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...

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...