by Anna, Lottie, Danny, Harry & Jonathan
September & October 2017
This year, we did a nine week Cycling Safety course on Wednesdays. Two girls named Ruth and Caoimhe came in and taught us this.
During the nine weeks, we learned:
which brakes are which
how to make an emergency stop
how to look over our shoulder
how to make right and left hand turns
to keep a bike space behind the bike in front of you
about cycling safely on the road by watching a video in clas...
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Class News
Family Trees
by Matthew H, Darragh, Katie L, John, Odhran P & Eabha
September 2017
This year we did a family tree. First we had to find out about our families. We got a sheet that we filled in naming our parents, grandparents, and grandparents. We learned lots about where they were from and what they did for a living.
When we had this information, we painted a tree on an A3 piece of paper. After this we stuck on pieces of paper with our family names on them.
We made a...
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Lunch Time League 2017 Rounds 1 to 5
The 2017 Lunch Time League began at the start of May. The children from fifth and sixth classes were split into eight teams and then each team drew out a county name and play as that team. Each team will play every other team before the top four compete for the Principal's Cup and the bottom four compete for the Principal's Shield. We have now played five rounds and the league table can be seen below.
Group stage after 5 rounds
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Sports
by Iona Finnerty and Robyn Molloy
February, March & April 2017
Rugby
For 4 weeks, we did tag rugby with Gareth. We did lots of games and drills. There were four different teams each week. Two played against each other while the others watched and supported. There were pink and yellow tags and a Velcro belt that you stuck the tags on. We had lots of fun and it was very enjoyable. Here are some pictures:
Soccer
Mr. Mansfield set up soccer teams for boys and girls. There ...
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St. Patrick’s Day
by Seán Walsh
March 2017
On 16th March, we all wore green into school for St. Patrick’s Day. We all gathered in the hall and paraded around the school. The leaders of the parade had a bodhrán and a tin whistle. We went around the school twice and then back inside. After that, we did Irish dancing in the hall with a woman named Natalie. She taught us dances such as the walls of Limerick. When we were finished we made little green leprechaun hats.
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Table Quiz
by Evan Gilchrist and James Goulding
February 2017
Over the last few years, Mr. O’Leary our teacher has entered our school into a quiz competition in Newbridge. To find out who would represent the school, Mr. O’Leary did a couple of general knowledge quizzes to see who would go to Newbridge for the quiz. The top four highest scoring children got picked out of the many participants to represent the school. The people who were picked were: Daniel Saunders, Evan Gilchrist, James Goulding and ...
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Chess
by Patrick Brophy, Evan Gilchrist and James Goulding
February 2017
At the start of this year, our chess teacher, Ms. Killeen entered us into a chess tournament in Kildare. We were put into a group which consisted of schools from Straffan, St. David’s and Staplestown. Our first match was against Straffan, who are known for their chess.
Early in December, we travelled to Straffan to play them.
When we arrived in their school hall they had their chess boards ready and were ready to play...
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The Christmas Truce
by Jack Caffrey, Anna Donohoe and Síofra Power
December 2016
In late November our teacher Mr O’ Leary started discussing a Christmas play with us.
We decided to base the play on the Christmas Truce during World War 1, 1914 and brainstormed some ideas.
However, it was not easy to do and we are going go tell you how we produced the Christmas Truce play.
We divided in groups to do various jobs such as creating the backdrop, making and getting props, finding costumes and writing the s...
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Oh What a Night!
by Thomas Finneran and Cathal Reeves
November 2016
In November, we went to see a musical in Salesians called “Oh What a Night!” We spent the day watching the play. The play was about a band called “The Four Seasons.” They’re a band trying to find fame. It was split into two parts, one before lunch and one after lunch. The actors and actresses did all of the vocals and the songs were really good.
They started in the local pub and then they got recognition for their pe...
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Bird Silhouettes
by Susanna Kelly
November 2016
In November, we painted bird silhouettes. We painted them by choosing a colour of our choice for the background, for example red, yellow, blue, purple etc. First, we painted the background to look like a sunset affect. When the background was dry we painted on a bird, animal or object in black onto the page.
Here are a few examples of our work:
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