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Well done to the boys and girls who got pupil of the week and most improved for last week! Zac, Armandas, Toni, Sophie, Maciek, Seán, Connie and Eddie. We were cooking healthy pizzas today. We put pineapple, ham and cheese on them! 🙂

Kacper worked so well in Ms. Heverin’s room today. He was learning all about visiting the hospital. He wrote great sentences! Well done! 🙂 🙂 🙂

The boys and girls I take each day for reading and writing are working so hard! They have eased back into the swing of things and remember SO much from before Christmas! Well done everyone! 🙂 

They each have a word dice which you can see in the picture. We made them together using tissue boxes! We change the words each week after they get too easy! We love rolling the dice on the ground and reading the words!

Junior infants are working as hard as Santa’s elves. They are busy writing their letters to Santa and making Christmas decorations out of clay!

The boys and girls in Junior Infants had a very active Friday. They visited the Pre-school playground for being so well behaved all week, wrote numbers in sand, wrote rainbow Tricky Words and played lots of maths games on the interactive white board. Our Elf was busy moving around and causing mischief.

Well done to Deya in 6th class who was the winner of the ‘Doodle for Rutland’! Her amazing creation can be seen on our home page. I love how she incorporated the school crest into her design.

Erin in 5th class was runner up and her doodle will appear on the site later in the year.

Thank you to all of the children who submitted entries. It was so difficult to choose a winner!!

Boys and girls in Junior Infants are brilliant at figuring out what shapes to use to make fantastic pictures!

The boys and girls in Junior Infants showed off their dance moves and musical statue skills at the end of the day, all dressed up in their fantastic costumes!

Boys and girls in Junior Infants love predicting and listening to stories, especially when mammies and daddies can come too!

The children took part in a variety of activities! Art, Music, baking and sports! It was a fun filled week!

On Wednesday evening our class met up with the 4th & 5th class boys and girls from Gardnier Street and the Central Model School for the start of term Disco at Oznam House! We got hot dogs and juice and had a great night!!

The choir are in full swing practising carols and hymns for Christmas.

We hope to raise funds for the school again this year by having a carol singing day up town. More information soon!

The ‘most improved’ and ‘pupils of the week’ made white chocolate pumpkin sweets- YUM! 🙂

The Junior Infants’ door is looking quite scary this week!!

It’s maths week this week and we are trying so hard at memorising, ordering and writing his numbers! Well done! 🙂

Here are photos of the girls re-arranging words of sentences they composed. They are working so hard at ‘sounding out’ and having a go at writing! Well done girls 🙂

We got into the spirit of Halloween and made Rice Krispie pumpkins.

First we melted butter and marsh mallows.

Then we poured a small bit into a little bowl for the green mix. We added green food colouring to that.

Into the big bowl we added red and yellow food colouring to make orange.

We then added Rice Krispies to both bowls & moulded the pumpkins using spoons. We decorated them with raisins.

They were delicious! 🙂

Well done to Kacper, Cayden and Amber who finger painted these fish with Ms. Heverin. We followed the procedural steps in the book and created some lovely fish!

Thanks to all pupils, parents and staff who contributed €2 for ‘Blue Day’ which was a school fundraiser! It was a huge success. Mr Finan (a Mayo man) even wore blue for the day!! 🙂 

Here are some of the pupils in the yard with their blue on! 

This Soccer Superstar won all these medals playing with Belvedere FC. When you’re a famous footballer call back to visit us in Rutland NS!

Here are some photos of Ms. Heverin’s groups working hard. We were writing narratives today and making words using magnetic letters and play doh! We also played an interactive word bingo game on the computer! We got the week off to a great start! 🙂 

Junior infants took ‘selfies’ on the school tablets to help them draw self portraits. They examined their face and looked for less obvious traits that they would usually forget about, like freckles and eyebrows. There was a lot of excitement when they got to play games on the tablets during golden time! 🙂

We are settling in well, making lots of new friends and having so much fun!

Well done to Helen, Jayden, Brody, Seán, Kyle, Ke Xin, Amia and Alex – our pupils of the week and most improved pupils! As a reward they got to make rice krispie buns- YUM!

Keep up the good behaviour!

Here are some photos of us busy at work!

It is very important that children continue to wear their school uniforms at all times.

The children have the option to wear navy shorts and a white t-shirt because of the warm weather. 

Thank you! 🙂 

The school Confirmation will take place on Thursday 17th June in Our Lady of Lourdes church at 12pm.

Doodle Den will be on Monday, TUESDAY and Wednesday next week because the school Confirmation is on Thursday. 🙂

Isabelle & Armandas worked so hard out in the school garden today with Ms Heverin. We learned all about full/empty, more/less, nearly full/nearly empty. We then did a worksheet based on capacity! We also took advantage and did our sounds with two letters AND our reading out in the sun! Here are some photos of the fun we had!

Junior infants have been playing doctors all this week! They have been busy building hospitals from blocks, making body parts with play dough, creating their own X-rays from black paper and ear buds and learning all about what doctors have to check when someone is sick!

If anyone is sick in Rutland street get down to junior infants! We’ll look after you!!

The children in Doodle Den have based their work on the book ‘Handa’s Surprise’ for the past two weeks! 

It is a story about a girl who is taking lots of delicious fruits to her friend. Some animals cause a bit of mischief and Handa gets a surprise! 🙂 

Here are some photos of us tasting fruit from the story, playing a bingo game to learn the words from the story and modelling our animal masks that we made for art with Mr. Nolan. We had such a busy two weeks! 

Well done to Calvin for winning a medal representing Corinthians Boxing club. 

Congratulations to Katelyn who won this magnificent trophy for Irish Dancing. 

Well done to the pupils from 5th and 6th who took part in the boxing competition in the National Stadium.

Here are some photos of them in action! 🙂

Anne from the Heritage Council was in Rutland NS last Wednesday and she brought two hens (Bluebell and Primrose) and two lambs (Séamus and Seán) with her! 

Here are some photos of Junior Infants holding, petting and feeding the animals! 🙂

We had great fun in Doodle Den reading a story about a cat who had six dinners, six beds and six different owners! His name was Sid! Some of us thought he was naughty and some of us thought he was clever!

Here are some photos of our activities- responding to the story through art (clay cats) and writing!

We celebrated Lorena’s 6th birthday on Monday in Junior Infants. What a lovely treat to come back to after the Easter holidays!

Junior infants made leprechauns faces for Patrick’s day! They look like real leprechauns!

We attended an amazing take on of “The three little pigs” acted by 5th class.

We walked up to the GPO and posted letters to Kerry, Cork and Dublin.

We inspected the pillars outside and found bullet holes from 100 years ago!!

We snuck along Moore street, watching out for snipers and visited where James Connolly was shot in the leg. We waved our white flags like nurse O’farrell did, who helped us to surrender to the British.

Here are some of the photos relating to all of the above!!!

We held our Proclamation Day 2016 in the hall this morning. Thanks to all pupils, teachers and SNAs for all the fantastic work with art, songs, readings, and we even had a rap about 1916 in the line up! It was a memorable day. 

Here is a photo of Mr Cherry addressing the crowd and the teachers reading out the Proclamation.

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3^rd Class with 12marbles!!

There were 76 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 42 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

This week is Book Week! There are lots of nice activities planned for each class. Happy reading!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar this week are 1st & 5th Class with 8 marbles! Well done !!

To mark the 1916 Centenary Ms. O’Sullivan and her groups have created a model of the GPO from cardboard. It even has fairy lights! Fantastic work-well done to all! 

The children in Doodle Den are basing their literacy around the Gruffalo story this fortnight. 

Here they are with the fantastic masks they made! We used the masks for oral language development and for drama! 

We had great fun! 

Well done to Ms. Jordan’s groups who created this fantastic community board!

Well done to Mya in 4th Class who won these three huge trophies recently for dancing! Wow! We are all very proud of you! 🙂

Junior Infants made great posters to help to ‘stomp out’ bullying from Rutland NS!

Junior and Senior Infants attended a puppet show organised by Enda for ‘say no to bullying week’. There was great excitement!!

5th class created these fabulous posters for anti bullying week!

This week is ‘say no to bullying week’. The children are making an extra effort to be kind and watch out for each other. There will be a poster competition in school that Enda is organising.

This week is Catholic Schools week. During this time, we will explore with the children how they can be the face of God’s mercy in our classrooms, the playground, in school, with their families and in the community. 

Sunday 31st January is the feast day of St. Don Bosco. 

In Rutland NS, we follow the vision of Don Bosco by ‘being there’ for young people, – sharing time, education, fun, prayer and encouragement. We carry Don Bosco’s Christian message of gentleness and love.

There will be a family mass in the church this Sunday, 31st January at 11am. The children and their families are encouraged to attend. 

This week is Intercultural Week in school. We are celebrating the various nationalities that are represented in Rutland NS. Parents are welcome to call in to see the wonderful display in the hall on Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th and Friday 29th. Well done to all the classes for carrying out great research! 🙂 

Here are the wonderful character portraits from ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ by the children in Doodle Den! Well done!

The children from Doodle Den made their own jigsaws as part of their art activity last week.

Everyone was so proud of their work! 🙂

Here is the fantastic work done by Junior Infants on the topic ‘Space’.

Well done to everyone! 🙂

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4^th Class with 14marbles!!

Junior infants are becoming astronauts and learning all about the solar system. They are working together to build a space rocket. The children are also designing their own rocket ships and making aliens using paint and glitter!!

5th Class started the Gymnastics strand on Friday in the PE hall. They worked so well at all of the stations. We were balancing with symmetrical poses and revising our rolls. Well done everyone! Here are a few photos of everyone in action…… I can definitely see a few ballerinas in the making……! 

Well done to Mya from 4th class who won overall star of the year in Francesca’s dance club! What an achievement! 🙂 We are all very proud of you Mya! Here she is with her lovely award!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd Class with whopping 15marbles!!

There were 78 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

The children in Doodle Den made these Gingerbread men in response to the story! We wish we could eat them! 🙂

Calvin and Mark had great fun making these Christmas minions yesterday! Leave comments to let us know if you like them! 🙂

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd & 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 65 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

This morning there was a workshop in junior infants where they were all busy elves making presents & invitations for the school Christmas concert! Super work everyone!! I’ll call in later to see your pointy elf ears!! 🙂

5th class went to see the play ‘The Golden Goose’ in the Sean O’Casey theatre today. Five of the children even got to take part on stage! Well done to all!

Well done to Eva in Senior Infants who is excellent at writing! Here is a piece she did all on her own in Doodle Den & she is only 6 years old! She is using her phonics to sound out the words! Wow!

She wrote:

‘I have a dog. The dog has spots. The dog makes me happy. He is white.’

Dear Parents and Guardians,

There will be a school Christmas Concert on Thursday 17th of December in the school hall at 1pm. Each class will be performing a mix of drama, singing and dancing! Hope you can join us to support the children 🙂 🙂