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2020 - 2021

Collaborative Art

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Each child coloured in a section - all together they make a lovely display.

Penguins

We watched The March of the Penguins. 
​Their lives are so difficult in Antarctica.

Maisiúcháin na Nollag

We made Christmas Cards to send to our local Nursing Homes to bring a little cheer during this festive season.
Daíthí and Daniel posting our Christmas cards to Drumbear and Mullnahinch Nursing Homes.
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We participated in the Monaghan Age Friendly programme which encouraged letter writing to residents in nursing homes.  We each wrote a letter and sent them to residents in Drumbear Nursing Home.

Lily Mc Cann posted our letters to Drumbear Lodge.
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A 'Thank You' message from the residents of Drumbear Nursing Home.

Congratulations to Leah Mc Vicar (2nd Class) who came 1st place in the Credit Union Art Competition.

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Science Week

On 10.11.20 we attended a Zoom meeting with Alma Jordan from Agri Kids.  She talked to us about "Safety on Farms".  Farm machinery is huge nowadays.  We need to obey the safety signs on farms.
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Blue  ---  you must do

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Green  ---   read but safe

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Red  --- danger

A lot of discussion took place in our class about safety whilst helping out on the farm.  We need to remind the adults to wear their seat belt in the tractor too!!

Zoology

Lots of the animals in the Zoo belong to the Rainforest.  There are more land animals living in Rainforests than anywhere else.
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We saw Shirley, the Curly Haired Tarantula.

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All insects have 6 legs. 
We saw a stick insect.


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Frankie the Tree Frog is from Australia
He is green during the day and then turns bright pink during the night.
He has very sticky feed.  Did you know.... Female Frogs do not make any noise!!

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Sasha the snake
She is a royal python
Sasha has about 200 bones in her back and 400 ribs.


Science of Roald Dahl 12.11.20

James and the Giant Peach
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The Enormous Crocodile
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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
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The Twits
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George's Marvellous Medicine
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Did you know astronauts are about 2 inches taller in space than on Planet Earth.
To end Science Week we made "Spinners".  It was fun to spin the colours so they mixed and created a new colour.
Oíche Shamhna
Day of the dead mask
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Autumnal Nature Walk

A treat from Sillis Veg

We enjoyed a sweet sticky delicious toffee apple and we all got a pumpkin each too.  Thank you Sillis Veg.
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Picasso Portraits

We studied paintings by Pablo Picasso. He used a form of art called cubism. 
We drew Self Portraits 'Picasso Style'. 
Do you recognise anyone?
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Tá an Fómhar Linn

Autumnal art brightens up our surroundings.

October is fire safety month
We have learned
1. how to keep safe
2. how to make an emergency call
3. to ask our parents to write down our Eircode
4. how to obey the fire bell at school

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Children's Online Book Festival 2020

On 9/10/20, we joined in a live webcam interview with the author Andy Shepherd and on 21/10/20 with Irish author Sadhb Devlin.

G.A.A.

Rang 1 & 2 enjoying skills with Eamon.  Although we are adapting to life with Corona Virus - it has never been more important to keep active.

2019 - 2020

Weaving

We made St. Valentine hearts.  We used wool to weave across the heart.  It took a lot of concentration and patience but they are effective and beautiful.

Christmas Art

Science Week 2019

Rang 1 & 2 attended a show called "Science - the best bits" in the Garage Theatre

September 2016

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We belong to a new class.

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Autumn Silhouette

Our future is so bright

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We wrote about our dream jobs for the future.

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​Gustav Klimt
was an Austrian painter.  He loved to use colour, patterns and gold.  We responded to a famous painting called "The Tree of Life".

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Gustav Klimt painted a portrait called "The Lady in Gold".


​ICT

We wrote about our Summer Holidays.
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​P.E.

We are enjoying our G.A.A. coaching with County Footballer and Goal keeper Rory Beggan.

Skills Test

Emily May McCann and Cillian McKenna were awarded The Skills Winners by Rory Beggan. We completed timed skills tests and the competition was strong so well done Emily May and Cillian.
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Halloween

Bairín Breac

D'itheamar bairín breac.  Fuair Jay an fáinne!  We learned about Halloween Traditions.

School Garden

We planted Daffodil bulbs in our raised flower beds.  We look forward to their arrival in Spring.

​We particpated in the Emyvale Credit Union Art Competition

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

We enjoyed making our Shoe Boxes.  We hope boys and girls our age will be delighted with their gifts!
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During November we remember especially our loved ones who have passed away.  We remembered them daily in our prayers.

Roald Dahl

Our favourite author is Roald Dahl.  We have enjoyed studying his novel "The BFG". 
​We have listened and shared Roald Dahl's wonderful story telling.  His use of descriptive words is truly unique. 
We met 10 mean giants and one very special friendly Giant.  It has been a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Dream Catchers

We made dream cathchers by weaving through paper plates.  The theory is any bad dreams will be caught in the "web" in the middle.  We can hang them over our beds.
​This has been a tradition strongly linked to The Native American Indians.

Dream Jars

The BFG spent his nights collecting dreams and nightmares.  He labelled each jar carefully so he knew what was contained in his thousands of jars.

​We wrote a blurb for our dream jars.

Wanted

We don't want any giants visiting the Glaslough area so we made "Wanted" posters to warn the public about these awful giants.

Winter Art

We very carefully tested our cutting skills to make "shadows".  It was tricky but they are very effective.

Jack Frost

 Using cold colours we depicted the fictional character Jack Frost and learned the poem "Jack Frost" by C.E. Pike.

Festive Fun

We made Reindeer.  We painted, printed handprints and added a nose and eys.  They look lovely on the corridor.
We painted glass jars as gifts this Christmas.  We will put night lights inside them and have them as a lovely Christmas decoration.
We cut and folded with great patience to create Christmas Trees.  We remember especially the true meaning of Christmas.  Happy Christmas to all and a Very Happy New Year.

January 2017

A Winter Landscape

Chalk Pictures

Spring

Our lovely golden daffodils are blooming in Our School Garden.
​We planted the bulbs last October.

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Acrostic Poetry

Fabric and Fibre

We made a lovely cloak for St. Brigid.  St. Brigid built her first church on the land her cloak covered. 
Rang 2 are busy preparing for their First Confession. We have been studying The Parable of The Lost Sheep.
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​INDIA

We enjoyed learning about the country India.  We wrote an interesting fact each on the computer.  We also designed our own Henna Tattoos.

Global Citizenship

We are continuing to learn to care for our world. 
Matthew Mohan (Rang 1) won the winning slogan in Our School Competition.


Catholic Schools Week​
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Grandparents Day
​Our Grandparents are very special to us.
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We welcome Miss Treanor to our class.  We have been enjoying many activities.  In Maths we have been learning about capacity.  We used various sizes of bottles and containers to measure liquids.
In Science we have been looking at different properties of materials.  We had to predict whether an item could float or sink.  We then carried out various experiments.  We enjoyed making our predictions and seeing what actually happened to: a paperclip / stone / potato / unifix cube / sharpener / wood / balloon.
​We further investigated how we could make something float that had previously sank e.g. a coin and a balloon.


Pop Art

We studied a famous Pop Artist called James Rizzi.  His work is colourful and cheeful.  We reponded to "The Happy Houses" which are in Germany. 
James Rizzi died in New York in 2011.

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Ann Mc Kenna continues to improve our GAA skills.

Clay

We enjoyed designing and making our clay aliens
David Treadwill visited our class.  We listened carefully to all the wonderful interesting facts he shared with us.  We looked at a woodlouse, shield bug and ground beetle through a microscope.
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We watched a short video about the hard work of the Bee.  We would not survive without bees
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​Finally we planted wild flowers in our raised flowerbeds.
First Holy Communion
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​Ententre Florale

In May, we have been studying wild flowers.  We have learned about the buttercup, daisy, fushia, forget me not, dandelion, bluebell, poppy and foxglove.
​We examined the seedhead on a dandelion.  They are all like tiny parachutes - no wonder they are so successful at re-seeding themselves!

We would like to congratulate Cillian Mc Kenna, Matthew Mohan, Alice Duffy and Jessica Rushe who won prizes in the recent Tidy Towns Competition.
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School Tour toTayto Park

On Thursday 25th May we went on our school tour to Tayto Par in Ashbourne, Co. Meath.  We found out some very interesting facts:
  • ​Tayto Park makes Tayto Crisps, Hunky Dory's, K.P.'s, Chickatees, Onion Rings and Wheelies. 
​          It takes 25 minutes to make 1 bag of crisps from
          (1). potatoes washed           (4). crisps in bags
          (2). potatoes chipped           (5). crisps in box to warehouse.
​          (3). flavour added
  • Did you know Cheese and Onion flavour was made by accident? A ibag containing cheese was accidentally mixed with one bag containing onion.  And the favourite flavour was invented.​
  • Every Tayto Crisp sold in the world is made in Tayto Park.
  • 2 million bags are made every day.
  • In the summertime up to 10,000 people visit Tayto park everyday.

2015 - 2016

Belfast Zoo

On 8th June Rang 1 & 2 set off on our school tour to Belfast Zoo.  We started our trip with an educational talk delivered by Mrs. Young.  Little did we know all that would be in store for us!
​We handled a hedgehog and a Stick Insect from the Rainforest in Asia.
​We saw a Tree Frog. Did you know a Tree Frog doesn't hop.  It uses its sticky feet to climb.  A great African Land Snail was next.  It was huge.  A Chilean Rose Tarantula scared a lot of us. 
Finally!! we held an African Phython called Samantha.  A snake cannot hear and it has no nose to smell but it stick its tongue out and uses it to smell.  Samantha eats a mouse every Friday and she swallos it whole.
​We had a quck play in the playpark and then our adventure began!  We saw lots of animals, giraffes, monkeys, penguins, sealions, meercats, prairie dogs, an eagle, a brown bear, elephants, flamingos, ostriches, zebras, bats, birds, peacock and many more too.  A great day was enjoyed by all.  Our thanks to Mrs. McKenna and Mrs. Gorman for coming with us.
First Holy Communion.


Tidy Towns Art Competition
​"B is for Biodiversity, bees, birds and butterflies"

We are working towards our 6th Green Flag.  The theme is “Global Citizenship”.  We did a project on Fairtrade
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What it means
·     How it benefits the farmer and his community
·     How we can reduce our global footprint by buying local produce.
 
We are being “Fairtrade Detectives” when we are out shopping and looking for the Fairtrade Symbol.

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Working Outside!

Action Spring Clean 6th May 2016

We welcomed Lady Mayoress Ann Mc Ghee to our class.

Green Day

Proclamation Day

We learned about the life cycle of a Frog in S.E.S.E.  We made lovely frogs using paper plates.

​Folk Art

Heather Galler is a famous folk artist.
There are many elements in Art - shape, texture, form and line.  We focussed on line.  We created
  1. ​Umberellas
  2. Crazy Hair

Food Dudes

Congratulations to our pupils who have achieved their Silver Award.  They continue to eat fruit and vegetables as part of their lunch daily.
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1916

To commemorate The 1916 Rising, we learned about the signatories of The Proclamation.  We focused on the youngest signatory Joseph Plunkett and his marriage to Grace Gifford.  This marriage took place in the Chapel of Kilmainham Jail on 4th May 1916.

We learned the song Grace which is a beautiful song written about a sad time in our history.

Drawing from Observation

We studied the G.P.O. building on O'Connell Street in Dublin.  It is a beautiful building built in the Georgian Quarter of the city.  
On Easter Monday 1916, the Irish rebels led by Pádraig Pearse occupied The G.P.O. and used it as their base.
Pádraig Pearse read The Proclamation from the steps of the The G.P.O.
We read The 1916 Proclamation and we decided to write our own proclamation.  We brainstormed our wishes for our country in 2016.  This highlighted what is important to us and our hopes for our future in Ireland.  
There were 7 signatories of The 1916 Proclamation and 25 signatories of our 2016 Proclamation.  
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Grandparents Day

GAA Football Blitz

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​Beannachtaí na Casca

ICT

We enjoyed writing about Spring on the laptops.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Táimíd ag caint as Gaeilge!

Food Dudes

The Food Dudes visited our school.  We have enjoyed tasting various fruit and vegetables daily.
​We enjoyed apples, satsumas, bananas and grapes.
The vegetables we enjoyed were carrots, peppers, sugarsnaps and cucumber.
We now have to try and make healthy choices every day.

The Willow Pattern

Book Fair

Love is in the Air!

We celebrated St. Valentine's Day by weaving hearts.  
​It required patience and fine motor skills but teacher thinks they were worth all the effort.

Shrove Tuesday

We enjoyed yummy pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.  This is the day before Lent begins.
We welcome Miss landers to our class on her Teaching Practice.  Miss Landers is a student of Marino Institute of Education.

Little Beings

Construction


​Measuring

We used metre sticks to measure.  
Remember there are 100cm = 1m.

SESE

Our focus was on materials.  We used Robert the Robot to help us describe different materials.  We used words like rough, smooth, thick, soft, shiny to describe different materials.
Great fun colour mixing
We examined the quality of different materials and carried out investigations to determine what items were waterproof and which were not.

MATHS INVESTIGATION

Fun with Weight.

In ICT Rang 2 got into the festive mood!

Santa's Little Helpers

Christmas Elves

Preparing for Christmas -   ADVENT

PAINTING FUN

Colourful Snowmen

Rudolf

Shoe Box Appeal

We supported Team Hope by making a Christmas Shoe Box.
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Acrostic Poetry : WINTER

Brrrrr........... it's cold!

Fun in Winter

Science Week

We had great fun learning about Energy and Forces.
We focused on moving air.  We used straws to blow air at different items.  Using different forces of blowing, we were able to move objects but some objects would not move no matter how hard we blew!
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We inflated balloons and using only our hands we had to keep the balloon "up".
Science is great fun!

Blow Painting

We used energy to blow through the straw.  This force created moving air which we applied to the paint to make the paint move.

Halloween

We enjoyed our Sponsored Walk.  It was a "Spooktacular event" to see us all dressed in costumes on our walk.
Our sincere thanks to all who kindly donated.

Bairín Breac

We tasted barmbrac.  Oisín McQuaid and Maebh Clerkin got the fáinne.  So teacher will hopefully be invited to"The Big Day".

Clay

We used clay to make Fairy Doors and Wizard Doors.

Enter a door if you dare!!!

Presentation of Flag

We enjoyed our special assembly.  We welcomed members of The Irish Army to our school, especially Noel Gallagher who is Zoe's Dad.
We performed the The Irish Haka and Ireland's Call.  We learned about respecting our National Flag.


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We made headbands and decorated them with various Irish symbols such as the harp, shamrock, claddagh, leprachauns and celtic designs

Basketball

Our basketball coaching is under way at the moment under the expertise of Enda O'Brien.  Not only are we improving our basketball skills we have learned the different names of lines on court.

1, half way line
2. side lines
3. base line
4. free throw line
5. the key

Skills are improving and great fun is being had.

Construction

Dan McConnell demonstrated how to make paperchains.  We had to
  1. Fold the paper very carefully
  2. Draw our chosen design
  3. Cut out carefully and with precision!!
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Fabric and Fibre

We used various old pieces of material to decorate our scarecrows.

Minions
arrive to St. Mary's!

Picasso Portraits

We are all unique. 
 We are all special.  
We have different names.  We have different talents but we belong together in our new class.
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Maths Fun

We have started using our own whiteboards to help us with our problem solving strategies.

Physical Education.

2014 - 2015

We belong together in our new class.

Our G.A.A coaching is in full swing under the excellent guidance of Ann McKenna.  
Monday mornings are fun!

Scroll down to see how busy we have been since last September!

We started our GAA coaching skills with Ann McKenna.  Honor, James, Leah & Tiarnan were awarded certificates.

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Autumn

We used a technique called Pointillism to depict our Autumnal leaves.

Autumn Symmetry

We studied autumn leaves and completed symmetrical pictures.

String Instruments

We looked at string instruments.  They are one family of the orchestra.  We named parts of a string instrument such as strings, pegs, bridge and chin rest.

ICT

We were learning about our own personal timelines.  We interviewed our parents and we recorded our answers.  We chose one interesting fact about ourselves.

Lá na gCrann

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Rang 1 & 2 at one with nature

We understand the important work trees do for us.  Without trees, we could not breathe.

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BEECH TREE : RANG 2 CAILINÍ
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ORNAMENTAL OAK : RANG 1 CAILINÍ
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SILVER BIRCH : RANG 2 BUACHAILLÍ
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HORSE CHESTNUT : RANG 1 BUACHAILLÍ
In Geography, we 'planted' rubbish.  We are trying to find out what happens to different rubbish when it is buried.  Our aim is to discover what will rot and what will not.

We buried an apple core, pear core, banana skin, bread crusts, orange peel, tin foil, plastic sandwich bag, plastic yoghurt drink and cling film.  We will discuss the importance of Recycling and being mindful of how we dispose of our rubbish.  As we are a Green School, we must all act responsibly to care for our school, our village and our world.


We have benefited from 6 weeks G.A.A. coaching skills with Ann McKenna.  We have practised many skills and enjoyed it too!

Oíche Shamhna is approaching.  Have a little read of our "Spooky Halloween Poetry" displayed on the corridor (if you dare!)
We put our weaving skills to good use for our Halloween Art.  We made beautiful spider webs.

Not only was our sponsored walk a wonderful occasion, we raised a lot of money too.  Thanks to Leonia, Trudie, Clare and Fiona who were waiting on our return with refreshing drinks and fancy buns.


Winter Art

We depicted the change of season Autumn to Winter.  On the left hand side is the deciduous autumn tree and on the right is the bare winter tree.
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Penguins

In Science, we have been learning about The Emperor Penguin.  They live in Antarctica.  In winter the temperature dips to - 80 C !!.  A group of penguins is called "a turtle".  We watched "The March of the Penguins" and learned how difficult life is in Antarctica. We painted beautiful penguins with the bright Southern Lights in the background.

Cutting Skills

We put our cutting skills to good use to create our Negative Art Pictures.  It took a lot of patience and skill but teacher thinks they are very effective.
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Look at our Euro currency.  We can use Euro all over Europe to pay for items.
We counted and counted all our Cents and Euros!!


Basketball Coaching

Our wonderful basketball coach Enda O'Brien has been coaching us every Monday.  We have learned fantastic basketball skills and techniques under Enda's guidance.  There are a lot of lines on the basketball court and we can now name them all too.  The Blackwater Steelers have some up and coming players to look forward to.


We made lovely snowglobes.
Take a look....

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"If I lived in a snowglobe"
We wrote many interesting and varied stories.  We let our imaginations run free!


We constructed Santas using recycled toilet roll tubes.  They look lovely on the corridor.

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To spread the Christmas Spirit, we made lovely Elf Christmas Cards.  You will probably recognise some of these elves.

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2014

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Welcome to 2015.

We started learning about the history of our school.  Did you know our school was built in 1959?  Ballinaman N.S. and Cloncaw N.S. were amalgamated and St. Mary's N.S. Glaslough was built as the new school for the area.  Our school was extended in 1996 when Mr. Macklin's Room, Patricia's Office and Staff Room were built.  In 2011 Mrs. Tate's Room and Mrs. Mckenna's Room were built.  Our Biodiversity Garden and Polytunnel were a very welcome feature added in 2012.
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Kalem brought in a caterpillar.  We examined it using a magnifying glass.


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To compare our school life, we interviewed our Grandparents to see how times have changed eg:
Question: What was the best thing about school?
Answer:  The road home.
Question: What was the worst thing?
Answer: "Faigh dom an bata agus sín amach do lámh".


Pattern Week


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We practised our cutting skills to make a well known character called Olaf.


Wax Resist Winter Scenes
A cold reminder of the outside temperatures.


To celebrate St. Valentine's Day we made special hearts for our parents.

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Spring has sprung!

Collaborative Art
We all made a beautiful Spring flower.
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Have a little read of our SPRING acrostic poem.

Rang 1 have been learning about measurement in Maths.  We used a metre stick to measure various places around the school, eg. basketball court, shelter.

Mrs. Tate and Mrs. Cassidy celebrated the traditions associated with Shrove Tuesday.  We enjoyed our pancakes and many ended up with chocolately smiles.

In Geography we studied facts about the Earth, Moon and Sun.  We concentrated on the moon and combined this in History with a study on the famous moonlanding in 1969.  We watched real footage of this famous event.  Neil Armstrong famously said -
"That's one small step for man..... One giant leap for mankind".

We wrote a recount of the moonlanding in 1969. 

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Our Cross Country Training is in full swing!

Our Spring bulbs have popped their little heads up to welcome the Spring.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Beannachtú na Féile Padraig

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We participated in "The Short Story Competition".
We all wrote our own books.  We chose our own titles, settings and story plans.  Although it was very hard work, we enjoyed the process. 
We are very proud authors.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig

We walked to school dressed in green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and continue our travel theme "Feet First Friday".

Our sincere thanks to Marty Corry for his expertise in G.A.A. skills and coaching.  Lots of budding G.A.A stars in the making.

Congratulations to Rang 1 & Rang 2 who received their Swimming Certificates.  We enjoyed 8 weeks swimming lessons and are becoming confident swimmers.
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An Taisce Annual Spring Clean

Thursday 23rd April was a beautiful hot day and we took full value of the warm sunshine.  We wore aprons and gloves and tidied up the school grounds by picking up all the litter.  We had 3 categories:
1. Plastic
2. Aluminium Cans/Tin.
3. General Litter
Let's keep our school litter free!
We studied paintings by the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh.  Van Gogh was from The Netherlands.  We painted "Sunflower" and responded to "Starry Night" - two of his many famous paintings.
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Rang 2 are preparing to receive The Bread of Life on 9th May.  We are looking forward to our First Holy Communion Day.
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Dining Al-Fresco!

We soaked up the warmth of the lovely sun whilst enjoying our lunch.

First Holy Communion 2015

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Niamh Kelly surprised everyone with a fabulous chocolate cake.  It was a masterpiece.  Each First Communicant had a balloon with their name on it.  It was scrumptious.  Our sincere thanks to Aoibhe, Niamh & Odhrán Kelly.
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Weaving

To continue our Van Gogh study, we made lovely flowers. We used paper plates and teacher made a loom.  We used different coloured wool to weave in and out.  A lot of patience was needed but the hard effort paid off!
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Tidy Towns Art Competition

We participated in the Anti Litter Poster Competition.  The theme was "Take Away Litter".  We made up catchy slogans and drew many varied posters - all with worthwhile messages.



We went down to see the new wall plaques outside our school.  They highlight each theme and include each slogan.  We must remember all we have learned and are learning about protecting our community and planet earth.
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School Tour to The Navan Fort in Armagh

On Thursday 28th May, we set off on our school tour.  We were welcomed at The Navan Centre by Rosaleen and Kieran, our guide.  We watched a film about the Irish Legends and made shields.  Later we got our faces painted like warriors in preparation for meeting a Celtic Warrior at his settlement.  We learned the art of spear throwing and javelin throwing.  We then were invited into his house where we sat around the fire and heard a fierce warrior tale.  The house was very dark inside.  We returned to the Centre where we enjoyed our lunch followed by ice cream.  Kieran our guide then accompanied us to The Navan Fort where we passed a fairy tree and entrance to the fairy fort.   We imagined we were The Macra with King Conor Mac Neasa and viewed the surrounding countryside and checked for any approaching enemies!
A great day was enjoyed by all.

Science

We looked at how heat can change things in different ways .  Our experiment was to discover the change that takes place when heat is applied to bread.
Our finding were 1. looked different
                                2. tasted different

                                3. colour of bread changed
                                4.texture of bread changed
                                5.Bread became hot.


We spread butter on the toast, watched it melt and devoured every crumb.  Who knew toast could taste so good!

Sponsored Walk

Our Sponsored Walk took place on Friday 5th June.  Our thanks to all who supported our worthy cause.



Fun in the Sun

 Rang 1 and Rang 2.( 2013 - 2014)
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A "Céad Míle Fáilte"  to all students after our lovely Summer holidays. We are looking forward to lots of new and interesting work.

We studied "Pop Art" and the work of James Rizzi.  We responded to his piece entitled "Skyscrapers".
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We participated in the Tidy Towns Art Competition.  Teacher loved our posters and slogans.


Our Annual Action Spring Clean saw us busying ourselves in a major tidy up of our school surroundings.  We must remember to bin/recycle ALL our rubbish.

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In science we used magnifying glasses to examine the seedheads of Dandelions. 

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Bóin Dé

We also examined lovely ladybirds as part of our minibeast study.  Ladybirds eat greenfly so they help the gardeners.  Do you know there are 18 species of ladybird in Ireland?
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Graffiti Art:  On a lovely sunny afternoon we decorated the playground with chalk pictures.
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Ann McKenna came for 6 weeks.  We improved our G.A.A. skills under Ann's expertise.  So watch out for us in the future.
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We enjoyed Céilí Dancing as part of our P.E. Programme. Watch out Riverdance!
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Rang 2 celebrated their First Holy Communion on Saturday 10th May.  We shared a very special day with our family and friends.  Mrs. Cassidy would like to thank all parents for their support, generous gift and beautiful card.  All the children's sentiments will be treasured.
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Three cousins made their First Holy Communion together.  Their Great Granny Crush was very proud of them.


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Aoibhe and Niamh Kelly brought in a beautiful cake for us to enjoy  on Monday.  We enjoyed it for 3 days!

January 2014


The start of the New Year introduced us to time.
We learned about o clock, 1/2past, 1/4 past and 1/4 to.
We learned time facts and the traditional rhyme "30 days has September........."

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Science

We were quite busy in Science.  We explored the characteristics of magnets and had great fun finding objects that were magnetic and non-magnetic.
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Change of State

We decided a fun way to experiment with change of state was to make Rice Krispie buns.  We observed how a solid can change to a liquid and return to a solid again. Yummy!!
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Catholic Schools Week
27th - 31st January 2014

We celebrated Catholic Schools Week and interviewed our Grandparents.  We made Grandparents cards and wrote a poem.
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St. Brigid brings the Spring

In Art we used fabric and fibre to make lovely colourful cloaks for St. Brigid.
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The Book Fair was a high light this term.  We were spoiled for choice with all sorts of books to choose from.

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Golden daffodils are brightening up the corridor

 "When all at once I saw a crowd ....                          
 A host of golden daffodils"             W. Wordsworth
                                              

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We had 2 significant "colour days".  A Green Day for St. Patrick and a "yellow day" for Daffodil Day.
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To say a big thank you to our Mums, we made beautiful pinch pots.  We made them from clay, decorated and then glazed them.  We also made lovely cards.
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Rang 2 celebrated their First Penance on Tuesday 25th March in Corracrin.  It was a very special night and teacher was very proud of us.
                                       WINTER TERM   2013


 We learned the poem "Jack Frost" by C.E. Pike.  In Art, we depicted how this fictional character may look using cold colours.
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"Look out, look out
Jack Frost is about.
He's after our fingers and toes.
And all throught the night,
That bright little sprite
Is working when nobody knows"
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Look how busy we have been!!!

Look at our lovely chalk pictures.  They surely create a beautiful Winter Wonderland on the corridor.
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Basketball

Enda O Brien has been our basketball coach for the past 6 weeks. Not only have we improved our basketball skills- we had great fun too!! Our improvement was evident in such a short time but this was thanks to Enda's expertise. Thanks Enda.
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Gymnastics

Friday afternoons were dedicated to gymnastics. We enjoyed our sessions and learned about movement, direction, shape and space.
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Gareth Corrigan

Our very own Gareth Corrigan visited our class on 11th Dec and sang "Beautiful Glaslough "Will you go Lassie Go,"and " St Mary's is the Best." all featured on his C.D. called "Songs for the School." It was very special to hear Gareth perform in person  and we all joined in a few festive songs before he left.
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Fractions We studied fractions and learned that when using fractions - everything is divided into equal parts. We looked at pictures and had to complete the other half.

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Carol Service

To celebrate Christmas, we sang in Our Carol Service in St. Mary's Church Glennan on Thursday 12th December. Rang 1 & 2  sang 'Do You Hear What I Hear?'  ' Go Tell It On The Mountain'  'Mary's Boy Child' and we joined in the  whole school finale 'Joy To The World.' It was a very special night. We would like to thank Dr Connie Hale for all her help.
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Christmas Art

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The Christmas Tree reminds us of the Christmas story. The evergreen tree reminds us that God is ever present. The star on top of the tree remind us of the star that led the 3 Wise Men to Bethlehem. Candy canes remind us of the Shepherds crook. The Angels symbolise the Angels that announced Jesus' Birth. The lights symbolise Jesus as the light of the world. The gifts under the tree remind us of all the gifts God has given us.
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Angels We Have Heard On High

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Nollaig Shona Daoibh go léir agus go raibh gach sonas oraibh an bhliain seo chugainn.

 Sept 2013   During September, we have been learning about ourselves - how we have grown and making our own timelines. We created self portraits. We created a collage using only tearing as a technique. Teacher thinks we look lovely.
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We then decided to try other types of portraits. We used one colour, lines, shapes and patterns. Can you guess who is who ?!?
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        All Ireland Ladies Football Final
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In Science we learned about our 5 senses - sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. Teacher blindfolded us and we had to rely on our sense of smell to identify various foods.
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Lá na gCránn

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Planting in our Biodiversity Garden

To celebrate La na gCránn we planted in our raised flower beds.             10-10-13

Oíche Shamhna

To celebrate Oíche Shamhna, we made skeletons and masks.  The corridor looks quite spooky,  We learned about the traditions of Halloween in the past and games that were enjoyed too.
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Summer 2013

We studied the work of Swiss artist Paul Klee. His stylish images are created out of different geometric shapes. We responded to his piece entitled " Castles in the Sun."
 

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On Sat 18th May, Rang 2 celebrated their First Holy Communion.  Fr Hubert Martin ensured this was a very special and memorable day. Everybody looked lovely and enjoyed their day.
School Tour: on fri 31st May we travelled to Tayto Park in Ashbourne. We toured the Tayto Factory with our guide Erin and learned many interesting facts. We then had a walk around the animal park. We saw meercats, an owl, a tiger, a leopard, a wallaby, a parrot, racoons, buffalos and donkeys. We enjoyed a lovely lunch and then spent time in  the play park. We had our photos taken with Mr Tayto.  A wonderful day was enjoyed by all. Thanks to Mrs Mc Kenna and Fiona Curley who came with us.
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Folk Dance

We learned different types of folk dance and had great craic every Wednesday. We learned  
1 The German Clap Dance
2 The Franch Peasant Dance
3 The Shoemaker's Dance
4 The Westphalian Peasant Dance
 



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Heritage Day 4
We enjoyed a minibeast trail to The Biodiversity Garden in Glaslough. We found different types of minibeasts such as grasshoppers, worms, spiders and centipedes. Afterwards we had a lovely surprise when we were invited into The Oakland Centre where Trish Murphy Thom had juice and biscuits for us.
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Heritage Day 5
Caitriona came for her final visit on 23rd of May. We went outside and found wild flowers growing in our school grounds.  We collected butterfy eggs and made a "Butterfly Habitat." We will monitor their progress and see whether caterpillars, moths, butterflies or beetles grow from our collection of eggs.

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Spring 2013
We enjoyed Day 3 of our Heritage days with Caitriona. We learned about bees and sadly their decline in Ireland. So we planted sunflower seeds and will transplant them as the weather gets warmer. We made  flowerpots using newspaper.  Did you know that honey is the only natural product that never " goes off! " Honey does not need a best before date! Honey was found buried in some of the pyramids in Egypt and although it hardened, once it was warmed  and softened, it tasted perfect even after all those years.
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Sunflowers attract bees so we hope to encourage bees to our locality by planting them.
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 Aquatics
We travelled weekly to Monaghan Swimming Pool and enjoyed 8 weeks swimming coaching. We are all improving in our different swimming groups and will receive our certs later in the year.  


  In S.E.S.E., we looked at schools in the past. We researched the history of our own school and we  conducted an interview. We interviewed our grandparents about their schooldays. For example, we asked:
1 How did you travel to school?
 2 How was your class heated?
3 What did you use for writing?
We asked many questions and enjoyed comparing their schooldays to ours. We are very lucky to have everything we need at school..

 
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We wrote about our grandparents  to celebrate “ Grandparents Day.” We
love our grandparents very much and their photos are proudly displayed on the corridor..



Write a Book March 2013

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We participated in "The Write a Book Project." It was a lot of hard work but we enjoyed being writer, illustrator, editor and finally being  a reader. Teacher is very proud of all our stories. Here are the titles and authors of the books.

Rang 1
My Holiday to Spain - Abbie Treanor
Tracey's Wedding - Halle Kate Cunningham 
My Favourite Toys Monster High - Zoe O Neill
My Holiday to Portugal - David Duffy
My Holiday to Bulgaria - Aoibhe Kelly
My Dog Ruby - Emily Mc Kenna
My Family - Freney Power
My Holiday to Letterkenny - Óran Mc Quaid
Going to Disneyland - Aoife Murphy Thom
My Pheasant Day - Cormac Mc Kenna
My Family - Josh Curley
My Trip to Kerry - Matthew Finn
Brazil - Pedro Barreto

Rang 2
My Favourite Dolls - Leah Treanor
Locked in a Dream - Niall Corrigan
My Holiday to Salou - Morgan Duffy
The Adventures of Batman - Francis Balmer
Mr. Potato Head - Harvey Colleran
Home Alone - James Sweeney
Emperor of the Rings - Ethan Cunningham
Donegal- All Ireland Champions - Kayla Molloy
Dinosaurs - Brandon Traynor
My Two Cousins - Áine Mc Quaid
My Holiday to Enniskillen - Maébh Mc Nally


Catholic Schools Week
We celebrated Catholic Week and this culminated with a special
prayer service  on St Brigid’s Day.
Fr. Martin kindly attended and blessed all our St Brigid’s crosses. We hung our St Brigid’s cross above our door to bless all who enter our classroom. 
 
Cormac Mc Kenna took one home to place in the shed to keep the
animals safe in the coming year. Thanks Cormac for bringing in all the
rushes.
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To celebrate “ Shrove Tuesday,” we made pancakes in school. We
put nutella on as a topping and they were scrummy!

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Rang 2 read the story of“The Willow Pattern Plot.” We then designed willow pattern plates using only blue and white. We included a bird, willow trees,water and a bridge. It depicts the sad story of Li-Chi and
Chang. We remember what happened in China a long time ago.
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Rang 1 painted beautiful Spring pictures. We studied Spring
flowers such as daffodils, tulips, snowdrops, hyacinth, crocus, bluebells and
violets. Our paintings have brightened up the corridor.
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In Science we studied The Life Cycle of the Frog. We constructed frogs and they are  living happily on the corridor.
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             Winter 2012
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In art we made beautiful snowmen moulded from clay. We allowed them to dry before painting them and finally glazing them.
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In S.E.S.E we learned about the penguin. 
Did you know the penguin is a bird but it cannot fly!

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We painted beautiful Winter Scenes using only 3 colours black, white and grey.  Even though they look lovely, teacher doesn't want any snow this year!!






P.E.

Our P.E. culminated in learning gymnastics at the end of this school term. We learned about safety, balance, making different shapes, moving different parts of our body and putting together a sequence of movements.
We had good fun.


 
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We enjoyed 6 weeks of Basketball with our brilliant coach Enda O Brien. We had great fun as well as learning new skills such as  holding the ball correctly “ W “ position, shooting a basketball into the net, forward pivot and reverse pivot. Bouncing in a “V” shape and ending with a game each day. So watch out Blackwater Steelers!!!


September 2012
Our First Science Experiment.

In Science, we are learning about decomposition. We buried rubbish and will monitor what rots and what does not. As we are a Green School, we need to dispose of our rubbish in an environmentally friendly way. Think of our Green School Motto “ REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.”

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OCTOBER 2012

October has proved to be a very busy month for us.


To celebrate Monaghan Walking Week, we went on a
Nature Walk and collected leaves which we used for our leaf printing.



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Thursday 10th October was National Tree Day. We had a speaker called Catriona from The National Council of Ireland. We performed a “Tree Dance” and learned new terminology such as – canopy, shrub, flower and ground to describe the different layers.
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We planted various types of Daffodil bulbs.
We hope they will raise their golden yellow heads in the Spring.

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