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We followed up yesterday’s Adjectives Lesson by mounting our photos on our Adjectives Cards. The results are impressive!

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Well done to our young Under 11 hurlers who gave a terrific display full of skill & heart in Dualla today.

All the boys and girls performed heroically.

There were Senior Debuts for Patrick, Bobby & Tom.

Special praise to Brendan who gave a typical Captain’s display.

Well done to all the children & thanks to all the parents & former pupils who came to support us.

Dualla abú!

Tags: HURLING

For homework last night, we cut out adjectives from newspapers which best described us! Some people typed up or hand-wrote adjectives which best described them. We’re going to mount our photos onto the coloured cards tomorrow which will put a nice coupe de grace on our Adjectives Cards. Well done páistí.

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4th Class were busy in the Senior room this morning. Sir gave us a certain amount of time to use the ‘Get the Focal’ App to look up specific words for our Fóclóir. Bhaineamear an-taitneamh as an cluiche!

Tags: iPod Touch

Our Under 11 hurlers begin their season with a challenge v Golden NS in Dualla this Friday at 2p.m. We wish the team & all our young debutants well for the coming season.

Go n-éirí libh.

Tags: HURLING

This morning we began the day with a Science Lesson on the Earth and the Solar System. Before using our textbook, we took out our Solar System jigsaw and put all the pieces of the Solar System together. We then had a discussion on the location & size of certain planets.

We learned plenty this morning!:

I leared that Saturn has the most moons – Callum.

You weigh more on other planets than on Earth – Padraic.

I learned that there is more than one moon- Brendan.

I learned it takes Pluto 249 years to orbit the sun – Eoin.

I learned that Jupiter has 16 moons – Ava

I learned that Mercury and Venus have no moons – Páraic B.

I learned that Saturn has 31 moons – Aisling

I learned that Pluto has the least amount of gravity – Nicole

I learned it takes light from the sun 8 minutes to reach the Earth – Anna

I learned that Jupiter has the most gravity- Hannah

We got a pleasant surprise on Friday evening when we learned that we have been shortlisted for a national award for our school website/blog. We have been shortlisted in the best Science/Education Blog category. Well done to all the children & staff for contributing to the blog on such a regular basis. Thanks also to all our parents who frequently post comments on the children’s work. Comhghairdeas.

For more information on the awards, please visit: http://www.blogawardsireland.com/best-science-education-blog-shortlist/

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Well done to Pupil of the Week Áine. She was very helpful to the Junior Infants in her class this week. Maith thú Áine.

This morning the kids in 4th & 5th Class got a pleasant surprise when they came to school. We received four iPads on loan from Kilkenny Education Centre yesterday. We will have the iPads on loan for the next two months. This morning we explored some of the different Literacy, Numeracy & SESE Apps. We had great fun using the Book Creator App. We used this App to create some of our own story books. We learned how to insert images, text and even some sound files into our stories!

We also used the Match Animals App which was really cool! This tested our visual memory skills and also reinforced some important vocabulary.

The Numeracy App ‘Mental Maths’ afforded us some time to refresh & reinforce the division & addition operations!

We really enjoyed ourselves!

Rang 4 & Rang 5 were busy today experimenting with shape, design, collage & sketching during their Visual Arts Lesson. They combined the Strands of Drawing & Construction in this lesson to produce beautiful Autumn Trees. Well done boys & girls!

Tags: Autumn Art