Author: msoherlihy

This week is Safer Internet Week across the country. At Rutland NS we are encouraging all of our pupils to ‘Swipe Less and Sleep More’. Research shows that screen addiction goes hand in hand with sleep disturbance. We are seeing many of our pupils arriving at school with less than 8 hours sleep. This is having an impact on their learning in school. If children can reduce their screen time before bed and keep devices out of bedrooms, we believe it will have a positive impact on their sleep and learning.

We had some very special performances today from The Irish Baroque Orchestra.

It was fantastic to see them perform some of the music we have been learning about from Bergie. They played pieces from Bach and Vivaldi and even finished with some lovely Christmas songs.

Thank you so much Bergie, Catherine and everyone involved in such a magical concert.

Today 6th class was busy doing art. We were doing German pop art.

First we printed our portraits and then we had to trace over them.

We used the windows to help us trace.

We are then going to make dots with markers to make them look like pop art.

Check our website later to see the finished product!

by Leila T

6th Class had a fantastic morning in Glasnevin Cemetery today. Pat was our tour guide and he told us all about Micheal Collins and how he helped make the Catholic Emancipation. He also showed us the graves of Eamon De Valera and Countess Markievicz.

By Evan

Katriona O’Sullivan came to Rutland NS last week to share her experiences with the staff.  We were joined by staff from other local schools for a wonderful afternoon listening to Katriona share her story and remind us all of the impact education can have on children.  Thanks for sharing your story with us Katriona!

We had a colourful day in Rutland NS last week when we all wore our odd socks to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day!

We raised over €200 for Down Syndrome Ireland and are really grateful to everyone for their support.

Thank you

We had a very special evening on Thursday when we held our first ever night time Christmas performance!

The church was filled with family and friends to support our amazing pupils.

They put on some amazing performances to fill our hearts with Christmas cheer.

The evening raised over €4,000 for the school.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to support. It was a very special evening in the history of Rutland National School.

2nd Class were very lucky to take part in Drama with Darren. We also went on our class trip last week to the Viking Splash tour, Stephen’s Green playground and McDonald’s! The biggest part of this year was our First Holy Communion – we had the best day!

Well done to all of our very talent students who all took part in our end of year Arts Show today.

It was a morning filled with wonderful music and very talented actors and actresses!

We were really lucky today as Music Generation Dublin City stopped by to play us some traditional music.

They brought in traditional Irish instruments such as the uilleann pipes, fiddle and bodhrán.

It was the perfect start to St Patrick’s week in our school.

Don’t forget to wear something green on Thursday!

Our fabulous school turned pink recently to raise money and awareness for Breast Cancer.

We raised over €6,000 euros for Breast Cancer Ireland as the children sang their hearts out for the day during a Karaoke Singathon.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the day such a wonderful occasion in the school.

To all the parents and local community who donated fantastic prizes we are incredibly grateful.

To the parents association who helped decorate the school and turn us pink for the day, we would be lost without you.

Most importantly to the amazing pupils who dressed in pink, sang their hearts out and helped raise over an incredible €6,300 euro for Breast Cancer – THANK YOU SO MUCH.

It was a day filled with smiles & songs, happiness and hope.

Thank you to everyone involved.

A huge congratulations to lots of the girls from Rutland NS who were competing in Donegal last weekend.  The school came home with over 15 trophies and plenty of smiles!

Keep up the fab work girls.  We are very proud.

4th Class were learning about igneous rocks so decided to have a look at how igneous rocks are formed!

First we made our own mountain using flour, water and salt. Then we made our mountains turn into volcanoes by creating an explosion!

We used baking soda, washing liquid and vinegar to create our eruption.

We watched the lava explode down the volcano and this lava will harden to form igneous rocks. It was great fun.

Well done Dublin!  Dublin won the All Ireland football final on Sunday.  We made Dublin flags in school to support the team.  It must have brought them good luck!

Hi from Room 8

We are the new third class and we rule the school! (just joking!)

We like football, chocolate, lollipops, dancing, ice cream, pancakes, art, science, maths and lots more.

We are excited about being in third class but we miss Mr Cherry!

We have two teachers this year, Ms O’Herlihy and Ms Quinn.

We are looking forward to going to senior yard, lots of trips and dancing!

Keep checking the website to see what we are up to.

Bye for now.

Dora, Alicia, Brooke, Fegor, Sienna, Frankie, Sabrina, Lexi, Alisha, Abbie, Jadine, Brooklyn, Richard, Alper, Warren, Alex, Anand

 

We have had such a busy and exciting first term!

Here’s a few different things we have done:

1. Trip to the Botanic Gardens
2. Science week in the Ilac Library
3. Meeting Alan Nolan, the author, in the Ilac Library
4. A trip to the bowling alley
5. A trip to  the Central Bank where we met the boss of all the banks in Ireland!
6. A magic maths man did some tricks with us
7. Junior Achievement came to our class for a few weeks
8. Science for Fun with our parents
9. We made our very own lava lamps
10. Best of all – we got €50, 000 each!!!

We hope everyone enjoys the Christmas Season and we look forward to seeing lots of people at our Christmas Mass on Monday.

Last Monday First Class went on a trip to Citibank in the IFSC. Dee from Junior Achievement works there and we were really lucky as she brought us on a tour to show us around. We saw lots of exciting things in her office. They even have a gym there! We went to the meeting room on the top floor where we got an excellent aerial view of the whole of Dublin.

Dee gave us all certificates. Our teacher was very proud. Have a look at our pictures.

First Class have been learning all about the story of the Children of Lir in History. Laila told us one day that there is a statue of the Children of Lir up near Parnell Square. We took a walk one day to the beautiful Garden of Remembrance and we saw the lovely giant statue telling the story of the Children of Lir. There is also a lovely cross filled with water just beside it. We had a great time there.

Before our mid-term break we took a walk to the old Rutland Street school. We think our new school is much nicer. The old school had broken windows, a different yard and there was writing on some of the doors. The yard had big pillars in it that we would crash into if we had to play in it now. We are very lucky to go to school in our new modern building.

First class have a new addition to the class!  Declan brought a plant into school last week and with it came a beautiful ladybird.  We have called her Lally the Ladybird!  Sometimes she is on our Jolly Phonics book and Calum even found her crawling on his hand the other day.  We hope she stays with us for a while! 

We have a new First Class in the school and here is a picture to introduce us all! We are going to have a great year this year and work really hard. We are always going to try our best and have lots of fun. Keep checking the website to see what we’ve been up to.

by Christopher Duffy

On Monday there was a big assembly.  There was gangs of people – mas, das,

kids and teachers.  Ms Burke talked first to all of us on the microphone.  Then Ms Caffrey talked.  She said who won the awards for Junior Infants. Then Ms O’Herlihy took the picture of Junior Infants.  Then they sat down.  Every teacher came up and told the people who won awards.  They all got their picture taken.

6th class made their graduation at assembly.  It was good.  We all clapped for them.  They let us sign their uniforms.  They want their uniforms signed so they could remember us from the school. 

I really enjoyed myself and hope next year that I might get an award!

To show how much we want the Irish soccer team to win against Spain, everyone came in to school in green, white and orange on Thursday! It was good fun.  There was a really great atmostphere in school.  Some people even got their faces painted too!  COME ON IRELAND!!!

I reckon it’s going to be a good game.  It will be a tough game for Ireland.  Spain have a really good team with people like Casillas.  He’s their captain and their goalkeeper.  He is the best goal keeper in the world.  They also have Iniesta.  He’s a brilliant striker.  Ireland has a really good team too with players like Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Stephen Ward and Shay Given.  In my opinion I think the result is going to be 3-2 to Spain.  I hope I’m wrong though!

Don Conroy better watch out!  The famous Irish wildlife artist is going to face stiff competition from Emma’s 5th class.  Have a look at the amazing oil pastel pictures they did of different animals.  We think they should be on display in the National Gallery!

Click below to watch 3rd class play Ireland’s Call on their tin whistles!

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Ireland’s Call

O Happy Day3rd class with a huge thanks to Emma, recorded a version of the Gospel Choir Song, O Happy Day. Watch out for our video coming soon!  Click above to listen to our recording!

Delicious pancakes were made by 3rd class. We got a little help from Emma and Assumpta. Emma was great at flipping the pancakes and Assumpta was great at washing up!!
We put Nutella, lemon and sugar on our pancakes. They were delicious. Some people went home and had some more for dinner! Lucky them!