SEPTEMBER 2024
Sport Achievements by Sadie and Daisy
In September we competed in Mini Sevens and Cross Country. Mini Sevens was held in Kilmeena GAA pitch. We teamed up with Carrakennady and the girls won matches but got knocked out in the first round. The boys won all their matches and got to the next stage but lost. For Cross Country, we didn't win but some of us got close to the front. It was very fun!
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P.E by James and Nathan
We did Outdoor Adventures as our P.E topic for September. For the outdoor adventures every Friday the entire school walked to either Millennium park,the Greenway, the statue or the Abbey. We also did things like a bug hunt with the Middle room and a nature walk down past millennium park and the Abbey. Our favourite part about the outdoor adventures was the Nature walks because we thought it was a lot of fun
Literacy Stations by Anthony and Sophie
Everyday we do literacy stations for about half an hour except for Friday. The stations are reading your class novel with Ms Mc Walter like Safe Harbour,Attack Of The Viking and Fields Of Home. The other stations are ag léamh as Gaeilge with Ms Finnerty, free writing and IXL English.
Birds of Ireland by Michael and Simon
We did a lot of research on the birds of Ireland. We went for a walk down by the Abbey and we were bird watching. We saw and heard a lot of birds. Then after that we learned a lot about birds and we each did our own project about them. After everyone was done their project each of us presented our projects to everyone else in the room.
OCTOBER 2024
Science Projects by Katelyn and Olivia
The senior room did a project on the body. There were 4 groups . Anthony, Lucas and Ronan did it on Teeth . Millie, Sadie, Daisy and Gracie did it on the Digestive system . James, Simon, Nathan and Michael did it on the Skeleton .Olivia, Katelyn, Sophie, Annabelle and Eleanor did it on the circulation system . Oleg did it on the eye on his own. We presented the projects to the middle room . Everyone had to have a turn to speak and we all had lots of fun making the posters.
Maths Week by Millie and Eleanor
On monday we did dancing digits with Cathy . On Tuesday we did the maths trail with Mrs Lenyak. We measured how long it took to run across the yard .
On Wednesday we did the digital maths project which was the Lego spike and bee bots with Mrs Mc Walter. On Thursday we did the maths quiz with one of the teachers. We did the mathletics on Friday and I had a load of fun. I thank all the teachers for maths week.
NOVEMBER 2024
Australia by Gracie
The senior room are doing projects on Australia. Recently we have been doing Aboriginal art. Aboriginals are an old tribe who lived in Australia for years. We've also done our own maps where we used an atlas to help us. Ms. Finnerty has helped us with some projects as well as doing loads of categories such as animals, sports, climate and much more.
I really enjoyed this activity because we got to pick our own topic. I’m doing an Aussie Rules project. I've found loads of fun facts like the average AFL player receives up to 1 million every season, and much more.
Pipette Art
We used test tubes to mix water colours for our art this week. We used pipettes to drop the water colours onto our pictures to create crazy wind blown hair using blow painting technique. We also painted secret messages on kitchen towels and used pipettes with drops of water colour to discover what was on them.
DECEMBER 2024
Christmas Play by Sadie, Millie, Gracie and Daisy
We spent most of December preparing for our Christmas Play. We made all of our props and costumes. We also created all of our own dances. We spent a lot of time practising our lines and singing songs. We even rehearsed in Lecanvey Community Centre a few times. Performing on stage has helped our self confidence and self esteem.
JANUARY 2025
Maths Stations by Lucas and Anthony
Ms Finnerty and Ms. McWalter made a maths station timetable. There are 4 different groups. We complete one station per day for 20minutes. We use the Chromebooks for IXL. Ms. Finnerty teaches us about problem solving. Ms. Mc Walter uses Numicon to teach fractions. Another station is independent word problems.
First we chose an image that we would like to print. We used foam material to carve out our image with pencil. Then we outlined it with pen. After that, we rolled paint on to our foam image with our colours of choice. Finally, we stamped and pressed our image onto coloured card.
Visual Arts- Printing
FEBRUARY 2025
Formal Letter Writing by Daisy, Sadie and Annabelle
Last year we sent letters to islands around Ireland and this year we wrote to places of our choice around Ireland. One person even wrote to the president of Ireland. She got a reply back with a picture of him and his dog! Another girl wrote to the Guinness storehouse and got a reply with tickets to a tour of it! We wrote interesting facts and questions about the places. We are all hoping to get lots more replies.
Book Writing by Katelyn, Olivia and Michael
This year the senior room are going to do Reading Buddies with the junior room. The senior room will read to them and help the junior room with spellings. Everyone will have a partner. After midterm the senior room will also be writing their own stories. The stories are allowed to be 10~40 pages long. Each page will have a picture at the top. We are planning it in our hardbacks, describing characters' personalities and appearances. We have to include the following: setting, rhyming words, repetition, good title, that grabs the audiences’ attention. We must include a beginning, middle and end.
Class Novel- War Horse by Nathan, Ronan, Anthony and Simon
We have been reading War Horse by Michael Morpurgo as a class novel. So far we have learned the book is about world war 1. The perspective of the story is told by a horse in the war called Joey. In the first chapter we are introduced to Joey's backstory of how he lost his mother at a farmers auction after that he meets a mean man who bought him. Albert and Joey become very close freinds. Later on Joey was sold to the military by Albert's father where Joey met Captain Nicholes. We have been summarizing the story so far, we have summarized up to chapter 18. We are focusing on the comprehension strategy “Summarising” and learning new vocabulary.
Abvie Stem Project by Gracie, Eleanor, Sophie and Emma
This February we are taking part in the Abbvie stem competition, we are entering four projects relevant to our local community. We are using seaweed because we go to school near the sea. Our four projects are seaweed using biofuel, seaweed fertiliser, seaweed ink, and seaweed water purification. For fertiliser we soak the seaweed in water and it creates fertiliser and we compare it to growing a plant with water and the fertiliser,for seaweed purification we put dirty water through the seaweed and see if it makes clean water and compare it to dirty water. This is a very educational project because it helps us connect with our local community.
Chair Yoga by James and Lucas
We do Chair Yoga on Fridays every week with Ms Mc Walter. We do some stretches to start the session. At the end of the session we do different things like smell essential oils, eat fruit or something tasty or listen to music to warm up. We do poses like tree pose where we stand up and pose like a tree.