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Well done to 4th class who drew and painted these reindeer! The corridor is looking very festive!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1^st Class with 14marbles!!

There were 73 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

It’s that time of year again when it is kind to think of others who are less fortunate and our school is participating in a Christmas food appeal. We are encouraging families to send in non-perishable/long shelf life goods. Please do not bring in food that will go stale or food that needs to be put in the fridge. We are collecting for St. Vincent de Paul. Here are some examples of what you could bring in…….

All of the children in Doodle Den made Goldilocks yesterday to link in with our story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Well done everyone!

Well done to all the children who participated in this friendly match today in Rutland NS school yard!

This Sunday marks the first Sunday of Advent. This is what the candles on the Advent Wreath symbolise:

First Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Hope
First Sunday in Advent

Second Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Love
Second Sunday in Advent

Third Candle, Color: Purple or pink
Theme: Joy
Third Sunday in Advent

Fourth Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Peace
Fourth Sunday in Advent

Centre Candle,Color: White
Theme: Christmas
Christmas Day

The children can come to school this Friday 27th November without their uniforms and with a contribution of €2 towards school fundraising. 

The book fair is in Rutland NS from today until next Tuesday 24th November. There are lots of fantastic books for the children to buy and we also have a bargain box with some books reduced to half price! We would encourage all children to buy a book! 

Every week the children’s work is displayed on the notice board in the canteen. One piece of work from a hard-working student is picked each week and shown at assembly. 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1^st Class with 13marbles!!

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

Well done to Cian in 6th class who has completed this amazing project on snakes! He started it with Mr. Cherry and finished it with Ms. Heverin this week. He is amazing at drawing! Look away now if you don’t like snakes!! 

Here are Kacper and Isabelle having great fun with the tablets learning their phonics!

Temuulen from 3rd class drew this fantastic portrait of his class!

We hope he comes back to visit us when he is a famous artist in the future! Well done!

The children in Doodle Den made clay Owl Babies today based on the big book story.

There were 69 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 35 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th Class with 12marbles!!

There were 83 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 43 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Here are the Rutland National School kids doing their brilliant rap! Thanks so much to the Ark and rapper ‘GMC’ for helping us! It sounds great! Watch out Kanye West! 🙂

Next week (12th-16th October) is maths week and all the classes will be taking part in fun activities! Here is an old photo of Daniel, Abbie & Quessia who promoted maths week a few years ago.

Here are Bilguun & Cameron beside our Autumn display in Ms Heverin’s room. We love learning all about this colourful season!

Look at these amazing scuba divers along the bottom corridor! They are all great swimmers!! 🙂

6th class have a great display of world war 2 diary entries on the top corridor! Well done! 🙂

Nyamka planted this sunflower in April and we came back to a big surprise when we started school this September! It has grown so much and has flowered nicely! Well done Nyamka- a nice colourful addition to the school garden! Here are our before and after photos! 

Here are 6th class working hard at their scratch projects! Coding benefits kids because it helps with maths, problem solving and logical thinking.

The school choir started back today in the hall with Mr. Feeney and Ms. Heverin.

The children were so well behaved and we are learning some great songs!

We will all look forward to the choir each week! 🙂

Doodle Den is on every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday until 4.15 in the hall in Seán Treacy Apartments on Buckingham Street. Parents are asked to collect the children each day on time. Thank you! 🙂

Here is a photo of the Junior Infant Humpty Dumpty wall.

It is brilliant! 🙂

We had great fun with mini dice while learning about place value. Here we are hard at work!

Well done 4th class!

5th class are excellent readers. Here they are with their heads stuck in books! We love the ‘Band’ books!

Senior Infants created these amazing Hundertwasser-Inspired snails! Well done everyone!

Bilguun & Cameron were hard at work in Ms Heverin’s room this morning making use of their knowledge of phonics! Well done boys! Some were tricky!

The Junior Infants were working so hard in Ms Heverin’s group today sorting and matching. Here we are busy at work…..

Henry McKean from newstalk radio was in our school this morning talking with parents, pupils & teachers about our brilliant breakfast club!

If you would like to tune in, the clip is live on newstalk.com

Well done to the parents, children, grandparents & staff who all spoke very well!

We have a lovely school community board outside out canteen displaying all the smiley heads from our school!

Well done to all the children who took part in the talent show this afternoon!!

Here are some photographs from our wonderful art exhibition. Well done to all of the children for the fantastic effort with art throughout the year. 🙂 

We would like to say a huge thank you to Sinead who brought us to her workplace today! We listened to the few speakers who told us about what happens in the Central Bank on a day-to-day basis.  Stefan Gerlach, the Governor of the Bank asked us lots of questions about the Junior Achievement program. Here are a few photos from our trip! 

Junior Infants were working so hard when I was in their room this morning. Well done everyone! 

• The children who worked so hard in the choir this year were rewarded with a treat after dinner today! We all had ice cream! Yum! Nyamka, Gaby and Tadgh joined us too! Well done everyone! 

5th Class have created this fantastic display in the top corridor. Well done all- it looks great!

Well done to Ben in 1st class who got player of the year for Belvedere football club. 

What a great achievement! Keep up the good work Ben! Make sure to send all the teachers some tickets when you’re a superstar in the Aviva some day! 🙂 

3rd Class made their own cheese in school yesterday. We went to the cookery room and made our very own cheese from start to finish. We heated some milk in a big saucepan. When it got to 190 degrees we added some vinegar. Then we left it to rest.When we checked on it – we could see it had all began to separate. It was amazing to see.Then we drained the cheese from the liquid and put some pasta on to cook! We put our cheese on our pasta and had the most delicious meal!

We are thinking of setting up our own cheese company and making millions of euros! Come and see us if you want to order some cheese!!

Ms. Heverin is very impressed by the standard of writing in 1st class! The children are concentrating on procedural writing at the moment and this week have written about the steps involved in making a cup of tea! 

Here are some photos of their excellent work…….

4th and 5th class had a great day today in the Ark in Temple Bar. 🙂

They were taking part in a visual art and literature based programme based upon the ‘Once Upon a Picture’ exhibition.

It was a fantastic workshop!

Here are some photos of us in action………..

Well done to all the classes for the FANTASTIC work on their chosen countries for Intercultural Week! 

Some 5th class children re-enacted poses from

Junior Infants ….. Look how much we have grown!

Amy in Junior Infants drew this portrait of Michael D Higgins!

Well done Amy it is amazing!

Junior Infants are learning all about Ireland for Intercultural Week.

Cameron & Bilguun made these American flags from lollipop sticks in Ms Heverin’s room!

They are learning all about the USA for intercultural week.

These old photos from the school camera will make you smile!

1st class are learning all about China for Intercultural Week this week. 

Here is Nyamka wearing his dragon mask that he made in Ms. Heverin’s room! 

Kelly & Clinton have worked so hard at the length chapter in Ms Heverin’s group this week! Happy heads here! Well done boys!

Nathan has developed a huge interest in learning all about the solar system.

Here are some photos of him working hard on the topic in Ms. Heverin’s room.

Nyamka planted sunflowers in our garden today. He was excellent at listening to the instructions and explaining the steps to Ms. Heverin. We hope the sunflowers will have grown tall by the time he is in second class. They take a long time to grow! 🙂 🙂 🙂 

Sunflower seeds

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants & 1^st Class with 9marbles!!

There were 68 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 29 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Thank you so much to Samsung who have given the school some new fantastic tablets.  We are so lucky.

We can now type up our reports on our tablets, make cool books and play fun maths games.  We are looking forward to learning lots of more cool stuff on our tablets.

Thanks Samsung for making us a Samsung school!

Layla was a fantastic helper this morning taking care of the flowers with Ms Heverin. We gave them lots of water for this lovely warm day. 🙂 

Senior Infants are working so hard with Ms. Heverin this week. Here is some of the work that we have been doing….

Maths can be so interesting when done in fun ways!

Here is Clinton doing his multiplication sums on the tablet.

Like us all….. Six Dinner Sid loved his dinners! Yum! The children in Doodle Den are concentrating their work around this big book at the moment and made a row of houses that Sid liked to visit for his dinners every day! Ms. Devereux hung it up on the wall. Well done everyone!

The children also made Easter Chicks with Ms. Heverin

Nyamka made these fantastic windmills and we tested them out on the school roof garden. We had great fun! 

To make the windmill you will need: 

• A square piece of paper
• A scissors
• Glue
• Blue Tac
• Thumb Tac 
• A Straw

Here are the instructions: 

• First fold the paper to the opposite corner (to make a triangle). 
• Open up the paper again. Then fold the other corners together. 
• Open up the paper once more. 
• Cut along the four  lines from the corners halfway into the centre of the page. 
• Bend (but do not fold flat) every second corner into the centre point and stick it with some glue. 
• Push the thumb tac through the centre point and through a straw at the back (which will be the handle). 
• For safety and to hold everything secure, put some blue tac on the sharp point of the thumb tac at the back. 
• Go outside and see your windmill work! Magic! 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 77 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 31 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants with 13marbles!!

Cameron & Bilguun made these fantastic Spring flowers for the wavy wall at the library!

Here are some photos of Nyamka watering the flowers in our roof garden today. 🙂

The winners of Marbles in the Jar this week are 4^th Class with 13 marbles!

There were 81 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 30 Senior students with Full Credits!

Well done!! 

Nyamka had great fun in the PE hall on the Friday of our Mid-Term Break. Here he is trying lots of different sports! 🙂

The children in Senior Infants are fantastic readers! I listen to their familiar reading each day and they are getting better and better. Sometimes I think I am in 2nd class because the reading is so good!! Here they are with their heads stuck in books! 🙂 

Here are some photos of Cameron & Bilguun working hard in Ms. Heverin’s group this morning.

They are excellent at using the computers which is such an important part of learning in school!

We are 100 days in school today. 

Here are some fun activities that we did in the yard to mark the day! 

Well done to Shauna in 5th class who researched about sharks over the past week in Ms. Heverin’s group.

She took notes about information that was of particular interest and recorded in her copy (where she also did a first draft of her report).

Then she typed it up and it looks fantastic! 🙂

Well done Shauna!

Ellie always works so hard in Ms. Heverin’s Literacy Lift writing group. Here is her report on chickens! Well done Ellie! 🙂 

Cian in 5th class has compiled a fantastic ‘free writing’ copy which includes many styles of writing such as

• reports
• procedures
• narratives
• explanations

Well done Cian, your copy was such an interesting read! 🙂

Here is one of Cian’s pieces of ‘free writing’……….

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants, 5^th Class & 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 75 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 35 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!