Assembly – April 2011

We had quite a busy assembly this morning.  Mr. Ruddy started off by talking about one of the Stations of the Cross.

Ms. Donlon announced the Super-Recycler winners and asked for volunteers for our annual Spring Clean up outside of thtyre school. 

Ms. Byrne announced the total money spent at the Scholastic Book Fair – €2612! This money was sent off to Scholastic – they will send us back a voucher worth over €1500 to spend on books for the school!

Mr. Ruddy and Ms. Cunnane called out the winners of the handwriting competition – they received certificates and prizes – well done!

Ryan and Luke from Mr. Carty’s class did this month’s “Frás na Mí”.

Mr. Carty, Ms. Walsh and Ms. Doherty (3rd) showed their winning entries for the Seanfhocail competition.

Pupil of the month for March was for “Speller” of the month and best effort at Gaeilge.

Class of the month for March was announced too – well done!

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Great Art!

Wow look at the great Art Ms Doherty’s 3rd class did!

 

Easter Raffle

The Parents Association is running our annual Easter Raffle. Two hampers to be won!

Two Easter eggs to be won in each class too!

Tickets are €1 for a strip of tickets! 

Paired-Reading

Paired reading is coming to an end this week – it has been running for 8 weeks between 3rd and 5th class!




Céilí 2011

Have a look at our pictures from the Céilí on the 16th of March – we all had a such a great time!

 

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Scholastic Bookfair

The Scholastic Bookfair will be coming to Talbot SNS on the 31st of March!

Every child in the school has received a brochure giving details of lots of great books that can be bought in the Book Fair!

Keep saving…. 

Engineers Week 2011

Mr. Carty’s class recently visited IT Tallaght and did some work with the engineers there. Check out the pictures to see the brilliant circuits they made with the help of the Engineers

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Assembly – March 2011

Our March assembly wasn’t too busy this month. We started off with some prayers from excellent readers in Ms Harrington’s and Ms. Doherty’s 3rd class. Mr. Byrne’s class sang a great Irish song. Luke and Jamie from Ms. Cunnane’s class told us this months Irish phrase of the month.

Ms. Donlon announced the winners of the Super-recyclers for February. Mr. Ryan reminded us about the Céilí which will take place on Wednesday 16th of March.

Ms. Byrne announced the Pupils of the month for February and finally Mr. Ryan called out the winners of Class of the Month! 

To view pictures click on View with PicLens below:

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Election 2011… who did 3rd class vote for?

With exactly a week to go before the adults of Bawnogue vote in a new government, who did the children choose?

First, yesterday, the class got some information on a sheet from me about each party (not biased: direct from the parties’ websites). Then for homework they went home and discussed the election with their families. Today the class shared what they learned/know. Then they had an election, by secret ballot (heads down, hands up). The results:

  1. Fine Gael: 8 votes
  2. Labour: 5 votes
  3. Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin: 3 votes each 
  4. Greens: 1 vote
  5. Independents: 1 vote
  6. Choosing not to vote: 1 (“It’s too hard to choose”)

Twenty-two children took part, two children were absent.

Children then had a chance, if they wished, to tell the others who they voted for and give reasons. I’m really proud of them all: most people stood up and spoke really well, giving good clear reasons why to vote for certain parties. The class is full of future local leaders, all doing good for the people of Bawnogue and Ireland.

Assembly 8th of February

Wow, we had a very busy assembly today! We started with a prayer about Spring – thanks Amy and Jade!

Ms. Donlon talked about recycling and announced the Super-Recycler winners – see photos!

Two children from Ms. Walsh’s class shared the Fras na Mí with the assembly! Thanks guys!

We gave out the Readalong prizes. These were for children who raised money during our Readalong in October. We raised over €2000 which was all spent on books for our school! Would you believe, we gave out 129 prizes!!

Pupil of the month for January was announced in each class. This was for punctuality – which means being on time for school! 

And finally Class of the month for January was announced too.

Enjoy the photos!

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