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!
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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.
Today was a very exciting day in Rutland National School.
4 of our pupils were asked to visit the Department of Education for a photoshoot.
They got to meet with the Minister for Education, Norma Foley and even got to sit at her desk!!
Keep an eye out in the newspapers next week and see if you can spot any photos of them.
We were delighted to welcome all the children back to school after the Christmas break. The boys and girls in First Class have been working very hard since they have come back. They have been learning about the Irish Myth The Children of Lir. They have also been busy in art constricting various different types of home using materials. 
We had a very special visitor today in school! Santa heard the boys and girls were being so good and wanted to come and say hello!
Did you know December 8th is a Holy Day?
2nd Class went to visit Fr Michael in the church to talk about today.
Great preparation for their First Holy Communion later in the year.
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.
3rd Class went on a great trip to Waterways Ireland.
We learnt about fishes, the barges, bridges and canals.
Godfrey was our guide and he was great.
We also learnt about the locks which open and close to let the boats through them.
5 people in our class said they would like to live in a barge. Teacher thinks it might be nice in summer but not in winter!
We got great highlighters as well. Thank you to Godfrey for our tour.