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!
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Class News
Planting Bulbs
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.
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Student Council Elections
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...
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Painting like Michelangelo
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...
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eTwinning
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...
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G.A.A. Training & Sam Maguire Visit
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...
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2016 Proclamation
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...
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General Election 2016
by James Byrne, Aoibhean Cuffe & Lorcan McKenna
February 2016
On Tuesday 23rd February we started a General Election within our school to learn how elections work. We got students from 1st to 6th class to vote for the candidates from Kildare North. We set up a polling station in Room 8 and we made ballot papers with all the candidates from Kildare North on it.
We had 7 groups, each designated to one class. 4th-6th came down to vote during lunchtime on Tuesday. On Wednesday...
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Quiz team
by Enda O'Brien & Joshua O'Reilly
February 2016
On 17th February four students from St. Anne’s National School went to Ballymany N.S. and competed in a G.A.A quiz. There were ten rounds with ten questions in each of them. There were 41 teams competing in this quiz. There were four people in a team. Our team was Eleanor Clancy, Cathal Light, Enda O’Brien and Chloe O’Gorman.
All of the teams went into a big hall and sat in chairs while the quiz master called out the questions to each ...
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Local area maps
by Rebecca Finneran, Aoife Moore & Charlie Sherry
January 2016
For one of our class projects we made maps of our local area. Every group did a different map. We marked our houses and did the map based on the location of our houses. We printed small maps of the area and drew a grid on them using scale.
Then we made a bigger map, instead of printing it out we made it ourselves. We used 8 A3 sheets stuck together. Then we did maths to work out how to make a grid on these maps. For exam...
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