Booklists for all classes for the next school year 2011/2012 are downloadable here. Please ensure that any money for copies etc. being sent into school is in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name, class and what the money is for. Download Booklists (.doc file)
2nd, 3rd and 4th class went on their school tour last Wednesday. we visited Parkes Castle, took a boat trip on Lough Gill, went for a forest walk in Dooney Wood and paid a visit to Tobernalt Holy Well. Here are some pictures taken before the batteries in the camera ran out!
6th Class decided today that they would like a graduation song to sing at their school leavers assembly on Wednesday! We had great fun putting this together this afternoon!! Click on the link to listen to the song: 6th Class Graduation Song
Last week we went on a minibeast hunt. We followed the Conservation Code: Search care f u l l y Handle animals with care Replace stones and logs Observe, draw and re c o rd if possible, rather than handling Return animals to habitats as soon as possible
We were invited to a photo shoot in the Sligo Education Centre. Only four children could go so we picked two girls and two boys out of a hat. We had to bring our art project with us. The photographer’s name was Bernie, we had great fun trying to get good shots of our sculptures. There were five other schools there too. We looked
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Our school has just finished creating a cookbook. It has all sorts of recipes in it – starters, main courses, desserts and cakes and breads. The pupils designed pictures for a competition to illustrate the cookbook. One picture was chosen for the cover of the cookbook. It was designed by Ciara H in 5th class. There are more illustrations inside the cookbook. On Friday
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We created Pop Art on the iPod Touches. Pop Art is where you take a picture and paint it three more times. It came in the 1950’s and was very popular. One of the most popular Pop Art artists was Andy Warhol. He liked to paint tins of Campbells Soup. We looked at some of his paintings on the internet. He even did a
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2nd and 3rd class made a podcast about World War 2. Some people were recorded in the podcast. We had to be really quiet while people were recording. It was hard to stay quiet for so long. We used some sound effects that we found on the internet. We talked about the food that was rationed, children being evacuated and the bombings in Dublin and
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6th Class were Runners-Up in the Xperience Enginnering Challenge The Helix On the 9th of June, Meadhbh Kenneally, Vita Gethin, Oisín Staunton, Seán Callaghan, Ms Hynes and Mrs Clarke went to the Helix in Dublin to present the Xperience Engineering Project. We left at 07:00 on a train and arrived in Connolly Station at 10:10. When we got to
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Delphi day 1!! On day 1 we arrived at the school at 9:20 to get on the bus. Before we got on the bus a lot of people were taking pictures. We had a 2 and a half hour bus ride to get to Delphi, everyone was very excited. When we arrived Maura was waiting for us she brought us to the conservatory where
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