The following are happening over the next couple of weeks:

16th of January- Catholic Schools Mass in the Sacred Heart Church in Belmullet at 7;30pm. All welcome

19th January- 13th of February, all classes will take part in Croke Park Movement Breaks in the classroom and outside for those four weeks as part of Welling and Be Active activities.

26th January- Catholic School Week takes place in all schools for this week.

2nd February- St. Brigid’s Day- School Closed

4th February- Staff Training for New Primary Curriculum – School Closed

12th of February- Circus

18th of February- Coding Ireland will visit our school. The children will engage in an hour long workshop to upskill their knowledge in STEM activities. The Junior Room will work on Scratch, the middle room designs Arcade Games and the senior room engage in micro computers activities. We look forward to those interesting workshops.

19th/20th February- Midterm

Please read through the following leaflet to inform you on changes to the New Primary Curriculum.

leaflet-for-parents-english-new primary curriculum

This is just a snapshot to what we did in October, we took part in the Mini 7s and did very well. Michael Bell from the Heritage Council of Ireland arrived to our class with some unusual friends and we went on a trip to a bog over in Glengad. The Junior Room were welcomed to our classroom for activities such as Halloween Art, Maths Games and making headbands for the Killcommon G.A.A Football match. We are continuing to read our class novel and our English Stations are going well. In Gaeilge bhí gach rud bunaithe ar “An Scoil agus Oíche Shamhna”. In Maths, we enjoyed our Maths Trails this month and we completed all our work on Averages and Data. The Human Body is still being discussed in Science and we tried to capture what our local village would have looked like 100 years ago. Some great pictures were drawn. Everyone dressed up for Halloween and because the children are working well with their Tin Whistle, Angela has given them the task of getting to grips with “Rattlin Bog”.

The Senior Room would like to Welcome; Chris, Lorcán, Aisling D, Aisling C, Peyton, Annabelle, Emma and Ella to our room. Throughout September in Gaeilge, we focused on Mé Féin agus An Fómhar trí Scribneoireacht, leitheoireacht agus teanga béil. We enjoyed our Lá Gaelach.Míle Buíochas do Mhúinteoir Deborah!! In English, we are busy working away on our “Narrative” stories and hope to surprise the Junior Room soon with some of our creations on Book Creator. We are currently reading and discussing our class novel “Goodnight Mister Tom” and can not wait to see how the story pans out. On Tuesdays, Múinteoir Ailish joins our room for English Stations where there is a particular focus on spelling strategy, dictionary work, reading aloud and grammar attack. We use the chrome books also during this time. In Maths we got to grips with Busy at Maths, Mental Maths Wave and even have Better Maths for homework. We like to test our mathematical thinking so Múinteoir Diane also has introduced Target Boards and Brainsnack. This keeps us on our toes with the final ingredient of our Maths lessons “Buzz”. Múinteoir Lisa has explored plants and animals in our environment with us as part as SESE subjects. We also got to carry out an experiment. In History, it was back to Story and we took some myth and legends and modernised those. We got to be creative and design posters for various events in those stories. We had to take time out and watch the Queen’s funeral, it is  part of our history as we are living now. Angela has begun teaching the tin whistle and the children are working and practicing on the Scale of D. Our Artwork will be uploaded to seesaw so you will be able to see that, but for now, it is displayed throughout the school.

The Senior Room are working away planting vegetables and setting them in the Vegetable garden which they prepared after the Wall Mural was updated by all the children in the school. Well done to everyone involved, it looks great. Leading on from this, the children made delicious fruit skewers and enjoyed eating them.

On Wednesday the 23rd of February the Student Council made a donation to Jason’s Mam Caroline and sister Leanne from the Fun Day organised by the Student Council in Inver National School. A huge thanks to the super Student Council for organising this successful event and to all the students in the school for contributing and taking part on the day.

This might be useful for some hints and tips during this time.

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