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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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)

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!

We had great fun with our friends at the Lets Go Camp in the Kingfisher.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.