On Wednesdays, 3rd-6th classes go to a gaelic lesson on the astro turf pitch. Our coaches names are Aileen & Daire and they are from Mayo. Aileen does some really fun exercises & games with us. We do different games such as Traffic Lights and Tape Player. We also do games with both coaches such as passing games, kicking games and skill games. They show us how to do
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The name of the book is Snakehead. It is about a fourteen year old boy called Alex Ryder. He was recruited by MI6 to work as a spy. The author’s name is Anthony Horowitz. Alex Ryder’s parents were killed in a plane crash when he was only a baby. His uncle Ian Ryder adopted him but he was killed in a car crash when
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My book review is on a book called The Cinnamon Tree written by Aubrey Flegg. It is about a thirteen year old girl called Yola Abonda who lives in Africa. Her father is the chieftan of their tribe. One day she steps on a landmine and her leg has to be amputated. She has an argument with her stepmother (her father has three wives)
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The book I’m reviewing is called “Lord Brocktree”. It is part of a brilliant series, written by someone called Brian Jacques. The series is called “Redwall“, and you learn what this is by reading all the books. I have read nearly all of them, as most are in the County Library. Instead of human characters, it’s about (please don’t laugh) animals, and it’s set
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I just couldn’t put it down! The standard of writing is brilliant! I would absolutely recommend this book to my friends. Thirteen year old Finbar is from Queenstown, Co.Cork. His father is the staff captain of a huge liner called the Lusitania. Finbar’s father has to work all over the world and Finbar misses him greatly whenever he has to go. He decided to
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Some boys in Senior Infants made a snowman with the polydron at lunchtime. “We had a plan and made our snowman by working as a team”, said Alan. “We decided to put skates on him”, said Joe.
In 2nd/3rd class we have been reading novels. A group of us have read ‘The Sheep-Pig’, by Dick King-Smith. This is the book on which the film ‘Babe’ was based. Anna and Jacob describe the plot of the novel: Farmer Hogget wins Babe a pig at the fair. A sheep-dog called Fly becomes Babe’s foster mother. Babe meets Ma, a ewe. Babe wants to
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World Book Day takes place this year on March 7th. The main aim of the day is to encourage children to explore the pleasure of books and reading by providing them with an opportunity to have a book of their own. Pupils will soon be receiving a World Book Day Voucher. This will enable them to buy one of the World Book Day books or
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Sligo’s first ever Children’s Book Festival takes place from March 1st to 5th to co-incide with World Book Day on March 7th. This exciting new festival is brought to you by the Hawk’s Well Theatre, The Model and Kid’s Own Publishing. There are events taking place in both the Hawk’s Well Theatre and The Model over the course of the few days which should
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The front cover of this book, Enhancing the Learning and Teaching of Irish with ICTs, which will soon be sent to every primary school in the country, displays a beautiful photograph of two of our pupils, Leah (5th class) and Emer (4th class). The book was recently launched in Dublin West Education Centre. The photograph was taken by James Connolly while taking photographs to illustrate the
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