Sam Maguire Junior Infants
The Sam Maguire cup visited St. Matthew’s last week! We were lucky enough to meet two of the players and get our photo taken with the cup!
Waterways Tour for Seachtain na Gaeilge (5th Class)
During Seachtain na Gaeilge, 5th Class went on a trip to Grand Canal Dock to visit the waterways. As it was Seachtain na Gaeilge, the whole tour was through Irish. Manus and Cormac met us at the visitor centre and took us for a two hour walk around the area, discussing the waterways, how it…
Tesco Community Fund
Today we received our cheque from the money raised by Tesco’s Community Fund! We were presented with a cheque worth 471.70 euro. We are delighted with the money raised and are very grateful to everyone who supported our school. We will ensure the money is spent wisely!
5th Class World Book Day
For World Book Day we did various different activities. For our Thursday night homework, we made a prop that was associated with our favourite book. Some of us went as far as dressing up in a costume! We brought in our favourite book to discuss with our class, participated in a book quiz and made…
5th Class Macaw Birds
Over the last couple of weeks, 5th Class have been working on their drawing skills during Art.We discussed lines and shapes and how best to draw. We used bright colours to illustrate the Macaw bird in its natural habitat.
Sam Maguire Cup
The Sam Maguire cup came in to visit us in school recently! Eric Lowndes was the Dublin player who brought it in to us. He is a defender for the county team and plays for his local club St. Peregrines. He told us that he started playing GAA at the age of 6 and that…
GAA, Cumann na mBunscol, Game 1-Victory!
Big congratulations to our GAA football team who won their match against St. Dominic’s N.S. in Tallaght yesterday. Everyone gave 100% to the match and played their hearts out! Well done to St. Dominic’s who were a tough opposition and played with great skill. We’re looking forward to our next match on Tuesday at 2pm…
Baking!
As part of our procedural writing in English, we baked three different types of desserts- chocolate cake, Victoria sponge cake and pavlova. The aim of this as to teach us how to do things step by step. We then had to write up our steps to show what we baked and how we did…
The Solar Eclipse
This week we got the opportunity to see a partial solar eclipse! It was very exciting. Many of us in the class took in different devices to try and help us see it better- it was tricky because it was so cloudy outside! One of the things we tried was to put a pin hole…
JEP Week 1
What is an entrepreneur? On the first week of JEP we learned what an entrepreneur was. It is a person/people that create a company. We learned about Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream company. Ben and Jerry were friends and wanted to start an ice-cream company. We are all friends and we wanted to start a company…