“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by 4th class. In fourth class we build up a picture of Narnia as we read the novel “The lion the witch and the wardrobe”. We made pictures of Mr Tumnus’s house, Mr and Mrs Beavers house, the white witch, the dwarf and the Pevence children. We described characters in detail as we met them in
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Since September each class have promoted the Green school programme as we were electing a new committee. We made speeches and presented them to our class and the children voted for their choice. The following members were elected: Fraser Woodward, Jamie Walsh, Jacob Hamilton, Jamie Kilfeather, Oisin Hennessy, Killian Parle, Lily Casey, Isabel Davitt, Nicole Downs, Julie Rose McSharry and Amber Doyle. Mrs Nairn,
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During the past months 5th and 6th class have been working on the Blue Star Programme. 6th class studied the institutions of the European Union, the role of the European Parliament and the European Commission and presented their findings on EU day at assembly. They did projects on the Irish MEPs and wrote letters to Marian Harkin inviting her to EU day in our
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On the 19th of May, Anna, Cormac, SNA Mrs.Nearn and Mrs. O’Rourke, representing our Green School Committee, went to Claremorris to receive the Biodiversity Green Flag . The Green School Committee have been working so hard over the past few years to earn this flag. They have surveyed the school about biodiversity,mapped the school grounds at the start and again in April 2015 showing new
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On Wednesday 20th of May, 5th class and the green school committee had a biodiversity day out. Olivia from An Taisce and The Clean Coast programme visited our class. She talked about marine life, dunes, how we can impact our coastal areas in a good way and a bad way. She displayed a variety of shells, seaweed and fossils. We then went to Strandhill
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On Friday the 20th of March we had our biodiversity action day. In the morning the junior school had a power point on biodiversity. They discovered what a flower needs to grow, water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. They also looked at the life cycle of animals, insects and plants. They looked at some food chains. They identified common birds in the school yard such
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On the 26th of February I went to the Spelling Bee competition in Rathcormac National School. It was the spelling final and 23 schools were there. One child represented each school. We were all dressed in bright yellow t-shirts. The winner was from St Patrick’s School Calry. I came in the top eight. At the end everybody got a dictionary, a pen, a bookmark
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The green school committee organised a competition in November where children had to come up with a slogan to promote biodiversity. The entries were to be in by the 12th of December. We received a great response and we got many great slogans and also great artwork. It was very difficult to pick a winner but the winners were Junior/senior infants: Finn McD 1st/2nd:
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Last Friday the Green school Committee presented an assembly on biodiversity to all the classes in the school. We spoke about what biodiversity is, what it means and how we can protect it. We showed different types of leaves, algae, twigs and ferns. We showed a slideshow on biodiversity and taught all the classes about it. We are also introducing a competition to design
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We looked at “The Scream” by Edvard Munch. We also looked at what influenced his paintings. Edvard’s mum died of T.B when he was a child and his sister also died young. Edvard’s dad was very religious he told Edvard that his mum was looking down on him from heaven. That would scare a young child. Edvard was out for a walk overlooking a
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