Category: 5th Class

5th class would like to wish all their friends and family a very safe and happy Christmas. We hope you enjoy our song and our poem faoi an chéad Nollaig!

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Although we are sad we cannot invite our families and friends in to school to see our performance this year, we are so excited we still get to wish everyone a happy Christmas in a special way. 5th class worked very hard on both of their performances this year.

First, the boys and girls performed a drama to the poem ‘Christmas 2020: Love Will See Us Through’. The poem tells the story of a different kind of Christmas this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic and has a very special message. You can watch the drama here:

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5th class also performed ‘Oh Holy Night’ when we visited the church to speak about the Christmas story.

We wish everyone a happy, safe, and peaceful Christmas.

5th class are getting into the Christmas spirit after a very busy term full of learning and fun (as you can see in the pictures!) The boys and girls made some beautiful clay Christmas decorations and drew some wonderful snowglobes. They even made their own Advent wreath and Advent calendar filled with random acts of kindness as we countdown to our Christmas holidays.

It was a wonderful term, especially being reunited after staying apart for so long during the school closures. We wish everyone a happy, safe, and peaceful Christmas.

Nollaig Shona!

Ms Bermingham and the girls and boys in 5th class.

Well done to 5th class who have created this beautiful display in the corridor! Wow! Fabulous artists!

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…….

5th class created cool pop art images….they will be adding text to them next week…..watch this space!

Our very own talented Irish Dancer!

A huge congrats to our very own Laureen, 5th class, who had a very victorious weekend in Bray, taking home a whopper 12 medals and 3 humongous trophies for Irish Dancing!!!  We are super proud of her, as are her family no doubt! Well done Laureen! Riverdance watch out ;)!

We even made Friday’s edition of ‘The Irish Times’ p.10!

A huge well done to all in 5th class who took part in the big event of the crowning of the new Laureate na nóg, Eoin Colfer. We were invited to the Arts Council Building in Merrion Square last Thursday where we were greeted by fabulous treats (cupcakes and drinks!) and also by the man himself, Eoin Colfer. Eoin sat down with us and told us many stories of his past, which inspired many of his children’s books, such as ‘Artemis Fowl’, ‘Benny and Omar’, ‘The legend of Spud Murphy’ and ‘WARP’ which we’re reading in 5th class at the minute! We were bombarded by the media – newspaper representatives, RTE, and RTE junior reporters! We also got to meet Minister of State, Fergus O’ Dowd. It was a very exciting morning! If you missed our interviews on RTE junior, take a look by following the link – we look and sound ever so well 🙂  http://www.rte.ie/trte/news2day/

Thanks so much to Tony, who not only comes in on Tuesdays for Paired Reading, but is also coming in to us for Badminton coaching! He has taught us many a Badminton technique already, after just 2 sessions! We look forward to perfecting our Badminton skills over the next few weeks 🙂

Today was our first day in training for our Bronze Medal in boxing. It was an intense hour of training! Well done to everyone in 5th and 6th class who were absolutely terrific. Katie Taylor watch out!

We had lots of fun last week for ‘Science Week’. We worked with marbles and the effect of ‘stored energy’ to move a stationary marble when the first one is moved; We also experimented with milk, in the experiment named ‘Milk + Soap = MAGIC!’ When we added the food colouring and the soap to the milk, we saw the colours chase the fat in the milk and it almost looked like a marble! We also made our own Rockets – so everyone BEWARE!!

We were envious of Ms Heverin’s class having a Hot Chocolate Feast so we too celebrated our yard points victory by having of our own hot cuppa choc with marshmallows! Yum! Keep up the good work on yard 3rd & 5th 🙂

We met poor Eggward last week, who was very sad and lonely. When placed in the water, he sank straight to the bottom 🙁 Luckily, 5th class are ‘egg-stremely’ friendly so we all had a turn to cheer him up by telling him something nice, funny, or just being friendly in general (adding salt each time!). Thankfully, he rose to the top of the water where he now resides 🙂 He is much happier now 🙂

Fair play Jade for volunteering to perform a maths trick with our visiting Mathemagician!

5th class had their last ever Italian class yesterday with Miss O’Connor. Look at their belle pictures below!

Unfortunately the Modern Languages for Primary Schools Initiative has been ended by the government and this year will be the last ever year of it.

I had a fantastico year teaching 5th and 6th class and will miss all the students and teachers a lot.

Grazie mille to all the studenti I have taught and all the teachers I have worked with. Another grazie tanto to Ms Burke for all her help and support over the past tre years too!!

Chloe's bella picture!

Belle pictures by Cassidy and Kisha!

Fantastiche pictures by Ali and Tamzin!

Ciao a tutti! Love Miss O’Connor! 🙂

Last Friday the 27th of April our class did an experiment to create a volcanic eruption. The girls and boys created two mountains. look at the results of our experiment.

Fifth class have been going to swimming in Sean McDermott St pool this term. We have learned the backstroke, the frog or the breaststroke, the dolphin where we swim under water and the mermaid where we wriggle our feet. We are all making great improvements.

We have been doing African art and really enjoying it. Here is a photo of some of our work.

In Italian we learned the days of the weeks and months of the year. Oggi é venerdi, due dicembre.

We had the school book fair and bought lots of great books and stationery. We are enjoying reading our books now.

Now that it’s December we are getting ready for Christmas and our Christmas Concert on 16^th December. Our class will do a dance with Francesca and a Christmas carol. We look forward to performing for everyone.

Fifth class have been studying, computers, communication and Internet safety. The Interent is great for entertainment and information but it can also be dangerous if you are not careful. We all designed our own rules to keep children safe on the Internet. Here are our top ten rules.

1. Don’t accept friendship requests form someone you don’t know. Don’t reply to chat or emails from strangers.

2. Never go onto video chat with someone you don’t know, or send photos to someone you don’t know.

3. Be careful putting up pictures of yourself as other people can tag or copy them. Don’t put up pictures of other people without their permission.

4. Never give your name, phone number, address or other personal information on a website. You should click ‘don’t show’ your email address or other personal information.Alway have your settings on private.

5. If anyone is bullying you, or says or does anything that worries you on the internet, you should tell an adult that you trust.

6. You should have antivirus software and be careful not to click on or download from websites you don’t know.

7. Never bully or fight with others on the Internet.

8. You should only go on websites designed for children and never onto adult websites.

9. Never meet anyone face to face that you only know from the Internet.

10. Don’t spend too much time on the Internet, it is important to play outside and chat to people face to face as well.

Two weeks ago, we went to the Natural History Museum and the National Art Gallery. In the natural History Museum, we saw lots of dead, stuffed animals, such as elephants, giraffes, zebras, sharks and birds. We weren’t allowed to touch them but some people had a sneaky touch and they were very soft.

The National Art Gallery was very big and it was lovely. We saw Irish paintings, a Picassso, a Van Gogh, lots of Jack B Yeats and many other paintings. Our favourite was Jack B Yeats, particularly the Singing Horseman.

We are continuing to read Across the Divide and really enjoying it. We are on Chapter 6 now and learning loads about Jim Larkin and life in 1913.

We won the Marbles in the Jar last week and did really well this week too. We hope to win again soon.

Lots of our class are going to see the Belvedere play Mama Mia so we might write about that next week.

Last week was World Book Day

Our class went to the National Library last week to see Oisin McGann. He is an author and an illustrator. He told us to write our stories into a little notebook if we want to be authors. He said to record all our ideas in the notebook, or even on our phones. He drew pictures for us and said to do them really light first in pencil and then go over them in black marker. It was great to see him and we would definitely go again.

After the National Library, we went to Easons on O’Connell St. We used our book tokens to get books. We also were given goody bags. We had good fun there reading and finding interesting books.

Alice and Cara went to the Ballybough Community Centre to see the author of Across the Divide, Brian Gallagher. All the schools in the area will be reading this book and doing activites on it. Alice and Cara got signed copies of the book. All of the class got a copy as well. We just started reading the book and it seems very interesting.

We are still collecting sponsorship for our Readathon so hope we do very well.

On Tuesday we had Science for Fun. We did lots of new experiments. One experiment was using red cabbage to dye cloths red. Then we  dabbed vinegar (acid) on it and saw it turn pink. Then we dabbed bread soda (alkaline) on it and it turned it blue.

Another experiment was to make chrystals. We made them by adding bread soda and cream of tartar to water and mixing them. We will leave them for a few more days to let them dry out to make the chrystals.

Elaine organised the class and some of the parents came to help out. We had lots of fun and can’t wait for next Tuesday.

In our school there are Rules of the Week. All classes try really hard to follow them, and if they do, they get a marble in the jar. In assembly on Mondays, all classes tell how many marbles they have. Then Miss Burke tells us which class has the most and is the winner for that week.

Last week our class won! For our prize we watched a dvd and had popcorn. It was great, the film we watched was The Little Rascals and it was really funny. We really enjoyed ourselves and will try our best to win again soon.

For the Christmas concert every class did something. Our class performed two dances that Francesca taught us. The first was “All I Want for Christmas” and the second was “Under Pressure” by Jedward. We had great fun learning them and it wasn’t really hard work. We had a great time performing and really enjoyed it. Everyone was talking about how good we were. All of the classes were extremely good and we loved watching them. We hope they liked our dancing.

Thanks everone who came to watch us. Thanks to Miss Burke for organising the concert and thanks to Francesca for teaching us the dances.

Today is the 10th of January 2011, it is a new year. Our class have made a New Year’s Resolution to get along with each other. That means not calling names, not slagging, not laughing at each other, being kind to each other, helping people who need help and including everyone. We are all going to try our best to stick to this resolution.

It is snowing in Dublin and it is very heavy at our school. Right now it is soft snow and it is sticking.

Lots of people are slipping, even people from our class.

We hope that it will get thicker so that we can have fun in it. But we hope it doesn’t get too bad or go icy so that we cannot visit people at Christmas

Fifth class are very busy gettting ready for Christmas and in particular for the Christmas Concert.

We are learning two dances with Francesca and all the boys and girls are taking part. We hope that all our parents and guardians will enjoy our performance.