Defence Forces Visit School

On Wednesday, four members of the Defence Forces visited the school. This is part of a wider initiative where every school in the country will be visited and presented with a national flag and a copy of the Proclamation.

The group included three members of the Army Reserve and one full-time soldier.

Firstly, they told us about the national flag and the protocols which must be followed while handling the flag.

Next, they presented a copy of the Proclamation to us.

Finally, they told us about the work that they do and answered some of our questions.

After the ceremony, we sang the National Anthem together.

Here are some pictures from the day

Our Polish students with the soldiers

Waiting to read the Proclamation...

Reading the Proclamation!

Medals for service in different countries

Presentation of the national flag and a copy of the Proclamation

Another medal for service in the army!

u12 County Champions

The local u12 team won the county championship over the Halloween break.
They also won the Plunkett Cup earlier in the year.

The team is made up mostly of boys from the school.

We are all so proud of them - Well done boys!

The captains

4th & 5th with the cups

Talk About Scotland

We were recently treated to a talk about Scotland's History and traditional Music.

This took place in the library and was hosted by Fred Freeman.

4th class singing " Three craws "

5th class learning the same song!

Thriller Video

Our zombie horde were caught on video!

Halloween - Continued

We did various Halloween artwork in the school.

These lanterns were designed by 6th class.

We dressed up for the last day of school before Halloween.

Everyone enjoyed looking really scary and raised money for Temple Street Children's Hospital in the process - well done everyone!

Halloween

We have been getting up to a lot of scary things in the school over Halloween!

The 6th class designed and performed a dance routine to 'Thriller' as Zombies.
I wouldn't like to meet any of these zombies on a walk!

Mystery Skype

The 6th class have taken part in 'Mystery Skype' calls with other classes recently.

So far, they have been in contact with classes from Tipperary and from Belarus.

We really enjoyed figuring out where the other classes were from and giving them clues to guess where we are from!