The kids of Second class have been working on the African theme far a while now. And we were lucky enough to report on their work. Second class have enjoyed reading many books about the African topic. Here are a few: : A is for Africa. : Flat Stanley, African Discovery. : The Ugly Five. Second class have also made many fabulous art pieces.(Those
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On Thursday 16th of October a woman called Suzanne talked to the school about autism. I started off the assembly. Ms Hynes and I made a presentation speech using Microsoft PowerPoint. I was a little nervous at first, but then I got used to the presentation. I spoke about the way I live and how everybody’s different. I talked about my family, the things
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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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Christmas Concert Today we had our Christmas concert. The whole hall was PACKED so some people had to stand, but they were still happy. Each class did a song or a poem. Lots of people wore festive hats and scarves. Some parents had organised a Race Night that raised €3000. They presented a cheque to Mrs Clarke at the start.
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Santa Comes to Ransboro At breaktime today there was great commotion on the yard! The teachers called us all around to the front of the school. When we got there we saw Santa arriving on a horse and cart with Silvio’s dad!!!! The horse was called Maggie!! Santa got off and talked to all of us. Each
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Snowflakes We got this idea from a class that we are following on Twitter @REACHRocketeers! Teacher gave us three sheets of paper with lines on them showing you where to cut. We had to make six arms to form the snowflake. We cut the sheets of paper different ways and then sellotaped the arms together and then stapled them. After we formed
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On Monday, Senior Infants to Sixth Class went to the hall to watch the rehearsals for the junior infant’s nativity play. The girls were angels and the boys were shepherds. The whole school were singing along to the Christmas carols. Everybody in the school and the teachers enjoyed the junior infant’s wonderful performance. Everyone was enthusiastic leaving the hall. They are performing it
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6th Class were busy little elves!!! A few weeks ago we came up with a fundraising idea to help raise money for our trip toDelphiin June. We decided to make Christmas cards. Teacher got the supplies for our cards from the internet. We waited impatiently for the parcel to arrive! We were very happy when it did. We decided that we would
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It’s Science Week this week ! We used the ‘10,000 Science Fact’ App on our iPods to find out some interesting Science facts! These are our favourites!!! Eating one apple adds 5 minutes to a person’s life. Moon was Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name! Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards and not the other way around! 200,000lbs
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We are learning about what causes the seasons in class. The axis of the Earth is at a tilt of 23.5 degrees. It is this tilt that causes the seasons. The Earth orbits the sun while spinning on its own axis. The tilt causes different amounts of the suns energy to reach the Earth at different times during the year. When the suns
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