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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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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We enjoyed reading “The owl who was afraid of the dark” by Jill Tomlinson. The story is about an owl called Plop and Plop has a problem. He is afraid of the dark and owls are night birds so he has a real problem. Plop wants to learn about the dark so he sets on a journey to learn more. First he meets a
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First class have been working in stations to improve their reading , writing, listening and oral language skills. The class has been divided into 5 groups for station time, with 6 children in each group. There are 5 stations set up in the classroom and each group works at each station for 10 minutes at a time. Station teaching happens from Monday to Thursday
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The middle and senior classes have been following ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’, a reading comprehension programme aimed at giving children the strategies they need to become good readers. By learning about these strategies, children can become more involved in the text they are reading and deepen their understanding of the text. Each week, a new strategy was modelled in the classroom first by Ms.
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These are six word stories about us. We had to describe our lives, or express our personality, or express our outlook on life in six words. It was quite hard to come up with exactly six words. It’s easier to think of lots of words to describe what you are trying to say, but not so easy using only six words. We put illustrations
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This is a movie trailer that we made on an iPad app called “In a World .. Drama”. It is about the book “Rosie’s Quest” that we are reading in class at the moment. The book is about a girl called Rosie who goes back in time to save the relationship between her mum and aunt. The pictures in the trailer were sketched by 6th
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In September we started reading pals with people from younger classes. We do reading pals 4 days a week. We read to the younger pupils first and then they read to us and we write the unknown words on the unknown words sheet. Some people go to Mrs Timoney and some people go to Miss Hynes. When we go Reading pals first we do
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In 6th class we made some poems with a twist for National Poetry Day last Thursday. In poems with a twist, the first three lines are full of expectation and the last line is a let-down! We used Audacity to record the podcast and then we made it into an MP3 file. They were really fun to make. Listen to the Podcast HERE (2mins 55secs)