Over the past while we have been doing a project on our local area. We have been learning about all sorts of things in the local area and we were ever lucky enough to have Kurt Kulllmann a local historian come and visit our class. Today our project was published! Please have a look: …
The Old School House for Girls On the 24th of October 5th class went to the Gospel Hall which used to be the ‘Old Girls School’. A woman called Grainne came in before hand and talked to us and we showed her some old roll books of St. Matthews. Then we went to the Gospel…
Check out our fabulous costumes in 1st Class today!
Yesterday 3rd Class presented our Family Tree Personal Projects! We have been working very hard on these projects all month and we are VERY proud of them! 3rd Class would also like to say a special thank you to our families for helping us with these projects. The project presentations were amazing to watch!
3rd Class got to listen to three wonderful stories told by a traditional Irish Storyteller! Her name was Roisin and she was brilliant! One story was about the Fiana, one story was about a seal woman with a magic hat and the last one was about the Giants Causeway and a man who had a…
As part of science week 3rd Class took part in a really cool rocket workshop with 4th Class. We listened to a presentation about rockets and space and then we worked together in groups to turn an old 2 litre bottle into a rocket! We decorated them with colourful paper, fins and lots of glitter!…
Third class were delighted to welcome the Sam Maguire cup to our school! We got to meet two of the Dublin players James McCarthy and Eoghan O’Gara. We asked them some questions about the all Ireland final, their training and their junior clubs. Then we got our photos taken with the cup. It was a…
6th class learned about life on the International Space Station. We watched a live feed which tracks the movement of the ISS in real time. We also looked at a variety of photos showing life on board the ISS. 6th took a close look at the robotic arm that is used by the astronauts to…
We were very lucky to have professional storyteller Róisín Murphy come to visit us. Róisín told a number of traditional Irish stories, many of which 6th hadn’t heard before. She told the complex stories with such drama that we could have heard a pin drop! The stories were so detailed, it took an hour to…