This week is national dairy week and to celebrate 3rd class learned lots about cheese and milk and yoghurts and had a dairy party today!! We LOVED the cheese & think now we will do this little party every second Friday!
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 18th when second class will receive The Sacrament of First Holy Communion.
Dee gave us all certificates. Our teacher was very proud. Have a look at our pictures.
Well done to all the sixth class who held their enrolement ceremony as part of their Confirmation preparations recently. Fr. Tim and Sister Maria came along. Everybody took part in their readings, prayers and presentation of the gifts really well.
To mark tree week, 3rd class were treated to a tree walk by the greenkeepers in St. Stephen’s Green. We had a great time learning lots from our guide Teresa. We planted a lovely hawthorn tree. We look forward to maybe visiting the tree next year to see how much it has grown!
Happy Saint Patrick’s weekend from all in 3rd class!!
There are great preparations underway in sixth class for the Confirmation. We have been reading lots of stories, learning about the fruits and gifts of the spirit and writing prayers ahead of our enrolement ceremony . This ceremony will take place in the classroom next Thursday, 21st March 1.30pm. All parents and sponsors are welcome. Talk to your children about the great work they have been doing as they prepare for this important sacrament.
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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!
Joe O’ Brien reading to Rutland NS pupils
3rd class got to go to the Ark theatre to see the performance Zoe’s play – it was brilliant! We got a huge fright when the wolves came out onto the set!! It was very good and we recommend it highly. Well done to everyone who behaved so well walking there and back. Here is a picture of us along by the river Liffey!
The children from 4th and 5th class braved the wintry conditions yesterday and reached the semi-finals of the Lord Mayor’s Cup. Unfortunately they were beaten by St. Laurence O’ Tooles and just missed out on the bronze medal. The boys and girls did the school proud and performed brilliantly in all five events – soccer, penalties, running, basketball and wall-climbing.
We certainly have some fantastic athletes in our school and there’s no doubt we’ll be in the hunt for the medals again next year. The future of sport in Rutland NS is looking extremely bright. Well done to everyone involved!
4th and 5th class went on a trip to Glendalough. We had a lovely day. Spring is definitely here! We met up with our friends from St Patrick’s Greystones! We took part in a nature trail and a treasure hunt.
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!
Well done to Aaron Gourley for reaching all of his targets – he got such a surprise with a treat of banoffee pie which his teacher made him! He gave it 10 out of 10! What a treat!
Keep up the good work Aaron!
On Tuesday February 19th RTE came to visit 1st Class. They were asking us lots of questions about Leprechauns. We are going to be on television on MONDAY 18TH OF MARCH on RTE1 at 7pm. Tune in to watch 1st Class become famous! Just come and ask us for our autograph if you want!!!
The Garda Mounted unit visited our school recently and we asked them LOADS of questions about what it is like to be on the horse for a day! The Gardaí were most helpful in answering our questions and inspired some of us into wanting to do this job when we grow up!! We learned that the horses were SEVENTEEN hands tall, which helps the Gardaí to spot crime more easily when mounted upon them.
Here is a link to a video of Garda Brendan Duffy explaining all about the unit: http://youtu.be/LuwaGB08f2c
Here are some functions of the mounted support unit:
- Crime prevention and detection patrols – supporting mainstream policing
- Searches for missing persons over rough terrain that is inaccessible to vehicles
- Community policing including school and community project visits
- Major event policing e.g. matches, concerts and festivals
- Public order and crowd control
Here are 3rd class working hard learning all about Peru & what better way to relax after than with a cup of hot chocolate! & piles of mini marshmallows!!
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.
We have done some fantastic things today in Junior Infants to celebrate our 100th Day of School! We read 100 words on our board and then celebrated reading them by dividing 100 jellies between us all!
We made a snake with 100 cubes, completed 100 seconds of silence, and thought of 100 things that we can be happy about!
As part of Anti Bullying Week we saw a puppet show called Manny the Magnificent Mouse. To celebrate the work we have done during Anti Bullying Week we will be having a Teddy Bears Picnic this Friday in school.
As part of junior achievement 3rd class got to visit John’s work! We were treated like royalty and got to explore the building and have treats on the fancy swingy chairs in the board room! Thank you SO much John & Sinead & everyone at Goodbodys!!
3rd class designed posters for anti bullying week.
Fifth and sixth classes have been enjoying
boxing lessons over the past two weeks . Five
children will be selected to go to the national
stadium after the mid term. We have learned
lots !
3rd class learned all about the water cycle. We learned about evapouration, condensation, precipitation and collection. We even MADE our own water cycle!! Do you like it?!
The boys and girls of sixth got the chance to enjoy themselves during the recent drumming workshop . As well as having lots of fun they learned some new skills . Kome and Ali were excellent at keeping the rhythm !
We are doing gymnastics at the moment and are having a great time learning balances and ways to travel with using two and three parts of our bodies like our hands and feet. We are great at the forward and pencil rolls also! Have a look at the photos of us looking very flexible!
As part of Temple Bar Trad Festival a giant drum came to the school! We had great fun- even the teachers. We experimented with and explored many different rhythms. We’ve never smiled so much! The part we loved the most was running around the drum while playing it! 
Senior Infants were the first class to use our new activity which helps us learn our letters and their sounds. ‘Hot Dots’ game has a talking pen, which we called the wand! The wand told us if we were right or wrong on our answer. It was a fun way to check our reading!
First Class had a great time learning all about special art from Australia. It’s called Aboriginal Art. This week we made some Aboriginal paintings using the dot technique.
ique. Have a look at us making our art.
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
Michael and Jordan pretended they were cross elves for their creative writing and typed up these! Happy Christmas to everyone & all the families of 3rd class boys and girls.
Firstly, well done to sixth class on their outstanding dance “Gangnam Style” performed at the school play. You were outstanding…. it was also performed with gusto for the children in Greystones yesterday.
On behalf of everybody in sixth class, have a brilliant Christmas and good wishes for 2013.
The school made a great effort in the collection of food and other items for the St. Vincent De Paul. Well done to everybody. The sixth class boys and girls dropped the goods over on Friday . The food will go to deserving families this Christmas.
Thank you St. Patrick’s National School for a lovely day! We really enjoyed your performance and meeting each class. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year 🙂
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 14th 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 18th 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 19th of December.
- Homework Club finishes for the Senior Classes this Thursday the 13th 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 21st of December at 12.30pm. School will re-open on Monday the 7th of January.
Wishing you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas.
Regards
Darina Burke
Principal
We made Christmas snowmen to hang on the tree!
1. Cut out body & cut into sides.
2. Cut out head and stick on.
3. Cut out hat and stick on red stripe.
4. Cut out hands and stick on.
5. Cut out booties and stick on.
6. Colour in a red nose, smiley mouth and eyes!
7. Punch a hole in his hat & tie a string through.
3rd class have been enjoying D.E.A.R time. It means Drop Everything And Read. Here are some of the benefits and advantages of D.E.A.R time:
- DEAR gives children the opportunity to read books of their own choice. So much of what we do in school involves books and reading material selected by the teacher. DEAR time lets children pick whatever reading material they want to just enjoy.
- DEAR allows children to see that reading for fun and pleasure is a valuable experience.
- DEAR can help develop better writing skills. The more children read, the more they are exposed to the written word – and that will lead to better reading and writing skills.
Here we are doing it straight after yard to get back into working mode!
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.
Well done to Codie Cashin who won a place on the Dublin Fire Brigade 2013 Calendar! She got to go to the Mansion House to meet the Lord Mayor and got presented with a lovely prize!! She got a selection box and a ‘Build a Bear’ dressed up as a fireman!! Here are some pictures of her with the Lord Mayor and Chief fire officer with the hose, her fireman bear, of her in the fire engine and of with all the other boys and girls who won!!
Here is a link to the calendar online
http://www.dublincity.ie/WaterWasteEnvironment/DublinFireBrigade/Pages/NewsandEvents.aspx
There were no animals in the manger that Jesus was born in, the Pope has declared as the Christian world gears up towards Christmas next month. He has said that the presence of animals such as cattle and donkeys used in traditional Nativity scenes are based on nothing more other than myth.
Henry from newstalk was in to visit 3rd class to see what they thought of all of this!
The children were on the radio today! Well done to Michael, Nadia, Cian and Ryan!!
This little girl is called Lily-Mae. She is four years old and lives in Galway. She has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. She loves dinosaurs and dancing. She is very sick at the moment but with the help of lots of people she will be dancing again soon! Paddy Casey, Mickey Joe Harte, Mundy and many more singers got together with a choir of 250 people to record Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’ song. They are trying to get it to number one for Christmas. It went on sale on itunes today and it is already number one there!! It costs just 99 cent and every cent goes to help families like Lily-Maye’s family. 
For their Christmas concert performance 3rd class are going to sing Tiny Dancer. We cannot wait. We’re going to send Lily-Mae photographs and a video of us singing it and as Nadia said, this will make her feel loved. 🙂
3rd class visited the ILAC today for a science workshop. We learned about energy and renewable and non renewable sources of energy. We had great fun playing the energy game on the huge floor map using all our knowledge from the presentation and experiments. We made a battery with a potato!! we attached a wire to copper and lead stuck into the potato and lit up an LED lightbulb! Thanks to Una the facilitator- she brought the potatoes from her garden in Athy! 
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.
1st Class were so lucky during Science Week. A group of scientists from 3rd Class came to visit us and did lots of experiments with us. It was amazing. They did experiments with balloons, eggs and food dye. They even made a rocket from a balloon right here in our classroom. It was fantastic. Lots of us want to be scientists when we grow up now. Thanks so much 3rd Class for inspiring us!
This week was friendship week and in 3rd class we tried really hard to be nice friends to each other. We did friend interviews to find out lots about our friends and we all wrote something lovely about each pwer
We had an excellent outing with the NYP on
Tuesday . A trip to the bowling alley in
Coolock was followed by Burger King . We have
some excellent bowlers in sixth class and it
was very competitive ! Ross and Joslyn scored highest .
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We’ve had such a busy couple of months here in 4th class. As well as working really hard in class, we have been playing a lot of chess with 5th class and we are improving every week. We visited a local bank in October, where we told them all about products that we had designed ourselves. We also met the Lord Mayor of Dublin in the Smock Alley Theatre. He is a really nice man! We even had a visit from a maths magician, who showed us some great tricks. Just before Halloween we made some delicious chocolate apples. We had great fun dressing up for the Halloween party and we played some really fun games!
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?!
Last Thursday First Class went on a great trip. We went to the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. We walked up to O’Connell Street and got the bus from there. It was a good journey and no-one got sick on the bus! Phew!!
When we got to the Botanic Gardens we saw lots of things. We saw squirrels, pumpkins, statues, big trees and even a funny eyeball display! We saw giant leaves, pretend parrots, and a beautiful rose garden. We saw girls drawing pictures of the flowers, an apple tree, little cute ducks and then we even saw Ms Bailey there with her other school. We saw a scarecrow, we crossed bridges and we even had our yard there. We saw lily pads and a wishing well too.
Thanks to Betty we had a picnic there as well!
We had a really great day and hope we go on lots more trips in First Class.
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 went to the Helix in DCU to Andrew Jeffery’s maths magic show for maths week. He showed us lots of tricks and we learned lots about number patterns. We had an unbelievable time with front row seats!!
Sixth class have settled back into school really well . We have started our Confirmation preparations already . The NYP are coming into us every Tuesday and we will have a trip at the end of the sessions . We are also starting meditation soon .
We are learning all about DATA in maths this week and we did a survey to see how the teachers get to school. Thanks to Lee who collected all of the information from the staff yesterday.
Here is a picture of our results!!! We hope you like our hard work.
Guess which teacher RUNS to school!!!!!!!!!
Katelyn and her dancing medals, has inspired the rest of the class to bring in their medals and trophies! Calum brought in his swimming medals, Kai and Declan brought in their trophies for football. What a talented class we have!
We had a very special visitor to our school on Thursday 13th September. Minister Joan Burton T.D. came to Rutland National School to launch ‘A Good Practice Guide for Breakfast Clubs’ which has been developed by Healthy Food for All and funded by the Kellogs Company of Ireland.
This Guide gives information of setting up and running a breakfast club. The Guide aims to support schools and community groups for create a positive social environment where children can prepare for the school day.
Well done Katelyn McCormack in First Class who won a trophy and lots of medals in her Irish Dancing competition at the weekend. Everyone in First Class is very proud of her.
Here are some pictures of 3rd class caught being really good and working hard! We have settled into our new home in room 8 and are going to have a really good year. Ms Heverin was our teacher when we were 4 and 5 year olds and now we are REALLY grown up 8 and 9 year olds! We will post up more news soon!!
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!
5th class had their last ever Italian class yesterday with Miss O’Connor. Look at their belle pictures below!
Unfortunately the Modern Languages for Primary Schools Initiative has been ended by the government and this year will be the last ever year of it.
I had a fantastico year teaching 5th and 6th class and will miss all the students and teachers a lot.
Grazie mille to all the studenti I have taught and all the teachers I have worked with. Another grazie tanto to Ms Burke for all her help and support over the past tre years too!!
Chloe's bella picture!
Belle pictures by Cassidy and Kisha!
Fantastiche pictures by Ali and Tamzin!
Ciao a tutti! Love Miss O’Connor! 🙂
Price list for the new school term:
School tracksuits € 40.00
Ties €7.00
Jackets €25.00
All of the above are now available to purchase in the school.
Book money €50.00 per child
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. 
We were really lucky on Wednesday when the Olympic Torch passed right by the end of our road! Our friend from the boxing and former Olympic gold medallist, Michael Carruth was running with the torch. He was then passing it on to Jedward. We saw Michael running with the torch and we even caught a glimpse of Jedward as they passed by us in their bus.
Well done to everyone with all the hard work on getting the green school flag. Let’s try and think where we can display it now!
A brilliant time was had by fourth class at the Tayto Park in Ashbourne on Friday June 1st……
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!
Well done to James McAuley and Bradley Fagan who did the school proud in the ring at the national boxing stadium today! Here are some pictures from the event & the boys with special guest Olympic boxing champion Michael Carruth!!
Ms Lynch’s Senior Infants were Scottish for a day! They were learning all about the Loch Ness Monster and they even made their own Scottish kilts. Watch the video below to see the lovely things they made and listen to their special Nessy song!
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Click below to watch 3rd class play Ireland’s Call on their tin whistles!
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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!
We celebrate and pray to Holy Mary for the month of May. May she guide us as we prepare for the end of year exams, Communion and Confirmation.
We have a lovely May altar at the entrance to the canteen. Please come and pray, leave a prayer for Mary in the special prayer box or perhaps complete the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer filling in the blanks using words from the jar.
Father Tim and all of the parents joined 6th class for their enrolment ceremony in preparation for their Confirmation.
We have been awarded our green flag for working so hard on litter and waste ; so well done to everybody !
Keep up the good work around the school !
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!
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- We all got to guess a country …
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- Getting ready!
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- A well deserved break!
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- Lift Off!!!
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We had a super week learning all about St. Patrick and getting in to the festive mood!
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- Senior Infants were very creative!
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- Ms. Lynch’s class listened to and learned about the story of St. Patrick
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- They even decorated their faces!!!
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- Fantastic boats made by our talented Junior & Senior Infants
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- Our very own lovely leprechaun!!!
Bhí gach rang an gnóthach ag déanamh rudaí as Gaeilge. Féach ar na pictiúirí! Bhí a lán spraoi againn!!!
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- Biachlár!
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- rang a 3 ag foghlaim dán agus ag déanamh abairtí!
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- Rang a dó ag súgradh ‘cloch, páipéar, siosúr’!
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- Rang a sé ag foghlaim conas a dhéanann arán gaelach!
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- Seó Faisin sa rang a dó!
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.
We are working hard on : Photocopying on both sides of the page , reusing old cardboard, separating fruit waste , recycling paper and using one paper towel. Here are some pictures of children litter picking in the yard with Miss Gaynor.
Fourth class are using a writing tree to give us ideas and inspiration for our writing . We can write recipes , rhymes , stories , letters , invitations , excuses …!
Our writing tree .
5th and 6th classes have been reading the book ‘Taking Sides’ by Brian Gallagher. It is set in Dublin during the civil war of 1921/1922. We went to a Live History show in Larkin College where we saw (and tried out!) guns and uniforms that the soldiers and people used to have back in those days. It was very interesting.[imagebrowser id=4]
We had loads of fun with Ms. Heverin’s 6th Class on World Book Day. The 6th Class pupils chose books to read to us in small groups. Then they helped us to create images of different parts of the story. Great fun was had by all!
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!
Second Class have been playing some fun maths games on Wednesday afternoons. Big thanks to the parents and grandparents who came in to take part! Everyone had a great time and we proved that maths can be great fun!
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Concentration...
We have a winner...
I don't believe it!!
Mr. Finan
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.
This week is anti-bullying week and 6th class have done lots of work related to this. We hope that everyone can be friendly to each other and make the extra effort especially this week.
Remember: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Here are some posters we created:
