Congrats to everyone who took part in this year’s Top TEN-FINGER Typing competition. Special congratulations to three of you who got over 50 words per minute (wpm)!!! Emily Maher in 5th with 52wpm, Kadie Johnston in 6th with 57wpm, and this year’s overall winner Lennon Berigan in 5thwith 58wpm. The school record is 72wpm (Andrew […]
Congratulations, speedsters!
Congratulations to everyone — you — for taking part in the top ten-finger typist competition. A 4th class child came 3rd — Lennon Berigan, with 24 words per minute (with a page covering his fingers so he could not look down, like everyone in the type-off). A 5th class child came 2nd — Kadie Johnson, […]
Summer Tour for Student Councillors & Green School Reps
Here are some photos of today. Click on them twice for a closer look. How lucky we are to be able to go visit the Phoenix Park, only a few minutes away. Thank you to all these people… Mr Molloy for organising the trip, Sr Catherine for driving some of us, Ray the driver […]
This Year’s Ten-Finger Typing Competition… It Could Be YOU!
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 […]