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Confirmation

On Thursday 16th of May 6th class in Ransboro and Strandhill School made their Confirmation. The mass was on in Ransboro church and at eleven o’clock the bishop started the mass. Everyone listened as the bishop said the homily and then it was time for the 6th class to receive Confirmation. As they went up their Sponsor held their Baptismal candle in one hand and had the
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Lá Glas

Thursday the 15th was “Lá Glás” in our school. Everyone wore green for St Patrick’s Day.  The whole school went to the halla where  Mrs Clarke gave a Powerpoint display on the history of St Patrick.  When Mrs. Clarke was finished, each class got up one by one in front of everyone and sang a song, did a rhyme or poem or played tin whistle.  The whole
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Gaelic Skills Competition.

On Tuesday the 19th of February Charlie Harrison from the Sligo Gaelic team came to our school. He told us that there was a skills competition coming up soon. Three girls and three boys from 5th and 6th classes would represent our school. All the girls and boys had to try out doing solos and aiming at the post. We were given points on
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Maths Trail

On Wednesday Mr.Quinn organised a maths trail outside for 6th class.  They were split up into six groups of five and each group was given a metre stick and a booklet with questions in it.  The groups got down to work quickly thinking hard about the questions. They had to move around quite a bit as the questions were based on lots of different places around the
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