We launched our new website on Wednesday the 19th of September. Parents and children sat in the hall waiting while Mr. Quinn was getting ready to show us the new website. We counted down from ten to one to unveil the website. He showed us how to access the website and look around. The new website is very different from the old one and
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We started learning a song called “Jake the Peg” in choir this week. You can use this video to sing along with the song.
Since last week, 6th class have started a new blog for the teacher and all the class pupils. Our teacher Mr. Quinn had unveiled it to us on Monday 17th of September. He gave us our own blogs for us to post in school or after school at home. Mr Quinn has started to give us homework to do on the blog at home. All
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MissionV is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes the development of 21st century skills through innovative online technologies. It is enhancing the Irish classroom by providing the digital tools for teachers and students to design and create their own, curriculum-based, interactive content – for powerful new learning experiences. During the school year 2011-12 they ran a pilot project in 20 primary schools, supported by the
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The RSS Feed for our new website has been added to the Seas Suas website. This is a site generated from feeds from school websites/blogs from all over the country. It gives a wider audience to content generated by pupils in primary schools and demonstrates the wide use of technology in the schools. This means that any new content we add to the blog
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I am delighted to welcome you all to our new website. We hope that you enjoy browsing through our pages and that you get a true sense of our school from all the information contained within! We are very proud of our new site and in particular thank Damien Quinn (teacher) and James and Debbie Woodward (parents) for the many hours of work and
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To coincide with the new school website, we decided to establish a pupils’ website committee to help with the future running of the site. When we announced at assembly the date for the launch of the new school website, we also explained to the pupils about the establishment of the committee. We asked pupils from 5th and 6th classes to make a written submission
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Some time ago Catherine Cronin, academic coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at the National University of Ireland, Galway, asked us to take part in a video showcasing technology being used in Irish classrooms. Along with a number of other Irish educators, we submitted short videos of examples of how pupils are using technologies to discover new ways of learning in
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The Green School Committee organised a ‘WOW Day’ in our school on Wednesday. We tried to walk all or part of the way to school, 147 of us walked to school! We enjoyed the exercise and also helped our environment by not using cars. When we arrived at school our Green School Committee had a drink and a sticker for us! We are going to try to keep
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We picked rhubarb from the organic garden at the back of the school beside our yard. We went inside to the school kitchen and washed our hands. We did this in groups as the kitchen is too small. Everyone else worked in the halla beside the kitchen while the group cooked. We put an apron on and cut off the leaves from the rhubarb.
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