Our Place in Space

2013-06-28T12:06:00.001+01:00

Junior Infants

We had our sports day last Wednesday . Two of our senior teachers retired Ms Considine and Ms Nolan . There was a Mass and refreshments in the parish hall.

Seniors and 1^st

We went on our school tour to Wood field house .We planted chives, lettuce and carrots in the school garden. We are looking forward to watching them grow

1^st/2^nd

We had our sports day.

We are really looking forward to our holidays.

We are busy finishing our work for the year.

In maths 2^nd class are learning about capacity.

3^rd/4^th

We are watching Wreck-it-Ralph in school. We made sunflowers for art.

The boys won a county district final and were runners up in county hurling final.

We are going to bring home our spring onions and lettuce from our garden today.

We went to the Dunbrody , New Ross The Heritage Park , FerryCarraig and Leisure Max Wexford for our school tour.

5^th / 6^th

Today is our last school day before our holidays. 6^th class for off early on Wednesday 5^th class are doing comic strips of this school year.

2013-06-07T12:43:00.001+01:00

Junior Infants

We have started our constructions made of junk.

We made a Crayon box , a Volcano and a Zoo.

Senior Infants/First Class

Have been busy writing our own stories and illustrating them . We wrote about our dreams.

This week we were busy doing English and Maths tests.

1^st/2^nd

Second class made their first Holy Communion last Saturday .

We were looking at art work by van Gogh. We were painting sunflowers.

We took out the parachute as a treat for working hard.

3^rd/4^th

We are making scarecrows for a scarecrow competitions.

In Geography, we learnt about earthquakes as there was a small earthquake off the coast of Ireland in the Irish sea this week.

We had a hurling blitz last week against Oulart and the Ballagh National schools.

5th/ 6 th classes

Rackard league boys won their district final . We are now in a County semi final.

Michael is playing a match in Dublin at half-time during the semi final between Wexford and Dublin this weekend.

5^th/6^th are finished all their tests for the year.

2013-05-21T10:43:00.000+01:00

Junior Infants

We designed and are going to make our own constructions in art. We are using recycled materials.

We have been looking at Capacity in Maths using non-standard units.

Senior Infants

We are learning about the moon and writing our own stories about our trip to the moon.

We love the class story of Man on the Moon and had fun acting scenes from the story.

1^st/2^nd

In art we drew our dreams just like Vincent Van Gogh. We are learning about the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh.

We started back at hurling skills this week and in P.E. we are learning to play a new game called Line Ball.

In Irish we have been learning about clothes and we even dressed up a teddy bear.

In History we have been learning all about a famous Irish pirate called Grace O Malley.

3^rd/4^th

Ciara from Green Schools came to visit and talk to 3^rd,4^th,5^th and 6^th classes .We are now working on our 4^th Green Flag for Travel
.

We learnt about electricity in Science and how to make a circuit.

Many of our class took part in Co. Wexford school sports day in Bree Wednesday 15^th May.

5^th/6^th

5^th and 6^th went to the Magpie River to go fishing on Thursday 16^th May and there was an electric fish in
the river.

Rackard League boys made it to the District Final.

Noel came 3^rd in the high jump and also won a medal in Bree.

We have a new Green Schools code.

Visit to Manchester

2013-05-02T12:44:00.003+01:00

Two teachers of our school have gone to Manchester as a teacher exchange. Here you can see some pictures.

2013-04-25T12:24:00.002+01:00

This week we were visited by a teacher from Ireland, her name is Evelyn.

She taught us some games, songs, and showed us videos.

One of the games that we did was THE LEADER and one of the songs was a song from the Lion King movie "You Got Be".

Later we made a performance for her that we had to repit because we didn't have enogh people for the show.

2013-04-19T14:57:00.000+01:00

Date 19 April

Junior Infants

Ellen won an Easter egg for designing a poster in Irish.

We made cards and baskets for Easter.

Aoife brought in her tin whistle and her accordion and played Irish music like Button

Seniors/1^st

We had lots of fun learning about capacity in Maths.

We are starting to learn about how to take care of our teeth and almost everybody is bringing in fruit and vegetables everyday in our Food Dudes containers.

We are getting really good at following instructions and we made buzzing bees from following the steps.

1^st/2^ndClass

On Tuesday 16th April 2^nd class made their First Penace.

We have been to choir practice for the Communion.

We made sheep in art to decorate the church for the first Penace.

We played bench ball [without the benches] in P.E.

We wrote book reports.

In Maths 2^nd class played time games on the laptops.

On Friday 12^th April we helped clean up the school yard.

3^rd/4^th

We had a spring clean up in school.

In Art we drew our portraits.

Eimear and Emma Louise won the Seachtain na Gaeilge poster competition.

In history we learned about the history of the potato and the Famine.

We are starting our novel "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl.

5^th/6^th

Last Friday we helped to clean the G.A.A. as part of our spring clean.

This week we have been learning about algebra and capacity in Maths.

We are nearly finished our novel "Faraway Home".

In History we are learning about Michael Collins.

PANCAKE RACE

2013-04-11T12:42:00.001+01:00

This is how we celebrated pancake tuesday. The children participated in a pancake race.

St. Patrick's Day

2013-04-11T12:25:00.000+01:00

In our school, we also celebrated St. Patrick's Day. We learned many things about Ireland and its culture.

The first day of spring

2013-04-02T11:03:00.000+01:00

March 21st is observed as the first day of spring and it's and a fun day at school. This year the spring contest was organised and we didn't have regular classes. It engaged all students who were supposed to take part in some competitions. Each class had to present a spring kite, the spring lady disguise, sping sandwiches and a song or a skit. We had a grat time watching the contest. It turned out that the class 2 A from middle -school was the best and won the contest. Congratulations!

Woman's Day in Poland

2013-04-02T10:28:00.001+01:00

Woman’s day in Poland is celebrated on 8th of March. On that day girls and women are given flowers and presents, usually chocolates.. It's usually a big celebration in our school too. Boys from every class prepared small gifts for girls and teachers. Perhaps the most popular were tulips, hand -made cards or chocolates. There was also a school assembly during which boys presented a skit which made us laugh a lot . We listened to some romantic love songs and poems .too. It was an unforgettable day.

2013-03-21T14:46:00.003+00:00

Junior Infants

Sunday 10th March was Mother’s Day. We made flowers for our mothers. We made these shamrocks with Aoife to celebrate St. Patrick's Day

Senior Infants and First Class

We sang Cuigear Fear and Molly Malone in the Seachtaine na Gaeilge concert. We made St. Patrick’s Day men in Art. We are estimating in Maths. We are learning about Eadaí (clothes in Irish) in Gaeilge (Irish for Irish).

First and Second Class

We sang Mé Féin and the Fields of Athenry for our Seachtaine na Gaeilge concert. In Art we made Easter chicks and Easter bunnies. We made up Easter acrostic poems too. We are learning about weight in Maths. We are also learning how to play some games in Irish.

Third and Fourth Class

We made leprechauns with paper and we had our Seachtaine na Gaeilge concert too. Some firemen came to our school. The firemen taught us about fire safety. We have been doing lots of St. Patrick’s Day art.

Fifth and Sixth Class

We had our Seachtaine na Gaeilge concert. We are doing well with Food Dudes. Food Dudes is a programme where we have to eat fruit and vegetables for prizes.

We had golf lessons.

We have done our Briathar Niamhrialta. We made our Seachtaine na Gaeilge posters. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Class played in a Mini Sevens hurling match but they lost.

These are some pictures from our Seachtaine na Gaeilge concert

2013-03-08T14:59:00.000+00:00

Junior Infants

In Junior Infants we made Valentines cards with Aoife, who is in our class for 12 weeks for work experience. We read a story about a birthday party and then we made birthday cards and wrote invitations.

Senior Infants + First Class

We are busy preparing for our play next week, “Oisin and Tir nÓg”.

We made yummy pancakes last week for Pancake Tuesday.

We got our blessed ashes in mass too, on Ash Wednesday.

We made lovely crafts for Valentine’s Day.

We wrote about what we want to be when we’re older and put it in a sealed envelope which we will open when we are much older.

First + Second Class

We made yummy pancakes for Pancake Tuesday.

We learned the Katy Perry song called Firework and we used pastels and illuminous paints to create fireworks. We learned to play basketball in P.E.

Third + Fourth Class

In Geography we were learning about Dublin, our capital city.

We made “lovebugs” for Valentine’s Day.

We took part in the Joined Writing competition, where we had to write 150 words in our best joined writing.

Fourth, Fifth and Sixth classes have started GAA Mini Sevens in hurling and football. We made daffodils in art.

Fifth + Sixth Class

This week we are learning two new songs: “Raggle Taggle Gypsy” and “Viva la Quinta Brigada”. We started hurling skills with the G.A.A coaches again. We are reading a novel called “Faraway Home”. It is about Jewish refugees.

MARY IN TURKEY

2013-02-26T18:59:00.003+00:00

OUR BOSS, MARY CAME TO OUR SCHOOL ON FEBRUARY 11. OUR PUPILS WERE VERY EXCITED.ALL PUPILS FROM ALL GRADES SANG MANY SONGS AND LEARNED MANY USEFUL THINGS FROM HER. THEY WERE VERY SAD WHEN SHE WENT. WE HOPE SHE COMES AGAIN. THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION MARY.

Grandma's and grandpa's day in Strawczyn!

2013-02-21T12:18:00.001+00:00

Grandma's and grandpa's day in Strawczyn!

Every year our students celbrate grandm's and grandpa's day which fall on 21st and 22nd January.
This year a school celbration took place at the end of January. Students from the second form together with their teachers prepared a short presentation including poems, rhymes and songs. They invited their grandparents to school. They wished them all the best and gave kissses

After the presentation it was time to eat delicious cakes together.

Grandparents took a lot of photos.

2013-02-18T18:22:00.000+00:00

Winter holidays!

Winter holidays was a relaxing time for every student. This school year it started 12th January and finished 27th January. Some students stayed at home for two weeks. They did some outdoor and indoor sports such as skiing, ice-skating and swimming. It was also a good opportunity to meet friends and relatives.The others were away. A group of students spent their winter holidays at a sports camp in the Tatra Mountains. They did some hiking and very weird things! Have a look at these photos!

2013-02-14T12:24:00.006+00:00

ANA MARIA MATUTE, SEVILLE

We forgot that we had pictures from our Christmas celebration. Here you can see a play about baby Jesus' birth.

In Spain, the Three Wise Men bring presents to the children. They are Melchor and Baltasar

This is a traditional Christmas cake. It is a kind of sponge cake with cream.

2013-02-05T10:33:00.003+00:00

Junior Infants

We made playdough using flour, salt, oil, hot water and food colouring.

We made puppets of our favourite nursery rhyme characters.

Senior Infants

We are learning lots of songs this month . We learned about things that make noises

in science in our homes.

We also making masks in art.

First class designed their ideal classroom.

First and Second class

In Art we are learning all about Pablo Picasso. We drew Picasso heads, we painted a portrait of Picasso and we coloured one of his pictures” The Three Musicians”

Third and Fourth

We made a friendship board and we discussed how to deal with bullying.

1^st February is the first day of spring and Saint Brigids day.

We made Saint Brigids crosses.

We learned about the four provinces and the 32 coutries

of Ireland..

Fifth and Sixth class

We are learning about area and perimeter in Maths.
In Geography they are learning about the EU.
In History they are learning about World War 1.

STRUGGLE WITH EROSION IN OUR DISTRICT

2013-01-29T19:59:00.000+00:00

OUR HEADMASTER , 2ND AND 3RD GRADE TEACHERS ARE VERY EAGER TO STRUGGLE WITH EROSION. THEY WANT TO STOP THE EROSION. SO THEY PLANT SOME SAPLINGS IN OUR DISTRICT. THIS IS A PROJECT IN OUR DISTRICT AND IT WILL CONTINUE.WE CONGRATULATE THEM FOR THAT WORK. AND WE WANT IT CONTINUES.

2013-01-24T12:31:00.003+00:00

To celebrate Christmas in our school, children for first and fourth class did a play and sang Christmas songs.They dressed up as angels, football players, princesses... It was great!

2013-01-18T14:56:00.002+00:00

Blog 18th 2013

Junior Infants

Last Thursday Junior Infants Skyped the young children in our partners school in Spain.

They said some rhymes and sang their traditional song.

Senior Infants and First Class

First class have started their play Oisin in Tir na nOg.

They have being learning two new songs and recorded their traditional Irish song aswell.

They have been learning about eating healthy foods and making their own menus.

First and second class

First and second class have been busy practising for the play Oisin in Tir na nOg.

In art they have been learning about Pablo Picasso and made their own Picasso

Style head .

They also made fruity themed faces in art.

Third and Fourth class

We have been learning about winter and Christmas traditions.

We also have been learning about the rivers in Ireland.

We got new books for the library.

In art we made fishes out of card.

Fifth and Sixth class

Yesterday fifth and sixth class were learning about the human body.

They were also learning about Daniel O’Connell, and the Penal Laws.

They were learning about the European capitals.

They started a new novel called” Far Away Home”.

Ten English children are coming to stay with some of our families. We are excited about this.

Christmas

2013-01-02T20:00:00.002+00:00

Everyone likes Christmas. In our school we celebrate Christmas in a special way. We have a huge Christmas tree (or I should say three of them :-) usually a pine, and it is decorated with beautiful ribbons and variety of baubles. Some children, together with teachers, sing Christmas carols in their classrooms. Others prepare magic atmosphere by decorating classes and corridors.

We also had a Christmas play presented by our III class kids on the 20th of December. The play was about the importance of Christ in our lives and values significant to humans. After the presentation our Headmistress made a short speech and wished Merry Christmas to all of us.

On the 20th and 21st of December almost all classes had traditional Christmas supper. We had a great fun, marvelous atmosphere, and before eating we divided the wafer and exchanged wishes. We talked a lot, laughed, and eat of course ;-)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

MOVIE DAYS

2012-12-29T13:16:00.001+00:00

The European commission has organized "Film Days" in the frame of human rights. Our 5th,6th and 7th grade students went to the cinema in the center of Kayseri. And they watched the movie "LOVE AND MOONSTAR" and had a great time at the cinema. They hope these days continue.

2012-12-21T10:54:00.002+00:00

Blog 20th of December

JUNIOR INFANTS

In Junior Infants we have been doing lots of Christmas Art .We made snow flakes.

We made a Christmas tree for our door using our hand prints.

We set up a Santa’s workshop in our room. We designed made and packaged toys.

"The Christmas tree"

Senior infants +1^st class

Teachers from the New project countries came to our school and we had

an Assembly with them. We sang “Molly Malone” for them.

We made reindeer faces.

We made an Advent Calendar for Christmas.

We sang lots of carols at the church for our Christmas carol service

1^st and 2^{nd classes}

We painted pine cones and put glitter on them to make Christmas tree decorations.

We were busy practising for our annual carol service.

We are learning about Christmas traditions from all around the world.

3^rd + 4^th

We made angles, Christmas trees, cards and decorations. We wrote" The Christmas story".

We finished reading our novel story “One Hundred- Mile- An- Hour Dog”.

5th + 6th class
We have been practising for our carol service. We have been making Christmas cards and we finished our novel “Wild flower girl”.

SPANISH CONSTITUTION DAY

2012-12-19T10:19:00.003+00:00

Sixth class went to the local library to celebrate the Spanish Constitution Day. There was a play, an exhibition and a talk about a book. We also played some games.

OUR NEW SCHOOL PAINTING

2012-12-19T10:05:00.002+00:00

We would like to thank Dos Hermanas City Hall the opportunity they gave us to paint a mural on the second floor of our school. Third, fourth and fifth class were in charged of the painting. They have painted a popular park in Dos Hermanas.