12 schools in the Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Diocese took part in a ‘Virtual Nativity Play’ organised by Damien Shorten, Diocesan Youth & Children’s Coordinator (Elphin & Ardagh) and the Play it by Ear drama company.
You can watch the short nativity play at the link below. Watch out for Sarah Flory who represented our school – well done Sarah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg_dcVnJZNA&feature=youtu.be
Well done to the GFS girls and BB boys in the Middle Room who took part in the Diocesan Advent Service on 13th December. The service can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmmpKIvGhPg
5th and 6th Class were unable to go to the Resource Centre this year as is customary to help the Senior Citizens pack their Christmas shoeboxes. However each child wrote a letter and made a card for them. We hope the Senior Citizens will enjoy reading these letters and know that the children are thinking about them at this time.
Well done 5th and 6th Class for putting so much effort into their letters and cards, and thank you to Fiona Magee for delivering them.
We enjoyed a lovely treat today because we have filled our Positive Behaviour Pasta Jar!
We have been trying so hard to be positive, give compliments to others and show kindness to everyone, and finally have filled our pasta jar.
Today, each room enjoyed some delicious hot chocolate (with marshmallows!) and cookies while watching a Christmas movie. It was a lovely reward for all our hard work.
This month, 5th and 6th Class’ STEM challenge invloved building as tall a tower as possible which was capable of standing freely and not attached to anything!
Well done to all the pupils for their super ideas and creating such tall towers using a whole range of household objects.
We were delighted to have skipping ropes in our equipment boxes this week – it has been a long time since some of us were skipping, but we quickly found our feet and rhythm again!
We celebrated ‘Blue Day’ today to wish the Cavan team ‘Good Luck!’ in the Ulster Final on Sunday. We made flags, coloured county crests and everyone dressed in blue!
Thank you so much to the Killeshandra Leaguers who generously provided all the children with a bag of treats to enjoy.
We are half way through our GAA coaching with Jack. We have been working on our ball handling skills, practising our solos, bounces and catches – our ball control has really improved since week 1. We have also enjoyed playing some games, and have been very fortunate with the weather so far! We are looking forward to the rest of our coaching over the next few weeks.
In Aistear this month, the Junior Room have set up a Pizzeria in the classroom! They have been busy taking orders, making pizzas and serving customers.
To celebrate Science Week from 8th – 15th November 2020, each classroom had fun investigating different areas of Science.
The Junior Room carried out an experiment to see if different materials were waterproof. We had to predict first, then we recorded our results.
We also did a magic milk experiment. We learned that milk has fat in it, and when we dipped a cotton bud with washing up liquid on it, it broke the fat up. The food colouring meant that we could see this happening.
The Middle Room did some colour experiments. We watched a video from Dr How’s Science Wows then tried her investigation into capillary action – we made a rainbow!
We observed how colours mix – we mixed some food colouring in vinegar and added it to bicarbonate of soda to make fizzy colours, and watched what happened when we added water to different coloured fruity sweets.
We also added food colouring to water and placed a flower in each different colour. After 1 day, the flowers had started to change colour!
In the Senior Room, we carried out experiments based on gravity, making bubbles with a special ingredient and bridge building!
