Teddy Presidential Election

5th class had a teddy election on Tuesday the 25th   of September. For homework we had to write an election speech about why our teddy should be ruler of the world. So we all stood in front of the class in turn and read our speeches. Some of the teddies were so cute and their names were class. These are some of the important
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The House That Jack Filled

On the 22nd of October, the children from second to fifth class began our interesting journey into the life of Jack Mac Nally. We took the bus and our excitement filled the air as we drove to the Hawkswell. As we entered the auditorium we noticed the set was beautifuly decorated. Jack was played by Lewis Lovett. He appeared on the stage wearing a
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Autumn Art

First class have had a great time doing our Autumn art work the last few weeks. The first project we did were Not-So-Scary Scarecrows.  This had to be done over a few days but it was great to watch it come together step by step.  First the backgrounds were painted and detail was added using black paint.  Then the class created their scarecrows using different colours
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Famine Graveyard

Before Hallowe’en, we went on a trip to a Famine Graveyard after swimming. We went there because we are reading the novel “Under the Hawthorn Tree” in class. The book is set during the Great Irish Famine 1845 – 1849. The main gate was locked so we had to use the entrance through St. John’s Hospital. The main gate was designed by an artist
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WEEE Ireland Assembly

Today, a man called Niall Lydon from Galway, came to the school to talk to us about recycling. He talked to us about not throwing electrical items away. We learned from him that we can recycle most things in the world like kettles, Xboxes, PS3s, washing machines etc. His rule was that anything that can be plugged in or has batteries can be recycled.
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Hallowe’en Carols

On Thursday October 25th, 6th class recorded some Hallowe’en Carols. These are Christmas Carols with Hallowe’eny lyrics. We recorded our three best songs. We used an app on the iPad called Hokusai to record the songs. Then we exported the file to Dropbox and imported it into Audacity where we converted it into an .MP3 file. Some of the songs were really funny. We
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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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Jack O’ Lantern

We carved a pumpkin and placed a candle inside, it is now called a Jack O’ Lantern! If you would like to find out more about pumpkins please watch the video below. Senior Infants


Our spooky Hallowe’en Art!

We made some bats from our handprints and a Hallowe’en spider bag for trick or treating! Senior Infants  


Senior Infants created Martians on Ipods!

We made Martians using the Ipods. Then we took a photo of it and our teacher printed them out!  Some children made scary martians and others made nice martians!  Here is an example of one very scary martian!