In December we decided to create a Christmas Village as part of our art lessons. The original plan was to just create a village but when the Christmas Door competition was announced we decided to try and link the two projects. Our plan was to recreate Whoville with the Grinch looking on from his door.
The class divided into groups with each group having certain tasks. Groups were in charge of:
designing the landscape
painting backdrops
building a mountain
lighting the scene usin...
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Student Council Elections 2024
In November, we held our Student Council Elections.
Children from every class from first to sixth made the brave decision to run in our elections and then they told their classes what they would do to help the class and school if elected.
On Friday 29th November, the same day as the General Election, we held our own elections. Children gave a number 1 to their favourite candidate, number 2 to their next favourite etc, just like in the General Election. At the end of the election, the...
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Activities from Term 1
Here are some of the things we got up to during the first term!
Role Plays
In September and October, we worked on creating role plays, setting up different scenarios and reacting to these in character. Below is just one example where our waiters are attempting to keep unhappy customers happy. Does it look like they are succeeding?!
Under 11 Football & Hurling Finals
We had tremendous success this year with our G.A.A. teams and almost every child in ou...
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Halloween 2024
The children went all out this year for Halloween, dressing up in some fantastic costumes!
We went on a march around the school and later performed a poem at the school assembly which you can see below!
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Girls Under 11 Football Champions 2023!
Congratulations to our Under 11 Girls Gaelic Football team who won all their matches in the Cumann na mBunscol Chill Dara Division 4 championship.
After topping their group and winning a great semi-final, the girls played Scoil Phádraig Naofa, Athy on Wednesday 18th October in Moorefield. In very poor conditions, Ardclough had a fantastic victory. Our captain, Emma Kelly, received the cup on behalf of all her teammates. Congratulations to Ms Fitzgerald for all her work with the team a...
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Christmas Music at St. Anne’s
The newly formed St. Anne's Trad group recently performed some beautiful Christmas tunes and songs in the school hall, accompanied by singers from Ms Keating's class. We hope you enjoy them. Thank you to Ms Keating, Mr Brennan and Mr O'Hanlon for their great work.
You can see more Christmas themed activities in the Class News section of the website.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Away in a Manger
Silent Night
We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
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Christmas Village
December 2021
This Christmas we decided to create a Christmas village as our Christmas project.
In order to stick to our pods, we decided that the safest plan would be to create 5 different areas which could then be brought together at the end.
Linking in with our maths lesson looking at shapes that tessellate, we decided to use hexagons as they would fit nicely together.
The first job was to come up with an overall design that worke...
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Painting like Michelangelo
November 2021
As part of our history lesson on the Renaissance, we learned about Michelangelo. He was a very famous painter and sculptor who created some of the greatest artworks ever. One of his most famous paintings was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. To complete this work, he had to lie on his back on scaffolding and paint directly over his face. This was very difficult and would have caused a lot of problems for Michelangelo.
To try to imagine how tough Michelangelo had it, we decid...
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Halloween
October 2021
On the last day of term, most people dressed up for Halloween. Here are our costumes.
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Lego We Do Race
October 2021
In October, we began to work with Chromebooks and Lego We Do.
After going through a few lessons, Mr O’Leary gave us a challenge. He wanted us in our groups to design and create a vehicle capable of taking part in a race. There were several tutorials available to help us and we all tried to create the vehicle which would give us the best chance of winning. Once we had built the model, we then had to use a programme on the Chromebooks to tell the Lego what to do. We ha...
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