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Creating a Christmas Picture Book
Today we watched a Scholastic crowdcast. The author Linus showed us and read us his book Mrs. Claus takes a Vacation. It was very...
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Dec 9, 20221 min read
Food Collection Christmas 2022
There was a great response to the food collection organised by the student council. There will be many happy people in Sligo who will...
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Dec 7, 20221 min read
Christmas Concert Dec. 15th
All the classes are busy preparing for the Christmas concert. We hope you are looking forward to seeing us perform next week. The senior...
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Dec 7, 20221 min read
Garda Schools Programme
Two local garda visited our school on December 5th. They had many important messages for us. We now know what the job of a garda is,...
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Dec 6, 20221 min read
A fun visit from Garda Inez & Garda Trevor
Garda Inez and Garda Trevor visited us this morning. We had lots of fun with them but we did have a very serious discussion about road...
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Dec 5, 20221 min read
Mo Fhear Sneachta ⛄️
Tá pictúirí deasa againn sna cóipleabhair. Tharraing gach duine fear sneachta breá, le hata agus scairf. Ansin, scríobhamar faoi na...
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Dec 2, 20221 min read
Catching Snowflakes ❄️
We stayed on a snowy theme in art. We imagined what it would be like to catch snowflakes in our mouths. We also enjoyed making colourful...
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Dec 2, 20221 min read
Snowflake Mandalas ❄️
On Friday we created snowflake mandalas. They are very symmetrical. Some of us did hexagonal shapes and others made octagonal shapes. We...
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Nov 28, 20221 min read
New Student Council
We had elections recently for the student council. Each person who wished to go forward for election spoke to the class to outline their...
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Nov 23, 20221 min read
Procedural Writing ✍️
We have been learning how to organise and write a procedure. First we wrote how to make our favourite sandwich or roll. 🥪 Then we wrote...
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Nov 22, 20221 min read
World Nursery Rhyme Week 2022
We took part in World Nursery Rhyme Week again this year. We had a great week engaging in all the different activities recommended online.
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Nov 19, 20221 min read
Science Week 2022
Today we enjoyed a webinar hosted by Teagasc. They explained how cheese is made, how milk is pasteurised, how yoghurt is made and much...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
Food 🍇🍎🥦🧀🥚🍗
In science we are learning about the food groups and the food pyramid. In SPHE we are learning about how the various foods keep us...
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Nov 16, 20221 min read
Hurling Coach
Today Dara Cox started hurling coaching with our class. We learned how to hold the hurley correctly and how to strike the sliotar.
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Sleeping Beauty
On Monday Westmidlands Theatre Group visited our school. They performed the Sleeping Beauty pantomime for us. It was great fun as we had...
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Shadow Experiments
We learned about the sun and how important it is to our planet. We did experiments creating long and short shadows. This showed us the...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Halloween Brack
We made a very tasty brack during Aistear today. We all got involved and the brack was very tasty. We all wanted more.
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Oct 27, 20221 min read
Last Swimming Lesson 🏊♂️ 😢
Today was our last swimming lesson. It has been enjoyable and everyone has improved at swimming. The instructor let the classes have 5...
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Oct 26, 20221 min read
Ga Tribe Workshop
On Tuesday we had a demonstration and workshops from the visiting Ga Tribe group. They showed us their drumming techniques, dance and...
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Oct 26, 20221 min read
Me by numbers
To finish off Maths Week we completed a sheet called by the numbers, where we chose numbers of significance to us. The completed work is...
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Oct 21, 20221 min read
Coaching
We are a very active school at the moment. We have GAA coaching as well as swimming. Mairead is helping us improve our skills with the...
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Oct 21, 20221 min read
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Oct 20, 20220 min read
Alan Nolan author
On Thursday 20th of October 5/6 class attended a zoom with Alan who is an author and illustrator. He told us about the books he has...
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Oct 20, 20221 min read
Maths Week 2022
We had a busy week making patterns, matching, sorting, ordering numbers and we even took some time to count some cows. Lots of fun in the...
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Oct 20, 20221 min read
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