Rutland National School

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!!