On Saturday 13th December a number of children from the school participated in a biathlon competition. They ran 800metres on the track at Sligo IT and later in the day swam 2 lengths of the pool at the sports complex. In between events they had the opportunity to try fencing and laser shooting. The competitors – 2nd class Cathal H, Ethan M, Adam S
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Snowmen During art we made clay snowmen. We waited a week for the clay to dry then painted them and added eyes, noses, mouths and buttons. Some of us then added a scarf. This is a video of what our snowmen looked like when they were finished:
Our novel The Hodgeheg is about a hedgehog called Max who is trying to find a safe way for hedgehogs to cross the road. As part of our novel work we are looking at the Safe Cross Code and different ways of crossing the road safely. We made mini books about the Safe Cross Code and read them to the junior infants. We made sure to
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We read about Vincent Van Gogh, looked at some of his paintings and wrote about him independently. During art we painted our own versions of The Starry Night. First of all we used sponges and watery paint for the background when that had dried we painted on the stars, moon, tree and buildings.
We made wind socks and took them to various areas around the school to check the wind direction and wind strength. On the yard the socks didn’t move much because we were sheltered by the school building. They moved more out on the astro turf and pitch as we were out in the open. We also tried running with our wind socks to see what
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Second class wrote revolting recipes and made ghosts and pumpkins in the lead up to Halloween. On Friday 24th October all sorts of scary people spent a day in second class.
Well done to all the children who participated in the Sligo Schools Cross Country competition on Saturday 11 October. It was the first time the school had entered the competition and all of the children ran very well. Particular congratulations to the junior boys team who came first and qualified for the Connaught Primary Schools Cross Country on 18th October and to Kayla Kiernan
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We have just finished reading Flat Stanley, our first novel of the year and we participated in lots of activities related to the book. We made a Flat Stanley of our own, took him home and to different places. Some children had their photograph taken with him and brought them into school. We painted Flat Stanley, drew Stanley disguised as a shepherdess, designed a
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Second class had a great time on their visit to Dublin Zoo. The children had their photograph taken with a giant strawberry and brought home strawberries and a t-shirt as part of their prize. We wandered round the zoo looking at all the different animals, had a lovely lunch in the Meerkat Restaurant and then completed our tour of the zoo. In class we
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We love reading in second class. During world Book Week we dressed as characters from books. How many can you recognise?