We had our annual Christmas dinner on Tuesday December 16th! A massive thank you to Karen, Mr. Feeney and our fab parents group for making it all come together. The dinner was delicious and a fun and festive time was had by all!
Author: Rose Duffy
Our annual Christmas concert is making its return on Thursday 11th December in Sean Mac Dermott Street Church. Doors will open from 6.30pm with the show starting at 7.00pm. Rehearsals are well underway and we look forward to another memorable night full of festive cheer!
Here are some belated pictures of our end of term Halloween celebrations!
Rutland N.S has received an award for being a Changemaker school and is now part of the Changemaker Schools Network!
A Changemaker is someone with the skills and confidence to lead change in their home, school and community.
The 4 pillars of a Changemaker school are empathy, leadership, creativity and teamwork.
The DCU Changemaker Schools Network is a social innovation initiative to help primary school teachers and students across Ireland to put in place and lead programmes of change in their respective schools and wider communities to address societal challenges. Well done to all staff and students!
Follow this link to learn more
https://www.dcu.ie/dcu-changemaker-schools-network/what-changemaker
Some of Santa’s little helpers did a great job of decorating the tree in reception. Also check out of the lovely festive and Winter art on the middle corridor!
Here is a roundup of some of the fun that’s been happening in Senior Infants lately! A hot chocolate treat in Nancy Bluebells as a reward for lots of hard work, baking cookies as part of our ‘bia’ topic and Santa’s Workshop in our classroom!
We have some wonderful extra-curricular activities to choose from in Rutland. Ms. Manning and her run club train each Thursday. Ms. Wynne and Ms. McMahon and their choir practise every Tuesday and Ms. Callan and Ms. Doyle and their dance club meet each Thursday.
These are the boys and girls who were selected by their classmates to be in the Student Council. Led by Ms. Bermingham, they do fantastic work around the school!
Here are some photographs of our wonderful Nurture room! Mr. Cherry, Linda and all of the children who visit it have made it such a cosy and happy space!
Junior Infants have been learning all about the Gardaí and had a special visit from them. They got to try out their walkie talkies, try on their gear and some children were even handcuffed!
For their golden time last week, 4th class read their very own narrative pieces of writing to 1st class. The boys and girls had a lovely time!
They tasted lots of different foods that were sour, bitter, salty and sweet!
It’s been a very busy couple of months for the school football team. The school football team has been training very hard every Thursday after school this year. This really showed as the team put in some excellent performance in their 11 a side matches. The team scored some great goals and it was the first time a lot of the team had played on a full sized pitch.
The team also took part in the Spar school 5 a side competition. This section of the competition was for all the schools based in North Inner city Dublin. The boys put in some fantastic performances and went on to win the competition, winning the final 5-1. This means they are now qualified for the all Dublin finals. It was a great achievement for the team and they did the Rutland N.S school badge proud.
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Here is Sixth class singing Snow is falling!
We hope you all enjoy.
Merry Christmas!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2YmtNH8fC5eq3gycc0NIqS-SN0h7QsE/view?usp=sharing
Senior Infants performed the poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’ and re-told the story of the very first Christmas.
We hope you enjoy and have a very happy Christmas!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1slpn7VWfHQ-lm5VdZ53-0My2dwZW6JUa/view?usp=sharing
A very Merry Christmas from Junior Infants!
We have been very excited getting into the Christmas spirit. From making toys in Santa’s workshop to keeping an eye on Eddie the Elf it has been very busy! We also had a special visit to the Church and said a Christmas prayer for all our friends and families. We hope you enjoy our song and poem!
Wishing you all a safe and peaceful Christmas. 🎄⭐🎅 
Inspired by the brave and beautiful Adam King on the Late Late Toy show, Junior Infants made virtual hugs! ❤️
Sending hugs to those who need it most at this time.
The Aistear programme has been in full swing in Junior Infants. We have been very busy, learning lots and working hard. We have worked through the theme of autumn, the apple shop and Halloween. 🍏 We were very busy in the Doctors surgery and the Baby clinic. We even built a new hospital for Ted!🐻 We have been using lots of new language and exploring fun ideas. 🌈🌼⭐
Senior Infants have settled so well into their new class. Here is a little video showing some of their new routines and what they get up to each day.
Here are some educational activities to keep your child busy over the period of time we are closed.
https://www.coolmathgames.com/
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, 1st class have been talking and thinking all about love. Ms. O’Herlihy decided to let them share their thoughts on camera!
Junior Infants love their maths activities each morning. Here are some pictures of them hard at work!
We had our annual sports day in O’Connells today and it was a huge success. All of the boys and girls really enjoyed the games, races, tug of war and bouncy castle. A big thanks to Mr. Cherry and the SET team for organising!
Now we’re all ready to slide into Summer like..
Ms. Crosse organised hot chocolate and popcorn as a thank you for the sixth class members of the choir. Their lovely singing voices will be missed next year!
The children in Rutland N.S are so incredibly talented. Here is just a small selection of what is on show in our annual art exhibition. Every child in the school has a beautiful piece of art displayed and they should all be very proud!
The Junior and Senior Infants went to Puddenhill Farm and Play Centre for their school tour. They had so much fun!
Senior Infants are so creative with the blocks. This week they made a shop and were selling pizzas. They also built a fantastic house.
This boy has been learning all about space and the solar system with Ms. McFadden. He made this amazing project and showed it off to his class. Everyone was so impressed! He knows the names of all the planets and lots of other interesting space facts. He will make a super astronaut one day!
Our daffodils are starting to appear!
The boys from 4th were worried that the daffodils would not survive the cold weather. They were delighted to see their daffodils growing strong!
Stay tuned for the bloom!
The boys in 4th class made a trip to the garden shop and bought lots of new garden bulbs and gardening equipment! They planted daffodil bulbs, onions and garlic bulbs. Since October they have been monitoring the pot plants and watering them every few day.
Senior Infants won the yard line up competition for term 1. They got an ice cream party as their reward! Well done!
Senior Infants have been having great fun learning all about the pet groomers!
Senior Infants love maths! They do great work in their maths groups every day and last Friday some of the parents came in to do some activities based around pattern and sequence! Here are some pictures!
On Tuesday the 16th of October, Ms O’Loughlin’s third class were lucky enough to visit Liberty Hall to hear author Pamela Butchart speak about her children’s books.
The class were already familiar with her book, The Phantom Lollipop Man and they got to hear about how she used her old school in Scotland as an inspiration for her books.
The children had great fun acting out the characters and some people were lucky enough to be chosen to go onstage to help create a new story. It was a very enjoyable trip.
Senior infants have been learning all about autumn and the garden. They have been so busy playing in our garden centre, making bird houses, painting trees, printing with apples, playing with conkers at the water table and building garden walls with blocks. Here are some pictures
Senior Infants are delighted to be back at school and have been having great fun. Here are some pictures.
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Junior Infants went on their school tour to Dublin Zoo last Thursday. They had a great day and saw lots of animals! Here they are enjoying themselves.
1st class receiving their runner up prize in the Junior classes group of the INTO LGBT all Ireland art competition – ‘Different Families, Same Love.’ Well Done!
We are so lucky to have a lovely rooftop garden in our school. Here are some children enjoying it in the sunshine.
A representative from Dogs Trust visited the school last week and spoke to the children about how to properly care for and look after dogs. The children really enjoyed this and got to meet a King Charles dog named Lucy. Here are some photos of the Junior Infants on the day.
This girl is a super talented dancer and won a trophy at a competition over the weekend, wow! Well done and keep it up!
Junior infants are working really hard in their literacy lift writing group. Here they are at work.
At a recent Green Schools meeting we chose our two Litter Monitors for the month!
These children will go around the school every Friday afternoon picking up any litter they see around the school – hopefully not very much!
They will make sure to put the litter into the correct bags and have already learned about what goes into the recycling bag and what goes into the general waste bag.
A big thanks to them both!
Well done to our Boxing Champ who received a silver medal in the 2018 Dublin Championships this week!
Sixth Class had a great time boxing yesterday, we didn’t stop moving for the full 40 minutes! Watch out Mayweather!!
The Green Schools Committee met last Friday to discuss ways we could save water as a school. They watched a slideshow presentation before discussing it and brainstorming new ideas.
At our next meeting they will design posters to display around the school so that we can raise awareness about this important issue.
Well Done to the junior pupils of the week and most improved children from the week before Christmas!
The student council walked down to Tesco in the Jervis shopping centre yesterday to collect money raised through the blue token fundraising. We received €463! The money was used to help fund our annual Christmas dinner, which was a big success! A huge thank you to Karen Hudson for putting us forward, to the staff at Tesco for supporting us and to everyone who donated!
This week’s junior pupils of the week and most improved children made salted caramel chocolate brownies! Yummy! Well done to them all and keep up the great work!
The boys and girls at Doodle Den started their journals last Thursday. Before they began they brainstormed topics and learned how to write the date. Here they are getting started!
The boys and girls in Doodle Den loved listening to the ‘Owl Babies’ story and making owls.
Is breá leis na páistí seo a gcuid Gaeilge a fheabhsú ar Duolingo!
The boys and girls loved dressing up today! They all looked fantastic! 
Happy Halloween from all of us in Sixth Class!!!
Some of the 6th class were looking at a photo of their class at Halloween 2 years ago. They can’t wait to get dressed up again tomorrow!
Sixth Class had great fun in P.E. this week playing ‘Suits’. We had to try get as many of our card suit as possible but we could only turn one at a time. We had to run back to our group and arrange our cards in order and get a full suit to win. We were non-stop moving between running for the cards and arranging them in order. It was a race to the finish line for our final three!!
The junior pupils of the week and most improved children had great fun making chocolate chip cookies as a treat. Well done to them all!
Last Thursday morning some of the children in 5th and 6th class busked in Connolly station to raise money for Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
We sang our original rap ‘What Music Is’ and raised €1300 in one hour. That’s €21 a minute, WOW! People were so generous and we hope the money can help those who need it.
by Nathan in 5th class
To check out the song click the video below!
The Green Schools committee have been checking the water meter every week to see how much water we are using as a school.
At a recent meeting they looked at the totals and calculated how much water we used every week. They then found the average amount of water we use per week.
It is 427 litres!
The committee’s next step will be to report this information to classes and advise them on how to reduce their water consumption.
They will continue to check the water meter and we will see if we have reduced the amount of water used!
These boys and girls haven’t missed a single day ALL year. They had ice-cream in the park as a reward. Well Done everyone!
These second class boys have been building some really impressive constructions in Ms. Duffy’s room. Well done boys!
Friday was the 100th day of school! These girls marked the occasion by doing 100 jumping jacks and counting 100 steps around the yard.
The most improved and pupil’s of the week from the junior end of the school got into the festive spirit today by making Christmas pudding Rice Krispie cakes. Yum!
The children in the Doodle Den have been working so hard at their journal writing. They are excellent writers, here they are in action!
The boys and girls in the green schools committee met today to discuss ways that we could save water as a school and to make posters to raise awareness.
They had some great ideas!
-Turn off the tap when washing your hands and wash them quickly.
-Use excess water from bottles to water the plants.
-Make sure the water bottle doesn’t overflow when filling it.
We are going to start reading the water meter regularly to figure out how much water we are using as a school, we will then try and reduce this!
