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Arts Week May 19th-23rd

Posted on May 15, 2014 by tdowling1033

We are very excited about next week and the upcoming events for ARTS WEEK 2014!
Monday we will have a visiting theatre to put on a show in the school hall.
Tuesday we will have dance workshops in the morning, and for … Continue reading →

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Our Knitting Exhibition

Posted on April 23, 2014 by tdowling1033

We held an art exhibition on the Friday of our easter holidays!
Thanks to Sr. Sarah McNellis, we have been knitting for the last number of weeks. We made toys such as, dolls, teddy bears, sheep, … Continue reading →

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Spring Clean for a Green School

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

Our school are very busy this week doing our annual  Spring Clean. We all used the brushes and shovels and pickers and had an enjoyable session in the front yard . Well done to all!

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Knitting

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

Sr. Sarah gives up her time and comes to our classroom every week for knitting. We have had her for the last few years. This term we have knitted some really lovely things, including bags, scarves, purses and even dolls! We just … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

Easter is on the way and we have done some preparation for it.
We have been learning all about the Crucifixion and Holy Week. We have been doing meditation and reflection. Yesterday we had our confessions heard in the school … Continue reading →

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Lent

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

Lent is a special time in the church calander. We’ve learned all about it in school coming up to Easter. We learned about the Trocaire box and Enestina who is 9 and lives with her family in central Malawi. She … Continue reading →

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Computers

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

We are delighted with our computer class every  Thursday with Sr. Brigid Dowling. We learn lots of skills in power point presentation, publisher, Microsoft word documents. We did Easter slideshows and Valentines and St. Patrick’s Day brochures. She helps … Continue reading →

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Reading

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

We do lots of different fun reading activities in our class. We have a choice of 3 different libraries in our school; our class library, the mobile library comes each month, and our most favourite is the school … Continue reading →

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World Book Week

Posted on April 8, 2014 by tdowling1033

We celebrated World Book Day 2014 in style. We dressed up as our favourite book character. We made book covers and bookmarks to compete for some lovely book prizes. We also had a lovely trip to O’Mahoney’s to meet … Continue reading →

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Seachtain na Gaeilge

Posted on March 25, 2014 by tdowling1033

We really enjoyed dramatizing our Féile Poem on stage for Seachtain na Gaeilge.
We danced to ‘Shoo the Donkey’. What fun!
Winners for the seanfhocail were:
Ciara Griffin and Grace Glynn.
 
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