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Winners of Marbles in the Jar this week are 5^th Class with 13 marbles!!

Well done to everyone in 3rd class who sketched these wonderful portraits! They look great! 

Keep up the good work! 🙂 

Here are some photos of the fantastic work that the 1st class artists did based on cubism!

Well done everyone- they look great! 🙂

1st class are producing such amazing reports in Ms. Heverin’s group each day. 

Here are a few photos of our most recent reports on the squirrel. 

We all read aloud in the author’s chair and feel so proud of our work! 

The Junior Infant children in Ms. Heverin’s maths group are working hard learning all about money! Here are some photos of us working away!

The 5th and 6th class girls have designed this poster on interdependence during their sessions with Emma and Ms Bailey.  The poster will be included in Amnesty International’s new Friendship Week brochure which will be sent to every primary school in the country.  A picture of the poster was tweeted by @rightssparks #edchatie yesterday and has already been re-tweeted by many people, including our local TD Marueen O’Sullivan, and Amnesty International who have 20,000 followers!  Well done girls!

Nyamka and Ms. Heverin made paint writing pads to use for various activities!

This is what you need to make them:

Sellotape, cardboard, scissors, paint, sandwich bag.

You squeeze some paint into the sandwich bag (not too much) and then seal it. Then cut some cardboard and stick the bag onto it with sellotape.

You can use the paint writer to practice words and sounds and to play lots of different games!

Here is Nyamka using the ones we made 🙂

1st class have been working so hard since coming back to school in January.

In Ms. Heverin’s Literacy Lift group we have been developing our report writing skills.

Here are some photos of our reports on Oak Trees…….

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants, 3^rd Class & 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

The children in Doodle Den are such hard workers! today we watched Ms. Heverin modelling how to write a story and afterwards we wrote our own stories which were fantastic!! 🙂

We had to remember all of these things that good writers use….

• spaces between words
• capital letters
• characters
• setting
• problem/exciting part
• beginning, middle and end

The children from Senior Infants who partake in Doodle Den were back with lots of energy today! We made a great start to our literacy learning for 2015. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Our work currently concentrates around the story of ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’. Here we are matching words and pictures from the story and playing a game that helps us remember the story sequence.

We are also pictured stamping the word we’re learning this week which is ‘they’.

6th Class created this fantastic Christmas village. Well done everyone, it looks great! 

The children were delighted to have been invited to the Seán O’Casey Community Centre to watch ‘Cleocatra’! 

At the end of the show there was a raffle and our school was sooooo lucky!! Ryan and Aaron won family ice skating passes worth €40 each! Lots of other children won delicious selection boxes!!  Take a look at the photos below…..

School will be close at 12.30pm on Friday 19th of December for the Christmas Holidays and will re-open on Monday 5th of January.

Wishing you all a safe and Happy Christmas

Ms. Barron

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants & 3^rd Class with 13marbles!!

Our school is decorated so nicely with Christmas art.

Santa is in a spot of bother outside 1st class!

The children had their turkey and ham Christmas Dinner in the canteen today.

It was delicious! We are so lucky to have had this treat in school. Thank you to all of the kitchen staff for their hard work and to Betty who made a return appearance for the day! 🙂 Lots of the teachers and SNAs wore their Christmas jumpers! 

Everyone was in great form and the children even got ice cream for dessert! YUM! 

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants 1^st Class & 3^rd Class with 13marbles!!

6th Class were studying ancient Egypt recently. Here are some photos of the fabulous portraits of Egyptian people that they did for an art lesson!!

There will be a school mass at 10am on Monday 8th of December in the church on Seán McDermott Street. 

Parents and guardians of children from the school are encouraged to attend. 

There will be beautiful art on display, singing, some drama and children will be celebrating the feast of Christmas together in a special way. 

Looking forward to seeing you all there! 

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3^rd Class with 13marbles!!

There were 95 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 47 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Other news from Assembly was: Alex Collins from 4th Class and Erin Whelan  from 3rd took part in the Belvedere Youth Club Karaoke Competition. Alex came 1st and Erin came 3rd! Big Congratulations to them both!!

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.

Here are some photos of the amazing art work around our school……………

3rd Class are studying data at the moment. Josephine worked so hard in Ms. Heverin’s room this morning.

She neatly recorded the data bar graph into her copy and came up with five questions about the graph.

Well done Josephine- amazing work!

Meditation takes place in each classroom on Thursdays. 

The children love this part of the week especially if they are feeling stressed, angry, worried or nervous. 

The children in the school are studying the theme of the Renaissance for art this month.

We have a lovely interactive display in our hallway thanks to Emma!

Here are some photos of the display…..

The children in Doodle Den are concentrating their literacy learning around the theme of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ this week. Look at the amazing stick puppets we made!! We had to listen to the instructions very carefully and cut along the frame of each puppet with care. We used them to develop our oral language skills around the story! We had great fun!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th Class with 15marbles!!

There were 97 students in the school with Full Stamps this week.Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1^st Class with 14marbles!!

There were 83 students in the school with Full Stamps this week. Well done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd & 5^th Class with 13marbles!!

Bilguun worked so hard in Ms. Heverin’s room this morning. He built a bike all on his own with no help! He learned the words: bolt, nut, screwdriver. We had great fun before doing our sounds on the computer! Well done Bilguun! He might get a job in Santa’s workshop!! Watch out elves!!

Quessia, Shauna and Cally brainstormed about what it means to be a good friend. Here is what we came up with!

Happy Friendship week everyone!

Assembly News – Week Beginning 04/11/14

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants, Senior Infants & 1^st Class with 13marbles!!

Cameron and Bilguun worked so hard in Ms. Heverin’s group today. We did lots of activities!

Here they are putting the lovely pictures of Jack and the Beanstalk in order: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth.

They were excellent at explaining WHY they thought a picture went in a certain place. Well done boys!

Here are some of the Junior Infants working hard in Ms. Heverin’s group today……….

Here is Nyamka making a scary witch for Halloween!

The Doodle Den children made funny Wendy Witches for Halloween this week!

Everyone was SO good at cutting and painting! Well done!

Here are all our witches………..

Was your guess close?! Well done to Sally-Ann in first class who was the closest guesser with 444!! She was two numbers away from the correct answer! wahoo! Enjoy the skittles!

Bilguun and Cameron have made clay pumpkins and skeleton heads! ooooooOOooOOOooo!!!

Maths week got off to a great start with maths games & fun in 5th class in the morning (thanks to Codie’s dad Alan for popping in to give us a hand) and some of us made these maths shufflers which we love!! Ms. Heverin can confirm that someone’s guess is VERY close to the correct number of skittles in the bottle!! Winner announced on Friday!

Maths shuffler!

We are so excited about maths week next week! There are lots of activities planned for each class & we hope some parents will join us for the fun! Here’s a little fun to get everyone in maths fever!! …… Can you estimate how many skittles are in this bottle?!! The only person who knows is Ms Heverin! We’ll be collecting guesses from pupils and teachers next week & everyone will get to hold the jar and have a look! The closest to the answer wins the bottle next Friday & can chew skittles for the weekend! (Don’t tell the dentist!!) best of luck everyone!! (PS: I have wrapped about 20 layers of sellotape around the lid of the bottle in case anyone might get peckish and take one or two!!)

YUM!!

The children in doodle den started the ‘Room on the Broom’ story this week and made witch hats as part of the art lesson. We had great fun!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants & 2^nd Class with 13marbles!!

We have 17 budding Leonardo da Vinci’s in 3rd Class!

Everyone has painted a self portrait but can you guess who is who?!

We have not put any names on the paintings and are wondering if people can guess correctly!  Have fun!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

School will re-open on Monday 1^st of September.

School will be open Thursday 28^th and Friday 29^th of August between 10.00 am to 2.00pm so that parents can buy tracksuits and pay for books.

Cost of school books this year is €50.00

School Tracksuits cost €45.00

School Tie €7.00

The following is the list of staff for 2014/2015

Junior Infants                    Ms Lynch

Senior Infants                    Ms Caffrey

First Class                           Ms Crosse

Second Class                      Mr Cherry

Third Class                         Ms. O’Herlihy/Ms. Quinn (Job Share)

Fourth Class                       Ms  Scanlan

Fifth Class                           Ms O’Sullivan

Sixth Class                          Mr Finan

Special Educational Team

Ms Heverin

Ms Nugent

Ms Devereux

Ms Bailey                                     

Special Needs Assistants

Linda Black

Louise McGovern

Andrea Whelan

Trish Carthy

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th Class with 12marbles!!

There were 64 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 26 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd Class with 12marbles!!

There were 79 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants with 12marbles!!

There were 86 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 33 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd & 3^rd with 11marbles!!

There were 85 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 39 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th with 13marbles!!

There were 69 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 38 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th with 11marbles!!

There were 88 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 28 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Sinead from PWC has visited fourth class over the past few weeks and taught us all about running our own businesses !

We are learning lots about companies, being a sole trader and partnerships !

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3^rd with 13marbles!!

There were 90 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 25 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

The percentage of children with full attendance continues to improve.  Keep up the good work until the end of the year

Our recently reviewed Anti-Bullying Policy is now available under the Anti-Bullying section of our website.  Thanks to pupils, parents and staff for their hard work in drafting this policy. Our catchphrase is Bully free – it starts with me!

Laureate na nÓg Niamh Sharkey joined with colleagues from Brown Bag Films to celebrate International Children’s Books Day at Rutland Street National School with the launch of Bookbag.

Bookbag is a children’s book gifting initiative, kickstarted by funding from Brown Bag Films and delivered in partnership with Laureate na nÓg and Children’s Books Ireland. Rutland National School is the first school chosen to take part in this scheme; Brownbag and CBI hope to bring books to many more schools in the future.

Under the scheme, every child in the school got a brand new book to take home and keep – a book that is fun,entertaining, high quality and that will encourage reading for the love of it, not just to learn.

Niamh Sharkey believes that reading is a great way to explore new worlds through the imagination and to discover amazing illustrations – no matter how young or old you are.

Thank you so much for our beautiful new books!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants with 13marbles!!

There were 78 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 40 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants 2^nd & 3^rd Class with 12marbles!!

There were 93 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

On Friday Second Class celebrated their First Confession. It was a lovely ceremony. We can’t wait for our Communion Day in May!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants 5^th & 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 79 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 43 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants 4^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 73 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 53 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants 3^rd & 5^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 87 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 58 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Well done to Mohhamed Aloba who represented the school in the recent Eason Spelling Bee competition.  Competition was fierce and Mohhamed managed to make it through the 5^th round.  We are very proud of him.

Rutland NS celebrated the 100^th day of school on the 4^th of February. The children were working on lots of fun activities around the number 100-flipping a coin 100 times and recording the number of times it landed or heads/tails, making lists of 100 boys/girls names, writing short stories containing exactly 100 words and making board games, as well as many more. Here are some pictures…

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th  Class with 14marbles!!

There were 69 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 38 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Yesterday was a very important day in Second Class. We had our Enrolment ceremony for our First Communion. Many thanks to Fr. Tim for making the day so special. We can’t wait for our First Communion!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th  Class with 15marbles!!

There were 77 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 43 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Rutland NS are exploring Pop Art at the moment and are creating magnificent pieces of work. Thank you to Emma and Ms. O’Sullivan who have set up the pop art board and have helped classes with sharing ideas and teaching the children the traits of Pop Art.

Here are some photos of our art board and some of the work that the children have created (some unfinished!)

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants & 4^th Class with 14marbles!!

There were 79 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 47 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are ^6th Class with 14marbles!!

There were 73 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 23 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 14marbles!!

There were 75 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 45 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 82 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

A huge congratulations to 5th class who just completed their Junior Achievement programme! Andy from Citi Bank came into us for 4 weeks where we learned so much about entrepreneurship & everything business related. He was so impressed by the knowledge in 5th class that I thought he was going to hire us all! On Thursday we visited Andy at his place of work in Citi Bank where he presented everyone with a certificate & a goody bag.

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 82 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 30 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

It’s that time of year again when it is kind to think of others who are less fortunate and our school is participating in a Christmas food appeal. We are encouraging families to send in non-perishable/long shelf life goods. Please do not bring in food that will go stale or food that needs to be put in the fridge. We are collecting for St. Vincent de Paul and Cuan Álainn . Here are some examples of what you could bring in…….

The children in Doodle Den are working so hard!

We made our very own owl babies in their nests with clay!

We are becoming excellent spellers also!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5^th Class with 14marbles!!

There were 86 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1^st, 4^{th  and} 5^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 89 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 81 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

There was super construction going on in yard today. The future of our country is in safe hands judging by the wonderful designs seen on yard 🙂

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd and 4^th with 12marbles!!

There were 67 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Senior Infants are learning soooo much in Doodle Den! We love it!

We go on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Here we are with our fantastic Harry Hedgehogs…..

Smiley faces! 🙂