We had a couple of special visitors in school this morning for Show and Tell – 2 pet lambs! We enjoyed getting to know them and learning about how to look after lambs.
Our Student Council also organised a special Easter treat for us today – we had to find bunnies hidden around the school, then count up the points for each one. It was great fun! Thank you very much to Ms Gregg and the Student Council for all your hard work.
Happy Easter everyone!
5th and 6th Class took on a STEM challenge to design a way to prevent an egg from cracking when dropped from a height. There were lots of very creative and innovative ideas. Well done to everyone for their fantastic effort!
The Junior Room have been busy in Aistear recently. We were learning about Space and made some wonderful creations!
We also had special Easter themed activities this week!
Rev. Sam came in to school this morning to draw the winners for the Parents’ Association Easter Hampers. Congratulations to all our winners!
1st – Eileen Martin
2nd – Noel Sheehin
3rd – Laura Kerr
4th – Harry Venton (Junior)
5th – Ailis Kelly
6th – Maria Higham
7th – Lynsey Vance (Senior)
8th – Ronan Shiels
9th – Emily Griffith
We had a visit from Jamie from Water Safety Ireland today to talk to us about how to stay safe around water. We learned about water safety at home, to Stay Away From Edges at lakes and rivers, the importance of wearing a lifejacket, how to use a ring bouy and advice for staying safe when swimming. Thank you very much Jamie – we really enjoyed your visit and learned lots of tips to keep ourselves and others safe around water!
The Junior Room had a brilliant day at The Hidden Village, Castleblaney with St Mogue’s N.S. as part of our PeacePlus programme.
The children got to become firefighters, construction workers, hairdressers, beauticians, farmers, cafe workers and lots more. There were pamper sessions in the beauty parlour, fires to be extinguished, vehicles to be driven on the farm and building work in the construction corner. What a day to remember!
The Junior Room had a very special delivery this week – the masks they made last month at Leitrim School of Art arrived and they were well worth the wait! Look at all our fabulous creations!
We were invited to take part in an art competition as part of the Killeshandra St Patrick’s Day Parade and are delighted to have two winners! Well done to everyone who took part, and a special congratulations to our prize winners!
To mark St Patrick’s Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge, we had a Céilí in the Hall today. It was a celebration of poetry, music and dance – we have so many talented performers in our midst! We had all been learning Cailín na Gaillimhe and started off with a whole school performance.
We had a whole host of wonderful musical performances – we had tunes on guitar, violin, bango, piano and tin whistle!
We also had some fantastic Irish dancers who showed off their skills!
There were some poems, recitations, songs and prayers – well done everyone!
We finished off our céilí with An Damhsa Mór where everyone had the chance to join in!
Maith sibh go léir – bhain gach duine an-taitneamh as an gcéilí!
We ran a competition in school this week as part of our Scholastic Book Fair. The Junior Room had to design a book mark while the Middle and Senior Rooms wrote a letter to an author or a character from a book. Mrs Comiskey had the very difficult job of judging all the entries, but she managed to choose a winner from each room.
They were able to pick a book from the Book Fair as their prize. Well done everyone, and a special congratulations to our winners!
