Rutland National School

Well done to Calvin for winning a medal representing Corinthians Boxing club. 

Congratulations to Katelyn who won this magnificent trophy for Irish Dancing. 

Well done to the pupils from 5th and 6th who took part in the boxing competition in the National Stadium.

Here are some photos of them in action! 🙂

School will be closed for May mid term break from Monday 2nd May and will re-open Monday 9th May.

Anne from the Heritage Council was in Rutland NS last Wednesday and she brought two hens (Bluebell and Primrose) and two lambs (Séamus and Seán) with her! 

Here are some photos of Junior Infants holding, petting and feeding the animals! 🙂

We had great fun in Doodle Den reading a story about a cat who had six dinners, six beds and six different owners! His name was Sid! Some of us thought he was naughty and some of us thought he was clever!

Here are some photos of our activities- responding to the story through art (clay cats) and writing!

We celebrated Lorena’s 6th birthday on Monday in Junior Infants. What a lovely treat to come back to after the Easter holidays!

Junior infants made leprechauns faces for Patrick’s day! They look like real leprechauns!

We attended an amazing take on of “The three little pigs” acted by 5th class.

We walked up to the GPO and posted letters to Kerry, Cork and Dublin.

We inspected the pillars outside and found bullet holes from 100 years ago!!

We snuck along Moore street, watching out for snipers and visited where James Connolly was shot in the leg. We waved our white flags like nurse O’farrell did, who helped us to surrender to the British.

Here are some of the photos relating to all of the above!!!

We held our Proclamation Day 2016 in the hall this morning. Thanks to all pupils, teachers and SNAs for all the fantastic work with art, songs, readings, and we even had a rap about 1916 in the line up! It was a memorable day. 

Here is a photo of Mr Cherry addressing the crowd and the teachers reading out the Proclamation.

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3^rd Class with 12marbles!!

There were 76 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 42 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

This week is Book Week! There are lots of nice activities planned for each class. Happy reading!

 Winners of Marbles in the Jar this week are 1st & 5th Class with 8 marbles! Well done !!

To mark the 1916 Centenary Ms. O’Sullivan and her groups have created a model of the GPO from cardboard. It even has fairy lights! Fantastic work-well done to all! 

The children in Doodle Den are basing their literacy around the Gruffalo story this fortnight. 

Here they are with the fantastic masks they made! We used the masks for oral language development and for drama! 

We had great fun! 

Well done to Ms. Jordan’s groups who created this fantastic community board!

Well done to Mya in 4th Class who won these three huge trophies recently for dancing! Wow! We are all very proud of you! 🙂

Junior Infants made great posters to help to ‘stomp out’ bullying from Rutland NS!

Junior and Senior Infants attended a puppet show organised by Enda for ‘say no to bullying week’. There was great excitement!!

5th class created these fabulous posters for anti bullying week!

This week is ‘say no to bullying week’. The children are making an extra effort to be kind and watch out for each other. There will be a poster competition in school that Enda is organising.

This week is Catholic Schools week. During this time, we will explore with the children how they can be the face of God’s mercy in our classrooms, the playground, in school, with their families and in the community. 

Sunday 31st January is the feast day of St. Don Bosco. 

In Rutland NS, we follow the vision of Don Bosco by ‘being there’ for young people, – sharing time, education, fun, prayer and encouragement. We carry Don Bosco’s Christian message of gentleness and love.

There will be a family mass in the church this Sunday, 31st January at 11am. The children and their families are encouraged to attend. 

This week is Intercultural Week in school. We are celebrating the various nationalities that are represented in Rutland NS. Parents are welcome to call in to see the wonderful display in the hall on Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th and Friday 29th. Well done to all the classes for carrying out great research! 🙂 

Here are the wonderful character portraits from ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ by the children in Doodle Den! Well done!

The children from Doodle Den made their own jigsaws as part of their art activity last week.

Everyone was so proud of their work! 🙂

Here is the fantastic work done by Junior Infants on the topic ‘Space’.

Well done to everyone! 🙂

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

Junior infants are becoming astronauts and learning all about the solar system. They are working together to build a space rocket. The children are also designing their own rocket ships and making aliens using paint and glitter!!

5th Class started the Gymnastics strand on Friday in the PE hall. They worked so well at all of the stations. We were balancing with symmetrical poses and revising our rolls. Well done everyone! Here are a few photos of everyone in action…… I can definitely see a few ballerinas in the making……! 

Well done to Mya from 4th class who won overall star of the year in Francesca’s dance club! What an achievement! 🙂 We are all very proud of you Mya! Here she is with her lovely award!

Thank you so much to all the children and their families who sent in food for the St Vincent de Paul food hampers. We collected a huge amount of food and the staff in St. Vincent de Paul were very grateful.
As usual, the families in Rutland N.S. have shown themselves to be extremely generous!
We know that some less well off families will have a happier Christmas because of your kindness.
Thank you!

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd Class with whopping 15marbles!!

There were 78 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

The children in Doodle Den made these Gingerbread men in response to the story! We wish we could eat them! 🙂

Calvin and Mark had great fun making these Christmas minions yesterday! Leave comments to let us know if you like them! 🙂

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2^nd & 6^th Class with 13marbles!!

There were 65 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

This morning there was a workshop in junior infants where they were all busy elves making presents & invitations for the school Christmas concert! Super work everyone!! I’ll call in later to see your pointy elf ears!! 🙂

5th class went to see the play ‘The Golden Goose’ in the Sean O’Casey theatre today. Five of the children even got to take part on stage! Well done to all!

Well done to Eva in Senior Infants who is excellent at writing! Here is a piece she did all on her own in Doodle Den & she is only 6 years old! She is using her phonics to sound out the words! Wow!

She wrote:

‘I have a dog. The dog has spots. The dog makes me happy. He is white.’

Dear Parents and Guardians,

There will be a school Christmas Concert on Thursday 17th of December in the school hall at 1pm. Each class will be performing a mix of drama, singing and dancing! Hope you can join us to support the children 🙂 🙂 

Well done to 4th class who drew and painted these reindeer! The corridor is looking very festive!

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

There were 73 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 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. Here are some examples of what you could bring in…….

All of the children in Doodle Den made Goldilocks yesterday to link in with our story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Well done everyone!

Well done to all the children who participated in this friendly match today in Rutland NS school yard!

This Sunday marks the first Sunday of Advent. This is what the candles on the Advent Wreath symbolise:

First Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Hope
First Sunday in Advent

Second Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Love
Second Sunday in Advent

Third Candle, Color: Purple or pink
Theme: Joy
Third Sunday in Advent

Fourth Candle, Color: Purple
Theme: Peace
Fourth Sunday in Advent

Centre Candle,Color: White
Theme: Christmas
Christmas Day

The children can come to school this Friday 27th November without their uniforms and with a contribution of €2 towards school fundraising. 

The book fair is in Rutland NS from today until next Tuesday 24th November. There are lots of fantastic books for the children to buy and we also have a bargain box with some books reduced to half price! We would encourage all children to buy a book! 

Every week the children’s work is displayed on the notice board in the canteen. One piece of work from a hard-working student is picked each week and shown at assembly. 

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1^st Class with 13marbles!!

There were 65 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Well done to Cian in 6th class who has completed this amazing project on snakes! He started it with Mr. Cherry and finished it with Ms. Heverin this week. He is amazing at drawing! Look away now if you don’t like snakes!! 

Here are Kacper and Isabelle having great fun with the tablets learning their phonics!

Temuulen from 3rd class drew this fantastic portrait of his class!

We hope he comes back to visit us when he is a famous artist in the future! Well done!

The children in Doodle Den made clay Owl Babies today based on the big book story.

There were 69 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 35 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

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

There were 83 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 43 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Here are the Rutland National School kids doing their brilliant rap! Thanks so much to the Ark and rapper ‘GMC’ for helping us! It sounds great! Watch out Kanye West! 🙂

Next week (12th-16th October) is maths week and all the classes will be taking part in fun activities! Here is an old photo of Daniel, Abbie & Quessia who promoted maths week a few years ago.

Here are Bilguun & Cameron beside our Autumn display in Ms Heverin’s room. We love learning all about this colourful season!

Look at these amazing scuba divers along the bottom corridor! They are all great swimmers!! 🙂

6th class have a great display of world war 2 diary entries on the top corridor! Well done! 🙂

Nyamka planted this sunflower in April and we came back to a big surprise when we started school this September! It has grown so much and has flowered nicely! Well done Nyamka- a nice colourful addition to the school garden! Here are our before and after photos! 

Here are 6th class working hard at their scratch projects! Coding benefits kids because it helps with maths, problem solving and logical thinking.

Well done Dublin!  Dublin won the All Ireland football final on Sunday.  We made Dublin flags in school to support the team.  It must have brought them good luck!

The school choir started back today in the hall with Mr. Feeney and Ms. Heverin.

The children were so well behaved and we are learning some great songs!

We will all look forward to the choir each week! 🙂

Doodle Den is on every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday until 4.15 in the hall in Seán Treacy Apartments on Buckingham Street. Parents are asked to collect the children each day on time. Thank you! 🙂

Here is a photo of the Junior Infant Humpty Dumpty wall.

It is brilliant! 🙂

We had great fun with mini dice while learning about place value. Here we are hard at work!

Well done 4th class!

5th class are excellent readers. Here they are with their heads stuck in books! We love the ‘Band’ books!