We enjoy all sorts of literacy work in the senior classroom. Recently, after reading about various events, and people in aviation history, including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Amelia Earhart and John F. Kennedy Junior, we were tasked with writing a persuasive piece on why we should not fear flying. Working individually or in pairs, we…
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Last weekend, some of our 5th and 6th class pupils celebrated their Confirmation. They had prepared very well for this big occasion and performed excellently with their assigned role, e.g. reading, singing or offering gifts. They all looked amazing too. Later in the week, to celebrate the importance of this occasion, and to acknowledge how…
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This week, we participated in the GAAmigos skills competition. We worked very hard on all the various skills and, though we didn’t feature among the prizewinners, we had a really wonderful evening playing and socialising with our friends.
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In the senior room, we are working on our history skills and, so were tasked with completing a project on an ancient civilisation. This was a group project with each class forming one group. Each group’s first task was to choose the ancient civilisation they wished to explore and after some discussion, Ancient Greeks (6th…
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This year, we again dressed in our favourite book character to celebrate ‘World Book Day’. It was a lot of fun greeting our friends in the morning and admiring all the wonderful costumes. In the afternoon, we participated in a live story writing lesson. First of all, we used mood boards to document all about…
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Last year, we participated in ‘The Power to Change project’ (run by the Atlantic Technological University in partnership with Sligo Public Participation Network PPN) which aimed to develop a nature-based learning workbook on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workbook was geared towards 10–12-year-olds and 4 different schools participated in the co-creation of the workbook….
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Recently, in history, working individually or in pairs, we completed a project on a famous person. As we are a fairly diverse bunch with lots of varied interests, the subjects of our project were fairly varied too with famous people in sport, music, science and politics chosen, including Emily Davison, Pelé, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt…
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In Geography, we have been working on ‘Human Environments’. As part of our work, we explored transport and it was interesting to read about transport locally and in other parts of Ireland and throughout the world. In groups, we discussed the ‘pros and cons’ of land, air and sea transport. We concluded our work by…
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After reading the lovely poem, ‘Danny Murphy’ by James Stephens, we set to work on drawing portraits of Danny. Using just pencil and lots of shading, we created some fine artwork which now adorns our classroom wall.
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Well done to our four fabulous pupils who achieved 2nd place in the county final of the Cumann na mBunscol Quiz. What a great achievement. Later, they (with one change to personnel) represented our school in the Connacht final and while they were not placed in the top three, we are still very proud of…