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...

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 ...

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...

by Aisling Phillips & Daniel Saunders January 2016 Two people named Gareth and Leo came in to teach us how to play tag rugby. They came in every Monday for four weeks. To warm up we played stuck in the mud. Then he would divide us into groups of four. Then we would play a match. The matches were about five minutes long. RULES: You cannot pass the ball forward. If someone pulls your tag off you will have to stop and pass it to someone on the same team as you. If you get fi...

by Molly Griffin & Ben Tynan December 2015 We made cribs at Christmas time. We made the cribs out of old shoe boxes and cereal boxes. We got sticks and hay for the ground. We made the people out of air dough. We let them dry for the day, then we painted the crib and the people. There were four cribs. Each crib had its own style. Each crib had all the main people and a few animals. We put the angel on the top of the cribs. Some cribs had stars on them. We put the cribs outside the...

by Adam Gray & Hannah Rahman December 2015 We did African dancing on 4th December 2015. A lady came into our school to teach us. The dancing was based on the work the people do, such as the men walking down the beach to work in the morning. The girls stuck their arms out and the boys put their arms in, then we clapped twice and then flapped our arms back and forward. Then we did the action of digging, and then rolled our arms and then put two arms in the air and one foot up. We w...

by Ava Duggan & Alexander O'Shaughnessy December 2015 We did a Photostory project in December. There were five groups. They were all based on fairy tales. A photo story is lots of pictures stuck together and a voice is put over it telling you what is going on in the pictures. It was great fun. These are the finished films: The Four Little Pugs by Ava, Seán, Michael, Ruby, & Leah   Jacqueline & the Beanstalk by Aoibhean, Declan, Ciarán, Mark & Charlie ...

by Michael Grogan, Emma O'Brien & Luke Wiseman November 2015 In November, we entered the Intel Mini-Scientist Competition, where we all made a science project to display at the fair. We all put in a big effort for a few weeks and the judges were very impressed with all of the excellent projects. First in the morning, all the judges from Intel came into the fair to look at our projects. Then, every class from junior infants to 6th class came to look at them. At the end of the day the jud...

by Mark Sheehan & Leah Tyndall November 2015 In November, we learned about Michelangelo and all his inventions. We were focusing on the paintings he painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Mr. O’Leary came up with an idea to paint a picture like Michelangelo did. We stuck an A3 page underneath our tables. It was to show us how difficult it was to paint while lying on your back. We all painted our favourite pictures from the Old Testament.  We sketched our ideas on A4 pages jus...