Our school choir will be participating in the Sligo Christmas Fayre on Saturday December 8th in Stephen St. Car Park in Sligo. We’ve been practising the songs and carols in school that we will be singing at the Christmas Fayre.

The dates for the Sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation for 2013 have been confirmed. Bishop Christopher Jones will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation for Ransboro and Strandhill schools in Ransboro Church on Thursday May 16th at 11am. First Communion will be celebrated on Saturday May 18th at 11am in Ransboro Church. We send best wishes to those preparing for these sacraments.

We had a fun history class in the hall on Wednesday and we learned a lot about the past. Declan brought a mini museum to our hall. We learned about the ice age and how the first animals came to Ireland. Wild boar, deer, wolves and elk were the first animals to roam about the country. We learned about the Megalithic, Neolithic and the
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Before Hallowe’en, Junior and Senior Infants had a visit from the dentist, Mrs. Siobhán Fitzgerald.  Mrs. Fitzgerald talked to us about our teeth and what dentists do!  Mrs. Fitzgerald brought in lots of great dental equipment for us, we were so excited!  We are having so much fun using this equipment in our dental surgery and we use a two minute sand timer at home to make sure that we brush our teeth for two minutes! 
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On Wednesday the 7th of November, our home team, Sligo Rovers came to our school with the Airtricity League trophy which they had won the month before. The celebration all started in the school on Tuesday when Mrs. Clarke announced that Sligo Rovers were going to come to the school with the trophy. Ms Clarke also said that if we had red or had
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Numerosity is a new maths app for iPad just released in the iTunes App Store from the Thoughtbox company. Its purpose is to reinforce learning in the four main mathematical operations operations. A pupil in Rang VI has done a review of the app and these are his thoughts: My teacher asked my to do a review on this new maths game he found
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We are learning this song in choir at the moment. It is the Gaeilge version of the song by “The Script” called “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved”. Look at the words of the song in your choir folder and sing along to the video at home.

We’re learning this song in choir at the moment. Use the words in your choir folder to sing along with the tune here.

In September we started reading pals with people from younger classes. We do reading pals 4 days a week. We read to the younger pupils first and then they read to us and we write the unknown words on the unknown words sheet. Some people go to Mrs Timoney and some people go to Miss Hynes. When we go Reading pals first we do
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On October 23rd, 5th class made a photostory movie. First Ms. Clarke made  a short photostory about Chinese New Year to show us how make a movie. On photostory you get pictures and put them on your computer and use them in your movie. You can type sentences onto the picture, change the style, writing, colour, the section that the writing is in and put
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