Well done to our school choir who took part in this years Córfhéile na Scoileanna, Áth Cliath in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght on Wednesday 6th March! They received some excellent feedback on their 3 songs, Unwritten, Nothing Compares to You and Zombie (as Gaeilge). A special thanks to Ms McEvoy and Mr O’Donnell for all their work they have done with our choir, they sound amazing!
Inter School Quiz Winners
Talbot SNS entered two teams into a recent table quiz competition in North Clondalkin Library. They were picked from internal quizzes that Mr Gordon and Mr Byrne organised. We would like to congratulate our Talbot Team (1) for winning their heat in the inter schools quiz yesterday. 9 teams from local schools took part in the quiz. Our Team 2 narrowly missed out on the final by only one point. It is a great achievement and testament to all the bright pupils we have in Talbot SNS. The winning team now go on to a larger South Dublin schools final in April. Well done from all in Talbot SNS!
The Talbot Teams are as follows:
- James Igharo
- Ella O’Connor Gavagan
- Reuben Egan
- Camden Quinn
- Hayden Malone Kelly
- Darren Mullally
- Belen Garcia
- Kian Smyth
Addition and Subtraction 1-100
Dear Parents and School Community, we have just completed a 7 week intervention focusing on building skills in mental computation between 1 and 100. The children have learned many strategies to help their addition and subtraction. See the photos of their shared strategies and three students who designed their own +/- board game based on their learning. Have fun with at home too with mental addition/ subtraction and try these 64 +32, 58-25, 40+25, 90-27, 57+26, 84-36, 75+29, 94-17, 53-27, 49+21.
Intercultural Food Fair and Week
We are nearing the end of our Intercultural Week from February 26th – March 1st. Ms Nasalciuc (5th class teacher) created the event and she taught her own pupils about her own Moldovan heritage!
We celebrated and learned about all the wonderful backgrounds the families of our pupils come from, including our own country Ireland.
Lessons and events in class were taught highlighting the many cultures represented in Talbot during the week.
For the food fair parents and guardians were invited to make and bring in Foods from all Around the World, which our children sampled on the day. It was a huge success with parents making foods from all over the world including Poland, Vietnam, Albania, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ireland, Moldova, Romania, Estonia, Pakistan, Algeria, Scotland, China, Australia, the Channel Islands to name but a few!
We all tasted so many new and interesting foods, and children have a better appreciation for the cultures and backgrounds of their classmates.
On Thursday the children could wear in clothes representing their culture and background.
Thanks to all for taking part and making it such a special day!
Joey Byrne
Home School Community Liaision Coordinator
February Assembly 2024
Well done to all our Pupil and Gaelgoir of the Month winners!
Jumper for Jacob Day Dec 2024 – Make a Wish Foundation
In December last our school organised a fundraiser event for the ‘Make a Wish’. We named this event ‘Christmas Jumper for Jacob’ day in honour of our beloved past pupil ‘Jacob Perkins’. Jacob was a ‘Wish a Wish’ ambassador. We raised a total of €741 for the charity. We presented the cheque to Ailbhe, from make a Wish, at our January assembly. Thanks for all our pupils and staff for the very kind donations to such a wonderful charity.
Assembly: December 2023 & January 2024
Well done to all of our pupils who received awards for Pupil and Gaelgoir of the Month at our monthly assembly in December and on Friday 26th January 2024!
Please see some of our photos attached below and congratulations!
Anti Bullying Week Competition Winners!
Check out our first place winners of our Anti Bullying Awareness Week Competition!
James from 6th wrote a cool rap!
Chloe from 5th wrote an epic poem.
Marselis from 4th also wrote a fantastic poem.
Mia from 3rd wrote a great poem.
Each of our winners received a €20 voucher for Smyths. Well done guys. super work.
These are our runners up – each person got a Selection Box for their amazing work!
3rd class runners up: Tori Clarke (Ms. Finn), Madison McLeon (Mr. Connolly), Skye Desmond Skelly (Ms. Moyles)
4th class runners up: Lucas Liu (Ms. Larkin) and Ava Walsh (Ms. Derwin)
5th class runners up: Szymon Polikowski (Ms. Jones) and Rikel Ismailaj (Ms. Nasalciuc)
6th class runners up: Liily Szalaj (Mr. Gordon), Kyle Geraghty (Ms. Bradley), Charlie Tougher (Mr. Moore) and David Mazarache (Mr. Moore)
Well done to all the children for their fabulous poems. raps and acts of kindness for our Kindness Christmas Tree.