A big WELL DONE to everyone who entered the Parents Association Cake Decorating Competition!

Winner - Charolette Kennedy RM 17

Gold Merit - Aoife Kenny Rm 17

Silver Merit -Oliver O’Reilly Rm 8 

Bronze Merit - Sam Dennehey Rm18

This week in room 16 we learnt about Halloween and Día de los Muertos. Here are some of the masks the children designed and painted.

Happy Halloween!

To celebrate Maths Week, second class enjoyed an amazing Lego workshop with Brickz for Kidz. We created clock towers.  We all really enjoyed it!

There was great excitement in Scoil Thomáis today when All Ireland Senior Football Champion Ciarán Kilkenny visited with the Sam Maguire cup. We were also lucky enough to be visited by a member of the All Ireland Senior Ladies Football Champion team and the Brendan Martin cup too! Pupils from Junior Infants and Senior Infants formed a guard of honour welcoming our special guests to the school. When Ciarán and the Sam Maguire arrived to the hall, there was a great reception from pupils and staff. Some pupils from 6th Class got the chance to ask Ciarán some questions like "Have you any advice for younger players?" and "Who is the hardest player you've ever marked?". Everyone sung "Sam is Coming Home" while Ciarán Kilkenny walked around the pupils with the Sam Maguire. 

Thank you to the organisers of the visit - we hope to see Sam back again next year after the 5-in-a-row win!

Bhíomar ag cleachtadh amhrán i Seomra 21. Bain taitneamh as!

We have been practicing a song as Gaeilge in Room 21 as part of “RTÉ 2fm’s Ceol 2018”. We chose to sing Bear Claws by The Academic.

We hope you enjoy!

Pupils in all classes were involved in various extra Maths activities during the week to promote awareness and appreciation of mathematics in our world. These included Estimation and Puzzle Design competitions, Maths Trails, daily Problem Solving/Puzzle Time, IZAK 9, and the online maths website Mangahigh. Pupils from 2nd class also enjoyed participating in the curriculum-based Bricks4kidz Lego and Technic workshops. There were lots of maths posters and maths puzzles dotted around the school for pupils to challenge their numeracy skills. Well done to all the pupils who took part in the ‘Estimation’ and Puzzle Design Competitions. Results will be announced after Halloween.

Thanks to teacher Ms Deirdre Travers who organised Maths Week activities

As part of our ongoing efforts to be a Green School, we make our school newsletter available online only.

You can read the Halloween issue of the newsletter by clicking here or the picture above. 

This week in Room 20 we started to learn about ‘Data’. We carried out surveys in the other 4^th classes. The surveys were based on ‘Favourite Food’, ‘Favourite Countries’, ‘Favourite Video Games’, ‘Favourite Sports’, ‘Favourite Celebrations’ and ‘Favourite Breeds of Dogs’. We used tally sheets to collect our data. We then presented the data in bar charts and pie charts. We also learned about pictograms and bar line graphs in class. We had lots of fun completing these activities.

On Tuesday 9^th October, the children from 4^th class, room 22 went on a writing workshop. The children had a fantastic morning creating and then writing their own stories which were printed in book form. The whole class created a story called,’ The Messed Up Match’, in which Joey the toilet wanted to become a professional football player. The story are now displayed in room 22 for all to read!

Just for fun, Ms. Moran’s second class made sock puppets last Friday. We had amazing puppets such as people, snakes, cats, penguins and even monsters!! Well done everyone!