Limerick Winner!

There once was a man called Ned.

Who always stayed in his bed.

He never walked,

He never talked

Turns out the man was dead !!
By Hannah

School Tour 2013

Elliott's blurb for the novel One Boy's War

Sydney is tired of his mum treating him like a "bairn" while his fathers at war. Sydney secretly enlists in the army without telling her. Life is tough in the trenches. He has lost friends on the way but when something goes wrong will Sydney make it home?  

Industrial Revolution Powerpoints

Here are two great powerpoints created by Bryan and Abby. Click on the link in Abby's powerpoint to learn more about the famine in Ireland.

Children in the mines from eamonncorry30

Famine and emigration abby 3 from eamonncorry30

The Victorians

Have a look at these two websites to give you a hand with this months project on the Victorians/ Industrial Revolution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/

Comhrá Gaeilge

Solar System

Check out this fantastic site to learn more about our solar system!

http://spotlight.britannica.co.uk/SolarSystem/

Gaeilge- Ní dhearna mé mo obair bhaile mar ......

The Water Cycle

This weeks geography lesson is all about the water cycle. Have a listen to this catchy song to learn more!

Man on the Moon

We will be reading about Neil Armstrong walking on the moon this week. Have a look at the video to see some amazing original footage of the event!

An Ríomhaire

Francie Kenny Interview Report

Last Friday our caretaker Francie came in and told us about school in the olden days. This is his story....
                                                   
                                                      Childhood
Francie was born in 1967 in Ennis. He was born in the back room of his home. He had four brothers and four sisters. In 1971 Francie started school in the old one. He moved to the new school in 1973 when he was six.

                                                       Sports
Francie liked to play marbles and conkers. Once when he was playing with his friends he accidently made a little crack in the window with the marble. He was very worried for a while because he was afraid his friend would rat him out, but luckily he didn't. When Francie was in school there used to be a lot of fields there and there often was horse shows there too. They had sports days which were run by Mr Stack. bernard O'Brien was a great athlete he used to run very fast in races and was very hard to beat. Neil Ryan was also very fast he even made it to the Olympics.

                                                       Teachers
Francie's favourite teacher was Miss McGovern who made sure your handwriting was perfect, but she was very kind! Francie's fourth class teacher was Mr Mcdermot who loved to do art and was also very kind. Francie also liked Mr Pyne who made up stories and was very funny. Mr Pyne is my uncle.

                                                     Food/Clothes
Back then you could wear anything you liked. There used to be a canteen there also. You were allowed to bring crisps.

I would like to see what the old school was like because you didn't have to wear a uniform and there was a canteen!
By Emma

Energy Project Group Winners

Congratulations to Luisne, Ailbhe and Michael who were our winning project group. They gave a great report on static electricity and even visited Miss McMahon's class to teach them all about what they had learnt.

Energy Model Making Winners

Congratulations to Killian and Alice our model making project winners. Killian made a wind mill out of a combination of wood which even moves with the wind! Alice created a hydro dam using plaster paris and labelled the different areas. Super work guys you can check out the rest of the models in the children's kidblog.

Energy Powerpoint Winner

Congratulations to Bryan on his brilliant presentation of his powerpoint on solar energy. Very well presented Bryan and well researched facts. Have a look at Bryan's powerpoint! You will find more great presentations in the children's kidblogs.

Solar power from eamonncorry30

Static Electricity

Take a look at these experiments we did in class to show how static electricity can cause objects and water to move.

Pablo Picasso

We have been learning more about the famous artist Pablo Picasso. Have a look at our paintings below from last week which we painted based on the rose period of Picasso's work. We mixed red and white and painted different tinges of this colour. To add contrast we added some blue! Check out the cool website linked below to create some interesting digital art.

http://www.picassohead.com/

Gold Cert Winners

Congratulations to Rodney and Ailbhe who reached their gold cert target last week. They have collected over 1000 Mathletic points weekly over a 20 week period. This is all the more impressive as this period includes our Christmas and Halloween break! Well done and I will post up future winners in the next few weeks!

Martin Luther King

Last week we were learning about Rosa Parks a brave woman who stood up for her rights when she saw injustice. This week we will be learning about Martin Luther King Junior a famous civil rights leader. Check out this prezi to learn more.

Trup Trup A Chapaillín

Have a listen to our performance of this song we have been learning this week in Irish.

listen to ‘Trup Trup song’ on Audioboo