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...

Celtic Myth Photostories

Posted on December 21, 2017December 22, 2017 by B. O'Leary

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 ...

Our work from Sept to Christmas

Posted on December 12, 2017December 12, 2017 by D. Malone

We have been doing lots of good work. We work really hard and we love school. September we talked about ourselves and our families. We made self portraits. October we talked about emergency services. Garda Gerard Meally came into talk to us and we asked him lots of questions. We done some Halloween art. November we were talking about clothes and we designed our very own fashion models. December we were talking about Santa's workshop and we done lots of Christmas art. We discussed ...

Intel Mini-Scientist Exhibition

Posted on December 1, 2017December 21, 2017 by B. O'Leary

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...