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End of year fun in the sun for Junior Infants and 3rd class.

23/6/2017

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Look at how much we've grown! We've had a great first year in school and our fantastic Reading Buddies set up an outdoor challenge for us on Tuesday, June 20th. We had lots of fun looking and recording.
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6th Class School Tour.

22/6/2017

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6th Class had a great day at Petersburg Adventure Centre on their school tour last Friday. The children took part in water activities such as canoeing, gorge walking and caving. They also enjoyed land activities such as abseiling and an obstacle course. A good time was had by all.
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Making Periscopes in Room 11

22/6/2017

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We designed and made periscopes  in Room 11 recently. We placed two parallel mirrors into a cardboard cuboid. Light bounced between the mirrors to enable us to see around corners or see things that are too high for us. We have seen periscopes being used in submarines.
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6th Class Rugby

22/6/2017

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Many thanks to Jarlath from Connacht Rugby who came in to do some rugby skills and play some mini games with us.
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Charity Donations

22/6/2017

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Our 2nd and 6th Class pupils  who made their First Holy Communion and  their Confirmation have been kind enough to donate some of their Communion and Confirmation money to two different charities.  
Our Confirmation pupils raised €855 for Pieta House!  And our Communion pupils raised €579 for CLDP (Children's Language Development Preschool).  
Well done to everyone who generously donated  to these very worthwhile causes - you should all be very proud of yourselves!
Here are some photos of the pupils presenting their cheques.
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Lots of fun in Room 5

22/6/2017

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We have had a very busy month in First class.We went on our school tour to The Burren Nature  Sanctuary.We saw a fairy forest,held rabbits,learned about butterflies and bumblebees,saw fossils and played in a cool playground.
We were so lucky that Momo's mum Nana came into our class and showed us  origami.It was great fun.
​We went on a Teddy Bear's Picnic down to Dangan.
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Planting flowers in our ceramic pots (5th Class R.13)

21/6/2017

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 Last year Meera's mum, Tamaru, was so kind to share her expertise with us and helped us make beautiful ceramic pots. We kept them until the end of the year so we could plant some pretty flowers in them. We will take great care of them at home and can't wait to see them bloom! Thanks Tamaru, we love them!
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Experimenting with our home-made ovens! (5th Class R.13)

21/6/2017

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A few weeks ago in 5th class, when we were learning about heat, we  made our own ovens out of pizza boxes and shoe boxes. We had to wait for a sunny day for it to work and reach a high temperature so this week was perfect! We put chocolate in our "ovens" and left it outside in the sun. The sun reflected off the tin foil and through the cling film, hitting off the black card to trap and absorb the heat, resulting in a hot oven! Our chocolate melted in no time and we certainly enjoyed the results!! 
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First Class tour 2017 room 6

20/6/2017

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We visited the Burren Nature Sanctuary for our school tour. We did lots of activities- we did a leave no trace walk, petted and fed the animals and played in the playground! We had lots of fun!
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Grandparents Day 2017-  1st classes

20/6/2017

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We had a great day on June 9th celebrating grandparents day! Our grannies and grandads came to school and we performed for them. The brilliant school band performed first and then we sang songs- 'The Galway Shawl' and 'Yellow Submarine'. We also performed an Irish dance! We then went to our classrooms for a Q and A and found out about our grandparents school days.  The parents association kindly made tea and cakes for our visitors and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day!
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I-Pads in Room 4

16/6/2017

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On Friday we  played with phonics and maths apps on the I-Pad
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Room 4 Chickens

16/6/2017

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We learned about the life-cycle of the chicken and on  Wednesday some baby chickens came in to visit us.  They were so furry and cute
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Bike Week 2017

14/6/2017

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6th Class would like to thank Garda Alan Regan and his colleagues Marcus, Andy and Kevin, for taking us on a trip to Mill Street Garda  Station and to Galway Courthouse during Bike Week. Our cycle to Mill Street was followed by a tour of the Garda Station including surveillance rooms and the fingerprinting room. We then went to the Courthouse where we had a mock sitting of the Circuit Court before cycling back to school. The trip was very interesting.
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Basketball Finalists

14/6/2017

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Well done to the school basketball team who made it to the Galway Schools Basketball Final. The team met Buaile Beag in a very exciting final which was played in St. Mary's College. Well done to our team who played so well and well done to Buaile Beag, who emerged as the eventual winners.
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6th Class try out the iPads

14/6/2017

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6th Class tested out the school's new iPads this week. We played maths games and created art and music on a range of apps. The iPads are very easy to use and educational.
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Junior Infant School  Tour to Turoe Pet Farm.

14/6/2017

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We had a great day out  today, Wednesday the 14th of June. We got the bus to Turoe pet farm where we got to play indoors, feed the animals,  play outdoors and go on the biggest bouncy slide you've ever seen!  We met lots of fantastic animals along our nature walk. Have a look at all our happy faces!
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Shepherds Pie

13/6/2017

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Today, Kieran, Colm and Ms. Regan made Shepherds Pie. We used herbs from the school garden. The pie was delicious (although Kieran wasn't too sure about that)
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Using  i-pads in Room 8

13/6/2017

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Today, we used i-pads for the first time in 2nd class. We played games on apps like Mathsfight and Bee-Bot and created characters on Tellagami Edu. It was great fun!
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Senior Infants Tour Room 4

9/6/2017

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We had great fun with our friends at the Lets Go Camp in the Kingfisher.
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2nd class School Tour

8/6/2017

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Yesterday we went on our school tour to the Let's Go Camp in the Kingfisher at N.U.I.G. We took part in lots of different activities such as wrecking ball, wobbly ladder, climbing wall, roller racers, twister, inflatable  slide, inflatable obstacle course, air mountain, disco dome and zorbing. It was a fun-filled day of action and we all  had great fun.
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Multicultural Day 2017

7/6/2017

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Last Friday, 2nd June was our annual Multicultural Day.  As usual, it was a wonderful day full of colour, dance, music and of course lots of delicious food from the many countries which make up our diverse and exciting school!  Here are just some of the photos from the day.
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Life cycle  of butterflies and ladybirds. J.I Room 1.

2/6/2017

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It is the season of summer and watching the beautiful butterflies fluttering by inspired us to learn more about them. We read about their life cycle and we read'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' by Eric Carle. We found a ladybird in the yard one day so we looked at their life cycle in our Small World book and read 'The  Very Lazy Ladybird.' Look at our beautiful butterflies!

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Play Dough Is For All Ages!!

2/6/2017

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We took a step back  into our childhood and took out the play dough in 5th class! We decided to take it up a level and make 2D creations on coloured card. They are images from our imagination. We spread a thin layer of playdough on the page and added different colours to create the image. Then we painted PVA glue on them to make them last longer.
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Van Gogh in the Classroom

2/6/2017

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The children in 5th class learned about Vincent Van Gogh. He was a very talented artist and his paintings and creations are very famous around the world. We studied his use of colour and his techniques that he tended to use. Take a look at our interpretations of the creations .  We particularly liked Starry Night, Sunflowers, The Skeleton and The Bedroom. 
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