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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I came first in the INTO handwriting competition! My name was called out and I had my photograph taken. Then my school was entered into a competition and I won a €100 euro book token for our school! We got a bag of sweets at the end, it was so much fun! By Cliodhna, 2nd Class
We went to the Google offices in Dublin for a prize-giving ceremony for the Doodle4Google competition! When we arrived we were given name tags and refreshments, I got a t-shirt with my doodle printed on it! Google had lots of laptops ready for us to use, our doodles were playing on flat screen televisions. The finalists then went to workshops and the adults
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The March 2012 edition of the INTO magazine “InTouch” carries an article entitled “Schools That Blog – What’s the Attraction?” In the article, the Ransboro NS website is mentioned as one of the schools “which are wonderful examples of blogging and ICT integration”. At the same time Scoilnet, the portal site for all things educational in Ireland, is featuring art work completed by pupils
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Today is Safer Internet Day. It is a day for showing you how to use the internet properly and safely. We visited a website called Webwise and looked at a video about surfing the internet. We learned some Golden Rules about surfing the internet. These are some of those rules: Don’t always say “Yes” when a pop-up appears If you come across something bad
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I have reached the final of the doodle 4 google competition! There are 15 finalists in each category. The winning student will have their doodle on the Google Ireland homepage for 24 hours. They will also receive a €10,000 technology grant for their school and a laptop for the pupil and teacher. The winner of each category wins a laptop for themselves and their
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Our class entered the Doodle for Google competition! We had to create our own doodle with the theme I wish…! Last week our teacher received three envelopes in the post from Google! We were so excited! Inside were letters and certificates for three children in our class. Amber, Rosha and Cliodhna have reached the semi-final of the competition! After the 23rd of January their
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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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