by Ryan, Aarron, Gavin & Harley December 2020 Over the last six weeks, we have been reading "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson.  This book is about Jim Hawkins, who is a cabin boy among a group of pirates and friends. They are sailing to an island where they want to find the treasure of Captain Flint! The novel has 34 chapters that are split into 6 parts and we read one part every week. At the end of the week, we would do a revision quiz on Kahoot. After the quiz en...

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...