We had a lovely time this morning with Fred the Entertainer. Fred came to do a show for the whole school outside, and we were amazed by the illusions and tricks that he did! Fred also performed a few songs for us – he sang and played some instruments. It was all very entertaining – thank you Fred!
The Junior Room have been watching the process of caterpillars turning into butterflies over the last few weeks.
On Wednesday 19th May, we received our 5 caterpillars in their pot – this contained all the food they would need to form into their chrysalides.
On the 31st of May the caterpillars formed into chrysalides. We left them for 3 days to harden before transferring them into the butterfly net.
We waited patiently for them to emerge from their chrysalis.
On 10th June, when we arrived back from our walk and picnic, we noticed one had emerged – we were very excited! We put in some flowers, grass and nectar solution for the butterfly to feed on. They don’t move for a little while because they have to pump blood in their wings to strengthen them.
When we came in the next morning there were no more butterflies, but as the day went on, each one emerged from its chrysalis – by the end of the day, we had 5 butterflies!
The whole school went outside today to release the butterflies. Some of them flew high up into the sky, some them flew down on the grass and some of us even got to hold a butterfly for a few seconds!
It was a really interesting and fun experience to watch the caterpillars transform. We hope they start the butterfly life cycle all over again and lay some eggs!
Simon and Jayne from CEF came in to school today to do a special LEGO Assembly with each classroom. We listened to a Bible story, made a vehicle from LEGO and enjoyed a quiz before we launched our vehicles down the ramp to see how far they would travel! Thank you so much Simon and Jayne for coming in today and for all the treats you brought for us!
Today we went for a walk in our class bubbles – the Middle and Senior Rooms did the full Killeshandra Loop Walk, while the Junior Room did part of the Loop. We had a great time and really enjoyed getting out and about!
Then we had a picnic lunch beside the town lake, with a few extra treats – chocolate from Miss McMeekin and some ice lollies!
We were delighted to welcome Canon Hazel and Rev. Richard to school for a special assembly outside today.
We prayed and sang together, and Rev. Richard set some of 6th Class a challenge to see if they could tie a tie in preparation for secondary school in September! 6th Class were also presented with a book to help them as they move on to a new school.
Thank you to Canon Hazel and Rev. Richard for coming to share with us today.
A huge thank you to Rosie for coming in this afternoon to do CPR and First Aid training with 5th and 6th Class. It was a most informative session, and it was a wonderful opportunity for all the children to learn some life saving skills. Thank you Rosie.
A few weeks ago, the children in the Middle and Senior classrooms took part in a Creative Schools competition organised by Cavan Royal. Today, we were delighted to welcome Mary Farrelly who did a Dance and Drama workshop with each room to say ‘thank you’ and ‘well done’ to the children for entering the competition. We had great fun!
Instead of the usual Postal Bible School Prizegiving evening, this year we were able to choose our prize and it was delivered to us in school. We choose beautiful notebooks, pen sets and bottles – thank you so much to everyone at Postal Bible School for the lovely prizes and for marking our lessons all year.
Today was the last day of Active School Week 2021 – we have been so fortunate with the weather all week and have had great fun with lots of different activities each day.
For our last Wake Up, Shake Up this morning, we rolled the dice to see which exercises and balances we would do before having a dance to Cotton Eye Joe chosen by the Senior Room.
For our activities today, we look part in some team challenges where we had to use our brains as well as our bodies! We had to stack the cups, get our team across the pitch using only a few mats, turn a sheet over with the whole team standing on it and keep the ball in the gutter!
We were delighted to get lovely new skipping ropes to play with at break and lunch time today – our skipping skills have improved so much this week!
We have also been running our Mile a Day each day this week – we have now completed 3 weeks of the Cavan Daily Mile challenge and are getting fitter every week.
We have had a fantastic Active School Week 2021 – well done everyone!
Today was skipping day! We loved having Mark from SKIPnROPE with us today – we all took part in a skipping workshop where we learned lots of skills and tricks!
Mark also set us some challenges to try for our active homework tonight. Thank you so much Mark, we had a great day!
We enjoyed showing off our new tricks at break and lunch time today as well!
