5th Class

Cross Country

On the 22^nd of September Oisín, Ian, James, Stephen, David, Adam, Luke, Emma and Grace travelled to Renmore park for the schools cross county athletics. They were split into groups, 3^rd and 4^th class boys, 3^rd and 4^th class girls, 5^th and 6^th class boys and 5^th and 6^th class girls. Our school did very well. Well done to David and Stephen in particular who came 1^st and 7^th. The race was very tough because of the natural features like hills and the rough surface of the ground. You need a lot of stamina for cross country races. Stephen and David will be participating in the Connacht round and will travel to Sligo for it on the 18^th of October. We wish them the best of luck.

 

By: Abbie, Colman and Ian

Show and Tell

On the 10^th and 11^th of April, we did show and tell. We had a lot of interesting items such as an old record player, brownies, a side saddle, teddy bears from Hamleys and a cast iron kettle. Most of the demonstrations included a power point presentation. We had many pets in and outside our classroom such as dogs, a lamb and even a hen. Oscar, Laura’s dog was not able to come in this week so he came in last week! We had great fun looking at all the interesting objects and chasing the animals around the school. Do it again after Easter Miss?!

 

Studying Rocks in the Senior Room

We were studying rocks this week. We were asked to collect some rocks over our long weekend. We found some interesting types of rocks including basalt, marble, slate, limestone, sandstone and granite. Erica’s granny collects rocks from all over the world. Erica brought in some samples of her granny’s collection for us to study. She had fool’s gold (pyrite), rocks with one side polished so that you could see minerals in them, pink limestone, chalk and an egg shaped rock that was emerald green in colour! We learned about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The area we live in is a mainly limestone area. Limestone is a sedimentary rock.

 

Book Week

We have recently finished our Write-A-Books. They were a great success. We have received books from Scoil Iognáid in Galway City. They are excellent. We are very proud of our success with our books. Some of the books we wrote include “Candy Land” by Ellie in 4th, “The Shannon” by James also in 4th, “Famous Diabetics” by Hannah in 5th, “5 Futuristic Technologies” by Eoghan also in 5th,  “Brilliant Brazil” by Ben in 6th and “Tom Daley” by Dervla also in 6^th. We displayed them in the hallways for everyone to read during bookweek.

We had a visit from the children’s author Patricia Forde. She writes English and Irish books for younger children. She has written books such as “Frogs do not like Dragons” , “Scoil na bPáistí Deasa” and “Hedgehogs do not like Heights” She told us to describe the situation as much as you can when we write creatively, make people feel empathy for your characters and write down all your lies! Honestly she said you could lie all you like in fiction writing!

We organised a monster book quiz to celebrate Book Week. There were all sorts of questions about books and there was a picture round. We had lots of fun and there were two rounds for younger children so they’d get a chance to partake. The winners were Laura in 6th, Stephen and Patrick in 2nd and Killian in Senior Infants. Congratulations guys!

We devised a project called “Buddy Reading” for the week also. It was to help younger kids expand their reading experience and get them to know the senior pupils a little better. The kids in the senior room buddy up with the younger children. There were awards for kind generous  senior buddies during the week.

We always enjoy when some mums and dads come in and read to us and this year Michelle (Ava’s mom) and Anne (Abbie’s mom) came in to read to us. Michelle read “The Famous 5” and Anne read “Wayside School is Falling Down”. They were really kind to give up their time and come in and read to us.

On the last day of Book Week Politician Ciaran Canon came in to officially launch our new website. He unveiled our new website and gave out awards to the people who stood out in Buddy Reading. After he unveiled our new website we went into the halla and played some music. He joined in and played “Fields of Gold” by Sting on the keyboard. It sounded really well with the tin whistles, violins and flute.

By Hannah, Eoghan and Sean