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Senior Building: 01 282 9963
Email: secretary@stfergalsnsbray.ie
On Thursday 17th November many teachers will be organising the annual Parent-Teacher meetings.
To accommodate these meetings all children from 1st - 6th class will finish school at 2.15pm.
Some teachers will meet parents on different days to suit time schedules.
All Welcome!
All money raised will go towards the Irish Premature Babies Foundation and will be used to help purchase Breast Pumps which will be loaned to mothers of Premature Babies.
One Hour FREE Presentation by John Fitzpatrick on how to help keep your child safe as they use the internet, He will explain some simple tips about how to teach your children to use computers, tablets and mobile phones safely and give advice on what apps or sites to avoid.
Over the last few weeks Third Class have been learning about Homes. We discussed the various types of houses such as detached, semi-detached, terrace, apartments, bungalows and duplexes. We talked about the various rooms in the home and things we might find in these rooms. We identified our favourite rooms in our house and this inspired our "Through the Keyhole" images.
Talking about Homes lead to discussions about Homelessness, an issue in which the children had some knowledge on. The children were very aware of the fact that some people sleep on the streets, in shop doors, near the beach etc. We also talked about the fact the homelessness comes in lots of forms. It can be couch surfing, sleeping in your car, maybe living in a hotel. It is not having a space to call your own. It made us realise that we are lucky enough to have a home!
We also created homes as a group project. The children worked in group to design the rooms in their home. The only criteria, they had was that there needed to be a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room in each home. So amongst each group they decided who was making what. Some children worked individually and others worked in pairs. They had a great time making their homes and are very proud of them.
Third Class have spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks learning about themselves and their families. They have been looking at their strengths, weaknesses, uniqueness. They've identified their likes and dislikes. From this sprang their art, where the children drew all their favourite things inside their silhouettes. Then we guessed who?
We also spent a lot of time talking about our families. We talked about the people who live with us and also people who are family that might not live with us. We discussed that the children can have different family structures but the important thing that ties a family together is love. We also talked about lots of ways to show love to our families and how they show love to us. Here are some pictures of the family trees.
We also spent a lot of time researching family names. Irish surnames have all have a coat of arms to describe the family traditions. We looked at all the surnames that we could find. As not all the children had a coat of arms, we decided to create our own. We used the information we learned; different meanings for each colour, different animals have different meanings and certain shapes in the crest mean different things. It was a very interesting project listening to the chlldren talk about the things that represented their families.
Uniform collection is on Thursday 25th August in the Senior building hall at 9.30am.
This is the first year for the new St. Fergal's NS uniform.
School will begin again for the children on Tuesday 30th August.
Senior Infants have a normal school day 8.50am-1.30pm.
1st - 6th class begin at 8.50am and finish at 2.30pm
New Junior Infants begin at 9am - 11am for the first week
(30th Aug - 2nd Sept)
Week 2 and 3 (5th-16th September) 9am-12pm
From Week 4 19th September onwards 8.50am-1.30pm
All children line up as normal in the yard and are collected by their teachers.
Don't forget a healthy school lunch.
Aldi are selling uniforms tomorrow (14th July)
They are selling grey trousers and pinafores, black shoes, socks and shirts.
They also have navy tracksuit bottoms and blue polo t-shirts.
These may come in handy for our new uniform in September.
Absolutely amazing news today; we received word today that we have achieved the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and maths Plaque of STEM Excellence for 2015-2016!
It is our first plaque for our newly amalgamated school!
Everyone worked so hard this year! We did wonderful experiments and had a fantastic Science Day for everyone!
Huge well done to everyone in 2nd class who hosted our Science Day.
A very special thank you and congratulations to Ms. Devlin, Ms. Brady, Ms. Grogan and Mrs. Loftus who put together our Science book!
Well again to all our budding scientists from Junior Infants to 6th class!
In September 2016 St. Fergal's National School will launch a new school uniform for all the children from Junior Infants to 6th class.
It is very exciting to have one uniform for the newly amalgamated school.
The uniform will be the following:
Navy 'v' neck jumper with contrasting blue stripes in two shades of blue on the 'v' with crest sewn on.
Navy tie with contrasting blue stripes. Elasticated ties and self-tying ties will be available. (The tie in the picture is slightly different)
Light blue/ powder blue shirt.
Children can wear grey trousers, grey pinafore or grey skirt.
Black shoes for both girls and boys.
Navy tights or socks with the option of grey also.
The new tracksuit will be navy with the same crest as uniform.
There will be contrasting stripes in two shades of blue down the sleeves.
A light blue/ powder blue polo shirt will be under the tracksuit. There will be an option to buy crested polo shirts.
The tracksuit bottoms will be plain navy.
There will be an option to wear the old grey and navy/ red tracksuits in September. However the new uniform starts immediately on the first day back to school.
There was great excitement last week when the three senior infant classes got a visit from two newborn lambs. They were very small so we tried to be very quiet and gentle when we were petting them. Thank you to Ms. Egan and Ms. De Paor for organising the visit!
We have been doing lots of active maths in the last few weeks and it is great to see the children playing maths games and practising their adding at the same time. Thank you to all the helpers who come in on Mondays!
We are also learning lots about the dentist in our Aistear groups this month. We have been checking our teeth, practising our brushing, making appointments and getting checkups.
Robins lay blue eggs. When they are babies they are speckled. When they are adults they are not. By Naoise.
A robin has a red brest. The robin lays 3- 9 eggs. By Cara.
On Monday 15th February we raised our Active School Flag.
The whole school were there to see the flag being raised.
We were very lucky that Donal O'Mahony, a gold medallist from the Special Olympics was there to help us raise the flag. Donal attends Lakers Sports and Recreational Club in Bray.
We had children speak about all the activities we did to earn our flag last year.
Lots of children wore special clothes from their local sports teams.
Ruth from the Sports Promotion Unit spoke to us about being active.
It was a super day!
The Egg Experiment
We were learning all about the Digestive System. We discussed all the different parts and their functions. We focused a lot on the mouth and the teeth. The egg shell acts very similarly to the tooth so we undertook some fair testing. We compared eggs in water, in coca cola and in vingear. The egg in water acted as a control to compare the other eggs to. We left the eggs for 24 hours. The egg in water did not change. The egg in the vinegar dissolves the shell, similar to having lots of acidic in our diet. The egg shell in coca cola changed colour to a very dark brown. This shows the effect of drinking fizzy drinks, teas and coffees. We also cleaned this egg with a toothbrush; highlighting the importance of cleaning our teeth everyday.
Things have been very busy in 4th class. Well done to the boys from both classes who went to the GAA blitz in Loughlinstown. They won 2 out of 3 of their matches and did our school proud! Best of luck to the girls who are participating next week.
This month we are learning all about Australia and The Aborigines. Both classes are working on some beautiful dot paintings inspired by The Aborigines. We have made replicas of the Sydney Opera House too. We are also learning how to do Report Writing and we are enjoying researching all about Australian culture as part of this.
In science, Ms. Connolly's class have been busy planting and are looking forward to seeing their plants bloom in February. Ms Clarke's class are learning about the digestive system and healthy eating with the help of some experiments.
Finally both classes have been learning the song Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music - click the link to watch a clip from the movie.
Last Thursday ( 28th January) the three Junior Infant classes went to the library with their parents.
It was a super day.
We looked at the topic of The Normans in History and we presented amazing projects to our teacher. She was so impressed that she could not decide which one was the best. Ms Kelly next door kindly agreed to help her choose the winning projects and as a result lots of us ended up with little prizes to highlight our hard work.
We are also working hard on our Tin Whistle. We managed to learn three new songs for the Christmas Carol Service. We intend to keep up our hard work with Music.
Hopefully we will carry out many more fun activities in class in the coming weeks and months and we will keep everybody posted on our School Website.
We enjoy our Art Lessons and at Christmas we spent a day making Sock Snowmen. Although we all used rice and white socks, we all ended up with totally unique Sock Snowmen as we used different materials and buttons to decorate them.
Earlier in the school year we decided to decorate the wall area outside our classroom with a large display. We each drew a flower and coloured it in with Oil Pastels. Brigid cut each of the flowers out and put them all together to create our very own class vase. Our inspiration came from Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh. Personally, we think ours is even better than the original!
Hi and welcome to Ms Grace’s 5th class.
We work very hard in English, Gaeilge and Maths each day, we also like to carry out experiments in Science. We usually work in small groups to carry out our experiments. At the start of the school year we looked at the topic of Living Things. We planted daffodils in different shape containers, so daffodil planting also involved a small bit of Maths as we looked closely at the shapes of the containers that we used. Our daffodil bulbs have recently begun to grow outside our classroom window which is super news.
We enjoyed making Lava Lamps when we looked at the topic of Materials in Science. It was great to see the Lava Lamps erupting each time we popped an effervescent tablet into the water, oil and food colouring solution. Next time, we must ALL remember to wear our gloves during any experiment that involves food colouring!!!
