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!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Joy | Calum |
| Senior Infants | Ben
Ermun |
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| 1st Class | Alisha | Abbie |
| 2nd Class | Erin | Nathan |
| 3rd Class | Cally | Douglas |
| 4th Class | Codie | Nadia |
| 5th Class | Nadia | Chirstopher |
| 6th Class | Alannah | Dean |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5th Class with 15marbles!!
There were 77 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 43 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
As you all know Rutland National School have put together a collection of writings from all pupils in our school. We are now accepting orders for our book called “We are Writers”. The book costs €8.00 and will make an ideal present or become part of your library at home. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed writing for it. Help to keep a good attitude to reading alive in our school and please support this fund raiser.
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!)
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Narcis | Callum |
| Senior Infants | Tori
Ellie |
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| 1st Class | Mateusz
Temullen |
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| 2nd Class | Daire
Michael |
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| 3rd Class | Diane | Calvin |
| 4th Class | Faruq | Cian |
| 5th Class | Amanda | Abbie |
| 6th Class | Efeosa | Niamh |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are Senior Infants & 4th Class with 14marbles!!
There were 79 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 47 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
Everybody in Rutland N.S is working hard towards getting our second green flag. As well as continuing to separate our waste in food, paper and general waste bins and keeping our school litter free, we are reducing the amount of energy we use in our school. The energy monitors in the classrooms are checking that lights are turned off, standby switches are off, heat is turned down to 18 degrees and doors are closed where possible. This is good for the environment and for our pockets !
Here are the fourth class children with the code for energy:
Thanks so much to Tony, who not only comes in on Tuesdays for Paired Reading, but is also coming in to us for Badminton coaching! He has taught us many a Badminton technique already, after just 2 sessions! We look forward to perfecting our Badminton skills over the next few weeks 🙂
We are so lucky to have a fully stocked library in our school. We borrow books every Tuesday morning. Some of us are even trained up as librarians and we are experts at scanning back/scanning out books to each other!!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Dora | Makaela |
| Senior Infants | Evan | Nymaka |
| 1st Class | Sabrina
Lexi |
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| 2nd Class | Katlyn | Callum |
| 3rd Class | Cally | Ekaterina |
| 4th Class | Quessia | Jordan |
| 5th Class | Jade | Christopher |
| 6th Class | Brian | shanice |
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!!
Today was our first day in training for our Bronze Medal in boxing. It was an intense hour of training! Well done to everyone in 5th and 6th class who were absolutely terrific. Katie Taylor watch out!
3rd class are investigating 3D shapes in maths this week and are learning so much about the properties of various shapes including how many faces, vertices and edges they have.
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Hugo | Alex |
| Senior Infants | Lexi | Cooper |
| 1st Class | Warren | T.J |
| 2nd Class | Laila | Declan |
| 3rd Class | Mark | Craig |
| 4th Class | Zuzanna | Michael |
| 5th Class | Zahra | Dylan |
| 6th Class | Mahommed | Alannah |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 3rd Class with 14marbles!!
There were 75 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 37 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Cameron
Sean |
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| Senior Infants | Natalie
Mariam |
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| 1st Class | Brooklyn | Jadine |
| 2nd Class | Dylan | Declan |
| 3rd Class | Douglas | Millie |
| 4th Class | Lee | Brandon |
| 5th Class | Laureen | Yole |
| 6th Class | Niamh | Bradley |
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!!
3rd class are learning about 3D shapes in Maths. We are constructing our own 3D shapes, it’s not as easy as it looks!! Lots of sticking and cutting involved!
Second Class were very busy lately preparing our Christmas village! Happy Christmas everyone!!!
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- Grace’s Three Wise Men
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- Douglas’ Angel decoration.
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- Diana’s Snowman card
3rd class were lucky to get a sneak peek at the book we contributed to. We cannot wait to buy our own copy of the book in January.
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- Excited Douglas!
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- Calvin concentrating!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Razvan
Joy |
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| Senior Infants | Enkhlen | Evan |
| 1st Class | Temullen | Alex |
| 2nd Class | Tyriek | Nathan |
| 3rd Class | Ekaterina | Alex |
| 4th Class | Faruq | Shauna |
| 5th Class | Nadia | Jade |
| 6th Class | Efeosa | Shanice |
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!!
6th class worked so hard over the past two weeks in preparation for the recent Christmas Concert. Francesca was really impressed with the talent on display and said that we were one of the best classes that she has ever worked with! Here is a picture of us all during rehersals.
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.
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- Shannon, Grace and Clinton rocking it!
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- Calvin, Lennon and Alex doing a Christmas swing!
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- Christmas Carol Singers!
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- Alex and Calvin
3rd class went to see a special showing of The Muppets Christmas Carol in Cineworld today. We really enjoyed it & it got us in the Christmas Cheer!
Well done to Douglas who is showing his skills at making fantastic things from lego! This took him 45 minutes to make.
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- Happy that it’s finished!
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- A close up view!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Khuslen | Bilguun |
| Senior Infants | Michelle | Lexi |
| 1st Class | Dora | Lexi |
| 2nd Class | Laila
Mya |
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| 3rd Class | Grace | Shannon |
| 4th Class | Cian | Shauna |
| 5th Class | Yole | Abbie |
| 6th Class | Brian | Efeosa |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5th Class with 13marbles!!
There were 82 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 30 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
Fire officers from Pearse Street fire station came into 3rd class to raise awareness about fire safety in our homes. We asked them lots of questions and we all got a pack with fire checklists to complete at home along with fun colouring and activity pages. We hope everyone will be safe over the Christmas especially with candles! Here is a link to a great activity page and quiz……
http://www.firesafety4kids.ie
This quiz refreshes the mind about certain things to do when trying to prevent a fire and steps to follow when faced with a fire.
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…….
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- Tinned fish
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- Pasta sauces
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- Crackers/Biscuits
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- Tinned Vegetables
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- Sauces/Soup
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- Pasta
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- Cereals
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- Tinned food
Third class are worn out learning the great team sport of rounders! We love trying our best to get home runs!
Here we are in action…..
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- Into positions ready to knock out an opponent!
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!!
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- Owl babies Sarah, Percy and Bill in their nests! Can you guess who’s who??!
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- Putting our new word ‘said’ into a sentence!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Desmond | Iosa |
| Senior Infants | Ellie | Noor |
| 1st Class | Anand | Warren |
| 2nd Class | Callum
Micheal |
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| 3rd Class | Cally | Clinton |
| 4th Class | Nadia | Quessia |
| 5th Class | Zahra | Dylan |
| 6th Class | Mahommed | Shanice |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 5th Class with 14marbles!!
There were 86 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 41 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
Fourth class have had Sinead from PWC visiting us over the past few weeks and teaching us all about running our own business. We have learned lots about companies, partnerships and sole traders ! On Friday we played a game like monopoly !
3rd class were so lucky to get to go and see the wordless play ‘Annebelle’s Star’ in the Ark Theatre yesterday. We were amazed at how one actress along with brilliant props was able to tell us the story without speaking at all!! The light effects and sound effects were fantastic!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Tymon | Khuslen |
| Senior Infants | Mariam
Caitlin |
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| 1st Class | Alisha H | Alex |
| 2nd Class | Josephine | Nathan |
| 3rd Class | Shannon | Mark |
| 4th Class | Ryan | Shauna |
| 5th Class | Angelika | Scott |
| 6th Class | Mimi | Dean |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 1st, 4th and 5th Class with 13marbles!!
There were 89 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
with the winners of the art competition who won a signed football each! 🙂
Mark, Shannon and Diana got surprise hot chocolate before the yard today for excellent manners and behaviour. Well done! YUM! Warm bellies before yard! 🙂
Yum! 🙂
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Narcis | Makela |
| Senior Infants | Anna | Cooper |
| 1st Class | Brooke | Alisha |
| 2nd Class | Abbie | Kai |
| 3rd Class | Craig | Millie |
| 4th Class | Jordan | Brandon |
| 5th Class | Yole | Angelika |
| 6th Class | Mahommed | Brian |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 13marbles!!
There were 81 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
We had lots of fun last week for ‘Science Week’. We worked with marbles and the effect of ‘stored energy’ to move a stationary marble when the first one is moved; We also experimented with milk, in the experiment named ‘Milk + Soap = MAGIC!’ When we added the food colouring and the soap to the milk, we saw the colours chase the fat in the milk and it almost looked like a marble! We also made our own Rockets – so everyone BEWARE!!
3rd class did experiments for Senior Infants for Science week! We loved showing them how all of the experiments work!! We had a great time and hope Senior Infants were impressed with our skills!
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- balloon rocket on a string
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- skewer through a balloon! it doesn’t burst
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- bread soda and vinegar reaction to blow up balloon
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- it’s filling up!
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- egg floating in salty water and sinking in non-salty water
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- catching bubbles on gloves! they don’t burst!
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- bouncing a bubble on a glove!
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- using soap to break up the fat in milk.
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- Douglas showing the bread soda
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- Alex with the balloon
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- Noor looks impressed!
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- Grace adding the soap to the milk
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- Seán and Andreea are surprised!
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- Tia explaining about the egg floating in the salty water
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- Grace and Andreea
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- Craig putting a knot in the balloon
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- Senior Infants looking impressed
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- Lexie is standing well back!!
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- The dark vinegar caused more of a reaction
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- Craig put the skewer through two balloons!!
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- We did it!
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- All the girls
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- Millie explaining the egg float experiment
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- Douglas and Alex concentrating
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- Will the egg float or sink??
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- Feeling the balloon!
The boys and girls from fourth class had great fun making rockets as part of science week. We learned about “energy” and how rockets use gases to blast off. We tested our rockets to see which one travelled the greatest distance ! Next stop NASA for these young scientists !
We were envious of Ms Heverin’s class having a Hot Chocolate Feast so we too celebrated our yard points victory by having of our own hot cuppa choc with marshmallows! Yum! Keep up the good work on yard 3rd & 5th 🙂
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 🙂
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Narcis | Alex |
| Senior Infants | Lexi
Caitlín |
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| 1st Class | Mateuse | Sabrina |
| 2nd Class | Daire
Erin |
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| 3rd Class | Douglas | Alex |
| 4th Class | Zuzanna | Daniel |
| 5th Class | Nadia | Scott |
| 6th Class | Nadine | Niamh |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2nd and 4th with 12marbles!!
There were 67 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
Here is a fantastic link to videos by Doctor Mad Science – a young boy who is excellent at doing experiments!! Please click the link to see lots of his cool stuff that you might like to try out at home! Happy Science Week!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/doctormadscience/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=1
We met poor Eggward last week, who was very sad and lonely. When placed in the water, he sank straight to the bottom 🙁 Luckily, 5th class are ‘egg-stremely’ friendly so we all had a turn to cheer him up by telling him something nice, funny, or just being friendly in general (adding salt each time!). Thankfully, he rose to the top of the water where he now resides 🙂 He is much happier now 🙂
3rd class are brilliant hockey players! We are exhausted after it!!
Fast movers! 🙂
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! 🙂
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/
Senior Infants
Fourth Class
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
All the best attenders 🙂
Leah & Mya with Minister Frances Fitzgerald 🙂
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Séan
Nikola |
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| Senior Infants | Andreea
Michelle |
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| 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 3rd and 5th 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 !
In First Class we have been working hard and using our new boards to draw our Maths problems …. what fun!
The gardaí visited our classroom yesterday and warned us about the dangers of bonfires around Halloween time. We also read a message from the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Here is the message below……..
Dublin Fire Brigade has issued a warning on the dangers of unregulated bonfires and illegal fireworks, which result in catastrophic injuries each year including the loss of fingers and sometimes entire hands, and severe burns to the body and face.
“All bonfires are illegal – and our message is: do not go to them, and if you are aware of any material being stockpiled, please report it to us in confidence,” Lord Mayor of Dublin Oisín Quinn said.
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Karina | Callum |
| Senior Infants | Ellie
Tori |
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| 1st Class | Lexi | Jadine |
| 2nd Class | Dara
Mya |
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| 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 4th and 5th 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 5th got 50 points on yard for their lining up at the end of yard. Well Done!!
We had great fun on Thursday of this week when senior infants and 5th class paired up to do various maths games and activities! 5th class loved helping the younger boys and girls and were like teachers teaching them new maths games! Well done to Senior Infants also who were well able for the maths! Well done to all 🙂
Fair play Jade for volunteering to perform a maths trick with our visiting Mathemagician!
We made spooky jars to put night lights into. We chose a colour and the face we wanted to paint!
Here is Mr. Pumpkin Head. Our teacher picked him out in Clontarf and was all night cutting this scary face!!
Today for maths, we abandoned our topic for this week, and took to learning a few ancient maths games! We worked in pairs for ‘Xs and Os’ and ‘Dots and Boxes’ – which only our teachers would know about from our childhood days! Another group learned how to tackle ‘Sudokus’ which we discovered isn’t as complicated as we first thought – just plenty of logic and reasoning which we’re good at in 5th class! Another group had time to play interactive maths games online. Looking forward to what the week will unfold mathematically!
| 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, 1st Class, 2nd Class, 4th Class and 6th 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 1st 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!
Geography Lesson …. Our Environment and Ireland
Craig is getting closer to the answer!
Mark is using his maths eyes!
Clinton is all stressed out!
Kelly and Lennon working as a team on the gingerbread men!
The girls are examining the mosaic tiles for pattern
Grace and Shannon inspecting the soil.
Lennon and Douglas
Diana taking a close look through the magnifying glass
Clinton taking a peek!
Comparing our chapter with our soil sample
Hello from 6th Class,
We’ve been working our socks off up on the top corridor for the last few weeks. Mr. Cherry is over the moon with the effort we have been putting into our work. We’ve an exciting year ahead with lots of exciting trips and we’ve plenty of work to do in preparation for our Confirmation in June. It’s a really exciting time for us at the moment as we are all trying to decide which secondary school we will go to next year. Take a look at the pictures we’ve put up to see what work we’ve been doing since September !
As part of our Geography lesson last week, 3rd class learned all about the many different rocks and the ways in which they are used. Here we are investigating their texture and appearance…..
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- Kelly inspecting the rocks
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- Calvin liking this one!
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- Granite rock, do you know how this might be used in our houses?
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- Calvin said he has a lovely marble table at home
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- Limestone rock
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- Douglas and Alex getting very excited about the rocks!
| 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, 2nd Class, 3rd Class and 5th 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!!
1st, 2nd & 3rd classes had a brilliant time in the National Concert Hall!
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!
We had a great time constructing Hundertwasser inspired buildings,
We decided on how to construct the buildings and stuck on cardboard boxes and cartons with masking tape.
Then we used wallpaper paste and print paper to cover our buildings.
When they were dry we painted them bright colours.
Then we decorated them with some fabric and fibre!
Thank you to Emma for the beautiful interactive hundertwasser display. We think it’s fantastic!
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.
Working hard at maths
We have a lovely new maths corner in room 8 and are looking forward to solving lots of problems while using the steps we are learning at the moment. 
3rd class are working hard in their maths groups. We love the problem solving – especially when we get the right answers! here we are busy at work……
We have a writing tree in our class to help us with ideas for free writing. For example:
- going to the dentist
- if I won the lotto
- writing a complaint
- writing a letter to the caretaker Pat
We do our free writing every morning when we come into our class. Some people in the class are great at choosing different topics each day and their copies are so interesting to read!
Here we are busy at work……………
3rd class have settled back into school and are looking forward to a
great year!
The school will re-open Thursday 29th of August
School tracksuits, jackets and ties can be purchased from school secretary Susan on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th of August from 10.00 to 2.00pm and you can also pay book money for September 2013.
The cost of the book rental scheme is €50 per child.
The cost of a tracksuit is €40.00 and sizes 13/14 & size small cost €45.00
Jackets cost €25.00 and school tie costs €7.00.
Thank you to all the Urban Soul gang for the great day today!
We may not be the next Henry Shefflin or DJ Carey but we’re learning! 3rd class hurling with the lovely new equipment!
Big thank you to all of the kitchen ladies for cooking lovely dinners for us all year. Here we are having chicken curry- our favourite! Water please!!!
Well done to Aaron Gourley who won player of the tournament last week up in Stella Maris! We are so proud of him.
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% |
There was a lovely send off for the pupils of sixth class today as we held our final assembly . All students received their graduation certs . A special well done to Ross, Ali and Cassidy in particular, for most improved, best behaviour and best worker respectively but to all the children, conngratulations on completing your primary education and we wish you well in your new schools. Saad and Joslyn were absent from the photo.
Ross and Kome were hard at work weeding and cleaning the school garden in preparation for next year. Here they are taking a break whilst resting on their brushes like a good workman should !
Mr. Cherry’s class have been very busy and active over the last few weeks. We really enjoyed the school Sports Day and had lots of fun. We recently went on a mini-beast hunt in Mountjoy Square Park and found lots of different creatures living there. We also visited the playground beside the park as part of Active Schools Week.
We have finished all of our tests now and we tried really hard. Next week we are going on our school tour to Fort Lucan, it’s going to be so much fun!
We had a very successful Art Exhibition in May. There was a piece of work displayed from every child in the school.
Look at some of our amazing work.
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Well done to all our pupils who have been very busy completing end of year tests.
All your hard work during the year paid off.
The school is working on getting a second green flag for energy. We are trying to switch off lights and school appliances when they are not needed.
Children recently undertook an appliance audit in the school. Every class is making an effort to completely turn off computers, printers and lights every afternoon at home time. We are keeping up the good work with recycling and reducing litter and waste.
Sixth class are working on a project called “It’s your move” to help them prepare for secondary school. We also went to Glendalough recently on a pilgrim’s walk as part of our Confirmation preparations. We look forward to our Confirmation ceremony in two weeks time.
The teachers ran a charity 5km in the Phoenix park! It tied in nicely with active week! Well done to all! 