Sixth class constructed a model Christmas village as our Art lesson over the last few weeks. First we constructed different shaped buildings from cardboard, paying particular attention to features like windows, doors, roofs and chimneys. Next we covered our structures with papier-mâché. When the papier-mâché dried, we designed shop-fronts for our buildings and painted them accordingly. Finally we added festive effects such as snow
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Many thanks to all of you who participated in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal. This is an annual event in the school which gives pupils the opportunity to give a gift to a child in a poor part of the world at Christmas, either in Eastern Europe or Africa. The appeal is organised by Team Hope every year. It was great to see such a
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We discovered that there was an unusual visitor to The Glen last Thursday night. It appears that one of Santa’s elves visited The Glen, had a look around to check up on pupils and left a small gift.
This video captures the atmosphere of the Sligo Christmas Fayre which took place in the Stephen Street Car Park on December 8/9th, 2012. It features pupils from our school choir carol-singing at the event.
Here are some YouTube videos to help you practice some Christmas songs that we are learning in choir at the moment. Frosty the Snowman We Wish You a Merry Christmas Jingle Bells When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney Deck the Halls I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Here are some YouTube videos to help you practice carols that we are learning in choir at the moment. Silent Night: Away in a Manger O, Come All Ye Faithful When A Child Is Born We Three Kings of Orient Are Mary’s Boy Child Hark the Herald Angels Sing The Little Drummer Boy Ding Dong Merrily On High
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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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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