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On a rainy Tuesday, 5th class took a short walk to the Fighting Words offices near our school. We met a lady called Aifric who asked us lots of questions and helped us plan out our story.

Then we went into groups and made our own stories by ourselves.

There was a ‘cranky’ editor who had to give approval for our story and decide if he would print it or not.

We were lucky and he decided it was so good he would print it! We all left with or very own copy. I would like to be an author one day.

By Logan R

6th Class have had a great start to the year and have been working really hard. At the moment, we are learning all about how Ireland gained its independence. We made a short video all about the 1916 Rising. Click on the link to check it out!

The 1916 Rising

Before the Easter holidays, the fantastic Student Council organised a fundraiser in aid of the Irish Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.

Everyone wore blue and yellow to show our support and together we raised over €400!!

We are very proud of the amazing support of everyone in Rutland St. NS for such a worthy cause.

Thank you everyone for your incredible generosity.

3rd class have been very busy so far this term. We celebrated Chinese New Year, St. Brigid’s Day, Seachtain na Gaeilge and St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone has been working hard and having lots of fun! In PE we have been learning how to play basketball. 3rd class have also been doing swimming lessons this term and the class are really enjoying it and making big improvements. We hope everyone has a Happy St Patrick’s Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Duit!

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Art Club runs every Thursday for the boys and girls in 5th and 6th class. In the first week the children made Kimmy Cantrell inspired cardboard relief masks. We decided to replicate his artwork and make our own relief masks using cardboard.

The boys and girls also took inspiration from Picasso’s portraits when making their own asymmetrical artworks!

Since then, the children have looked at artists such as Jackson Pollock, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Linder Sterling. 

We have spent time making papier-mâché animals, creating self-portrait collages and the children even helped the Elf in Junior Infants decorate their classroom window in time for Christmas! What a fantastic bunch of artists!

Senior Infants loved practicing lots of Christmas songs this month, here is their favourite one! We hope you like it as much as we do.

Ms Sinnott

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iJdT5GSItDXSrjpUqnLe6G7tcXkqc9oA/view?usp=sharing

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Mr.Gethings, Ms.Dolan, Trish and 4th Class.
We have been really enjoying the last few weeks in fourth class and getting in the festive spirit. We made Christmas themed artwork and wrote poems about Christmas. In addition, we learnt the Christmas classic “Snow is Falling”.

Happy Christmas Everyone!
4th Class, Mr. Gethings, Ms.Dolan and Trish.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BBjdG4hoKwOOSSyZSoQ__0_MmUB_wpQh/view?usp=sharing

2nd Class would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year. We’ve been really enjoying the last few weeks of school and getting into the festive spirit. We’ve been doing lots of art and even tested out what biscuit is best to leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve (It’s shortbread by the way!).

For our Christmas show, 2nd Class rewrote the classic Christmas song “12 Days of Christmas” together. Please enjoy our new version of the song!

Happy Christmas everyone,
2nd Class, Ms. Wynne and Caroline.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VfNhd_qina1nDYtdTuJc2m7ms1QDD-lY/view?usp=sharing

The boys and girls in 4th Class have been working extremely hard the last few weeks and are looking forward to the last term in school before our Summer holidays.

We have been learning lots about the Egyptians. We completed projects about different aspects of Egyptian life and worked on our presentation skills by teaching our class about what we learnt. We also created a fresco of our class as Pharaohs.

Check out some of the other fabulous art work that we’ve done!

This year has been very different experience for us all in Rutland National School. We have missed the parents coming in and joining us for activities like  Kids Talk,  Maths for Fun and lego with your kid to name just a few! But we are amazed at all the amazing work that has been going on at home throughout the year and so thankful for all the parents and guardians for participating in home in activities like numeracy week and ZOOM AHEAD WITH BOOKS!

Zoom Ahead is coming to an end after 3 weeks of fantastic creative work by kids and their book buddies. Thank you so much for your fabulous work!

All the children in JI and SI will receive their final drawing sheet this Friday so….

Choose a book 

Read the book

Draw a picture ( one side for child & other side for Book buddy) 

Bring it back in and we will get it ready for the Exhibition 

Exhibition in June in the Park !

zoom ahead video

We are so happy to all be back to school after the Easter Holidays and look forward to some fun activities and events in our third term.

Every Tuesday all parents are invited to join the Parents walking group. We will walk and discover new places around the city especially places that you can explore with your kids at the weekends and during the holidays. You get to meet other parents and have a chat   and  of course be active. So its great for you physically and mentally … it’s win win! Your well earned reward of a cuppa tea or coffee along the way.

Meet: School Reception

When: Every Tuesday morning  8.50am to 11.30am

Hope to see you tomorrow

Last week we  were so excited as we welcomed back to school all the kids in Junior Infants, Senior Infants First class & Second class. We were so proud of how hard they all worked from home during the lock down and engaged so well on Seesaw and Zoom.  Our kids are amazing but  a massive THANK YOU to the parents,   grandparents and guardians  for all  their hard work and support. We couldn’t have done it without you all!

We can’t wait to welcome back all the other pupils from 3rd to 6th class on Monday morning.

We’ve missed you all!

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NUMERACY WEEK

SHAPE & SPACE

This week the  children in all the classes from Junior Infants to Second Class have been so busy this week learning all about shape and space….through games, books and construction

Don’t Forget to check out our instagram page to see First class telling us all about shapes

All our Amazing pupils we know how creative you all are and we would like you to use your imagination to create a HEART to share the love any way you wish. You can  using paint, lego, food, playdough even bake…..you choose!

When you have finished your HEART take a photo and send it to rutlandhscl@gmail.com or whatsapp 0873468075

We will create our heart gallery on the website and Instagram & share the love

Dear Parents & Guardians

We have missed you all around the school this term and we appreciate  all the  fantastic support you have given us keeping all the children and staff safe.

We have been working so hard this term and we are so excited to share with you all of our amazing work.

Watch in the comfort of your own home the incredible creative talents of all the children in our school!

Each class has a performance to watch and enjoy

Merry Christmas  x

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19gKJ8vtirePXFxXerZddvOpUbdHWkAQG/view?usp=sharing

This year in school has been very different in many ways for all the boys and girls, but we are still glad we got to enjoy our Christmas performance in a creative way. First class have really enjoyed getting ready for their Christmas performance with a difference!

As a class, the children shared ideas to make their drama based on the song ‘You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch’. we had lots of fun creating the drama which tells us all about how special and important Christmas is. You can watch the video by clicking the link here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R391BZrQoBDGMADaknni7cOewQaUBXvI/view?usp=sharing

The children were also learning about Christmas in the past as part of history this month. They decided to find out about Christmas in the past from someone who has first hand experience – Ms. McKelvey’s granny! The children asked her questions to find out all they wanted to know. With the year that’s in it, we decided to do a virtual interview to gather our information. we had lots of fun doing this project and it brought lots of joy and smiles to everyone as we found new ways to stay connected. You can watch the video here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_QGW8WBRxohh_mpeMXNCVvl47zVLZVoD/view?usp=sharing

4th Class performed ‘Reindeer Rap’! Click on the link below to watch our video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Ms Wynne, Mr Abbott, Louise and all the boys and girls in 4th class!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A2f-opdtKrGs2UUsGz9U_-nO37QXgCv7/view?usp=sharing

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Ms McFadden, Ms Fokseang, Louise and all of 3rd class!

We can’t have our usual Christmas concert this year so we made this short video for everyone to enjoy. You can watch our video on the link below.

Hope you all have a happy and safe Christmas.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/105I3W4yEvXfcp4Rbao9MVvTLXh4cdCbj/view?usp=sharing

Ms McFadden’s class celebrated World Kindness Day. They have thought about ways they can show kindness in school, at home and in their communities.

4th Class have been working really hard since returning after the Halloween midterm. We have learnt lots about Vikings and completed projects about Viking life in our pods. We even learnt how to write our names using the Viking alphabet.Have a look and see if you can recognize any of the fierce Vikings in their longships getting ready to invade Ireland!

We have also been learning about Norway and about the Aurora Borealis (more commonly known as the Northern Lights). Check out our amazing art work below!

Thank you to all the parents & teachers for taking part in our numeracy week. it was a lot different from our previous years as we couldn’t have all our parents in but we had lots of fun in class and at home learning all about direction and positions.

 This week we have been learning all about positions and directions. We got some amazing new resources and Junior infants loved playing with all the games.

We also have to search every day for Emma’s cheeky cat and mischievous teddy.

The cat was hiding under the giraffe and the teddy was hanging over the corridor!

To all our wonderful kids

Hope you are all getting on well and helping to mind each other at home.

Its every strange time at the moment and you might have some worries but the most important thing you can do at the moment is stay calm, stay positive and keep your mind and body healthy. Remember to do activities that make your mind and body feel all those lovely positive emotions like happiness, pride, love,kindness, friendship , excitement and achievement ( for example exercise, reading a book, drawing and creating, playing games, helping out at home and having a chat with someone you care about.

It’s so important to take care of yourself and your family at this time. You are all such wonderful kids and you make Rutland such a fabulous school I can only imagine how helpful and kind you are all being at home .

We are thinking of you all and your families

If anyone has any stories or creations they would like to share with the rest of the school community please email rutlandhscl@gmail.com .

Useful websites 

Creative websites 

Story writing/ creating : A brilliant website to help you start telling or writing  a story

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

Stop motion animation: simple free and easy to use app Flip-a-clip. Use you tube to learn how to do simple animations

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9RFkh_FsMg4&ved=2ahUKEwjF2tGfnKXoAhVLShUIHSUVDcwQwqsBMAl6BAgJEAU&usg=AOvVaw3NPAjNIt23Txv4i4ktKVN6

Stop motion explanation & tutorial

https://tinkerlab.com/https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DPw80ki6kc-k&ved=2ahUKEwjhgfyGnaXoAhX3aRUIHajZA-cQwqsBMAF6BAgJEAg&usg=AOvVaw1DYI7Jp3UL4XOHSKgmBhMD

Lego creation :  lego.com/on-ie

This website has lots of games as well as  hundreds of simple instructions for lego creations or use lego to create simple stop motion animations

Twinkl: https://www.twinkl.com/  free use of resources for 1 month .

Reading 

ebooks library www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Book creator https//bookcreator.com

Staying active

Yoga: YouTube 5 minute yoga flow for kids

Mindfulness meditation for kids: www.newhorizonholisticcentre.co.uk

PS Dont forget its  Mothers Day coming up this Sunday be inspired write poem, draw a picture make a card for your special person .

**Attention 3rd Class**

I hope that everyone is keeping well! I’ve attached a link for the 3rd class blog, where I will be putting up work for you over the coming weeks. If you have any questions about the work assigned, please contact me using the email on the blog. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!!

3rd Class Blog (Click Here)

4th class did lots of great work leading up to Hallowe’en. We made our very own clay monsters, designed costumes we thought Ms. Bermingham should wear to school and recreated personalised versions of ‘The Scream’. 

Every September the Botanical gardens become an enchanting place with sculptural treasures . This year second class and their parents went on the bus to the Botanic gardens. We used out maps to find all the sculptures

We found some very interesting art works. We also looked at the trees and learnt all about Autumn and all the changes to the trees.

We explored different sculptures and spoke about all the different features.

We loved that the parents joined us and that the sun shone all morning!

We have been learning all about Pattern and sequences . In senior infants we have been bringing home games from the Maths Games lending library and playing them with our Maths Buddy! In junior Infants we have been doing maths for fun with our parents over the past few weeks. We have had great fun and the parents have been amazing …thank you for all your encouragement & support!

This September we had so much fun on our treasure hunt around the Botanic Gardens searching for the amazing sculptures with our Parents. The sun shone as we explored the Botanical gardens looking for sculptures and signs of Autumn

We discovered some unusual works of art some we could touch and some that were too delicate to touch

Senior Infants had so much fun learning number skills with Emma and the parents this morning.  It was such a sunny day we went up to the yard.  It was the best morning EVER!  Thanks everyone who helped out.[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”36″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

The children are really pleased with their planting journey so far.  They are excited  to check on the progress of their plants every morning.  Great work!

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Senior Infants were working very hard today! They are gaining confidence using a number line to add and subtract.  They love improving their counting skills by playing fun games!

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Some of the children have started to grow their own vegetables. They are learning how to sow seeds and take care of their plants by watering them daily and keeping them in a safe place.  So far, we have planted spinach, cress, tomatoes and peas.  Watch this space!

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A group of 4th and 5th class children showing off their baking skills this week.  They made yummy red velvet cupcakes!  Lovely teamwork!

On Tuesday December 14^th President Michael D. Higgins unveiled the ‘People’s Acorn’ in the gardens of Áras an Uachtaráin. This was a really special day for the current 6^th class in Rutland NS as they had the fantastic opportunity to visit Áras an Uachtaráin to witness the unveiling, having been involved in the project since November 2016. The People’s Acorn is a sculpture created by Rachel Joynt. The sculpture is a 1916 themed piece which commemorates the centenary of the 1916 Rising. It contains a time capsule of school childrens’ thoughts and wishes and won’t be opened until 2116. 6^th class were fortunate enough to be part of this amazing project and have their thoughts and wishes documented for future generations to read. We were 1 of only 7 schools chosen to be part of the project so it was an amazing honour. Children from every class also donated lots of pencils which were used to create the sculpture. Here is a link to a video which tells you a little bit more about the project. It’s a day we’ll never forget! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5STwsLzEi8

These Senior Infant boys love learning new words on their word dice that we made from tissue boxes! Here they are working on their capital and lower case letters together! 🙂

Rinne gach duine i rang a trí pas! Tá siad iontach ar fad!

My 3rd Class maths group are working so hard on the measures topic ‘time’.

We love both hands-on activities using the mini clocks and interactive activities on the computer!

Here we are hard at work…..

Here are some photos of our 2017-2018 group of Junior Infants! They have settled well in Room 1 under the guidance of their teacher Ms. Caffrey. Looks like lots of fun……

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We are lucky to have such a modern, well-stocked library in our school. We love to come here for some quiet reading in comfortable surroundings! 🙂  Our library is sponsored by Niamh McHugh’s family who wish to help children discover ‘the joy and comfort of reading’. Here are a few images of this great space…..

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We are working hard in 3rd class. Here are some photos of our SPHE, Art and Geography classwork! 🙂

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These children pictured worked so well together in their social group on Fridays for the past few weeks. Lots of kind words were spoken and we all learned to share and have patience! 🙂

Great teamwork seen here assembling a circuit and trying to get the bulb to light! 🙂

Have a read of the fantastic lists that 3rd class composed!

These two girls are working so hard on their English writing skills!

The boys and girls in Junior Infants went on an Easter egg hunt this morning after Flop the Easter bunny hid loads of eggs around the garden! Big thank you to all the Mam’s and Dads who came to help find all the eggs! 🙂

The boys and girls in Junior Infants have been learning all about Length! They measured their friends using links, worms and cubes! Some boys and girls even measured the corridor!!

The children who were awarded pupil of the week and most improved made Easter nests with mini eggs today! Yum! 🙂

We planted runner beans today. We watered them. They will appear in 7-14 days. This boy is going to bring them home for the Easter holidays to look after them.

Oh my goodness!! Ms. Heverin is teaching a leprechaun today!!  🙂 🙂

Can anyone guess who it is?!

The children from Senior Infants and First Class who come to me every morning work so hard. As well as reading LOADS of books, they write a story every day! Here are some samples of their work. 🙂

Maciek……Senior Infants

Isabelle….. First Class

Cayden…… First Class

Jonathan…….Senior Infants

Here is a photo of the choir that was taken last week. They are preparing for the First Holy Communion and the Confirmation celebrations while also learning some fun songs that are in the charts at the moment!

Here are some photos of Mikaela, Cameron, Joy and Kacper playing nicely together in their social group!

They played doctors, card games, babies and house!

They were so kind to each other. 🙂

Boys and Girls in Junior Infants have gone DATA MAD! They made Weather Block Diagrams to track the most common type of weather during the month of February!

They also worked sooooo hard to find out the most common coloured bear in the bear box! They lined the bears up in 10’s and counted using skip counting! 🙂 The most common coloured bear was RED! There are 68 red bears in the bear box.

They did the same with different coloured links! 2 of the children counted 200 red links using skip counting in 10’s!!!

Red seems to be the most popular colour in Junior Infants!

Boys and girls in Junior Infants were helping Miss Crosse decide what colour to paint her house! They came up with so many lovely colours she couldn’t decide.  The boys and girls thought of a great plan and made a bar chart to find out the most popular colour in Junior Infants!

Miss Crosse can’t wait to paint her house RED! 🙂

Junior infants have been taking part in so many fun activities for Numeracy Week. They did a Maths Trail around the school where they answered questions that were stuck up on the walls and parents came in and played maths games with boys and girls up in the library! Big thanks to Emma and all the parents who took part. They had great fun!

The Chess Club Championship has kicked off this month with some very exciting matches between fourth and sixth.

th some very exciting matches between fourth and sixth.

Last week was well-being week in school. Children took part in lots of fun activities such as Yoga, Drop Everything And Dance and a ‘well-being’ poster competition. We also got a new addition to the class, a Worry Monster named Zack who takes all our worries away!

Boys and girls in Junior Infants should be hired to work on ‘Room to Improve’ with Dermot Bannon! They are so amazing at designing buildings!! 

Some of our present 6th class when they were in Junior Infants! 🙂

The children who got pupil of the week and most improved made healthy smoothies yesterday! Our ingredients were:

• Apple
• Banana
• Raspberries
• Yoghurt
• Milk

They were delicious!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Junior Infants have been busy writing postcards to their friends and family, building the GPO with blocks, making their very own post-van and doing lots of fun activities to do with the post office! They are fantastic!!

This week past pupil Ciara came to our class for work experience. She taught us two ISL signed songs -Avicii’s Wake Me Up,  and Here I am Lord. Check out us out below!

Boys and girls in Junior Infants were learning all about their taste buds and did a blind food taste! They tried sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods! Guess which type of food they are eating in the pictures from their facial expressions! 🙂