Now that we have reached mid-term, we can look back on the first two months of the school year and credit ourselves and the staff for all we have achieved in those two months. During the last week, we have been getting into Halloween mode as we crafted, carved, discoed and dressed up. Head over to the Gallery page to see lots of photos and to the Parents Association page to see even more!
Happy Halloween!
The boys and girls from 5th and 6th Classes along with their parents and many other supporters descended on O’Moore Park on Wednesday to contest the Football Finals. The Girls took on Holy Family Senior School, Portlaoise while the boys pitted their skills against Scoil Bhríde, Portlaoise. While not bringing home any silverware, they all played their hearts in thrilling and hard-fought games. Congratulations once again to the boys and girls, to Mr Conway and to Mr O’Mahony on reaching the finals.
We held our Annual Halloween Disco on Wednesday 24th. As usual, the spooky atmosphere created by Brian Phelan and Danny Brennan added hugely to the evening. A huge thank you to all who came and enjoyed the night, both parents and children.
The boys and girls from 5th and 6th Classes took part in the Cumann na mBunscol Finals on Wednesday and after the matches, we all went to Supermacs to celebrate the end of the football season for the year. Thanks to the continued support from all our parents, we were able to fund this for all the footballers.
At our AGM last week, the following officers were re-elected.
Chairperson – Chris Knowles
Secretary- Teresina Dermody
Treasurer- Maeve Conroy
Many issues were discussed including the running of the up-coming Halloween Disco and our Christmas Fundraiser. All parents are welcome to join the committee at any stage and any help at our events will be greatly appreciated. Keep up to date on our Parents Association Facebook page.
In Senior Infants, we carefully removed the pulp and seeds from our pumpkin, we carved the face and then the fun started! Under very close supervision by Ms Stapleton, we added some chemicals and watched closely as our pumpkin spewed green foam from every direction- Yuck!!
Second Class their excitement with Halloween with their Science and English Classes yesterday as we decided to make lovely green, slippery slime!. We observed, explored and investigated the properties of slime and had great fun in the process!
The excitement is building as both the boys and girls’ football teams have reached the finals of Cumann na mBunscol 2018. Under the guidance of Mr O’Mahony and Mr Conway, they have shown great determination and skill to get to play in O’Moore Park on Wednesday 24th. We wish them all the very best and win, lose or draw, we know they will do our school proud!
Junior Infants have been exploring their place in the Solar System this week. All discussion was about what’s up in space, could you ever reach a star, what it’s like on the moon etc. We listened to the story “Papa, Please get the Moon for me” by Eric Carle and we looked at “Meg on the Moon” With all this in mind , we decided to make our very own rockets and imagined what it would be like to meet the Man in the Moon!
As the environment around our school is filled with beautiful Autumn colours, Senior Infants set about re-creating Autumn in the classroom. First of all, they designed and constructed scarecrows and after that they took their inspiration from autumn leaves to create their own leaves with card and oil pastels using a technique called sgraffito. They were more than pleased with their efforts!
