jos Jos 

Jean (john) baptist 

Jean Jean Jean jean 

Teacher of the poor 

And founder of our schools 

John Baptist (jean) in bg John baptist 

Jos Jos Jos Jos 

Jos Jos Jos Jos (beatboxing) 

Jean (john) baptist 

by Luke Brennan (Second Year)

I heard my teacher talking about a rap and I thought it would be a good idea to do a Jean Baptiste rap.

I think a rap is good because it is always important to put in some details from his life. I don’t think that people would normally do a Jean Baptiste rap so this is something unique that I did. I think this would make people sit up and listen to all the things that Jean Baptiste did to help the poor.

I looked at Jean Baptiste’s story and I added some details into this to make an interesting rap about his life.

My next step is to do the lyrics and to get someone to sing it and to create and instrumental. I think this is something I will work on for our founder’s day celebrations.

I would like to get a someone to wear a white 1700’s wig and they can also wear the clothes they like and then do the rap.

I will make a lyrics video and also a music video.

I know Jean Baptiste wanted to inspire and help poor people and he wanted to be a good man. That’s why I was happy to do a rap about him.

Painting and Slides by Jack Doyle

Why I chose a painting of Jean Baptiste La Salle.

As I said in my powerpoint to accompany my painting, I was inspired to do a painting so people could see the man that Jean Baptiste was.

I feel that the powerpoint explains and gives a little bit of a flavour of the man who was Jean Baptise and the sacrifices he made in order to help people less well fortunate than himself.

I like the combination of the visual of the painting and the explanation of the slides. 

I feel that Jean Baptiste could have taken the easy route in life, lived in luxury with his family but instead he devoted his life to helping the poor and the people who society had forgotten.

This idea of equality and opportunity has continued until this day.