This is where you will find all the latest news for the whole school. If you wish to find out about the latest news from any one class please click on the class links above the first blog post below.

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Dec 20, 20231 min read

Special Visitor

Today we had a visit from Santa. We sang Rudolph for him. He gave everyone a present 🎁

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Dec 15, 20231 min read

The Great Reindeer Rescue

This is the book teacher is reading at the moment. It is a newly published book. Today we attended a crowdcast with the author and...

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Dec 12, 20231 min read

An Geimhreadh

An geimhreadh atá ann. Féach ar an obair breá scríofa atá déanta againn-

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Dec 8, 20231 min read

Elfbots

We watched a crowdcast from Scholastic books. The author read her book about a girl who had moved house just before Christmas and was...

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Dec 7, 20231 min read

Victorian Mansions

Inspired by the home of Lady Agatha in The Abominables, we designed new mansions. We looked at the features of these houses - gable...

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Nov 26, 20231 min read

The Abominables

We are enjoying our class novel The Abominables. The display in our classroom includes new book covers, illustrations, yeti factfiles...

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Nov 15, 20231 min read

Science Webinar

When we look at the sea, all we see is the surface, but underneath it is teeming with life. Marine Scientists like Louise study the...

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Nov 10, 20231 min read

Aurora Borealis

The Northern Lights have been visible on clear nights lately. We watched a video that explains why they occur....

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Oct 26, 20231 min read

Match Stick Puzzles

We solved a match stick puzzle about 2-D shapes from the 4th class book. Then teacher challenged us to make some equations correct by...

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Oct 26, 20231 min read

Our Assembly

Today we presented assembly for the school. There is a clip of our song Doh a deer below.

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Oct 20, 20231 min read

Student council

Congratulations to Oisín and Eimear from 4th class who will join the student council. We wish them well in all their work for the school...

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Oct 19, 20231 min read

Splat ‼️

We also played a maths spellings game called Splat. The word was spelled out one letter at a time. The person after the last letter got...

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Oct 19, 20231 min read

Copy Cat 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️

Today Tommy and Conor showed us how to play Copy Cat. First we sat in pairs back-to-back. Person A had to create a shape or pattern with...

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Oct 18, 20231 min read

More Puzzles

Today we played Magic Circle where we used the vacant chair to reorder our numbers. Then 5th and 6th classes played it too. After that we...

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Oct 17, 20231 min read

Puzzles and Games

Today we played a Halloween version of snakes and ladders. It had witches and pumpkins 🎃 Then we tried to solve Henry Dudeney's puzzle-...

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Oct 12, 20231 min read

History Walk

We have looked at our village twice lately. We were looking at older buildings, including the old school built in the 1860s - now the...

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Oct 11, 20231 min read

World School Milk Day 🥛

We recently joined a webinar all about milk. We learned how good it is for us. A farmer from Galway called Enda showed us his milking...

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Oct 9, 20231 min read

Scríbhneoireacht

Is iad Lúnasa, Meán Fómhair agus Deireadh Fómhair míonna an fhómhar. 🍂 🐿🦔 Bhíomar ag scríobh agus ag léamh faoin séasúr. Féach ar an...

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Oct 6, 20231 min read

Skeleton Art

Today we made skeletons of people and animals. 💀 We had learned about the skeleton in science. We all had fun.

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Oct 3, 20231 min read

Cubism Art for Autumn 🍂

We looked at some examples of cubism and then designed our own trees and coloured them. We included some autumn creatures- hedgehogs,...