Imagine how great it will be when you learn to type really really fast. How it will help you do things quicker and easier. Imagine being able to type fast WITHOUT looking down at your fingers on the keyboard!! You can do it, if you want to. Why not start now! Here’s a short video […]
Here are the photos… Rainbows in the Phoenix Park…
What a beautiful, fun, relaxed great time we all had in the park. Thank you, everyone!
Handy Handwriters!
Yes, congratulations to so many of you for entering the handwriting competition. And a special congratulations to the following five children, all with gorgeous handwriting. They were selected from the hundreds of entries for the An Post/INTO handwriting competition. Soon their handwriting will be judged in the All-Ireland national competition! Please congratulate: Katelyn Byrne of […]
Want to Help Set Up a School Newspaper?
Great, exciting news: The Student Council is hoping to create a Student Newspaper—one just for Talbot. We want YOUR IDEAS—what would you like to read or see in it? AND What can YOU do to help? Here are some ideas from the Student Council so far—can you help? A sports section—Gaelic, or Soccer, or…? A […]
Talbot’s Kids Demand Action!
I want to say well done and thanks to the: 76 children from 3rd class (wow!) 84 children from 4th class (my God!) 81 children from 5th class, (amazing!) and 74 children from 6th class (fair play to ya!) who chose to sign a letter to all the leaders of all the political parties. You […]
Parents: Please Click Here & “Stand Up for Primary Education”
Parents and Guardians, with the Budget coming up and the election sometime soon, the INTO (Teachers’ Union) has asked that we ask you to contact the local TDs to ask them to place a greater priority on primary schools. And so I am asking you to click on this link (www.standupprimary.ie). There you can easily […]
How many languages do we speak here at Talbot?
How many languages do we speak at Talbot? Twenty! Yes, twenty languages! Last year we asked all the children in the school. And this year we asked all the (new) 3rd class children, and all the new children in the older classes. And the result is 20 languages are spoken at home by children at […]
Healthy Lifestyle Fortnight, 28th September- 9th October
In Talbot Senior we think it’s very important to be healthy, so during Healthy Lifestyle Fortnight we encourage everyone to do something to make their lives healthier — so keep active and eat healthily. Talbot’s Healthy Lifestyle Poster Competition: Create a poster showing what a healthy lifestyle means to you. Closing date is Friday 16th October. Winners will receive […]
Friendship Fortnight 14th- 25th September
Talbot’s Friendship Fortnight begins this Monday 14th September. During this fortnight, we encourage you all to make an extra effort to be a good friend, by including someone, by sharing, by caring, by being kind, by lending a hand and by looking out for others. In class you will discuss how Talbot is an Anti-bullying […]
Television–A Poem By Roald Dahl
Television The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, […]