Check out the wonderful new fantastic mural in the hall. Well done to Stephen and Louise and all the children who helped to paint it and especially to Lauren Staunton who picked the colours for Environman.
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One Book Competition 2!
Shadow: How was Aman’s family affected by the war in Afghanistan?
The Last Wolf: How does Robbie and the Wolf survive in the wild?
Art Display Winners 2011
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Walkability Audit
On Friday we did a walkability audit on some routes to school in the area with Kathryn from An Taisce. We turned left outside the school and walked up towards Melrose. W
e turned right at
Melrose Green and walked towards Lindisfarne Park. Then we walked along the path by the main road and turned right into Lindisfarne Drive and back to school.
Ten children from the Green Team came. Lauren was given the job of recording the good and bad things we saw on our walk and Karina recorded where we saw them on a map of the area.Then everybody took it in turns to take pictures of the things we saw.
Most of the things we saw were good – the lines at the gate where the cars cannot park so that our children can come in to school safely – the barrier outside the gate, our good footpaths, lovely trees and green spaces and we even heard the birds singing which makes it a very pleasant journey when walking to school.
We saw a few bad things like the litter and some graffiti and a boy very dangerously riding a motor bike on the footpath.
But our conclusion was that the route we took is a very good and safe walk to school and there is no reason that all the children from these areas shouldn’t walk to school every day and leave the cars at home
Working in the Garden
There’s great work going on in the garden at the moment. All the 6th classes have sown their salads and some of the seed has germinated. Hopefully we will have a salad party before they leave in June.
Ms Doherty’s 5th class has planted their cabbage and carrots and Mr Byrne’s class have sown their potatoes.
Ms Doherty’s 3rd class and Ms Walsh’s class have sown sunflower seeds in their classroom and they will be ready to plant out soon and Mr Stuart’s class have sown Nasturtium and Tagetes seeds and we will have lovely red and yellow flowers when they grow.
There are lots of other jobs that need doing also and Ms Considine and Emma and Thomas did great work on Friday weeding.
Other great workers in the garden are Sean, Graham, John and Isaac and Michael Byrne. One Book Competition Winners
Well done to everybody who took part in our first One Book competition based on “Shadow” and “The Last Wolf” by Michael Morpurgo!
Here are the winners:
3rd & 4th Class: Megan McGrath (Ms. Cunnane’s Class), and Ajibola Yusuff (Ms. Cunnane’s Class), and Rheanna Tallon (Ms. Doherty’s)
5th & 6th Class: Kayleigh Perkins (Mr. Carty’s Class), and Tiegan Walsh (Ms. Doherty’s Class), and Taylor Graham (Ms.Cahill’s Class)
Everybody who entered was also put into a raffle. The winners are: Leon Plunkett (Ms. Nallen’s Class) and Jade Byrne (Mr. Stuart’s Class)
And finally, a bonus prize for the student who made an effort with capital letters, fullstops and spelling goes to: Daniel Ryan (Ms. Harrington’s Class)
Art Winners 2011!
Our annual art display went off without a hitch!
All of the childrens best art is on display in the hall and it looks fantastic! Well ~Done to everyone!
Our winners from each class are:
3rd Class:
Ms Walsh: 1st: Victoria Raustye, 2nd: William Mongan, 3rd: Lauren Robertson
Ms Doherty: 1st Erin Mc Cormack, 2nd: Rheanna Tallon, 3rd: Naoishe Keane
Mr Stuart: 1st:Abbie Cronan, 2nd: Hannah Obafeni, 3rd: Ian Stynes
4th Class:
Ms Nallen: 1st: Arianne Clarke, 2nd: Abbie Mulligan, 3rd: Ernesta Dedelyte
Mr Molloy: 1st: Saoirse O Brien, 2nd: Elizabeth Iosca, 3rd: Sean Hampson
Ms Cunnane: 1st: Emmanuel Adeyele, 2nd: Megan Mc Grath, 3rd: Agata Rybachi
5th Class:
Ms Doherty: 1st: Gabriella Vasquez, 2nd: Shane Daly, 3rd:
Ms Cahill: 1st: Kian, 2nd: Aisosa Evaziegbere, 3rd: Kerri Farrell
Mr Byrne: Urszula Zolanowzka, 2nd: Sarah Abimbola, 3rd: Tomasin Alhassin
6th Class:
Ms Shaw: 1st: Shannon Quirke, 2nd: Patrick Corbally, 3rd: Kirsty Mc Grath
Ms Harrington: 1st: Daina ~Daly, 2nd Orla Farrell, 3rd: Rachel Kinsella
Mr Carty: 1st:Paulina Treziak, 2nd: Tobi Kasali, 3rd: Ruth Dussu
WELL DONE TO ALL OUR WINNERS!
Photos to follow… Thanks to all concerned
Ms Ni Dhuill
One Book! Competition 1!
Ok, are we ready for our first One Book Competition?????
“The Last Wolf”: What did Grandpa use the laptop for and what did he find?
“Shadow”: From reading the first 2 chapters, tell me about Aman – who is he and what is going on in his life?
Good luck! I’ll be announcing winners on Friday! So you have time to come up with an answer!