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Mini Wooly hats

Pupils in 2nd 3rd and 4th enjoyed making mini wooly hats during Art/Craft class!

Aistear Farm open for business!

Our Aistear Farm is open for business this week! Pupils in the Junior Room are busy learning all about the different types of farms, farm produce, farm safety and all the different jobs farmers have to do at different times of the year!

World Book Day

Children celebrated World Book Day discussing favourite books and characters!

 

Cumann na mBunscol Competition

Well done to our 6th Class who competed in the Cumann na mBunscol competition on Monday 14th March in Ballylongford. Best of luck to Fenit NS in the next round!

 

New Ipads!

Juniors, Seniors and 1st trying out our new ipads. The middle room pupils did some research on Ukraine while 5th and 6th put them to good use working on Report Writing!

Cumann na mBunscol 2022

Delighted that Cumann na mBunscol is back again! Practice got off to a flying start recently 2022!

Book Fair is coming!

The Book Fair will be landing in Murhur N.S. on Wednesday, March 2nd and we are very excited. Children have the opportunity to browse and buy books at the school from 02/03 – 08/03. Please look through the online catalogue with your child in advance of the fair arrival https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/travelling-books/the-books.
For each book purchased at the fair, the school receives money towards the purchase of books for teaching and learning. Every book you purchase helps us to stock our class and school libraries and ultimately improve teaching and learning for all. The book fair is a great place to buy presents for birthdays and other special occasions.

Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year

Children in the Junior room were very busy last week creating some masterpieces to celebrate the Chinese New Year and St. Valentine’s Day!

 

Salut!

French lessons began in the Senior and Middle rooms recently as part of the Primary Languages Sampler Module! Children enjoyed the experience of learning a different language!

Lá Fhéile Bríde

Children celebrated St. Brigid throughout the school by making St. Brigid’s crosses and weaving St. Brigid’s cloaks.

 

A gift for Grandparents

The Junior Room made some beautiful bookmarks as a treat for some of the most important people in their lives, their Grandparents! They remembered the Grandparents that are near, living far away and those who have gone to Heaven.

 

 

EU and Me

Well done to our two 6th class girls who represented the school on Radio Kerry in the next episode of ‘EU and Me’.  They posed questions to guest speakers MEP Seán Kelly, Tim Hayes – Head of Communications, European Commission representative in Ireland and Ciarán O’Driscoll – Policy and Research Officer, European Movement Ireland.  These guests explained to children how EU institutions work for them, their families and communities and how all the EU bodies work and interact together.

Planning for the Future!

The Planning stage of our school’s ‘Ireland’s Future is Mine’ project using Minecraft Education Edition #sustainability!

3D Shapes

4th Class starting a new year by getting to grips with 3D Shapes!

Christmas cheer!

We are all very excited about Christmas this year! The Junior room put on a Christmas performance in their room with poor Rudolph catching a cold and reindeer Ralph saving the day!  2nd, 3rd and 4th created some beautiful festive snow globes using chalk pastels.  5th and 6th told the story of Christmas through song as Gaeilge and in English – An Chéad Nollaig and Mary’s Boy Child.  They also did a Christmas Sketch – The Bethlehemian Rhapsody!!  There were Christmas gingerbread men treats and Santa stopped by for a quick visit also!

 

Geodesign Workshop

5th and 6th class took part in a Geodesign Workshop, through zoom, in association with the Moyvane Development Association Community Planning Project.  The children found it very interesting and actively engaged with planning for the Moyvane area into the future.  It was a fantastic way to allow the children to take part and voice their opinions and ideas.