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We made friendship flowers for our Friendship Week in school. Everyone has their own petal on each flower. We are all great friends in room 6

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Mrs Woodbyrne’s fourth class visited the Heritage park on the 2nd of May 2013. We had a beautiful day and enjoyed our guided tour. We learnt all about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and life in the monasteries. At the end of the tour we sat in a real Viking ship.
This week was our last knitting week and we displayed our bags, teddies, purses and mobile phone covers in the class. We are very proud of our work.

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As part of our ongoing Bullying awareness programme, we decided to hold a friendship week in school from April 15^th-19^th 2013.

The aims for this week were very straightforward : to highlight the skills involved in forming and maintaining friendships, whilst also stressing the idea that combating bullying is a collective responsibility. The message to be passed across to our pupils was that there are no innocent bystanders when it comes to bullying. Teachers also reinforced the building of resilience and self esteem in all pupils (an ongoing skill developed through our Stay Safe and S.A.L.T.  programmes).

Prior to Friendship week, a survey was distributed to pupils from 1^st-6^th class, querying their computer and mobile phone usage. These results were used as a foundation for lessons in netiquette (appropriate internet use) throughout the week.

Accompanying the lessons on bullying and friendship , each pupil  was given a task and a thought for each day. These tasks involved activities such as doing a ROAK (random act of kindness), passing on a compliment, or Mix it Up Lunch (where a child sat beside a child they wouldn’t normally interact with).

Friendship Week culminated in an assembly where children were encouraged to identify bullying type behaviours through role play and to share their thoughts and experiences about the week. We recited the school’s Anti Bullying pledge (promising to stand up for others and against bullying. We also performed  the school’s   Friendship Week Theme song :You’ve got a friend in me. Pupils and Teachers then proceeded outside, to form a friendship spiral around the school yard.

All in all, it was a very productive, rewarding and enjoyable week for all involved. We can’t wait to put our newly learned skills to continued use.

Friendship Spiral.

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Following an eighteen month consultation process with the “partners in education” of CBS Primary , The Mercy School and St. John of God Primary School, The Faythe, the Patron, Bishop Denis Brennan has indicated, subject to Ministerial sanction, that all three schools will become co-educational (boys and girls from Junior Infants to 6th Class) in September 2014. Further information will issue when available.

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We had great fun doing our Christmas Show for everyone. It was called ‘A Present For the Baby’. Take a look at us on stage…

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by Clíona McCormack

In our class we have been learning about volcanos so we decided to make one ourselves. This is what we did:

Materials

small plastic bottle

bread soda

vinegar

sheet of laminated paper

Steps

1. Get your bottle and wrap the green laminated paper around it so it looks like a volcano.

2. Get your bread soda and put about 3 big spoons into the bottle.

3. Put about 10 squirts of vinegar into the bottle and then step away…

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Take a look at the some of the mad hair styles in Ms. Whelan’s room last Friday!!

Let’s just say, it was a very unusual day!

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We want to say a huge thanks to Sr. Siobhán, Julie and Peg who worked so hard with us while we were learning to knit. They did such a good job and we now have a new skill that we will never forget!

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Happy Easter everyone! The girls in third class had great fun making their Easter Chicks using clay.

We let them dry for a few days and then we painted and decorated them!

Take a look…

PhotoStory2

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We had a great time learning about Australia. We learned about all the Australian animals and their habitats in Science, we learned about the Aborigines in history, and we learned about the country in Geography. Afterwards we carried out a big project using all the information we had learned!

We also did lots of Australian art!

We made these beautiful pictures using the Aboriginal dot painting technique.

We also made didgeridoos, which we brought home so we could play some lovely music for our families.

And we used papier mache to make these boomerangs, and painted them when they were dry.

Boomerangs

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We were learning all about syymmetry in our Maths so we decided to show how symmetry is in the world all around us by drawing and painting some symmetrical pictures!

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The girls in third class learned how to quill paper. When we got really good at it, we used our quilling skills to make these beautiful pictures!

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We painted these Nativity Silhouettes of the first Christmas.

We also made these Christmas candle holders.

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Take a look at the third class girls performing their play Christmas with the Aliens!

Christmas Play

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The girls put together all they information they learned about the Egyptians in these projects. Come and have a look at them outside Room 14!

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by Grace Rossiter

The Egyptians believed in life after death. They put these beautiful masks on their pharaohs when they died so they would look beautiful in their afterlife.

That’s why we made our own original masks.

It might be a good idea to use them for Halloween.

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