We promised you more from the pens of our talented students and you won’t be disappointed. I’m sure that the subject of many of these pieces of fiction bears no ressemblence to anyone we know….. These pieces are entered in a competition to be included in a magazine for the upcoming Irish Primary Principals Conference at the end of January.Well done to all the girls from Rang 4,5,6 who entered. Click on this link below (the underlined words)and then click on the title again to see some of the entries.  The Day Mr Gately Lost the Plot . We have also included a couple of photos of the day Henry Mc keen from the Newstalk came to surprise Hazel Devereux with her prize (and the prize for all 6th. class). The girls will be off to the panto in Dublin after Christmas. Click on this link to hear the broadcast from Newstalk 0101PoetryCompReport

Click on  the links below to see lots of photos of our Christmas shows. Well done to all the pupils, teachers and SNAs for their hard work preparing for the last few weeks.   Christmas 2009PhotoStory1 ChristmasPhotoStory2 ChristmasPhotoStory3 ChristmasPhotoStory4 ChristmasPhotoStory5

We made a Christmas nativity scene. Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the Angel were made from clay. We also made a clay manger for the Baby Jesus. The crib is made from a cereal box and lollipop sticks. We had great fun making and painting our Nativity Scene.

Christmas Cribs 2009

We made thumb pots in art using clay. We started with a ball of clay. Then we stuck in our thumb and pulled the sides out. We made sure a night light would fit in our pot. When they were dry we painted them. They will make lovely Christmas presents:)

Lots of talent…… In the last 2 weeks we have had some great successes in local and national competitions. First up was Sara Choncaka from Ms. Hill’s class who was a prize-winner in the Credit-Union Poster Competition. Sara has a wonderful artistic talent. Next up was another artist in Ms. Shannon’s class, Chloe Keeling. Chloe was the winner of a family ticket to see the musical “Oliver” in a colouring competition. Well done Chloe. Next up was Bonnie-Neiland Stuart from Ms. Hughes class who was chosen from many entries to have her beautiful re-cycled christmas decoration on display in the Library- Bonnie also won a prize for her efforts. Finally to put the icing on the cake we had a surprise visit fron Henry Mc Keen from Newstalk Radio to present Hazel Devereux from Ms. Hill’s class with first prize (out of entries from all over Ireland) in their poetry competition. Hazel’s poem “A Cozy Christmas” won her and her whole class vouchers for Byrne’s World of Wonder and a trip to Dublin to see the “Cinderella” Pantomime. Hazel will undoubtedly appear in print again in the future, another author from Wexford. Listen to interviews with Hazel and others on the “Seán Montcrief Show” on Newstalk on Friday Dec. 18th or you can tune in to a podcast of this by going onto the “Newstalk” website. More news soon about another writing competition concerning a certain principal who starts to act very strangely indeed….

As part of our Green School we are busy making recycled Christmas cards. We will not give Christmas cards to our friends in our class. Instead we will make one card each from recycled material and teacher will draw cards out of a hat near Christmas. This helps to reduce waste and trees being cut down to make paper and card.

As part of our Green School we are busy making recycled Christmas cards. We will not give Christmas cards to our friends in our class. Instead we will make one card each from recycled material and teacher will draw cards out of a hat near Christmas. This helps to reduce waste and trees being cut down to make paper and card.

Congratulations to Bonnie Neiland Stuart(Ms. Hughes’ class), Hannah Malone(Mr. King’s class) and Bronwyn Murphy(Ms. Hill’s class) for winning our recycled christmas decoration competition. Also well done to Claudia Faraon(Ms. Doran’s class) who was highly commended. The decorations will be on display in the town library over the christmas. Maith sibh.

In maths we have been learning about co-ordinates. 

Our favourite game is Billy Bug. You can find him on www.topmarks.co.uk and search for Billy Bug.

We play his new quest game as it is a little harder.

Don’t forget …  read across first!  Can you beat the fastest score?

Parents are welcome to come and see our play  Monday 21st December @ 1:40pm   🙂

We are learning to play Jingle Bells on our recorder with Louise. We have been practicing for the last few weeks and today Mrs. Doran recorded us. We will be taking part in a Christmas Concert in a few weeks with the other classes in our school. The date has not been decided yet.

Please click on this link to hear us play.  2nd Class ~ Jingle Bells

On Friday 4th December we finished our Junior Achievement lessons with Aideen. The theme for our five weeks was “Our Community”. We found out what a community is and about productivity, government, taxes and decision making. We were not to sure about having to pay taxes when we get older!! There was great fun when we were making donuts…we discovered that assembly line production is much more efficient that unit production. Unfortunately we were only making paper donuts, so we could not eat them afterwards 🙁 

On our last day Aideen presented us with our certificates.

We have finished our clay owls. When the clay dried we painted them and then we glued feathers on to them. We think they look really cool.

We really enjoyed the Christmas play in the Art’s Centre.

We saw Santa, the elves and the magical Christmas tree. The Dark Queen wanted to cut down the magical Christmas tree and put an end to Christmas forever. We didn’t like the Dark Queen but we loved Santa and the elves because they saved Christmas.

Yesterday we put up our magical Christmas tree in Room 6. Come and see it!

We made projects based on Owls. We found out lots of interesting things.

Did you know?

• When owls fly they do not make any sound.
• Owls can turn their heads nearly all the way round. This is because they can’t move their eyes.
• There are many species of owls, such as ~ Barn Owls, Snowy Owls, Great Horned Owls, Long Eared Owls, Tawny Owls, Nightjar Owls, Short Eared Owl, The European Eagle Owl and many more.
• Owls rely mostly on their sense of hearing.
• They are nocturnal birds.
• Owls swallow their prey whole. They regurgitate the bones, fur and other parts they can’t digest as a pellet.
• Owls eat small rabbits, mice, fish, shrews, and other small animals.
• A baby owl is called an owlet.

 Owl Project ~ 2nd Class

During November we have been working with clay in art. This is a video of some of our finished results.

2nd Class Clay Models

We made a clay model of Plop the Barn Owl. Have a look at some of our masterpieces. Soon we will paint them and add a surprise.

We are learning to play Jingle Bells on our recorder with Louise. We have been practicing for the last few weeks and today Mrs. Doran recorded us. We will be taking part in a Christmas Concert in a few weeks with the other classes in our school. The date has not been decided yet.

Please click on this link to hear us play.  2nd Class ~ Jingle Bells