🌲Ballycroy National Park🌲S1

IMG_1297Last Friday the whole school went to Ballycroy National Park to explore wildlife. Our instructors names where Bríd and Ciarán. First we did a slideshow. The slideshow showed us all the things that were in the National Park.🌲🌳

They then showed us two stuffed animals. One was a badger and the other was an otter. After that we went outside to do pond dipping. We caught a diver beetle. It was a rainy day. 💦💦

After that we went inside and we looked at some things that Bríd caught in the pond in the morning. There was lots of different types of bugs. My favourite one was the newt and the tadpole. In the end we all had a great day and we went back to the school.🐉🐸🏠

The End

By Shauna

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Last Friday the whole school went to Ballycroy National Park to explore wildlife and other creatures like amphibians.
We all met at school to get the bus at 10 o’ clock.

First when we got there we met our instructors Ciarán and Bríd. They brought us into the education room upstairs and Bríd showed us a slideshow about the National Park.

After we had our lunch Bríd showed us stuffed animals.
She then brought us out to the dipping pond. It was pouring rain. We caught a diver beetle, a frog, and an oarsman. Then we looked at animals that they caught in the morning. Liam and I got a frog and Bríd gave us a newt. I got to hold the newt. It was sticky when its feet walked on my hand.
It was a good day.
By Kian

W.O.W.

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Well done to everyone who participated in our 1st W.O.W day of our new school year. A wonderful turn out as usual, with parents and younger siblings joining us for our morning stroll…and what a lovely morning it was too! See you all again for our next W.O.W day and don’t forget it’s Car Free Day on September 22nd! Get the runners ready or the bikes out..you decide. Let’s get Inver mobile!

Nuacht ó Shauna

Tá me ar ais ar scoil. Tá me í rang a sé.

Bhí mé ag féachaint ar an gcluiche mór i dtigh McGuire. Bhí an cluiche thar bharr.

Tar eis an cluiche, tháinig mo chara, Grace, go dtí mo teach. Fuir muid bia le tabhaint leat ó Cois Cuan i mBéal an Mhuirthead. Dith mé scealoga agus burgar. Bhí a lán spoirt agam.

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Le Shauna :-) 

Nuacht ó Kian

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Tá mé ar ais ar scoil. Tá mé í rang a sé anois. Bhí cluiche peile mór ar siuil i bPairc an Chrocaigh, Dé Domhnaigh. Bhí Maigh Eo ag imirt in aghaidh Baile Athá Cliath. Bhí lamh in uachtar ag Baile Athá Cliath ach  d’eirigh go breá le Maigh Eo don deich nomeaid deirineach. Bhí an dá fhoireann ar cho-scór ag deireadh an cluiche.

Chuaigh mé go dtí Cathair na Mart don fhéíle ceoil “Hooly in the House”. Bhí  ceol iontach ann. Chonaic mé Johnny Brady, Nathan Carter agus Mike Denver. Bhí mé ag feachaint ar an cluiche ansin. Chuaigh mé ag feachaint ar a lán marcaíochtaí. Bhí an-spórt agam.

Cycle safety with Gerry Butler

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Every Thursday, for the last three Thursdays, a man called Gerry visited our school for a cycle safety lesson with the junior room and senior room. We each have to bring in a bike and helmet but he does supply spare bikes and helmets if some of us don’t have any.

Firstly we did an obstacle course, in which we had to go through cones and on a type of seesaw. The purpose of the exercise was to keep straight and brake when you need to.

Then we played a game where he puts cones in the shape of a circle and we all cycle inside the cones, but, to make it harder, each minute, Gerry puts the cones in closer and closer until there is a tiny circle and it’s hard to go round and round. The purpose of that activity is to keep balance.

Afterwards, we played a game where there is a few of us down at the bottom of the pitch and a few at the top and then there are two cones in the middle which we have to go through, but, we go in lines and have to wait for the person on the other side to go through before you so it goes in a pattern. You cannot put your foot on the ground or else you’re out. Most people go slowly so the person behind is struggling to keep their foot on the pedal! That’s about balance as well.

It was great to have Gerry because we learned a lot, but by experiencing the safety rules. Also, 5th and 6th class went for a cycle to the beach while he taught us how to be safe and what to do in certain situations. Sadly, we are finished with him but we had fun!

from April’s blog

Active Schools Week

basketballYesterday we did a dance called the ‘Macerena.’ We did it as a group with the Junior Room.

First Múinteoir Deborah briefly showed us how the dance goes, most of us already knew but just to be sure we all went over it!

She played the music and we all started dancing to the ‘Macerena’ and it was so fun. Everyone enjoyed this activity and I definitely want to do it again! 👯

By Ailish

Unihoc

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This week was active week. One of the sports was Unihoc. My team did not win our match. The final was today. Team A and C where in the final. Team A were the winners. The score was 5-1. It was a really good match. The people on the winning team were: Kian, Lisa, Jack, Amy and a few people from Múinteoir Deborah’s class.

From Shauna’s Blog

Yoga

On Wednesday, for Active Week, we did yoga at school with a girl called Lucy.

She took us up in small groups to our local community centre where we did the yoga. In my group was Abby, Rosaleen, John Anthony, Jack and I.

First of all we had to take of our shoes and socks outside the door. Then when we went in, there was little candles each side of the hall and there was six mats with towels beside the mats. Also there was calm music playing in the background.

First we did some stretches and then we got on with some yoga moves! Some of the yoga moves were really cool and I enjoyed them very much! Then after we did a few yoga stretches, we just did an exercise to relax all your bones and muscles in your body. You would have to lie down and she would put a blanket over you and then you would have to close your eyes and then just relax! Too be honest I nearly fell asleep! I really enjoyed yoga and it was a really cool experience! I never thought it could be that relaxing too!
from Sophie’s Blog

Sports Day
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Yesterday was sports day in our school. We did lots of different races. We did our class race, egg and spoon race, sack race, and a running and hurdle race. everyone was doing really well in their race. I came second in the 5th and 6th race. Seamus beat me. The sports day went really well. I think everyone enjoyed it!

From Ava’s blog