Here are some pictures of some of the fun activities 4th class got up to before the school closures. We learned about Chinese New Year with some parents, used what we learned about shapes to go on a shape hunt around our school and we started drumming! Hopefully it won’t be too long before we get back to school to have more fun together. All the boys and girls are working very hard and using Seesaw really well. I love being able to see the work you’re doing at home so keep it up! I hope everyone is keeping well and safe.
Category: 4th Class
4th class (with some visitors from 1st) had a great Pancake Tuesday 😍 We learned the other name for Pancake/Shrove Tuesday and we also discovered the reasons why pancakes are eaten on the day before Lent begins. We discussed what promises we might make for Lent and of course had some tasty pancakes!!
The boys and girls in 4th class have been working extremely hard writing narrative stories. As a special treat, we read our stories to Ms. McKelvey’s Senior Infants. The boys and girls really enjoyed sharing their hard work. Some of the boys and girls in Senior Infants even showed some of their reading to their new friends in 4th class!
Well Done everyone! 
The boys and girls in 4th class have had a busy start to the year. We learned about Dublin long ago, noting the similarities and differences to Dublin today. We worked in groups to create excellent projects all about Dublin. We also explored how the breathing system works and made our own set of lungs! Have a look at some of our hard work.
What an incredible event Miss Baileys Class held today for International Womens Day. All the children researched and wrote about different famous women in history. The children also created dinner plates and re created the famous ‘Dinner Party installation art work by feminist artist Judy Chicago. The parents were invited to attend and the children spoke and answered questions about their famous women. What a celebration!
Ms Harte Hayes did some amazing science lessons with us. We learned all about forces and how they affect us. We saw how astronauts use parachutes to land safely on earth.
Then we worked in teams to create the best parachute for a toy teddy using various materials.
We tested our creations by standing on the table and letting them float to the ground. The best parachute floated the slowest to the ground so out teddies had a soft landing.
Congratulations to Brooke in 4th Class who has qualified for DCU’s CTYI (Centre for Talented Youth) programme! This is a huge achievement for a ten year old! Most people don’t go to university and take courses until they’re nearly 20! We are all so proud of Brooke! Competition is fierce but Brooke kept her focus through the grueling 2 hour exam!
At CTYI the courses are in topics not usually covered in the primary curriculum e.g. Astronomy, App making, Chemistry, Codes and Ciphers, Experimental Physics, Chinese, Strategy and Games, Novel and Play Writing, Forensic Science, The World of Harry Potter, Art Design. We can’t wait for her to report back to us all here in fourth!!!
Brooke is the first person in 4th to be accepted onto the programme, just like Katherine Gobels was the first to send a man into space using maths!
Hidden Figures, IMBD 2016 -www.YouTube.com
Bhí gach duine sa scoil ag caint as Gaeilge le deanaí. Chomh maith le sin, bhíomar ag canadh, ag damhsa agus ag léamh as Gaeilge freisin!
4th Class enjoying learning some Irish dancing in celebration of both Seachtain na Gaeilge and St Patrick’s Day. On Thursday we had a Céilí beag with Senior Infants!
An tseachtain seo thosaigh muid ag foghlaim an damhsa Gaelach ‘Tonaí Thoraí’ táimid ag baint sult mhór as.
Bhí céilí beag idir muid agus naíonáin shinsearacha. Caith gach duine rudaí glas ar an lae
In the afternoon we had a tráth na gceist! Congratulations to the winning team: Temuulen, Frankie, Alicia & Makela.
Ms Duffy’s “rang Gailege” came into to test us on our Irish knowledge and to find our Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine! Congratulations Sabrina!!
This week is Engineer’s week. 4th class have been learning all about engineering and different types of engineers. On Thursday Dr Ian from UCD came into our class. He is a bio-mechanical engineer. This means he uses science to make things to help sick people get better.
He showed us the heart tissue he is growing in his lab to help people who have heart attacks. We dissected a heart last month so we had lots of questions! Science is so cool!
We explored hair, fingerprints, bees, coins, sugar, tissue and coffee through the microscope. We then had to use our new scientific skills to solve a mystery just like forensic scientists!
This is what we imagine an engineer to be…
Dr Ian explains how science is used to grow artery valves to help people with sick hearts
Grace from 6th attached her microscope to the computer to share her findings with the class
Brooklyn’s slide is hooked up the IWB he shows the class the finger print on the jellybean
Sabrina explores some sugar under the microscope. We think it looks just like crystals or ice.
Exploring bee wings under the microscope
Dora explores a Shreddie under the microscope
Temuulen and Dr Ian discuss their findings.
Frankie and Lexi start our exploration by examining their slides with magnifying glasses.
Mateusz Warren explore the wasp with a magnifying glass
We record our findings. We use lots of amazing adjectives to describe what we see
Grace hooks her microscope up to the computer to show the class her bee study. Can you see its eyes??
Now this is what wen imagine an engineer to be!
Exploring the sheep heart
Well another Valentine’s Day has rolled around so what better time than now to dissect a heart?
Fourth Class have been looking at the human circulatory system and how the heart works! On Valentine’s day we became heart surgeons and explored some sheep hearts! We then teamed up with Science Club for some more investigations!
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- When blood enters the valves close!!
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- The valves are open…
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- Da Vinci was one of the first scientists to sketch the heart!
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- Dr Sammy leads the dissection
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- Dr. Keegan labels the chambers with Bilguun in Science Club
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- Dr Da Silva gets ready to hold the heart
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- Dr Rooney explains that the Aorta (the main artery) has a bigger diameter than our little fingers!! We could feel all the way down!!
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- Dr Rock in consultation with her surgical team
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- Identifying the upper chambers of the heart
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- Our hearts are the size of a fist!
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- Exploring the sheep heart
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- Dr Chen located the heart on his patient Mr Quinn
For the last few weeks the Rutland Street engineers have been designing, building and modifying roller coasters!
“We all learnt about force!! The marble needs speed to complete the loop successfully… and the best way to build up this force??? Gain some height!!”
-Temuulen
Check out our inventions on the second floor!!!
The Blue Team with the RDS Judges (It’s Evelyn Cusack from RTE’s meteorologist/weather team!)
Fourth class are super scientists! This week, after months of investigations, experiments and hard work they presented their project at the RDS Young Scientist Exhibition!
They were grilled by the judges for nearly 20 minutes (eek!), interviewed by RTE and National Newspapers, but it was all worth it… because… they came home with an AWARD!
"...Excellent project, outstanding drawings, incredible models... one of the most talented hardest working groups of young scientists we've seen today..." -Evelyn Cusack, RDS Judge.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary How Does Our Inner City Sheltered Garden Grow?
Brief: “Ms HH was always giving out about how long it took myself and Frankie to water the garden, so we decided to see if we could figure out a way to make the garden do the work, and water itself, and after a few months and LOTS of hard work we did” -Brooklyn
Watch this space for more info from the scientists themselves! For now, see if you can spot any familiar faces on Thursday’s news2day!
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/news2day-30001385/10673176/
(Spoiler Alert! There are 9 of the team spotted throughout the segment -can you spot them all?)
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This week fourth class made their own Christmas dinner!
Everyone worked their Santa socks off peeling, cutting, cooking, dicing chopping, draining, melting, mixing, whisking and presenting their food. We were all delighted to sit down together to enjoy a three course Christmas dinner after a hard days work!!
Starters
Frankie (C), Jadine (V.C.), Lexi, Sienna
Caprese Salad
Fresh Basil and pepper sprinkled over Mozzarella and vine tomatoes
Garlic Bread
Home made garlic butter bread
Bruschetta
Diced vine tomatoes tossed in oil and Basil
Mains
Alex, Anand (V.C), Joesef, Richard (C), Mateusz,
Turkey & Ham
Brussels Sprouts
Tossed in butter and served with crunchy lardons and almonds
Broccoli Slaw
Torn broccoli, raisin, shallot and a biter sweet balsamic dressing
Crushed Roast Potatoes with Spring Onions and Gouda Cheese
Potatoes, lardons, pickles, spring onions, tossed in melted gouda cheese
Dessert
Abbie (C), Ali Hickey, Ali Sammy Dora (V.C.)
Abbies Chocolate Chip Cookies 
Secret family recipe
Dora & Ali’s Christmas Sponge Cake
Secret recipe
This month we decided to form our own Book Club! On Tuesday afternoons we cluster into small groups around the library and excitedly discuss the books we’re reading. Every group picks their own books. Sometimes we take it in turns and sometimes we take a vote!
We make predictions, defend our opinions and share our favourite parts! We love to read! We read a few pages for homework, during D.E.A.R. time and sometimes we sneak a few pages when we have finished our lessons (and checked our work of course).
Every week or so we write or record our reviews, rate the books and even recommend them to our families and friends (if we give them a top review!).
This week we are reading:
Dirty Bertie, by David Roberts
Goosebumps: Curse of Mummy’s Tomb by R.L. Stine
Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Out of Nowhere, by Gerard Whelan
Who’s a Big Bully Then? by Michael Morpurgo
Check our our reading gallery!
Abbie, Anand, Josef and, Mateusz are reading the Goosebumps series!
Alex and Richard are getting stuck into Dirty Bertie!!
Brooklyn found a great reading nook in the library!
Alicia and Brooke are on adventure with Lucy & Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia.
Ali reads the first chapter of Michael Morpurgo’s “Who’s a Big Bully Then?” to Fegor and Makela. The author was highly recommended by Sienna who has just finished his book entitled “An Eagle in the Snow”.
On Thursdays, our class give our hard working teachers Ms Harte Hayes and Ms McAndrew a break and we become the teachers!!!
During the week we highlight questions we can’t quite work out in mental maths and on Thursdays we break up into small groups and teach each other!
“Mateusz and Anand explained the rolling the dice question differently and helped me to understand it. Its still a bit confusing but they are going to check in with me during the week and so we all have it mastered for next week!” -Lexi
“I helped Jadine to master the perimeter question, we have a saying perimeter is all the way around the pitch, and now she knows it too, we all enjoy helping each other” -Brooke
“Its fun to help others, at first it was hard to explain how I understand how to do it, but with a bit of practice it became easier, and now I really enjoy it!” Abbie
“I like explaining things, and helping others, and working with my friends. I always feel great when I help others to understand” -Temuulen
“Is maths over? No way. Wait, can I have 1 more minute, I almost have it! Yes I got it!!” -Brooklyn
Alisha delighted she has now mastered another Mental Maths question with Teacher Richard
Brooke explaining the perimeter saying
Teacher Abbie and Sabrina working together
Alicia and Dora teaching each other some maths tricks
Teaching the “Dice question”
Teacher Richard & Alisha
This year we have a Science Club at Rutland!! The club, made up of students from 2nd-4th class meets once a week for an hour of hands-on science activities!
For the first half of term we are investigating space science!!!
We all adopted a planet, discovered some incredibly interesting facts and together made a solar system!!!
We also looked at gravity and air resistance with Felix Baumgartner & Brian Cox (on YouTube) . We were inspired to design our very own parachutes!!! Material choice, shape and surface area were important elements of our design process!
We tested our parachutes on the stairs 🙂
We also made rockets to launch ourselves into space, and will post these
This month we have been working really hard on our Irish reading strategies. We learnt this clever poem to help us remember some tricky Irish words hidden in na ceisteanna!
Click to listen! Éist anois!
Click for the words: na_ceisteanna-pdf
This week our class took on the “Cup Stack Challenge”. We had to make a pyramid out of 6 plastic cups (3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, 1 on the top). Easy right? Well, in this challenge we couldn’t touch or move the cups with our hands, even if a cup fell over onto the floor!!
Instead, each person held onto one of the strings that were attached to a rubber band around the base of a cup. We worked together, pulling the rubber band apart and then bringing them back together over the cups. It was all about patience and team work!
It was lots of fun, and after we mastered our technique, we raced each other with different groups winning each time!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Jonathan | Layla |
| Senior Infants | Eva | Kacper |
| 1st Class | Tymon | Narcis |
| 2nd Class | Ermun | Sean |
| 3rd Class | Temuulen
Alex |
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| 4th Class | Katelyn
Kai |
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| 5th Class | Shannon
Grace |
Calvin |
| 6th Class | Quessia
Christian |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 15marbles!!
There were 84 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits.
Well Done!!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Evan | May |
| Senior Infants | Martin | Isabelle |
| 1st Class | Ricky
Hugo |
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| 2nd Class | Leah
Tengis |
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| 3rd Class | Alicia H | Anand |
| 4th Class | Calum | Abbie |
| 5th Class | Alex | Lennon
Clinton |
| 6th Class |
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Sha Sha | Mia |
| Senior Infants | Eva | Toni B |
| 1st Class | Joy
Dora |
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| 2nd Class | Ben | Cooper |
| 3rd Class | Makeala | Alisha S |
| 4th Class | Calum
Abbie |
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| 5th Class | Shannon | Craig |
| 6th Class | Codie
Daniel |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2nd, 3rd & 5th Class with 13marbles!!
There were 87 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
Congratulations to Calvin McAuley from 4th class who won 1st place in a boxing tournament (U10’s)
Well Done Calvin!!
Congratulations to all who had full attendance. Keep it up!!
Miss Barron.
Wahoo!! Rutland NS played superbly today and won (by a not-so-tight margin!!!) against Dublin 7 Educate Together school. We were so happy to win as the last few games didn’t go our way. Hard luck to the other team. It was nice to see the sportsmanship at the end when the two teams shook hands and wished each other well. Here are some photos of the action…….
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- Team photo!
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- Aaron on the move!
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- Mark tackling!
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- Mark before he scores a point!
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- Whopper goal by Mark
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- Christopher defending well!
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- Calvin doing a bit of a jink!
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- The twins Aaron and Nadia chasing the opposition!
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- The nerves before throw in!
3rd and 4th had a great day out at Tayto Park!
There was a wonderful display of singing, dancing and acting as well as the childrens’ art work in the GP hall this week . The talent in our school is fabulous . Well done to all involved !
We were awarded our second green flag at the Helix, DCU on Thursday 22nd May. Codie and Abbie received the flag on behalf of the school. Well done Rutland N.S ! Ideas now please on where we can display our flags !! 
Our school has been awarded a second green flag for our hard work on energy ! Well done to everybody ! Here is our green code !
Look at these old photos we found! Look at how young everyone is!! 🙂
Craig and Lennon at Glenroe pet farm
Alex (aka Dr. Dolittle!!) ewwwww!!
Gabby and Nadia paired reading
Declan in Junior Infants!
Volunteers from ESB take part in the inaugural ‘ESB Engineering Squad’. The initiative, which is part of Engineers Week 2014, aims to promote engineering as a career choice by showcasing personal experiences of engineering and highlighting the critical role of engineering in society to school children across Ireland. Niall from ESB kindly came in to talk with us as part of engineers week. He shared interesting facts about his job and we were very jealous to hear that he gets to travel a lot with his job- to Africa and the Middle East! It was a very informative talk. Well done to everyone who asked questions and listened so well.
Everybody in Rutland N.S is working hard towards getting our second green flag. As well as continuing to separate our waste in food, paper and general waste bins and keeping our school litter free, we are reducing the amount of energy we use in our school. The energy monitors in the classrooms are checking that lights are turned off, standby switches are off, heat is turned down to 18 degrees and doors are closed where possible. This is good for the environment and for our pockets !
Here are the fourth class children with the code for energy:
Fourth class have had Sinead from PWC visiting us over the past few weeks and teaching us all about running our own business. We have learned lots about companies, partnerships and sole traders ! On Friday we played a game like monopoly !
The boys and girls from fourth class had great fun making rockets as part of science week. We learned about “energy” and how rockets use gases to blast off. We tested our rockets to see which one travelled the greatest distance ! Next stop NASA for these young scientists !
Mr. Cherry’s class have been very busy and active over the last few weeks. We really enjoyed the school Sports Day and had lots of fun. We recently went on a mini-beast hunt in Mountjoy Square Park and found lots of different creatures living there. We also visited the playground beside the park as part of Active Schools Week.
We have finished all of our tests now and we tried really hard. Next week we are going on our school tour to Fort Lucan, it’s going to be so much fun!
The children from 4th and 5th class braved the wintry conditions yesterday and reached the semi-finals of the Lord Mayor’s Cup. Unfortunately they were beaten by St. Laurence O’ Tooles and just missed out on the bronze medal. The boys and girls did the school proud and performed brilliantly in all five events – soccer, penalties, running, basketball and wall-climbing.
We certainly have some fantastic athletes in our school and there’s no doubt we’ll be in the hunt for the medals again next year. The future of sport in Rutland NS is looking extremely bright. Well done to everyone involved!
4th and 5th class went on a trip to Glendalough. We had a lovely day. Spring is definitely here! We met up with our friends from St Patrick’s Greystones! We took part in a nature trail and a treasure hunt.
We’ve had such a busy couple of months here in 4th class. As well as working really hard in class, we have been playing a lot of chess with 5th class and we are improving every week. We visited a local bank in October, where we told them all about products that we had designed ourselves. We also met the Lord Mayor of Dublin in the Smock Alley Theatre. He is a really nice man! We even had a visit from a maths magician, who showed us some great tricks. Just before Halloween we made some delicious chocolate apples. We had great fun dressing up for the Halloween party and we played some really fun games!
A brilliant time was had by fourth class at the Tayto Park in Ashbourne on Friday June 1st……
Well done to James McAuley and Bradley Fagan who did the school proud in the ring at the national boxing stadium today! Here are some pictures from the event & the boys with special guest Olympic boxing champion Michael Carruth!!
We have been awarded our green flag for working so hard on litter and waste ; so well done to everybody !
Keep up the good work around the school !
We are working hard on : Photocopying on both sides of the page , reusing old cardboard, separating fruit waste , recycling paper and using one paper towel. Here are some pictures of children litter picking in the yard with Miss Gaynor.
Fourth class are using a writing tree to give us ideas and inspiration for our writing . We can write recipes , rhymes , stories , letters , invitations , excuses …!
Our writing tree .
- Nollaig Shona duit !
Fourth class are going to Larkin every Wednesday for wall climbing , dancing and drama . We are also swimming every Monday so we are getting lots of exercise ! We are looking forward to the Christmas concert on Friday 16th December . Our act will be brilliant !
Fourth class are enjoying science week . We learned about balance and centre of gravity as we balanced the acrobat . Today we tested our reaction times !
Last Thursday was national tree day . We learned about the oak in fourth class . We painted some lovely oak trees in art .
Our classes had great fun doing Easter art activities. We were thrilled to have loads of parents help us!
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- 1st class bunny masks!
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- 3rd sitting eggs!
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- 4th Sock Bunnies!
We are doing procedural writing at the moment in the class. We had great fun writing a step-by-step guide of how to make tea and toast. Afterwards we were allowed to eat as much as we wanted!
Here are some of the things we like to eat on toast: butter, jam, honey, banana and nutella – yummy!