Rutland National School

Senior Infants created these amazing Hundertwasser-Inspired snails! Well done everyone!

Bilguun & Cameron were hard at work in Ms Heverin’s room this morning making use of their knowledge of phonics! Well done boys! Some were tricky!

The Junior Infants were working so hard in Ms Heverin’s group today sorting and matching. Here we are busy at work…..

Henry McKean from newstalk radio was in our school this morning talking with parents, pupils & teachers about our brilliant breakfast club!

If you would like to tune in, the clip is live on newstalk.com

Well done to the parents, children, grandparents & staff who all spoke very well!

We have a lovely school community board outside out canteen displaying all the smiley heads from our school!

Hi from Room 8

We are the new third class and we rule the school! (just joking!)

We like football, chocolate, lollipops, dancing, ice cream, pancakes, art, science, maths and lots more.

We are excited about being in third class but we miss Mr Cherry!

We have two teachers this year, Ms O’Herlihy and Ms Quinn.

We are looking forward to going to senior yard, lots of trips and dancing!

Keep checking the website to see what we are up to.

Bye for now.

Dora, Alicia, Brooke, Fegor, Sienna, Frankie, Sabrina, Lexi, Alisha, Abbie, Jadine, Brooklyn, Richard, Alper, Warren, Alex, Anand

The new 3rd Class

Well done to all the children who took part in the talent show this afternoon!!

Here are some photographs from our wonderful art exhibition. Well done to all of the children for the fantastic effort with art throughout the year. 🙂 

We would like to say a huge thank you to Sinead who brought us to her workplace today! We listened to the few speakers who told us about what happens in the Central Bank on a day-to-day basis.  Stefan Gerlach, the Governor of the Bank asked us lots of questions about the Junior Achievement program. Here are a few photos from our trip! 

Junior Infants were working so hard when I was in their room this morning. Well done everyone! 

• The children who worked so hard in the choir this year were rewarded with a treat after dinner today! We all had ice cream! Yum! Nyamka, Gaby and Tadgh joined us too! Well done everyone! 

5th Class have created this fantastic display in the top corridor. Well done all- it looks great!

Well done to Ben in 1st class who got player of the year for Belvedere football club. 

What a great achievement! Keep up the good work Ben! Make sure to send all the teachers some tickets when you’re a superstar in the Aviva some day! 🙂 

3rd Class made their own cheese in school yesterday. We went to the cookery room and made our very own cheese from start to finish. We heated some milk in a big saucepan. When it got to 190 degrees we added some vinegar. Then we left it to rest.When we checked on it – we could see it had all began to separate. It was amazing to see.Then we drained the cheese from the liquid and put some pasta on to cook! We put our cheese on our pasta and had the most delicious meal!

We are thinking of setting up our own cheese company and making millions of euros! Come and see us if you want to order some cheese!!

Ms. Heverin is very impressed by the standard of writing in 1st class! The children are concentrating on procedural writing at the moment and this week have written about the steps involved in making a cup of tea! 

Here are some photos of their excellent work…….

4th and 5th class had a great day today in the Ark in Temple Bar. 🙂

They were taking part in a visual art and literature based programme based upon the ‘Once Upon a Picture’ exhibition.

It was a fantastic workshop!

Here are some photos of us in action………..

Parents/Guardians

Rutland National School will be closed on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th of May and will re-open on Wednesday 6th of May 2015.

Ms. Barron

Well done to all the classes for the FANTASTIC work on their chosen countries for Intercultural Week! 

Some 5th class children re-enacted poses from

Junior Infants ….. Look how much we have grown!

Amy in Junior Infants drew this portrait of Michael D Higgins!

Well done Amy it is amazing!

Junior Infants are learning all about Ireland for Intercultural Week.

Cameron & Bilguun made these American flags from lollipop sticks in Ms Heverin’s room!

They are learning all about the USA for intercultural week.

These old photos from the school camera will make you smile!

1st class are learning all about China for Intercultural Week this week. 

Here is Nyamka wearing his dragon mask that he made in Ms. Heverin’s room! 

Kelly & Clinton have worked so hard at the length chapter in Ms Heverin’s group this week! Happy heads here! Well done boys!

Nathan has developed a huge interest in learning all about the solar system.

Here are some photos of him working hard on the topic in Ms. Heverin’s room.

Nyamka planted sunflowers in our garden today. He was excellent at listening to the instructions and explaining the steps to Ms. Heverin. We hope the sunflowers will have grown tall by the time he is in second class. They take a long time to grow! 🙂 🙂 🙂 

Sunflower seeds

Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Junior Infants & 1^st Class with 9marbles!!

There were 68 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 29 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Thank you so much to Samsung who have given the school some new fantastic tablets.  We are so lucky.

We can now type up our reports on our tablets, make cool books and play fun maths games.  We are looking forward to learning lots of more cool stuff on our tablets.

Thanks Samsung for making us a Samsung school!

Layla was a fantastic helper this morning taking care of the flowers with Ms Heverin. We gave them lots of water for this lovely warm day. 🙂 

Senior Infants are working so hard with Ms. Heverin this week. Here is some of the work that we have been doing….

Maths can be so interesting when done in fun ways!

Here is Clinton doing his multiplication sums on the tablet.

Like us all….. Six Dinner Sid loved his dinners! Yum! The children in Doodle Den are concentrating their work around this big book at the moment and made a row of houses that Sid liked to visit for his dinners every day! Ms. Devereux hung it up on the wall. Well done everyone!

The children also made Easter Chicks with Ms. Heverin

Rutland National School Race Night Winners

Nyamka made these fantastic windmills and we tested them out on the school roof garden. We had great fun! 

To make the windmill you will need: 

• A square piece of paper
• A scissors
• Glue
• Blue Tac
• Thumb Tac 
• A Straw

Here are the instructions: 

• First fold the paper to the opposite corner (to make a triangle). 
• Open up the paper again. Then fold the other corners together. 
• Open up the paper once more. 
• Cut along the four  lines from the corners halfway into the centre of the page. 
• Bend (but do not fold flat) every second corner into the centre point and stick it with some glue. 
• Push the thumb tac through the centre point and through a straw at the back (which will be the handle). 
• For safety and to hold everything secure, put some blue tac on the sharp point of the thumb tac at the back. 
• Go outside and see your windmill work! Magic! 

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

There were 77 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 31 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

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

Cameron & Bilguun made these fantastic Spring flowers for the wavy wall at the library!

Here are some photos of Nyamka watering the flowers in our roof garden today. 🙂

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

There were 81 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 30 Senior students with Full Credits!

Well done!! 

Nyamka had great fun in the PE hall on the Friday of our Mid-Term Break. Here he is trying lots of different sports! 🙂

The children in Senior Infants are fantastic readers! I listen to their familiar reading each day and they are getting better and better. Sometimes I think I am in 2nd class because the reading is so good!! Here they are with their heads stuck in books! 🙂 

Here are some photos of Cameron & Bilguun working hard in Ms. Heverin’s group this morning.

They are excellent at using the computers which is such an important part of learning in school!

We are 100 days in school today. 

Here are some fun activities that we did in the yard to mark the day! 

Well done to Shauna in 5th class who researched about sharks over the past week in Ms. Heverin’s group.

She took notes about information that was of particular interest and recorded in her copy (where she also did a first draft of her report).

Then she typed it up and it looks fantastic! 🙂

Well done Shauna!

Ellie always works so hard in Ms. Heverin’s Literacy Lift writing group. Here is her report on chickens! Well done Ellie! 🙂 

Cian in 5th class has compiled a fantastic ‘free writing’ copy which includes many styles of writing such as

• reports
• procedures
• narratives
• explanations

Well done Cian, your copy was such an interesting read! 🙂

Here is one of Cian’s pieces of ‘free writing’……….

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

There were 75 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 35 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!

Lennon, Mark and Calvin made good choices today during maths time in class.

They were excellent at ordering decimals. Keep working hard boys.

The children from Junior and Senior Infants really enjoyed the puppet show that Martin put on for us for anti-bullying week.

Big thank you to Enda for organising it.

We laughed so much at the puppets and learned that we can always speak up and tell an adult if we are being bullied or if we see bullying happening in our school. This way we can all feel safe 🙂

Thanks to Ms. O’Herlihy some of the art work created by the children from our school may be featured on RTÉjr! 🙂 

Presenters Reuben and Bó have a section called ‘Post Room’ where they show off the art work that the viewers send in. 

Here are Cameron and Bilguun who created amazing pictures to send into the show. Hopefully we will see them on the TV soon! 🙂 

I was walking past the second class notice board and spotted these amazing art pieces! Well done they look great! 🙂

Here is Shannon from 4th class full of smiles after working so hard today while we were learning the new topic ‘decimals’ in Ms Heverin’s group. You should be very proud of your work Shannon! 🙂 

Well done to the children in 4th class who have made good choices this week. 

They got to go to the cookery room to make rice krispie buns as a reward for their good behaviour. YUM! 

Well done all. Keep making good choices! 🙂 

We would like to say a huge thank you to Colm who comes to the school every Thursday to coach GAA. 

The children love learning all of the skills. 

Here we are in action…………. 🙂 

Some of the children in groups with Emma have made recycled monsters! 

These Monsters show the very important message that each of us is unique and special 🙂 

Enda has organised  Kidstalk for children from Senior Infants and their parents. 

This takes place on Tuesdays in the Library. 

The children have completed the story of  ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Aliens Love Underpants’!! 🙂 

The children love Kidstalk. 

Here are some fantastic book reports by 2nd class. 

Excellent handwriting and phrases, well done everyone! 

We are concentrating our art around the theme of Impressionism for the next few weeks. 

Here is our art board with lots of information and interactive activities based on this topic. 

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!