February Blog
This February has been great fun. In English we have been learning about
Superheroes through Report writing. We finished our class novel Benny and
Omar by Eoin Colfer. We would recommend this book as it is very exciting and
interesting. In Maths, the 6 th Class have been working on Multiplication and
Division and 5 th Class have been working on Fractions, Decimals and
Percentages.
We had the Credit Union Quiz on the 9 th of February and we would like to
congratulate Rían, Ted, Culainn and Suzanna for doing so well in the quiz.
For Irish, we have been learning a song called Dá bhFaighinn mo Rogha.
The school shop opened on the 10 th of February and you can buy pens, pencils,
rulers and many other things.
We have out Active Calendar to keep us busy for the month of February with
an activity every day.
Internet Safety Day was on the 11 th and we got wristbands to show that we
have completed our learning.
The auditions for our school play [Superstan] are on the 13 th .
That’s it for February, see you next month!
December Blog
This December we have been doing lots of interesting things. In History, we have been learning about WW II and are doing some cool projects about it. In Maths, 6th Class have been learning about Multiplication and Division. 5th class have been learning about the circle. For Irish, both classes have been doing An Nollaig. In Art, we have created festive drawings. We also took part in a Christmas art decoration competition. Cara won in 5th class and Olivia won in 6th class. The novel that we are reading is Benny and Omar, by Eoin Colfer. We got an advent calendar from the Active Schools and it has a bunch of fun festive activities on it.
On 12/12 /24 we had our Christmas Carols in the church at 7 o’clock. In English, our writing topic is Explanatory writing and we are reading a text about Carnivorous Plants. For Geography we are learning about Christmas worldwide and different countries’ festive traditions. For Religion, we are learning about Advent, its symbols and the Jessy Tree. In SPHE we were learning about friends and working in groups. 5th and 6th are doing separate Kris Kindles where you get a random name and you get them a present but you tell no one who you got. Finally, our writer of the month for December is Olivia.
This has been an extremely productive December.
Merry Christmas.
See you next month.
October Blog
This October we have been doing lots of interesting things. For Maths, we have been perfecting our adding and subtracting strategies. We also did some fun activities for Maths week. In English we have been focusing on Narrative writing. We can’t wait to see who gets Writer of The Month. In Science we completed some space themed activities as it was Space week. We also did a space art competition and the best three received homework passes. In Irish we were focusing on An Scoil but we have moved on to Oiche Shamhna as it is Halloween season.
6th class had their bonding trip to the Stables and did lots of fun activities. Over the past few weeks, Joe has been coming in and teaching us some hurling skills. We are looking forward to our Halloween dress up day on Friday.
It is a very busy week this week. On Thursday the girls and boys of 5th and 6th have their Roinn A Rackard League football finals in Bellfield. We hope that everyone can come and support us. The girls final is on at 5pm and the boys is at 6:15pm on the 24/10/24. Also, the next round of the Mini Sevens for the girls and boys is after the Halloween break. We have had a great October and we hope everyone has a great midterm break.
Happy Halloween!!!
September in Emma’s Room
This September 5th and 6th have been learning about the Celts. We have made wonderful projects about them and displayed them in our classroom. We have been learning how to speak about ourselves as Gaeilge. We designed some bunting and it looks great on the Irish board. In Geography, we have been learning about rocks and soil and for Science we are going to do a project on animals in the soil. For English we were learning about silent letters and also wrote a recount about Malala, the girl from Pakistan who campaigned about education rights for girls. We created great jigsaw art as part of SPHE to show that we all fit together, our hand prints to show that we all agree on the class rules and some great letter art with our initials. In Maths, we have been learning about place value and lines and angles. Finally, for P.E. we have been playing Games such as Dodgeball, No Man’s Land, Chicken Hero Partner and many other soccer games. We have really enjoyed the first month of school and finished off with a relay takeover.
May Blog
This month was a very busy month for the students in 5th and 6th class. We were busy learning about Weight and Area in Maths. We studied persuasive writing and we even tried to persuade Ms. McGuire to give us the month of June off homework. We think it worked!! The girls mini 7s team were playing in the semi final and are now into the final after beating Rathangan and Cushinstown. The final is on Monday the 10th of June at 6pm in Bellefield – all support welcome! The highlight of the month was of course our bake sale – Cakes for Conor. We raised over € 1,000!!!
5th/6th class blog – April
April was a very busy month in Jessie’s classroom starting off with our hot lunches which were supplied by Glanmór Healthy Eating. They have been a big hit in our classroom. 2 of the 4 teams got through in the F.A.I soccer tournament in North End Hollygrove but were unfortunately knocked out in the second round. During the 2nd week back we presented our JEP ideas to the deadly dragons Kak, Luke and Jessie and the idea picked was Happiness in a Jar. This week the girls Rackard League played against Rathangan and won by just a point – the score was 1-1 to a goal.The boys are playing their quarter finals as of writing this. Today we led the assembly and explained to the school about our JEP product. We have started to design our piece of art for the Art Exhibition which we are very excited about. We had a guest speaker visit us during the week to speak to us about Climate Change. Jonathon, who is part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave us a pencil case with pencils, pens and rubbers which were all recyclable.
February blog
This February was a brilliant month for 5th and 6th class.
To start this month 5th and 6th class organised a Sportathon for the whole school .The whole school loved it! We played rugby, soccer ,relay races, bench ball and lots of other playground games.
For valentines day we made a One in a Minion card with Nadia Corridan on Zoom. We gave our cards to someone special.
Speaking of art, we did some amazing symmetry art with the class. The art turned out beautiful .Some turned out so good it looked the same on both sides .
We did Friendly Feb as a class this month. Friendly Feb is where you do one nice thing everyday – like get in touch with an old friend or give a compliment to somebody.
We have two brilliant artists in our class. Aoibheann won the crest competition out of the whole school – well done Aoibheann .James won the Texaco class competition – well done James!
This month we started rackard league and mini 7’s in hurling and camogie. The girls won their matches and the boys are playing this Wednesday. We wish them the very best of luck. The student council designed our new school jerseys – we can’t wait to see them!
Thanks for reading our February blog – Olivia & Bernard.
January blog
In January we welcomed the New Year with great enthusiasm and excitement. We started the new year with our New Year resolutions and toasts. We did lots of art this month starting with our optical illusions, winter themed art and Grandparents Day art.
Some of our fifth class are participating in Scór na bPáistí which includes instruments, singing, poetry and lots more. 6th class are also helping out on wet days with the younger classes in the school.Three lucky people from our class were chosen to represent our school in the credit union quiz – we wish them the very best of luck!
We did a Spelling Bee in our class. It was lots of fun. We celebrated Catholic Schools Week in our school. The highlight of the month for us was Grandparents Day. We set up different stations in our classroom and the grandparents enjoyed them all, especially the remembrance station. Thank you for reading our January blog post. We will be back next month with our February blog and more exciting news.
October Update by Isabelle & Caitlin
We had lots of fun this month in Ms. McGuire’s 5th and 6th class.
On the 12th of October 6th class enjoyed a trip to the Stables in Gorey, where everyone participated and had a great time. They even said it was the best trip they’ve ever been on! The 5th class boys and girls completed a Playground Leaders course and they are excited to get out and help the senior infants on the yard. The boys and girls Rackard League teams played their quarter finals and they are both through to the semi-finals after midterm break. The Rising Stars also won their quarter final and will play in the semi-final after midterm. We celebrated Space Week by making space landers which we put eggs in and dropped from a 1m height. We also made 3D planets and amazing astronauts. The following week we did a maths trail during Maths Week which everyone enjoyed. Last week we began celebrating Halloween by making positive and negative pumpkins which turned out great. This week we are finishing off the month with our Halloween dress up and pizza party which we got by reaching 275 dojo points. In our Rugby World Cup sweepstake, we only have Katelyn O’ Leary with South Africa and Olivia Lyndon with New Zealand left to play in the finals this Saturday! Best of luck to the girls!
September 2023
Thanks to Seán for the following update:
Everyone here in 5th and 6th class have been working so hard during the month of September and we would like to tell you what we have been up to!
First and most likely most important of all, 5th and 6th class walked through the classroom door to see our new teacher – Jessie McGuire ready and waiting with our new classroom all set up for the year ahead. After the first two days back we go set up on our dojo point system and after a couple of weeks we managed to hit a massive 200points, earning ourselves extra yard time that day. In that same week we learned that 6th class would be getting laptops, Junior Infant buddies and jobs around the school. We were delighted! 5th and 6th class are also very proud to show off their graffiti name art and positive affirmation quotes – a great start to the new school year. We are reading the novel Holes by Louis Sachar and we are so excited to watch the movie after we finish the novel. Our teacher set up a Rugby World Cup sweep steak including a prize for the student who drew the winning team. We will be participating in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme this year in an attempt to make a profitable business for our class. All in all, we have had a great September here in 5th and 6th class! Slán!
Our 5th/6th Class will be working with Jessie, this year. We look forward to seeing all of the lovely activities they do!
