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Here is a link to the clip displayed on RTE news……….

 

 

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Here is a link to the clip on news today (better quality!)……….

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10220096/

 

Well done to the children who participated in launching the attendance data report with minister Frances Fitzgerald in our G.P hall today. Here is a link to information on the report….. We are very proud of everyone pictured

 

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Class	Pupil Of The Week	Most Improved
Junior Infants	Séan Nikola
Senior Infants	Andreea Michelle
1st Class	Fegor	Sienna
2nd Class	Denis	Declan
3rd Class	Diana	Clinton
4th Class	Nadia	Aaron
5th Class	Scott	Nadia
6th Class	Efeosa	Alannah

 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3^rd and 5^th with 13marbles!!

There were 63 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 39 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 

During September and October all the school have been learning about the artist Hundertwasser.
We have worked really hard to recreate some of his art, see the pictures below for some of our great art work.

Hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween .  Here we are on a recent outing to Mountjoy Square Park during Tree Day where we also looked at the wonderful Georgian buildings !

 

Class	Pupil Of The Week	Most Improved
Junior Infants	Karina	Callum
Senior Infants	Ellie Tori
1st Class	Lexi	Jadine
2nd Class	Dara Mya
3rd Class	Lennon	Calvin
4th Class	Abbie	Ryan
5th Class	Laureen	Daby
6th Class	Efeosa Nadine

 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4^th and 5^th with 13marbles!!

There were 77 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 45 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Also this week 5^th got 50 points on yard for their lining up at the end of yard. Well Done!!

 

 

Class	Pupil Of The Week	Most Improved
Junior Infants	Joy	Tadgh
Senior Infants	Sally-Ann	Lexi
1st Class	Abbie	Alex
2nd Class	Layla	Tyriek
3rd Class	Millie	Alex
4th Class	Aaron	Daniel
5th Class	Abbie	Yole
6th Class	Mohammed	Bradley

 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants, 1^st Class, 2^nd Class, 4^th Class and 6^th Class with 12 marbles!! As there have been joint winners most weeks Ms Burke will pick out of a hat next week if there are a few classes in 1^st place

There were 69 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 48 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

 

Second class are having lots of fun this week for maths week! Here we are using tangrams to make squares. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Class	Pupil Of The Week	Most Improved
Junior Infants	Cameron	Bilguun
Senior Infants	Gabey	Sean
1st Class	Amira	Warren
2nd Class	Kai	Josephine
3rd Class	Grace	Ekaterina
4th Class	Zuzanna	Faruq
5th Class	Amanda	Yole
6th Class	Dean	Shanice

 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants, 2^nd Class, 3^rd Class and 5^th Class all with 10 Marbles!!

There were 87 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 45 Senior Students with Full Credits.  Well Done!!

It’s hard to believe we’re in to October already! We had a busy September in room 17. We are well and truly settled in now! Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to the past month …We are learning more about our senses. We tried to build up our blocks without our sight which was extremely difficult!

Different parts of our hands and arms are more sensitive to touch!

We had our first day of handball! It was unusual at first, but we got the hang of it! It was great fun!

Class	Pupil Of The Week	Most Improved
Junior Infants	Hugo	Ricky
Senior Infants		Sean / Cass
1st Class	Alisha H	Mateusz
2nd Class	Denis /Michael
3rd Class	Cally	Kelly
4th Class	Leah	Lee
5th Class	Angelika	Jade
6th Class	Mimi	Brian

 

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

There were 78 students in the whole school with Full Stamps this week and 32 senior students with Full Credits. Well done!

 

 

Fourth class have settled back to school and are working hard ! Paired reading and chess take place on a Tuesday. We are enjoying handball in our P.E on Mondays and Fridays at the moment . We are making big efforts with our narrative writing and our problem solving in Maths ! Here we are working diligently ……

Does anyone recognise these baby faces??!……. Glenroe Pet Farm, IMMA and Bloom Festival!

This year we are spending lots of time at maths and thinking of different ways to do our maths so that it is interesting and fun.

 

Thank you to all the Urban Soul gang for the great day today!

We are working very hard at improving attendance this year.  Every month we will record how many children had full attendance.  Please look at the table below to find out the percentage of children who were in every day.

	Percentage of children with full attendance
September	60%
October	52.5%
November	56.7%
December	46%
January	54.5%
February	63%
March	55.5%
April	80%
May	48%
June	36.6%

A huge congratulations to all the boys and girls who received a certificate from their teachers for Best Worker, Most Improved, and Best Behaviour. It was undoubtedly the hardest year to choose just 3 from each class as everyone has tried their absolute best all year. Well done to all and keep up the good work 🙂

The teachers ran a charity 5km in the Phoenix park! It tied in nicely with active week! Well done to all! 

Second Class recently received the Sacrament of First Confession.  Ms. Lawlor and all the boys and girls put a huge amount of work into preparing for this special day.  All the children read, sang and answered out all their prayers.  It was great to see so many parents attend the ceremony as well.  We are now looking forward to a special day on May the 18^th when second class will receive The Sacrament of First Holy Communion.

Last Monday First Class went on a trip to Citibank in the IFSC. Dee from Junior Achievement works there and we were really lucky as she brought us on a tour to show us around. We saw lots of exciting things in her office. They even have a gym there! We went to the meeting room on the top floor where we got an excellent aerial view of the whole of Dublin.

Dee gave us all certificates. Our teacher was very proud. Have a look at our pictures.

Easons

Well done to all the staff and pupils at Rutland NS for a fantastic Book Week.
All of the children had great fun reading. some read with children from other classes, some with their teacher and some with special guests. We read in the class, in the library and in Easons.
We had a very exciting guest reader in the school, Bill O’Herlihy, who read to the children and parents in 1st classs.
1st class, 2nd class and some pupils from 5th and 6th went to Easons to hear Joe O’Brien read from his fantastic Alfie books.

All the children got vouchers for free books and lots of teachers and classes went to easons to choose these books and buy others.

The Readathon was a great success and has raised lots of money, wghich will be used to buy more books for our school so that our pupils can continue to read interesting, fun and informative books. Thanks to all the children, parents, families and friends who donated!

 

This week is World Book Week. We have lots of exciting book events happening in Rutland NS and the classes will be doing lots of reading. All of the children will get vouchers to get a free book that they can read at home. They will also be doing a Readathon in school and will be looking for sponsorship at home.
Reading is so important and we hope that the children will spend extra time at home reading this week too.

Well done to all the teachers and children who did so much work to celebrate Multicultural Week. Every class had a magnificent display in the hall, along with each class performing a song/poem/dance from the country they studied. 6th class even counted from one to ten in ARABIC! So well done to all! Of course, weeks like this needs lots of preparation and to get us started, Aaron, Cian, Shauna, and Kisha helped with the cooking for our tasting day. We cooked dishes from South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Romania, Poland, Ireland and Australia!

We all had great fun sampling the various dishes. Some dishes were quite unusual but it was great to see people being adventurous and tasting them regardless!

The displays in the hall were terrific! We were even able to sample more food here! There were activities and puzzles also. It was great to see parents pop in and look at all our work. Well done to all who were manning their stations and had super answers for all the questions we had about their country!

First Class have been learning all about the story of the Children of Lir in History. Laila told us one day that there is a statue of the Children of Lir up near Parnell Square. We took a walk one day to the beautiful Garden of Remembrance and we saw the lovely giant statue telling the story of the Children of Lir. There is also a lovely cross filled with water just beside it. We had a great time there.

4th, 5th and 6th attended a workshop today on bullying. We explored how to cope with being bullied and the effects it can have on people. The most important thing to do when being bullied is to talk.

Recently some of our pupils got a chance to review some toys for the Newstalk morning radio show.  Kome, Ross, Aaron, Lee, Lennon, Saad, Nathan and Grace all had lots of fun playing with lots of different toys including a Nerf Gun, Elimination Chamber, Moshi Monsters, Moshi Home, Leap Pad, the Napi Tablet, Glen Dragons set, Spiderman and Lego Superheroes. The children spoke about the advantages and disadvantages of all the toys. We are now raffling the toys to raise much needed funds for our school.  You can listen to the show on www.newstalk.ie –  podcast – Under the cover dated December 8th

Congratulations to everyone who gave fantastic performances on Friday! It was a great day – full of talent, laughter and fun. We are all so proud of every boy and girl who did their very best. Well done to all! Here are a few photos  for everyone to enjoy!

  Dear Parents/Guardians

• The Christmas Concert takes place on Friday the 14^th of December at 12.30pm in the G.P. Hall.  All Parents/Guardians are welcome.
• The Schools annual trip to St. Patrick’s School in Greystones will take place on Tuesday the 18^th of December 2012.  The bus will depart at 9.15am and children will arrive back in the school at 2pm approximately.  Junior/Senior Infants Parents/Guardians are invited to collect their children at 2pm.
• School Christmas dinner will take place on Wednesday the 19^th of December.
• Homework Club finishes for the Senior Classes this Thursday the 13^th of December and will resume after Christmas.
• The School will be having its annual Christmas draw next week.  We have top of the range Christmas toys.  Five tickets will cost €2.  We hope that you will support this fundraiser.
• The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is holding their annual Food Drive Appeal and is looking for donations of non-perishable food items to help families enjoy a special Christmas.                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tinned foods: i.e. fruit/beans/soup.                                                                                                                                                                                                               Treats: Chocolate, crisps, biscuits, soft drinks                                                                                                                                                                                    Cereals & other Items: Noodles, rice, tea, coffee, sugar
• School will close for the Christmas Holidays on Friday the 21^st of December at 12.30pm.  School will re-open on Monday the 7^th of January.

 Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

Regards

Darina Burke

Principal

The Garda band visited today and we sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Jingle Bells, Away in a manger and many more! It was great fun!

We have a lovely new crib for our Christmas Sacred Space.

During the season of Advent, Christians across the world prepare for the celebration of the arrival of the Lord into the world through the birth of His son Jesus Christ. Advent is the time to celebrate light in the midst of darkness. It is also a time to look forward to when Jesus will come a second time.

SVP Food Drive Appeal 2012

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is holding their annual Food Drive Appeal.

By donating non-perishable food items or a hamper, you will be helping families and individuals enjoy a special Christmas.

Suggested Items:

Tinned Foods:            Fruit, Vegetables, Soup, Beans, Spaghetti, Tuna, Tin , Stews, Meatballs

Cereals & Other Items:

Breakfast Cereals and Muesli, Noodles, Rice and Pasta.

Muesli Bars, Tea, Cofee, Sugar, Marmalade, Pasta/Rice/Sauce

Treats:

Chocolate, Crisps, Biscuits, Popcorn, Sweets, Soft drinks

Please ensure foods donated are non-perishable and there expiry dates are well into the next year.

Thank you for your support of the work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Second class are working hard. On Monday we do station training with Transition Year in Larkin. On Thursdays we do meditation. We learn tin-whistle on Wednesday and Friday. We do Literacy Lift. Every Friday we have Golden Time.

Here are some facts about Penguins
• Penguins are never cold.
• They slide on their bellies to get into the water.
• The dad minds the egg while the mam gets the food.
• The mam holds food in her belly and vomits it up for her baby.
• Then the dad gets his own food afterwards.
• They waddle because they have very short legs.
• Penguins are birds but they cannot fly.
• Penguins have sharp beaks to chisel the egg and to catch fish.
• Rockhopper penguins keep their flippers out.
• The mum lays the egg and the dad minds the egg.
• Penguins are really good swimmers.

Before our mid-term break we took a walk to the old Rutland Street school. We think our new school is much nicer. The old school had broken windows, a different yard and there was writing on some of the doors. The yard had big pillars in it that we would crash into if we had to play in it now. We are very lucky to go to school in our new modern building.

Confusion and delight spread throughout the corridors of Rutland N.S. today when not one but two Mr. Finans turned up for work! Can you spot the imposter?!

4th and 5th class went on a trip to BNY Melon recently. We worked in groups and presented our business ideas to the Dragons! Without doubt some budding entrepreneurs have been unearthed!

First class have a new addition to the class!  Declan brought a plant into school last week and with it came a beautiful ladybird.  We have called her Lally the Ladybird!  Sometimes she is on our Jolly Phonics book and Calum even found her crawling on his hand the other day.  We hope she stays with us for a while! 

We have a new First Class in the school and here is a picture to introduce us all! We are going to have a great year this year and work really hard. We are always going to try our best and have lots of fun. Keep checking the website to see what we’ve been up to.

by Christopher Duffy

On Monday there was a big assembly.  There was gangs of people – mas, das,

kids and teachers.  Ms Burke talked first to all of us on the microphone.  Then Ms Caffrey talked.  She said who won the awards for Junior Infants. Then Ms O’Herlihy took the picture of Junior Infants.  Then they sat down.  Every teacher came up and told the people who won awards.  They all got their picture taken.

6th class made their graduation at assembly.  It was good.  We all clapped for them.  They let us sign their uniforms.  They want their uniforms signed so they could remember us from the school. 

I really enjoyed myself and hope next year that I might get an award!

To show how much we want the Irish soccer team to win against Spain, everyone came in to school in green, white and orange on Thursday! It was good fun.  There was a really great atmostphere in school.  Some people even got their faces painted too!  COME ON IRELAND!!!

I reckon it’s going to be a good game.  It will be a tough game for Ireland.  Spain have a really good team with people like Casillas.  He’s their captain and their goalkeeper.  He is the best goal keeper in the world.  They also have Iniesta.  He’s a brilliant striker.  Ireland has a really good team too with players like Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Stephen Ward and Shay Given.  In my opinion I think the result is going to be 3-2 to Spain.  I hope I’m wrong though!

This article is written by Jade Fagan from 3rd Class

When we started football it was hard but as the weeks went by it got a lot easier but hey, practise makes perfect. Dara and Jamie were teaching us. We played matches, did dribbles, toe tapping and we played games .We did all this in Diamond Park .The boys are very good for doing this in their own time. We do this every Wednesday but this Wednesday was the last week. It was a great experience doing football with the boys. We will ALL miss them.

All school tours have been added to the calendar on the school website, which can be found on the right hand side of the homepage.

Don Conroy better watch out!  The famous Irish wildlife artist is going to face stiff competition from Emma’s 5th class.  Have a look at the amazing oil pastel pictures they did of different animals.  We think they should be on display in the National Gallery!

Click below to watch 3rd class play Ireland’s Call on their tin whistles!

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Ireland’s Call

Here are pictures of some of the topics Junior and Senior Infants have been learning throughout the year! Everyone can talk about the different types of weather and seasons and clothes to suit them! We can name all the ways we get around, people in our community who help us and all the  different feelings we can have! Keep up the good work boys and girls!

Well done to all the children, parents and staff who raised money by selling balloons for the balloon race. It was exciting to see the balloons being left off – Thanks Mr Cherry for the wonderful idea and for all the work put in to it!

We had a super week learning all about St. Patrick and getting in to the festive mood!

Bhí gach rang an gnóthach ag déanamh rudaí as Gaeilge. Féach ar na pictiúirí! Bhí a lán spraoi againn!!!

Bhain gach dalta in ár scoil spraoi agus spórt ó Seachtain na Gaeilge!

Rinne gach éinne sár iarracht leis an ngaeilge – go raibh maith agaibh go léir.

Tá súil agam go mbainfidh sibh go léir taitneamh as an deireadh seachtaine.

Last week we celebrated our Intercultural Week. The following is a list of the countries celebrated: Poland, Scotland, Nigeria, Romania, Italy, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and China.

On Tuesday each class had a Cooking and Tasting Session of traditional dishes from their country. On Wdenesday and Thursday we saw the wonderful work each class did on their country which was put on display in the hall.

Well done to everyone!

We recently celebrated our 100th day of school. We did lots of interesting things. We made the number hundred in the GP Hall. It was great fun.

We learned how to wash our hands. There are four steps. Look at the pictures below to see how we got on!

Before Christmas we had a collection of food for St Vincent de Paul. The response was really overwhelming and we collected over 30 bags full of food. A big thank you to all the children, parnets, family members and stafff who donated so generously and thoughtfully. Once again, we have seen that the Rutland N.S community are the best around.

During November we had a book fair, which was organised by Ms. Quinn.  We all bought lots of books and the school raised €494.00 in free books for our Library. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped at our book fair.

Ingredients:
250g / 8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
75g / 3oz Butter, softened
75g / 3oz Brown Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
50g / 2oz Golden Syrup
1 Egg Yolk
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ground Ginger
You will also need
gingerbread cutter
baking sheets
a bowl and wooden spoon
a wire tray for cooling
Method:
1.Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
2.Add bicarbonate of soda, golden syrup and egg yolk and stir well.
3.Sift the flour and spices into the bowl and mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.
4.Shape into a ball and knead lightly on a work surface until smooth.
5.Wrap and chill for about 30 minutes before using.
6.Thinly roll out dough a use gingerbread cutters to cut out shapes.
7.Place on lightly greased baking sheets, leaving a space between each.
8.Bake at 180°C/350°F/Gas 4 for about 10-12 minutes until slightly risen and golden in colour.
9.Transfer to a wire tray to cool.

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Wishing all the boys and girls, and your families, a very very VERY HAPPY Christmas! We had a great term, and I already look forward to the next 🙂 Thanks to all the children who have worked so hard. Get your rest over the holidays!!!

Hello everyone! Take a look at the lovely clay heads that we made recently. Do you like them?

We have been very good children this year and we are all set for Christmas now. We had great fun doing our Christmas rap at the school concert last week, we hope that you all enjoyed it. We wish you all a very happy Christmas!!

Our nun, sailor, pumpkin, Jasmine, Snow White and Dorothy!

We had lots of fun this morning as everybody was arriving into school – here are our pictures!

Our princesses!                         Super Heroes!                       The Witches!

Fanatstic support from parents who came every Tuesday for 4 weeks to help us have fun with reading and books. We went on a bear hunt, we found and tricked the gruffalo and we went whoosh! with the witch on her broom.

We are working very hard at improving attendance this year, every month we will record how many children had full attendance.  Please look at the table below to find out how many children were in every day.

	No. of children with full attendance
September	63%
October	60%
November	52%
December	39%
January	39%
February	50%
March	51%
April	60%
May
June

First Class had a great time in the Botanic Gardens last week. It was a lovely sunny day. We went on a nature walk and found lots of interesting things! Some children found pine cones and conkers, while other children collected autumn leaves. We saw a squirrel collecting food for the winter and ducks swimming in the pond. We also got to play a few fun games and sang some songs on the way back to school. We all think that the Botanic Gardens are a really cool place to visit!

The first day back was Tuesday the 30th of August. We got lots of new books and copies and we put our names on them. That was the only work we did that day. It was our first day in our new classroom and we really like it because it’s huge, it has a great view and we’re beside the yard.

We have a new teacher, Miss Quinn. We are in Fifth class and so we have to work hard this year. The books are very big. We have a new homework journal with the school rules in it.

We’re four days in school now and it’s going great so far. For the rest of the year we will work hard , try our best and be kind to each other.