As a BIG thank you to all for your continued support, we are raffling off 4 big Easter Hampers for the children, and also 2 Easter Eggs per class. Our Christmas Bazaar and Book Fair went brilliantly, and we will be selling our We Are Writers book after Easter, as well as holding our Annual Readalong. We really appreciate your support. THANK YOU.
Congratulations to everyone who received awards at our April Assembly. Well done to all the classes on their recycling efforts and Walking on Wednesday. We will have lots of attendance awards at our next assembly.
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Well done to all the winners of Pupil of the Month. And congratulations to all the classes who won Walk on Wednesday, Super Recyclers and Class of the Month. Mr. Ruddy gave out Anti Bullying pins to everyone who returned their pledge to make Scoil Talbot a Bully Free School. We had a great performance from Ms. Ní Fhlatharta’s class for Seachtain na Gaeilge.
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We hope you all enjoyed our St. Patrick’s Day Céilí. Well done to everyone on what was a great day of ceol, damhsa agus craic!
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Do you know much about life for children in Dublin 100 years ago? Well, our three 6th Classes 
were LUCKY to be able to watch one of Ireland’s greatest young actors, Mary-Lou McCarthy (click here), perform as a 15-year old girl in the great Irish play “Me, Mollser” (click here) The play shows us the life of Molly, a poor Dublin girl, in 1913.
1913 was a BIG year in Irish history… take a look at this brilliant RTE half-hour video (click here). (If you’re short on time, start after 4 minutes of the video.) You will soon understand how horrible life was for the poor people of Dublin. And there were A LOT of poor people in Dublin. And you will learn how they tried to fight for their rights (a better wage, health care, better housing, longer free-education… more). And you’ll learn about Bloody Sunday on O’Connell Street. Would YOU like to have lived in Dublin at that time 100 years ago?
Mary-Lou is with the Abbey Theatre–Ireland’s National Theatre (click here). That means Ireland’s best theatre… like being on the Irish soccer team, not just any team.
She and her pal Anthony Goulding gave three performances, one to each class. And they talked to us BEFORE the play and generously answered loads of questions AFTER the play. (Mr Stuart’s class asked LOADS of great questions about acting and putting on a show (click here)—clearly, a class full of talented actors. Maybe one day some of them will be acting with the Abbey Theatre?)
This term all children in Talbot Senior have worked hard on becoming aware of our shield statements which aim to protect our children from bullying. Because of this engagement with Anti-Bullying, a group from our school were invited to the ISPCC official launch of Antibullying Awareness Week today in Dublin. And they did a great job, ably assisting Brian O’Driscoll!
Continue readingGreen schools action day! Great work done by every class. It was very clear from all the projects that Talbot knows about Biodiversity. Thanks to Mr. Stuart for the quiz! Keep up the good work everyone!
Congratulations to everybody who received awards at the February Assembly. There were awards for Pupil of The Month, Class of the Month, Super Recyclers and Walk On Wednesday. We heard some excellent Reports and Explanations from the pupils also. We heard about the 5th class children’s visit to Xilinx for the Dragons Den project. And we saw all the amazing work that the children have done on Biodiversity, which was displayed around the hall for our Action Day yesterday. Don’t forget that next week we are on midterm. Keep yourselves safe!
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Congratulations to everybody who received awards at the January Assembly. There were awards for Pupil of The Month, Class of the Month, Super Recyclers and lots of awards for Full Attendance for the first term. Keep up the good work.
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Yes, MAJOR congratulations to Tami, Glen, David, and Reece, all in 6th class, who did AMAZING today at the Credit Union General Knowledge Quiz Competition for all of Clondalkin. They represented YOU. And they came 2nd out of all eight primary schools in Clondalkin. Second out of eight! Wow!
They came back very very happy. 🙂
Who’s going to be on the team next year?? Keep:
and it might be you!
When you see Tami, Glen, David, or Reece, why not tell them ‘Well done!”