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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.
Senior Infants had so much fun learning number skills with Emma and the parents this morning. It was such a sunny day we went up to the yard. It was the best morning EVER! Thanks everyone who helped out.[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”36″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
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!
The children are really pleased with their planting journey so far. They are excited to check on the progress of their plants every morning. Great work!
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Senior Infants and some parents came to view our amazing art exhibition.
There were two sides to each picture. On one side the children chose their favourite part of their favourite book and drew a picture of it. On the other side, their “Book Buddy” drew their favourite part of their favourite story.
They look great and we had lots of fun doing them!
Well done Senior Infants
Junior infants are working really hard in their literacy lift writing group. Here they are at work.
Senior Infants were working very hard today! They are gaining confidence using a number line to add and subtract. They love improving their counting skills by playing fun games!
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The school was given a humongous Easter egg! This boy had great fun bashing it!
Some of the children have started to grow their own vegetables. They are learning how to sow seeds and take care of their plants by watering them daily and keeping them in a safe place. So far, we have planted spinach, cress, tomatoes and peas. Watch this space!
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Here in Rutland NS we have been learning Lamh signs, so we love this video signed by mothers and their children who have Down syndrome
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!
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.
A group of 4th and 5th class children showing off their baking skills this week. They made yummy red velvet cupcakes! Lovely teamwork!
Well done to our Boxing Champ who received a silver medal in the 2018 Dublin Championships this week!
Children between the ages of 5 and 10 can register to bring their teddies to the Teddy Bear hospital set up in Trinity College on March 10th
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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.
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!
On Tuesday December 14th President Michael D. Higgins unveiled the ‘People’s Acorn’ in the gardens of Áras an Uachtaráin. This was a really special day for the current 6th class in Rutland NS as they had the fantastic opportunity to visit Áras an Uachtaráin to witness the unveiling, having been involved in the project since November 2016. The People’s Acorn is a sculpture created by Rachel Joynt. The sculpture is a 1916 themed piece which commemorates the centenary of the 1916 Rising. It contains a time capsule of school childrens’ thoughts and wishes and won’t be opened until 2116. 6th class were fortunate enough to be part of this amazing project and have their thoughts and wishes documented for future generations to read. We were 1 of only 7 schools chosen to be part of the project so it was an amazing honour. Children from every class also donated lots of pencils which were used to create the sculpture. Here is a link to a video which tells you a little bit more about the project. It’s a day we’ll never forget! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5STwsLzEi8
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!
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 are very proud of their SNA Stephen Donnelly who is travelling to Scotland next week to play for the Junior Ireland soccer team which is a big achievement!
Ms. Cunneen on her last day with one of her best pupils!
These Senior Infant boys love learning new words on their word dice that we made from tissue boxes! Here they are working on their capital and lower case letters together! 🙂
Rinne gach duine i rang a trí pas! Tá siad iontach ar fad!
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- l0.lo.lo.l
My 3rd Class maths group are working so hard on the measures topic ‘time’.
We love both hands-on activities using the mini clocks and interactive activities on the computer!
Here we are hard at work…..
All the pupils in Rutland NS wore blue to support our Dublin team!
Here are some photos of our 2017-2018 group of Junior Infants! They have settled well in Room 1 under the guidance of their teacher Ms. Caffrey. Looks like lots of fun……
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We are lucky to have such a modern, well-stocked library in our school. We love to come here for some quiet reading in comfortable surroundings! 🙂 Our library is sponsored by Niamh McHugh’s family who wish to help children discover ‘the joy and comfort of reading’. Here are a few images of this great space…..
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We are working hard in 3rd class. Here are some photos of our SPHE, Art and Geography classwork! 🙂
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These children pictured worked so well together in their social group on Fridays for the past few weeks. Lots of kind words were spoken and we all learned to share and have patience! 🙂
Great teamwork seen here assembling a circuit and trying to get the bulb to light! 🙂
Everyone was very excited to get their holidays on Friday! A big thank you to Ms. Mc Andrew for putting together our summer newsletter!
Rachel Daly from Crumlin Children’s Hospital collects a cheque for €1300 from 5th & 6th class pupils who raised money singing their rap in Connolly Station. Past pupil Brandon who has attended the hospital is also pictured with his mam Amy and Nanny Deirdre, along with Ms. Jordan and Ms. Duffy who organised the fundraiser. Well done to all!
Have a read of the fantastic lists that 3rd class composed!
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!
Some of our children attended the 20th anniversary launch of Children’s Books Ireland. Elaina, the director of CBI said they were wonderful! They had great fun with the balloons and had some delicious birthday cake!!
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- 11/5/17***NO REPRO FEE*** Pictured on North Great Georges Street are children from Rutland Natiopnal School in Dublin as Children’s Books Ireland celebrate twenty years of making books a part of every child’s life. Since 1997 the national non-profit children’s books organisation has celebrated children’s books and the joy of reading for pleasure through projects such as the CBI Book of the Year Awards, Inismagazine, the Inis Reading Guide and the annual reading campaign (formerly Children’s Book Festival). New initiatives to celebrate the anniversary include the inaugural Robert Dunbar Memorial Libraries and the announcement of Laureate na nÓg PJ Lynch and his three predecessors Siobhan Parkinson, Eoin Colfer and Niamh Sharkey as Patrons of CBI. www.childrensbooksireland.ie Pic: Marc O’Sullivan
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- 11/5/17***NO REPRO FEE*** Children’s Books Ireland celebrate twenty years of making books a part of every child’s life. Since 1997 the national non-profit children’s books organisation has celebrated children’s books and the joy of reading for pleasure through projects such as the CBI Book of the Year Awards, Inismagazine, the Inis Reading Guide and the annual reading campaign (formerly Children’s Book Festival). New initiatives to celebrate the anniversary include the inaugural Robert Dunbar Memorial Libraries and the announcement of Laureate na nÓg PJ Lynch and his three predecessors Siobhan Parkinson, Eoin Colfer and Niamh Sharkey as Patrons of CBI pictured on North Great Georges Street with children from Rutland Natiopnal School in Dublin www.childrensbooksireland.ie Pic: Marc O’Sullivan
These two girls are working so hard on their English writing skills!
The boys and girls in Junior Infants went on an Easter egg hunt this morning after Flop the Easter bunny hid loads of eggs around the garden! Big thank you to all the Mam’s and Dads who came to help find all the eggs! 🙂
The boys and girls in Junior Infants have been learning all about Length! They measured their friends using links, worms and cubes! Some boys and girls even measured the corridor!!
The children who were awarded pupil of the week and most improved made Easter nests with mini eggs today! Yum! 🙂
We planted runner beans today. We watered them. They will appear in 7-14 days. This boy is going to bring them home for the Easter holidays to look after them.
Oh my goodness!! Ms. Heverin is teaching a leprechaun today!! 🙂 🙂
Can anyone guess who it is?!
The children from Senior Infants and First Class who come to me every morning work so hard. As well as reading LOADS of books, they write a story every day! Here are some samples of their work. 🙂
Maciek……Senior Infants
Isabelle….. First Class
Cayden…… First Class
Jonathan…….Senior Infants
Here is a photo of the choir that was taken last week. They are preparing for the First Holy Communion and the Confirmation celebrations while also learning some fun songs that are in the charts at the moment!
Here are some photos of Mikaela, Cameron, Joy and Kacper playing nicely together in their social group!
They played doctors, card games, babies and house!
They were so kind to each other. 🙂
Boys and Girls in Junior Infants have gone DATA MAD! They made Weather Block Diagrams to track the most common type of weather during the month of February!
They also worked sooooo hard to find out the most common coloured bear in the bear box! They lined the bears up in 10’s and counted using skip counting! 🙂 The most common coloured bear was RED! There are 68 red bears in the bear box.
They did the same with different coloured links! 2 of the children counted 200 red links using skip counting in 10’s!!!
Red seems to be the most popular colour in Junior Infants!
Boys and girls in Junior Infants were helping Miss Crosse decide what colour to paint her house! They came up with so many lovely colours she couldn’t decide. The boys and girls thought of a great plan and made a bar chart to find out the most popular colour in Junior Infants!
Miss Crosse can’t wait to paint her house RED! 🙂
On Friday morning we went on a trip to Dublinia. We all paid 5 Euro and we got a bus there.
On our way, we saw Christchurch Cathedral.
Our tour guide, Ian, met us dressed as a Viking.
We saw models of Vikings, one was a woman praying to their Gods. We went on a Viking boat and saw their chests. We went into a Viking house and saw their beds and fire. There were animals hanging in the house.
Then we went to the Medieval Times. There was a Black death and if you were bitten by a flea with it, you would die that day. If you got bitten by a rat with it you would die in 3 days. one third of the people in Dublin died of Black death. Children started work at the age of 7 or got married between the ages of 9 and 12. We learned about the barber surgeon and how he cured illnesses.
The most disgusting part, was that people would use a potty to go to the toilet in and then throw it out the window!
It was really interesting and we learned lots. We would recommend everyone to visit it.
Junior infants have been taking part in so many fun activities for Numeracy Week. They did a Maths Trail around the school where they answered questions that were stuck up on the walls and parents came in and played maths games with boys and girls up in the library! Big thanks to Emma and all the parents who took part. They had great fun!
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 Chess Club Championship has kicked off this month with some very exciting matches between fourth and sixth.
th some very exciting matches between fourth and sixth.
Last week was well-being week in school. Children took part in lots of fun activities such as Yoga, Drop Everything And Dance and a ‘well-being’ poster competition. We also got a new addition to the class, a Worry Monster named Zack who takes all our worries away!
Boys and girls in Junior Infants should be hired to work on ‘Room to Improve’ with Dermot Bannon! They are so amazing at designing buildings!!
Some of our present 6th class when they were in Junior Infants! 🙂
The children who got pupil of the week and most improved made healthy smoothies yesterday! Our ingredients were:
- Apple
- Banana
- Raspberries
- Yoghurt
- Milk
They were delicious!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Junior Infants have been busy writing postcards to their friends and family, building the GPO with blocks, making their very own post-van and doing lots of fun activities to do with the post office! They are fantastic!!
This week past pupil Ciara came to our class for work experience. She taught us two ISL signed songs -Avicii’s Wake Me Up, and Here I am Lord. Check out us out below!
Boys and girls in Junior Infants were learning all about their taste buds and did a blind food taste! They tried sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods! Guess which type of food they are eating in the pictures from their facial expressions! 🙂
Well done to the boys and girls who got pupil of the week and most improved for last week! Zac, Armandas, Toni, Sophie, Maciek, Seán, Connie and Eddie. We were cooking healthy pizzas today. We put pineapple, ham and cheese on them! 🙂
Kacper worked so well in Ms. Heverin’s room today. He was learning all about visiting the hospital. He wrote great sentences! Well done! 🙂 🙂 🙂
The boys and girls I take each day for reading and writing are working so hard! They have eased back into the swing of things and remember SO much from before Christmas! Well done everyone! 🙂
They each have a word dice which you can see in the picture. We made them together using tissue boxes! We change the words each week after they get too easy! We love rolling the dice on the ground and reading the words!
Junior infants are working as hard as Santa’s elves. They are busy writing their letters to Santa and making Christmas decorations out of clay!
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
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- Karina’s penguins…one jumped into the water it seems!
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- Penguins on the ice by Bilguun and Nikola
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- Joy drew this reindeer
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 boys and girls in Junior Infants had a very active Friday. They visited the Pre-school playground for being so well behaved all week, wrote numbers in sand, wrote rainbow Tricky Words and played lots of maths games on the interactive white board. Our Elf was busy moving around and causing mischief.
Well done to Deya in 6th class who was the winner of the ‘Doodle for Rutland’! Her amazing creation can be seen on our home page. I love how she incorporated the school crest into her design.
Erin in 5th class was runner up and her doodle will appear on the site later in the year.
Thank you to all of the children who submitted entries. It was so difficult to choose a winner!!
Boys and girls in Junior Infants are brilliant at figuring out what shapes to use to make fantastic pictures!
The boys and girls in Junior Infants showed off their dance moves and musical statue skills at the end of the day, all dressed up in their fantastic costumes!
Boys and girls in Junior Infants love predicting and listening to stories, especially when mammies and daddies can come too!
The children took part in a variety of activities! Art, Music, baking and sports! It was a fun filled week!
We found an Elf on the Shelf hanging out in our classroom this morning!
On Wednesday evening our class met up with the 4th & 5th class boys and girls from Gardnier Street and the Central Model School for the start of term Disco at Oznam House! We got hot dogs and juice and had a great night!!
The choir are in full swing practising carols and hymns for Christmas.
We hope to raise funds for the school again this year by having a carol singing day up town. More information soon!
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
We made some marshmallow ghosts, played ‘Pin the Smile on the Skeleton’ and went bobbing for apples
We did Halloween art and cooking with our parents. Big thanks to Emma for organising it. We had so much fun!
The ‘most improved’ and ‘pupils of the week’ made white chocolate pumpkin sweets- YUM! 🙂
The Junior Infants’ door is looking quite scary this week!!
