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Jan.2023
Lucky Duck was delighted to receive a really wonderful Christmas present. It is a hand knitted blanket to keep him warm over the Christmas holidays. Here’s what he had to say: Go raibh míle mai ...
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Jan.2023
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Dec.2022
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Dec.2022
As a special Christmas treat we had hot chocolate, cookies and a movie. Many thanks to Ms. O’Connor for organising it all, and for making the “most delicious hot chocolate EVER”, and ...
20
Dec.2022
We are learning all about percussion instruments. Can you identify which is the triangle, the xylophone, the tambourine, the drum, the maracas, the castanets, the rainmaker, the thunder tube, the slei ...
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Dec.2022
We had a lovely visitor in Prefab 1A. Santa was great fun and even gave us a little gift each! ...
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Dec.2022
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Dec.2022
We had a lovely visit from Santa this morning! We are all definitely on the Good list… ...
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Dec.2022
We had a lovely visit from Santa and Elf Lorraine today. It was so good of him to visit in this very busy season for him. We had a great chat with him, and we let him know how good we are being. We e ...
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Dec.2022
We had a very special visitor in Room 3 today. Santa Claus and his elf called in and gave each of the boys and girls a special present 🎁. The children all sang him a Christmas song and promised to lea ...
16
Dec.2022
Today we made a Christmas data chart. We had to choose our favourite thing about Christmas. We made this into a data chart and were able to compare which part of Christmas is the most popular. We even ...
16
Dec.2022
We have been trying some great online Christmas games. Our favourite is Here are more SafeKids online Christmas games. Topmarks have some great online Christmas games and activities too. Enjoy! ...
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Dec.2022
We made our own versions of the Christmas Story. Look at all our beautiful cribs! ...
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Dec.2022
NEW DATE FOR THE CAROL SERVICE: POSTPONED, DUE TO ICY WEATHER! ...
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Dec.2022
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Dec.2022
The only piece of homework we had last night was to make a Christmas ornament and to put our names and our ages on them. Then when we find them in our boxes of ornaments in the future we can look back ...
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Dec.2022
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Dec.2022
We made some lovely Christmas cards from newspaper today. We hope to send these to our new friends to wish them a “Joyeux Noel”! They are going to write to us too. We will be pen pals. It ...
9
Dec.2022
Many thanks to Ms. Gaffney’s first class for showing us their wonderful display of Christmas boxes. It was so interesting hearing what the boxes were made from and how the dioramas were made. We ...
8
Dec.2022
This year we are doing a project about the sea, about sea pollution and about looking after our oceans. We have met a class in Brittany in France who are also doing the same project. Today we met them ...
8
Dec.2022
We are really enjoying learning all about Advent. Do you like our classroom Advent Wreath……. ...
2
Dec.2022
We had a fantastic Day out with a trip to the public Library as well! ...
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Nov.2022
We cannot wait to begin our chocolate & Christmas tree decoration Advent Calendar tomorrow. It will be a great addition to our classroom Advent Wreath! ...
1
Jan.2022
Wishing all our pupils, our parents and our staff all the best for 2022! ...
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Dec.2021
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Dec.2021
Ms. Lally’s Glee Club treated us to a wonderful Christmas Flash Dance: All I Want for Christmas is You. They were superb. Well done everyone! ...
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Dec.2021
We’ve been busy in room 12 preparing for Christmas. We started by painting snowflakes on our classroom windows, then we put up and decorated our Christmas tree. We’ve made some Christmas t ...
20
Dec.2021
There was lots of excitement last Friday when we had a special visitor to our class! Santa and Mrs Claus stopped by to give the children an early Christmas gift and to make sure everyone was getting r ...
17
Dec.2021
Santa and Mrs. Claus came to visit us in our classroom today. It was very exciting. We each got a present of some gorgeous sticky Christmas stickers and we had a long chat with Santa. We can’t w ...
16
Dec.2021
We have made some lovely art for Christmas. ...
14
Dec.2021
We have designed and made our own Christmas/Winter boxes. They look AMAZING! ...
9
Dec.2021
We have been talking about forces. Today we were like Christmas elves. We made our own push and pull pop up Santa toys. They were fun to make and are a lot of fun to play with. ...
26
Nov.2021
We can’t wait for the Late Late Toy Show tonight. We predicted what Christmas jumper Ryan Tubridy will wear. It is such an exciting weekend. We love preparing for Christmas. Watch some TV foota ...
26
Nov.2021
We did art for the Toy Show today! We predicted what Christmas jumper Ryan Tubridy might wear tonight and coloured in a lovely poster. ...
24
Nov.2021
The season of Advent begins next Sunday (28th November). Special advent candles will be lit in every church. In church there is always an advent wreath. It is a circular wreath made of evergreen leav ...
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Jan.2021
We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...
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Dec.2020
2020 has been a very strange and uncertain year for us all. We have missed out on lots of special events this year but one thing we didn’t want anyone to miss was our Christmas performance. The ...
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
Beautiful artwork in Room 9! ...
18
Dec.2020
Look at the lovely Christmas things we have made at home, and at the lovely pictures of the Christmas crib that we have coloured at school. We hope to light a candle at Christmas time and say the pra ...
18
Dec.2020
Look at the beautiful Christmas stain glass stars that we have made. They are translucent. They look so good on our windows! ...
18
Dec.2020
We made star decorations using lollipop sticks and jewels. We think they are very pretty and look great on our tree. ...
18
Dec.2020
Check out our Christmas wreaths made out of paper plates and crêpe paper. ...
18
Dec.2020
We made Christmas decorations using clay and cutters. We look forward to hanging them on our Christmas trees! ...
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
Maggie showed us how to make lovely snowmen out of socks. We had lots of fun decorating them. ...
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Dec.2020
We made thank you cards for Santa in Room 8. We went to the post office to post them. We were very lucky and met someone exciting on their motorbike! ...
17
Dec.2020
Dear Parents/Guardians, We are collecting items for our Christmas food bank this Thursday and Friday. This year our food bank will be donated to families in need in our school community. Donations ca ...
17
Dec.2020
We had lots of fun learning this Christmas dance! ...
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Dec.2020
We have been making lovely Christmas cards. We loved printing trees with painted stampers. We can’t wait to decorate our trees! We made some very nice 3D Christmas cards too. ...
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
We love having a chance to have our say. We also love chatting about the choices that were made in our class. ...
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Dec.2020
Here are fantastic Christmas snowmen that we made from paper. ...
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Dec.2020
There is a lovely Christmassy feeling in Scoil Chaitríona Junior. We had an exciting visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Santa has given each of us a special reindeer to put on our windows or mirrors. O ...
11
Dec.2020
We all looked so festive today in our Christmas jumpers. We loved our visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause too. ...
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Dec.2020
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Dec.2020
If you would like to wear a Christmas jumper (or any nice woolly jumper) to school, please join us on Friday, December 11th for our Christmas Jumper Day. ...
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Dec.2020
We made beautiful Christmas angels. We hope to finish decorating them later this week. Here’s where teacher found the simple directions: ...
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Dec.2020
We have been talking about forces: push, pull (& gravity), magnetism. Today we were like Christmas elves. We made our own push and pull pop up Santa toys. They were fun to make and are a lot of fu ...
10
Jan.2020
All at St. Vincent de Paul send a huge “Thank You” to everyone at Scoil Chaitríona Junior in response to their Christmas Food Appeal. What a lovely, kind, generous school community! ...
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Dec.2019
We had such a wonderful time getting ready for Christmas. We especially enjoyed our visit to the Christmas market with Mr. Gleeson and the lovely art work we did with Lara!ki ...
20
Dec.2019
We were so thrilled to have a visti today from Santa and Mr. Elfwood (a cousin of Mr. Elwood) who had really fancy shoes! Each of us got a lovely bell from Santa. ...
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Dec.2019
We are able to sequence the story of Christmas. We did a great job colouring and sequencing the story. ...
18
Dec.2019
We have been very busy getting ready for Christmas. Take a look at some of the amazing Christmas and winter artwork created by the Junior Infants in 7A. ...
18
Dec.2019
The ‘teachers ‘ were taking a well earned break in the staff room this morning 😂😂😂😂 They managed a spot of cake decorating just in time to enjoy with their cup of tea at 11am! ...
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Dec.2019
Thanks to the Junior Infant classes for inviting us to their Christmas show. We really enjoyed it! We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all from Mr. Elwood’s First ...
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Dec.2019
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Dec.2019
Well done to all our pupils and staff on a gorgeous carol service last night. Thank you too to Fr. Declan for the lovely comments made, and to Ms. Maguire and Ms. Cunningham for leading us all so wond ...
17
Dec.2019
You are all invited to our 2019 Christmas Carol Service. On: TONIGHT: Tuesday, December 17th. At: 7pm (be there for 18:45) In: St. Oliver Plunkett’s church, Renmore (next to the school) ...
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Dec.2019
Merry Christmas from all the elves in Room 3! ...
13
Dec.2019
This week we finished our clay Christmas decorations. They turned out great! We also played Christmas “Pass the Parcel” with Emma. We visited the post office in Renmore to post our letter ...
13
Dec.2019
We are busy getting ready for Christmas in Room 16. Last Friday, we had a great day in town when we visited the Christmas Market. We got our photo taken with Santa, Mrs Claus and a funny elf. We even ...
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Dec.2019
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Dec.2019
Thanks to Mr Gleeson for a fun filled day at the Christmas market last week. We are really getting into the spirit of Advent and kindness in particular. We love opening a new door on our calendar and ...
12
Dec.2019
Some of our Christmas art and Christmas decorations 🙂 ...
12
Dec.2019
Look at the fabulous art we have made: some at home and some at school. We have Christmas stockings, cribs, angels, presents, cards, trees, Santas, decorations, and a wonderful push and pull pop up Sa ...
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Dec.2019
Mr. Gleeson organised a trip to the Christmas Market for 4 of the second classes and Mr. Haran’s class today. We had an absolutely wonderful day. We walked to town by the railway line, ate our p ...