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...

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...

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:  

by Liam Dempsey and Cathal Reeves October 2016 Before Halloween we began to learn the dance to Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller”. We practised the dance for our P.E over the course of two weeks. On the last day before the Hallowe’en break Mr O’Leary recorded our final performance after our two weeks of hard work. It finally paid off resulting in a flawless performance! It only took one attempt. We all wore our Hallowe’en costumes on the day of the recording. Cue the video!

by Robyn Molloy & T.J. Knightly October 2016 In October, we planted tulip bulbs outside the gates of the school in the order of the Ardclough flag, red, yellow and black. All the classes including us planted bulbs. We were the second last class to plant our bulbs. They bought them from the Orchard. Many bulbs were planted.                   The bulbs have now flowered and look beautiful.              

by Liam Dempsey & James Goulding October 2016              This year, we decided to set up a Student Council for the first time. It was set up to give students a say in school issues.   To find people to be on the Student Council, we had an election in October. There was to be two councillors from each class from 2nd to 5th and 7 councillors from 6th class, making 15 altogether. Each child who wanted to be elected had to get two supporters to nominate and second him or he...

by Iona Finnerty and Síofra Power October 2016 In October, we did paintings in the style of Michelangelo like the ones he did in the Sistine Chapel. At the time, we were learning about the Renaissance and the changes in art in that time. We stuck paper to the underside of our desks and lay down on the ground.       We then painted over our heads to experience how hard it was for Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back painting upwards. We put n...

by Molly McNiffe, Emma O’Brien, Aisling Phillips & Leah Tyndall April 2016 Over the past few months our class have been working on a project called Interactive European Pathways. This project was part of eTwinning, a community of schools all over Europe that our school joined this year. Our teacher, Mr. O’Leary went to Brussels for a conference about eTwinning. After this, a teacher from the Czech Republic emailed Mr. O’Leary to invite our school to join his Interactive European Pat...

by Molly Griffin, Daniel Saunders, Ben Tynan & Luke Wiseman March 2016 At the beginning of February, a man named Conor came to our school to teach us Gaelic football skills. He was representing Kildare G.A.A. For five weeks he did football training with us for our P.E. class. He taught us how to do some basic G.A.A. skills such as soloing, hand passing, kicking and more.       Leah Tyndall's father brought in the Sam Maguire Cup. We were lucky to ha...

by Flynn Clyne, Declan Earley, Laura Ecock, Seán Gahan, Ruby Kelly, Ciarán King & Molly McNiffe March 2016 The Proclamation of the Irish Republic was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24th April 1916. In it, the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, calling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom. The Proclam...