Today Conor and John from the Sports Promotion unit presented 60 children with their certificates. All of these children from 2nd Class took part in the Fair Play Programme and learned about honesty, playing fairly respect and anger management. Well done to all!
First Class Tour - The Zoo
We had a great day at the zoo. The weather was fantastic for us!! Big thank you to Rachel, Helen and Ms Carroll who helped keep us all safe :) Take a look at some of the lovely moments we had on our trip!
Fighting words: The Search
Fighting Words: The Big Story for The Big Picture: The Search
3rd class were invited to attend a writing workshop in Glencree hosted by Fighting Words back in October 2017. The children were delighted to head off on an adventure outside of school. This however was no ordinary workshop as the children were given the task of writing chapter two of the book entitled ‘The Search’. The children also drew marvellous illustrations for the book.
Only a few schools in the country were given the opportunity to write a chapter of the book. How exciting and also to be a young budding author and illustrator at the age of 8 and 9 years old!!!
The children were also invited to the launch of the book in Fighting Words headquarters in Dublin City Centre in January 2018. After we passed through the magical bookcase which was actually a revolving door, we got to meet another school from Baldoyle who wrote chapter one.
Then 3rd class from St. Fergal’s had to read their chapter from the book which was chapter two ‘The Library’. Afterwards the children ate some lovely cupcakes and collected some signatures from famous authors and illustrators such as Roddy Doyle, PJ Lynch and many of the talented illustrators and volunteers. The children were also given a copy of the book. RTÉ even showed up to film the book launch too!!
The Search tells the story of Callie and Will, who run away from an orphanage in Drogheda, in a bid to find their parents, with evil Sister Mary Petunia in hot pursuit.
Here are some photographs from the book launch day. A great day was had by all.
Science Fair 2018
Children in 3rd Class put on a Science Fair today! Students from early start to 6th class were invited to come along and take part in a number of experiments. We had a great day and learned a lot about science in the lead up to the fair. We hope everyone who came along enjoyed it too! Here are just a few photos from the big day.
Seachtain na Gaeilge Assemblies
We were treated to some wonderful entertainment from all classes at the end of Seachtain na Gaeilge! We celebrated the Irish culture through language, music and dance. The talent was unbelievable. Well done to all the children and teachers for all of their hard work! Go raibh maith agaibh!!!
Irish dancing
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Ms Connolly’s 5th class visit Ms Brady’s 2nd Class presenting PowerPoints on Irish Legends.
The Children of Lir- The King’s Four children were turned into swans for 900 years by their jealous and wicked stepmother!
Tir na nOg
We learned that poor Oisin turned into a very old man on touching the soil in Ireland.
La Glas and world book day 2nd Class
Snow!!
I hope everyone is enjoying their snow days!! Here's a few pics of us getting excited at the first flurry of snow on Tuesday!! :)
Big well done to everyone who was able to make it to school on Wednesday!! (Credit to Mrs Loftus, Ms Kelly and Ms Farrell for photos)
Monet
Roots of Empathy
4th class tour of Dalkey Castle -Ms.Keyes
Today we went on a trip to Dalkey Castle. We got a tour of the castle and learned about murder holes, feasts and life during the Norman times. When we were in the old church, a slave that had escaped from Dalkey island ran in and gave us a fright but we gave him sanctuary and then he was free! We had great fun and learned a lot!
We went up on the roof of the castle. It was a fantastic look-out for enemies coming in from the sea or the hills!
This man was a doctor, barber and a dentist!
Good thing all our teeth are in good shape, otherwise they would have been yanked out!
We made our own coins we could use to barter for other items.
We even put Ms.Keyes in the stocks!
This is the slave that escaped from Dalkey Island!
Venetian Masks in 4th class- Ms. Keyes
We have been studying Italy in 4th class. We loved learning about Venice and even got to travel around it on a gondola on google maps! For art we designed and painted venitian masks! People living in Venice used to spend most of the year wearing these masks as a disguise but now they are mostly just worn at Carnival.
4th Class Electricity -Ms.Keyes
We went down to the science room on Thursday and learned all about renewable and non-renewable resources. We spoke about ways to help stop global warming and how we can save energy at home. We also made circuits. We made an alarm go off and a fan spin!
Christmas Carol Performance :)
Today Ms Walsh's 1st Class had our Christmas Performance! The children worked very hard to learn lots of songs and rhymes, both in English and as Gaeilge. I am very, very proud of them all as they did a super job and really gave it socks!! We had a great time preparing for it and I hope the Mammys, Daddys, Nanas and everyone else who was able to make it had a great time too!
Take a look at our fabulous performers!! :)
Roots of Empathy - Dec visit
Daddy Graham, Mammy Kelly and baby Finn joined us on Monday to teach us :)
Art for All Day
Big thank you to Ms Barrett, Karen and Laura who helped with the art in our classroom today. We visited Ms Doyle and Mrs Cornejo's classrooms too. Brilliant day!!!
Roots of Empathy
Ms Walsh's first class have been really lucky this year as we have gained a brand new teacher! Baby Finn (our new teacher) has been visiting our class every few weeks to help us learn about empathy - to understand how other people feel and to learn more about our own feelings. We absolutely LOVE when Baby Finn and Mammy Kelly come to visit us! Just look at our faces!!!
Bubble painting in 4th class
We mixed food colouring with bubble solution to make colourful bubbles! Then we blew the bubbles and let the pop onto our pages!
Halloween traditional games
hanging apple
bobbing apple.
drop the cherry!
