Sports Days 2011

Just a big THANK YOU to all the teachers, SNA’s, parents and most importantly the children, who made Sports Day a fantastic, enjoyable success. There are lots of pictures to come, so keep an eye on the website.

Mr. Carty (“,) 

One Book Competition 3!

For our third competition, I would like to know:  What is your favourite part of the book so far and why?

This question is for both books – Shadow and The Last Wolf

Good Luck! 

Winners of One Book Competition 2!

Well done to everybody who entered the 2nd One Book Competition. Here are the winners:
3rd & 4th Class:
Oghogho Evbaziegbere in Ms. Doherty’s Class, Shauna O’Neill in Mr. Molloy’s and Megan Thorpe in Mr. Stuart’s Class
5th and 6th Class:
Carl Reddy in Ms. Shaw’s Class, Paulina Trzeciak in Mr. Carty’s Class and Teigan Walsh in Ms. Doherty’s 5th Class 
Everybody who entered was put into a raffle. The winners are: Reece Bolger in Ms. Walsh’s Class and Dean Murphy in Ms. Nallen’s Class
Best effort at capital letters and fullstops goes to: Karina Trzeciak in  Ms. Doherty’s 3rd class and Taylor Graham in Ms. Cahill’s Class

CHECK IT OUT

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? 

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.