In September we all met for the first time in Junior Infants. We started to get to know one another, day by day. By now we have made lots of friends and have been to lots of birthday parties! We’ve had lots of fun in school this year.
This term we went on our school tour to Glenroe Farm in County Wicklow . It was a great day out and we loved travelling together by bus. We loved the climbing frame on Sport for all Day and we really loved learning how to play Unihoc. Go team Junior Infants !
Our Grandparents are coming to see us in our classroom on Tuesday 24th and it will be a great day too!
We loved when Duncan Stewart visited us in the classroom for the Green Flag celebration ! He liked our classroom with all our art on the walls. He said he wished he could be five years old like us again!
Some Mums and Dads helped us a lot coming on trips during the year and with art and other activities. We really appreciated them giving their time so a big ‘Thank you ‘ to you all.
Our buddies are leaving the school at the end of this term and we’ll certainly miss them . We hope they have a really good time in Secondary school. If they want to see us again they know where we’ll be… .in Senior Infants and they’ll be welcome to visit !
That’s all from Junior Infants for now. We’re going to have the best summer ever and hope you all do too!
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We had a lot of fun in Senior Infants this year. Mr. Teddy Bear has had a brilliant year also and really enjoyed his travels. Thanks everyone who looked after him for us. He is looking forward to his Summer holidays in Cork.
We have had a fantastic time in forest school this last term. We loved exploring and learning in the outdoor environment. We got to build nests and dens while having so much fun together. In class we did experiments with magnets and water and also got to sow and grow seeds.
We loved problem solving, playing with money and using the weight balances during math tasks. Circle time and mindfulness was a lovely time to talk and listen to each other while playing octopus in the yard was always very exciting.
During the year we all worked hard and have gotten so good at reading and writing. We can now read bigger words and write longer sentences. We have had great fun playing Deir O’Grádaigh and Bingó and now have lots of new words as Gaeilge. We can’t wait to learn more Gaeilge next year.
We were very lucky to go on school trips during the year. We had a great time at the puppet show, Imaginosity and the zoo. We had a fantastic time preparing for the Christmas Concert. We learnt all about Rama and Sita. We hope you enjoyed our performance on stage!
We have had a brilliant year and have gotten much taller too! We are all looking forward to first class and meeting our new teacher in September.
Have a nice Summer from all in Senior Infants.
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We have had a very busy term here in Rang a hAon. We have learnt lots of new things…
In Maths we can now add with carrying tens and we can do much harder subtraction. We have learnt about some famous artists and we had great fun doing scissors drawings like Henri Matisse. We painted in the style of Paul Klee and we also looked at Kandinsky’s circles. Last week we went on a trip to the National Art Gallery and saw lots of very interesting paintings.
In Science we studied mini beasts and the life cycle of the butterfly. We also did experiments to find out what floats and sinks.
We wrote poems and we had a great time writing our own books. Ms. Ryan says we are all authors now! We loved our trip to the Ark during Dublin Writer’s Festival and we found the missing story! We are all reading harder books too. We practice our ocarinas every week and we know lots of songs.
We love going to PE in Mount Pleasant and we really like GAA with Michael. We had a great time on Sport for All Day. In Core Curriculum we found out about the lives of children just like us from around the world. We did a draw for the FIFA World Cup and each of us got a bookmark for our team.
Our favourite trip this year so far was to the Leprechaun museum-it was great fun! We are really looking forward to going to Fort Lucan, hopefully the sun will shine.
We will be sad to leave Rang 1 but look forward to coming back to visit when we are in Rang 2
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We have been such a busy class all year.
Some of the highlights for our class were being the gardening team for the year, going swimming every Thursday, taking part in Forest school in the 2nd term, our trips to Smock Alley Theatre and The Ark, and of course our very latest trip to Causey Farm in Co. Meath.
Since Easter we have learned a lot about treating each other well and we made our class a “No nasty name-calling “zone. We really enjoyed having some more GAA lessons and worked at improving our skills. We’re looking forward to taking part in the Blitz Peil next week where we will play against Lios Na nÓg and Scoil Bhríde.
We learned how to sing “Rocky Mountain” in two parts and also a great song about the fate of the Titanic. Speaking of the Titanic, we are now experts on this topic as we focused on the story of what happened to it in almost every subject!
We loved having Ms. Hanney, teaching along with Ms. Brennan, for 4 weeks this term. She taught us all about the seas and oceans of the world. We did cool art work where we worked in groups, creating a sea painting. She put up any “Fintastic Work!” that she noticed on display in our classroom. We did experiments to prove whether something was waterproof or not.
Last Friday the whole class participated in Sport for All Day, which was so much fun. But the highlight of this term was definitely our trip to Causey Farm. After a tractor and trailer ride to the bog we had such fun jumping in the soft, squelchy 3000 year old peat! We got very, very muddy! After we changed we went on a farm tour and saw little puppies and a pig which was pregnant.
We are looking forward to next year because we will be having two teachers!
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We wrote a poem
to say goodbye to Mr McGinley
— thank you Ms Farley for your help!
Farewell Mr McGinley
The time has come to say farewell
But first we have a few tales to tell!
We are your last (and best) class ever
These are the memories we hope you’ll treasure.
Every Friday a climb to Pleasant Mountain
Nobody knows who’s going to captain.
We loved the art, painting, drawing, cutting and clay,
10 minutes PE every day (Féach thar gualainn amháin go mall) said as an aside
‘Tógaigí amach an Bun go Barr’
This we’ll never here no more
You are so funny, you make us laugh
We know you are always cracking up the staff
You clapped your hands and sang
‘There’s only one John Heavey’
Your sneezes go off with a very loud bang (everybody sneezes)
(this is the best room in the school to sneeze!) said as an aside?
Doing Maths is lots of fun, challenging Maths is No. 1
We went to the museum and Lullymore, they were the very best school tours.
We went with you to forest schools, there we learnt all the survival rules
The rain came down we nearly drowned but thanks to you we came back safe and sound
Remember when we did the Christmas play
We had to practice every day.
Katie said ‘I love you’ but you decided to your wife to be true.
You jumped on the Budda bag and shouted with glee
‘I have to be me!’
Have a great summer from
all in Rang a Trí !
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School Tours
This year, we went on many trips. Here is a bit about them…
We went to The Botanic Gardens, Hugh Lane, the Jewish museum, Dublinia, and we are going to Clara Lara and Croke Park! We’re not sure what our favourite is yet. Rosie thought Dvblinia was interesting we learned a lot about Vikings. Zainb said she liked the Botanic Gardens especially the ‘Venus Fly Traps’. Rachel liked Hugh Lane, Francis Bacon’s studio was so messy... Síofra liked the Jewish Museum, it might be because we got cakes in the kosher bakery after it!
In The Botanic Gardens we went in to a green house that looked like a jungle! We also saw lots or Orchids. In the Hugh Lane we saw lots of art, sculptures and stained glass. In the Jewish museum we saw Jewish things and learned about Jewish people.
In Dublinia we learned about Vikings! and we saw wax models. On Thursday 19th we are going to Croke Park and on the last week of school we are going to Clara Lara! We are all very exited about Clara Lara. So over all this year has had lots of good tours :)
By Sadhbh and Rosie :)
Baking
We baked pancakes during Seachtain na Gaelige. Everybody made them. We put lemon, sugar and nutella on them. Ms Farley and Mr Fairbrother helped us. Thank you.
We all made Challah bread as part of our Jewish project. It was very nice and very filling. We put butter and jam on them. At the end of the day we brought home a small loaf of bread.
Every week, some people in the class get a chance to go baking. Not everyone got a chance so once Alex taught a group how to make cookies and we got to eat them.
By Tom, Chris and Cian
Gaeilge
We made lego movies for ‘Seachtain na Gaeilge’ which was great fun. A lego movie is where you make an animation movie out of lots of pictures of lego.
We brought in our own lego and cameras. Sometimes, we didn’t use lego! We also used Playmobile pieces and sandwiches! After each shot we moved the lego men a small bit, to make it look like they were walking, fighting and other things. After the céilí we showed them to the school in the hall. It took a long time but we had great fun.
We wrote our Christmas play as Gaeilge. Mr Fairbrother was very proud of us. We learned the cup song and Pompeii as Gaeilge too. Bhí Gaeilge go maith i mbliana.
Le Ellen, Naoise agus Rosa.
P.E
This year in P.E we did athletics, cricket, gymnastics and many more.
Cricket was very pleasant this year because we learned a lot about bowling, fielding and batting and at the end we played a cricket blitz in Leinster Cricket club.
In athletics we went to Mount Pleasant and Dartmouth for relays and laps. We also did Santry where everyone did their best and under 10 girls won silver and bronze.
In gymnastics we had to jump over a horse and do handstands and cartwheels. We also had to do tumbles.
One of the most recent activities was hurling which was great fun. Sports for all day was great fun too. We learned gaelic skills too and Sam Maguire came to visit.
By Aidan and Charlie
Projects
We have worked on lots of projects this year. Some were about rivers, Judaism, Buddhism pilgrimages and our most recent one was about the GAA. We had lots of fun making the projects. One of our favourites was the rivers project. We had lots of fun making projects this year and hopefully we will get to make more next year.
By Harry and Max
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Our main tour this year was to Baltinglass where we enjoyed a lot new of experiences…
such as archery, rock wall climbing, kayaking and orienteering. Let’s not forget to mention our trip to leisureplex where we did bowling and quazar. The quazar was the definite favourite among our classmates. We also went to the Irish Aid Centre on O’Connell Street and learnt about poverty in over 100 countries around the globe and got to dress in khangas (native African dress) and experiment with lots of musical instruments.
This term Tadhg left us to go to America because his grandfather sadly passed away but we were glad when he returned to us for the month of June. Laura who used to be in our class came in on Friday the 30th of May. It was good to see her.
We have also read a lot of books this year including Hunger Games “Catching Fire”, “Under the Hawthorn Tree” and the “Breadwinner” and Ms. Ormiston read aloud to us The Wild Flower Girl” and the “Hunger Games 1” .
We learnt about Hinduism; here’s a fun fact for you; when Hindu people get married they take seven steps away and take seven towards each other to represent food, strength, wealth, good luck, children, the seasons and lasting friendship.
We were lucky enough to participate in a six week cycling programme AND do six cricket sessions – it was great to have so many sport classes in the Summer term . We did cycling in Linear Park and cricket in the Leinster Cricket Grounds. Cycling took place on Thursdays and cricket on Fridays.
As mentioned in previous newsletters, other highlights of the year included our visit to RCSI where we performed cool experiments. In February, we went to the Jeanie Johnson; it was an awful day weather wise and some of us did not like the rocking – it was too realistic!
Have a lovely summer and special wishes to Ms Ormiston!
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At the start of the year, each member of our class got paired up with a buddy from Junior Infants. Over the year we have done lots of fun things with them and we are really going to miss them next year.
We had a visit from Stuart Milk, the nephew of Harvey Milk who was the first gay man elected to Public office in California. Stuart was a very nice man and dedicated some of his time to talk to us about LGBT issues.
Throughout the year we read some novels in class, “The River Boy”, “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” and now we are in the middle of “Kensuke’s Kingdom”.
Before the Easter break we worked very hard on preparing for the musical. We did “The Wizard of Oz”. Everyone got a role and we all enjoyed taking part. Fifth class accompanied us by singing all the songs with us. It was very successful.
In Core Curriculum, we focused on Irish Aid. We worked in groups. We later visited the Irish Aid Centre on O’ Connell Street. We watched a short film about a girl living in Malawi and in the other half of the tour we learnt about Tanzania. We got to play the Bongos and dress up in the traditional Tanzanian clothing. It was lots of fun.
Also, Ellen Sides from the Humanist Society came in to talk to us about Humanist beliefs. It was very interesting.
In the last week of May we headed off to Donegal for our Gaeltacht trip. We got the bus up and stopped off in Monaghan. Mr Fairbrother came along with us. The name of the college was Coláiste na Rosann. We stayed in houses, where our Bean an Tí looked after us. Each morning we went to class from 10 till 1 and then headed home before an afternoon full of activities. Some of the activities we did included, going to the beach, an amusement park and a trip to Aran Mór island. In the evenings we went back to the college where we would have our evening event such as, a quiz, disco, céilí or talent show. The whole trip was loads of fun.
In History we learnt a lot about the 1916 rising. We watched videos about each of the seven signatories of the proclamation. We also did a small project on different topics within the 1916 Rising. We also went to Kilmainham Gaol, where we saw where the leaders were all executed.
One of the parents in the school, Ivana Bacik, very kindly organised a trip to the Dáil for us. We were brought around by one the 58 ushers working in the buildings. He told us all about the history of the Dáil and what happens there nowadays. The Dáil wasn’t sitting that day, so we got an even longer tour.
This year, some members of our class took part in the Morton’s Cup and won it. They beat KPS in the final. Well done to everyone on the team.
Recently we have been doing cricket in Leinster Cricket Club. On our last day of cricket, we had a tournament with fifth, fourth and our class, we really enjoyed ourselves.
Last week “Sports for all Day” took place. We did loads of fun activities such as tennis, cricket, games in Linear Park and used the climbing frame. It was a really fun day. It has been a very successful eight years in RMDS and we are very sad to be leaving. We are looking forward to starting secondary school, in September.
Goodbye from Rang 6!
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