by Emma Buggy, Aoibhín Foley and Olivia McKenna December 2018 We are going to tell you about our Christmas play. Our teacher Mr. O’Leary printed out scripts for everyone in our class. Everybody got a part. We practised it for a week over and over again. Mr O’ Leary helped us make costumes but some people brought in their own. On the day we were really nervous going onto the stage but we did great! Our teacher said he was proud of us.

by Dylan Hegarty,Luke Kelly, Leon van Cauwenberge November & December 2018 We are writing about the photostories that we did in November and December 2018.The photostories are about Celtic myths and legends in Ireland many, many years ago.These are some of the Celtic Myths and Legends we made into Photostories: Fionn & the Giant, Diarmuid and Gráinne,  Oisín in Tír na nÓg, How Cú Chulainn got his Name and The Brown Bull of Cooley. We really liked these photostories because it ...

by Maeve Heraghty, Kate Mc Nulty and Katie O’Brien November 2018 Tomi Riechental came to visit our school on the 23rd of November 2018. Tomi told us about his life. He lived in Merašice  in Slovakia with his family; his mother Judith, his father Arnold and his brother Miki. Tomi had a very happy and fun life until he was six and that was when World War 2 started. Tomi’s father escaped from a train on the way to a concentration camp in Bergen Belsen because he was Jewish. Two yea...

by Ryan Chinnery Newsome, Cathal Deegan, Ailbhe Moloney October 2018 In October we went to Castletown House on a maths trail. We went on a bus with 5th and 6th class .When we got there we had to walk to the house. Then we got into groups of four. We got a sheet with questions on it that we had to answer.We went for a tour around the house. We had to answer a question and solve a problem about maths in each room. In the Ballroom we saw a servants' secret passage. Also in the Dinin...

by Alexandra Butler, Caoimhe Davis and Amy Martin September and October 2018 In September and October two people came to teach us cycling. Their names were Ruth and Graham. We did it for eight weeks on Wednesdays. They brought bikes and helmets for us but you could bring your own if you wanted. They told us that the right clothes to wear were a helmet, a high vis jacket and bright clothes. Most weeks we had sun but one week it rained. On that week we watched a video on how to cycle. We lea...

by Matthew Blake, Jake Hamill, Hugh McNulty September 2018 Our class helped out with the Student Council elections this year by showing people where to go and by stamping their votes to make them official.      The student council talks about ways to improve the school and they are always coming up with new ideas.    We also had an election in our own class. The contestants were: Alexandra Butler Ryan Chinnery Newsome Maeve Heraghty ...

by fourth class December This year for Christmas, we made a model of the stable that Jesus was born in. We also made the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, shepherds, an angel, three Kings and clay animals. Before we began all the groups had to agree what size the various parts should be. Then we were ready to begin.   Group 1 created the background. They got 20 A3 sheets, stuck them together, drew out and then painted the background. They stuck stars on and also black paper to look l...

by Matthew Houlihan, Darragh Knightly, Odhran Loughman, Harry Maughan, John McKenna & Odhrán Power. November & December In November, we were learning about Celtic legends in our history lesson. We thought of an idea: we would make Photo Stories based on some Celtic legends! Our teacher split our tables up into groups and we each got a title such as “The Salmon of knowledge”, “The Brown Bull of Cooley”, “Tír na nÓg”, “Setanta” and “The Children of Lir”. We had to plan out our ...

by Evan, Niamh, Katie Langan, Daisy, Danny, Harry, Róisín and Tom November Fourth, fifth and sixth class did a mini Scientist exhibition.  We spent six weeks working on our projects. We split into groups, thought of ideas and then worked together to research our ideas. We went to each other’s houses to get the work done. Some of us made models, some of us did experiments and some of us did surveys. We wrote a project book and created posters to show what we had done.   On the...

by Matthew Aherne, Niamh, Daisy, Odhran Loughman, Andrew and Róisín.  October 2017 At Halloween we decided to learn a scary dance. It was “Thriller” by Michael Jackson. We watched videos and practised what we saw. It wasn't too hard because we learned it in a day. The next day Jamie filmed our class when we were in our costumes. We had a lot of fun doing the Thriller dance with our class at Halloween and here’s our video: