Monday, 23 November 2015

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

The school got involved in the Christmas Shoe Box Appeal to send Christmas presents to children in Africa and Eastern Europe.

Pictured are some of the 4th and 5th class who made shoe boxes.


A big thank you to the parents with their help in preparing the shoe boxes, without whom the collection would not be possible.

Mystery Skype

The 6th class have continued their series of mystery skype calls

They recently got in contact with a school from Spain!


Hola!


Saturday, 14 November 2015

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!





Thursday, 5 November 2015

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!

video

Sunday, 1 November 2015

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!