by Ailbhe, Katie, Max & Keelan November 2020 One Friday afternoon, we were all given an A3 sheet of paper and bluetack. We had to stick the page to the bottom of our desks. The idea was to see what it would have been like for Michelangelo when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back looking up at the ceiling. We had been studying the Renaissance in history and this lesson linked to that.   We all got paint and started painting under our desk. It ...

by Lyle, Jack, Aoibhín, Jake, Kate & Aurimas November 2020   We had a strange Halloween because of Covid but we enjoyed it anyway. We did a costume competition in the school and each class had a winner for creative, scary and funny!        We did an art competition in the school also. There were five winners from each class. There were prizes for the winners. Most people entered and a gallery was set up in the hall which we all visit...

***Answers for Irish, Maths and English work below. Hi everybody, I hope you are all managing well in the current difficult circumstances. We are now getting used to our new situations and I know you are all doing your best to maintain social distancing and keep your hands washed. It is very important to keep this up in the next few weeks and months. Below I have included work for the next week. I have again structured it so that there is core work in English, Gaeilge & maths to be ...

As this period is ending and another set of work is going up on a separate page, I will fill in the answers for various exercises here and hopefully this will help you to greater understand any problems you may have had. Again please remember any questions you may have. Write them down somewhere and once See Saw is up and running, you will be able to send them to me.   Core work for Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th March. Answers in red Gaeilge: Abair Liom       ...

by Sixth Class March 2020 February and March were very busy months for the Sixth Class children. Over the course of a few short weeks, children from sixth class represented the school at the Credit Union Table Quiz in Naas, a Soccer Blitz in Leixlip, a Basketball Blitz in Newbridge and a Spelling Bee in Kildare. We performed very well in each of these competitions, particularly the soccer blitz where we lost the final in a penalty shootout. The basketball blitz for the girls was meant to b...

by Sixth Class February 2020 In February we spent time looking at Ordnance Survey maps in Geography. We learned about grid references, scales and what various symbols meant on a map. As part of an Art lesson, we created our own local area maps.  First we got into groups and went online to locate each of our houses. We then printed out a map that included each house, before dividing the map into square boxes. We got large sheets of paper and drew bigger boxes so we could scale up th...

by Sixth Class January 2020 In January, we started the second St. Anne's Basketball League. Children from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes were divided into sixteen teams and these teams were split into four groups. Each team played three games and at the end of each group the teams were put into a large league table of all 16 teams. The best teams were at the top and the teams with the least points were at the bottom. Daniel Neville from 4th class was the top scorer with 24 points! In ...

by Grace, Matthew Houlihan, Éabha and Tom December 2019 This year we made a Christmas village for our Christmas art project. It took four days to create.   First, we brainstormed ideas and put ourselves into 5 different groups. These were Builders, Landscapers, Engineers, Electricians and Artists. On the second day we started building and getting the layout right. The artists painted the backdrop and the Landscapers set out the train tracks and designed the layout. T...

by Daisy, Danny, John and Amy December 2019 In December, we learned about the famous Italian renaissance artist and sculptor, Michelangelo. One of his most famous works was the ceiling on the Sistine Chapel. It took him three years to paint and he had to do it on his back. Mr. O’Leary let us try painting on our backs to see what it was like. We all went under our desks and we helped each other to tape paper onto our baskets. Once the paper was securely attached, we got all the colours w...