100% attendance!

Well done to the girls who have not missed one day of school from September!

A special visitor

Santa called into school to say hello ho ho ho!!

Musical

A number of the girls were part of the musical Sister Act. They put on 4 superb performances. Well done girls!

Workshop with children's author Gerry Boland

We were delighted to have the opportunity to have workshops with Gerry. We had 3 different workshops on different aspects of English, while developing our vocabulary throughout.

During our first workshop we used the narrative style of writing, telling a story about a duck and a fox. We used lots of descriptive writing using some new words we learnt also. In out next workshop we were looking at poetry. We created our own poems based on different letters of the alphabet. For our last workshop, we created poems called " I am I am I am". We will share some of our work on the blog over the next while.

Northern Sound

The girls from 5th and 6th classes recorded a number of Christmas carols and a selection of songs from the musical "Sister Act" which will be played on Northern Sound on Christmas Day between 10am-11am. Keep your ear to the ground!

Rocket into Space

As part of space week we were learning about rockets. We built our own rocket and launched it into space.

Sleeper Creeper

We had the chance to go and see a production of Sleeper Creeper. The story was told through music! There was a great variety of instruments used. It was really interesting!

Under a Hawthorn Tree

We read the novel Under the Hawthorn Tree. Here are a few examples of letters that may have been written.

Ludo reward!

By getting our 1st Ludo piece home we were able to have a pyjama day and watch a film.

Our sheep!

Using skillful techniques we created our own 5th class flock of sheep.

Irish Dancing

Ms Costello showed us Irish dancing. We did a fun dance. 

We split up into 5 groups of 4 and you always put your right foot first when-ever you are dancing

The dance was called Walls of Limerick. We all loved it.

We all did this before in fourth class and some of us went to Irish camp and did the dance. Irish dancing is great everyone should try it. We did stage 1 to stage 4. If we got a chance again we’d say all of us would do it.

By Qi and Caitlin

Swimming

We have been going to swimming lessons in our local swimming pool each Friday for the last 6 weeks. We have been improving our fitness and learning different swimming styles. Our swimming abilities have really improved.

Happy Halloween

We dressed up to raise money for Emergency blood services. The school raised €317. Well done everyone!

Water absorption

We checked our flowers to see the result of our experiment. We can see clearly that flowers do absorb water.

Mayan Masks

 We learned all about The Mayans. We created our own masks by Paper Mache. After we left them to dry, we painted them according to what type of mask we made, e.g. a battle, celebration or death mask.

Space week

 

As part of space week it was our mission to create a rocket using Tangrams. Many of us completed our mission.

We did an experiment using fruits to see the size of the planets in relation to each other. First we were given some clues to help us out. We tried to figure out which was the biggest-smallest.

 

We figured it out! Mercury is the smallest planet- the closet to the sun- the size of a peppercorn. Next we had Venus and Earth, similar in size- the size of a cherry tomato. Then we had Mars, the size of a blueberry. The next is the biggest planet- Jupiter, the size of a watermelon. Saturn followed after, the size of a grapefruit. Uranus is next, the size of an apple. The planet the furtherest from the Sun is Neptune, the size of a lime

 

Library Visit

 

We visited our local library where we had some time to read some new books. We had a lovely time.

Space week

 As part of Space week we were learning about the size of the moon compared to the earth. We found out that the moon is one quarter the size of earth. We measured out the size the moon would be using real life objects. We then looked at the distance of the moon from earth. We made a guess at where we thought the moon was in relation to earth. Then we found out the moon is nine earth circumferences away from the earth. 

  

Storyteller

We are really enjoying hearing lots of different stories!

Welcome back!