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The senior class attended a photography workshop at Lough Boora Discovery Park on September 8th starting at 10.00 am. We will worked with pupils from Broughal and Coolanarney Schools. Approximately 44 pupils took part. The workshop is organised by Aisling O’ Rourke and she has created a website which you can visit here. http://www.eyesonboora.com/ Here are…
Our new outdoor classroom was installed today. The classroom is eight benches, arranged in a circle. We will now be able to go outside for some of our classes when the weather is good. It is also a place where we can sit and chat during break time or listen to stories read by the…
This year we held our Active School Week just after the June Bank Holiday. The weather forecast wasn’t too promising but we were very lucky and the only day we couldnt spend a lot of time outside was Thursday. On Tuesday we started with the Cha Cha Slide which was led by 5th & 6th…
The Department of Education and Skills has introduced a new Language Curriculum for children in junior and senior infants and in first and second class. The curriculum for junior and senior infants is aligned with the principles and methodologies of Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework. The Department through the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA)…
On 20th of January 2017 we started training to build up to run 1 km. We started by running 500m around the junior yard. We measured different possible running routes around the school and found that the perimeter of the junior yard is approximately 100m, so we ran around 5 times and walked around one…
On Monday 16th of January the Peace Proms Workshop was held in Swords County Dublin.We travelled by bus and when we arrived at Swords, we walked in and got seated. While we were sitting down getting ready Greg Beardsell our conductor started talking to us and told us all about it. He gave us colours…
To help us with our Irish reading we have a page where we can listen back to our teacher at home. He recorded himself reading the pieces and added them, along with the text. It makes reading the pieces easier at home and our parents can read with us. Click on the links below. …
As part of CODEWEEK.EU 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes created a programme in Scratch to teach the tune “Rocky Mountain”. Each day we added new pieces of code and 1st and 2nd classes came in to see how we were doing and to test our programme. Everyone is working on their project and you can…
The girls from second class celebrated their First Holy Communion on Saturday, May 21st. They looked wonderful and did a great job. Their family and friends were there to celebrate with them and the choir helped with the ceremony. Here’s the opening song from the Communion Mass. Fr. Pierre said the mass and their teacher,…
We have just finished learning about the Children of Lir. We created our own booklet and illustrated the story. We broke the story up into eight sections and wrote short descriptions of what we thought were the most important events in the story. We then picked a section each and drew pictures to illustrate the…