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...
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Christmas Cribs
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...
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African Dancing
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...
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Photostory Fairytales
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
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Intel Mini-Scientist Exhibition 2015
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...
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Painting like Michelangelo
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...
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