Take a look at some of the Christmas artwork around our school at the moment. In Ms Brophy’s 3rd Class this week, we painted our salt dough Christmas tree decorations and hung them on our tree. Scríobhamar scéalta beaga faoin Nollaig agus tharraingeamar pictiúir leo freisin. We also designed Christmas crackers to get in the […]

This week, all of the boys in the school made decorations by recycling materials they found in their homes. The results were fantastic. Take a look at our Christmas tree, decorated entirely with recycled materials! Thanks to Ms McCabe and the Green Schools committee for driving this competition. The 6 decorations were short-listed for prizes. […]

Our school took part in the Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal recently, bringing Christmas boxes to less fortunate children throughout the world. Read more about this initiative here.  Recently, our 5th and 6th class pupils got a visit from Brother Kieran McCormack who gave them a short history lesson on the life of Edmund Rice, […]

3rd class – Room 13 This week we learned all about space with Mr Corcoran. We found out that in 1954, a dog named Laika was the first animal to orbit the earth, he was sent to space by the Soviet Space Project.  Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaut was then the first man in space but […]

There are only two more weeks left to enter Google Ireland’s Doodle4Google competition. This is a super art competition that will ultimately lead to an Irish school pupil having their doodle live on google.ie for 24 hours, early in 2013. This year’s theme is ‘My invention…’. Only 6 entries may be made per school, regardless of […]

Welcome back everybody! Apologies for the lack of a weekly report last Friday. We’re back this week and there has been loads going on since the mid-term.Ms Liston’s 2nd class (Room 1) have started on the tin whistle and this week they learned ‘Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star’. Listen to them performing in our first Youtube […]

There was loads of Halloween artwork on display around our school this week. Take a look! We had a very busy week this week in room 9! We had a Halloween recipe competition with Darragh Ryan (1st) , Stephen Hallinan (2nd) and Stas Ionesi (3rd) taking the prizes! We learned the poem “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus […]

Maths Week was a great success in our school, the highlight being our strong performance in Mangahigh. By the end of school on Friday, we are in 16th position in the Maths Week Ireland Games Challenge. We hope to finish with more than 2000 points when the competition closes at midnight on Sunday night. This […]

The school went Mangahigh crazy this week! With Maths Week coming next week, every class got into the swing of using Mangahigh. Our log in page can be found here, where there is also information about our position on THE BRITISH ISLES MATHS GAMES CHALLENGE (including Great Britain and Ireland for the purposes of Mangahigh) […]

3rd class – Room 14 Look at some of our lovely bookmarks. We are enjoying  reading our library books so much in Ms Brophy’s that we made our own bookmarks and got them laminated. Now we’ll always know what page we’re on! (click to enlarge) 5th class – Room 7 We looked at the poem […]