Rev Sam and Georgina took us on a special journey this morning as we thought about the Easter Story. We started with Jesus riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, followed by the Last Supper. We then went into the church to think about Jesus’ death on the cross before finding the empty tomb on Easter morning.
Thank you Rev Sam and Georgina for making the Easter story come alive for us. Happy Easter everyone!
We have been celebrating Kindness Week in school this week.
For homework, we had to compete different acts of kindness for others – we managed to complete lots of kind deeds in a few days!
We have also been watching out for kind deeds in school and adding these to our jar of kindness. We read some of these in Assembly this morning – well done everyone!
This morning we went on a hunt around the school grounds to find some Kindness Quotes.
We also enjoyed drawing and writing on the yard with chalk, focusing on the theme of Kindness.
We also painted some rocks today. When they are dry, we will put them out in our school garden to remind us of everything we learned during Kindness Week.
We raised our new flag to mark the end of Kindness Week – each time we look at it, we will be reminded to bà cineálta, be kind!
We had a lovely workshop today as part of our Creative Schools programme with Louise Swords. Lousie brought a special kind of air drying modelling clay for us to use and each classroom made different Spring animals. We learned how to make different shapes and use different techniques to make our pieces. The Junior Room made sheep, the Middle Room made chicks and the Senior Room made bunnies – we think they turned out great!
Thank you very much Louise for a very enjoyable workshop, we are very proud of what we made!
A huge thank you to Deirdre and all her team at the Dog Groomers at Cavan Institute for the amazing time that 5th and 6th Class had this morning. The children loved being able to work through all the stages involved in grooming a dog – from the initial health check to shampooing, drying, completing the final finishing touches and not forgetting the tidying up afterwards! It was such a fantastic experience and gave us a great insight into the work of a dog groomer. Thanks again Deirdre.
This morning we marked the end of our celebrations for Seachtain na Gaeilge with a céilà sa halla. We had singing, dancing, poems, musical performances and even the haka as Gaeilge! Bhà maidin iontach ceoil, rince agus spraoi againn!
Today was also the last day of our Book Fair – thank you to everyone who supported this event and bought books and stationery, we will be able to add some books to our school library as a result.
We had a competition as part of the Book Fair – the children had to choose a book from the Book Fair and think about what book the author might write next. They designed a cover, including a blurb, for their new book. Thank you to Mrs Comiskey and Mrs Sweeney who judged the competition and a huge well done to our winners – we would love to read these books!
We have the Scolastic Book Fair in school this week. There are lots of books available for sale in each classroom, as well as some stationery. We had a quick look today when the books were delivered after lunch, and are looking forward to having more time during the week to choose some lovely new books and stationery!
We presented our awards for February in Assembly this morning. Congratulations to our Reader and Handwriter of the Month, and a big well done to the Red Group for their fantastic teamwork during our creative challenge a couple of weeks ago. Great work everyone!
Today is World Book Day.
Everyone brought in their favourite thing to read and we shared these with our friends.
There were lots of lovely picture books, comics, information books, novels, magazines… we love reading all kinds of different things!
We also took part in a couple of webinars to mark the occasion. The Junior Room enjoyed listening to stories as part of a webinar organised by the Reading Eggs programme we use in school and at home.
This afternoon, 3rd – 6th Classes enjoyed a webinar with Edwina Guckian, an author who we hope to work more with as part of the Creative Schools project. Edwina read from her book and shared some folklore with us. She also had us all up dancing after she told us stories about house dances and dancing for the craic!
Happy World Book Day!
We had another visitor today as part of the Creative Schools programme – Helena Golden, a Basket Maker and Willow Artist came to do a workshop with us.
We really enjoyed learning about weaving, working with willow and charcoal, and everyone made a fabulous piece to bring home with them – we made beautiful wall hangings, finshing rods and bird feeders. Thank you Helena for a wonderful experience!
Each week during February, we went down to the football pitches to walk or run laps of the track – we had to postpone our last week due to the snow, but we have managed to increase our laps each week so far – well done everyone!
Last week, we started a block of Volleyball coaching with Donal, organised by Cavan Sports Partnership. It has been great fun learning new skills and a new game for all of us!
We are also taking part in the Active School Flag ‘Run Around Europe’ Challenge – each classroom has chosen a European city to run to and we are counting our laps every day. The Junior Room are running to London, the Middle Room are running to Brussels and the Senior Room are running to Paris – we are well on our way already! How many different cities will we get to before the Easter hoildays?
We have been celebrating Creative February as part of our involvement in the Creative Schools programme.
We had a visit from Zoe Basha on 19th February – we enjoyed lots of different music and drama improvisation games and activities.
On 29th February, we got together in our teams to be creative! We had collected lots of different boxes and junk art materials and sat down together to see what we could make. There were some fantastic ideas and at the end of the hour – each group had made something completely different – we had robots, gardens, houses, villages, an arcade and the instruments for a rock band! There was lots of co-operation and team work on display, as well as great imagination – well done everyone!
Over the last few weeks, we have also been collecting folklore from our families and friends. We have gathered some amazing stories, photos, artefacts and recordings about what life was like in the past, both in Killeshandra and further afield. We had a chance this week to share these with the rest of the school. Our Creative Associate, Ultan, is going to work with us over the next few months on a project where we can record these stories and share them with everyone in the community. Thank you to everyone who has shared their stories so far – there will be lots more exciting opportunities to get involved with this project as we move forward!
