Seachtain na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge was a great success again this year. Lots of activities took place in every classroom. All classes had an Irish Dancing lesson with Mrs. Keane. Junior classes were treated to a concert of Irish music from some of our past pupils who are now in the Senior School, while musicians from the Community College played for an appreciative audience of 1^st and 2^nd class pupils. Everyone in the school enjoyed speaking as much Irish as possible and each day the Gaeilgeoir an Lae from each class got special recognition and a wrist band marking his or her achievement. Maith sibh a pháistí!

Ag damhsa!

Ceolteoirí!

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Global Citizenship assembly

We had an assembly recently to celebrate the hard work the children had been doing to be better global citizens.

Green School members!

The Green School members all talked about Fair Trade and Global Citizenship. They were super!

All the children designed 'Freddie the Flag' which will be our Global Citizenship flag. The overall winner was Alanah. Well done Alanah! And well done to all the other finalts. Everyone did a great job!

Alanah in Senior Infants-the overall winner :)

Aisling, Alanah, Beth and Dara

Each class received a Global Citizenship Award. Here is Jacob and Daniel from Mrs. Bowe's class holding their award and  Fair Trade tag.

Global Citizenship

We have been working hard lately working towards our sixth Green Flag for Global Citizenship. The children have been learning all about it. 

What is Global Citizenship?

Some people are citizens of Ireland and some are citizens of Ireland and other countries. Even though people may come from other countries we are all equal.  We are all different. We have different talents and we all like different things. But it is really important to remember that we are ALL still equal and we all belong to the same world.

We are all different but equal.

This bar chart shows all the different nationalities in our school. 

Fair Trade

By choosing to buy Fair Trade products, we can be better Global Citizens. Ghana is one of the top producers of cocoa in the world and being a cocoa farmer is hard work. Some greedy, local cocoa buyers will try and ‘fix’ the scales giving farmers unfair prices. Fair Trade has made sure that Ghana’s cocoa farmers get better prices for their cocoa crops. Here are other Fair Trade products. 

Here is our Green School/Fair Trade board. Many of the children brought in Fair Trade products for us to add to it. 

Happy Christmas! :)

The school was very busy in the run up to Christmas. There was a lot happening. Second Class, in preparation for their First Holy Communion, had a beautiful carol service in the church. Also, Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class performed their Christmas plays in the halla. All the children did a great job! Well done!

We also had a special visitor visit our clasess on Monday 21st of December! :) 

Senior Infants had a pyjama day and there was lots of other Christmas activities happening around the school including special Christmas Art and Christmas songs. We had an assembly in the halla before the holidays and each class performed a special song.

Second Class sang a wonderful rendition of Walking in the Air from The Snowman

We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas this year and enjoys the break. We look forward to a happy new year in 2016!