World Book Day

Happy World Book Day to all our students, staff, family and friends. To celebrate World Book Day we had many literacy treats in store. This morning we started off the celebrations by bringing our sixth years and special guests Zorro (Mr.Ward) and Mary Poppins (Ms.Owens) to the primary school to talk to all the children about the importance of reading.
The children told us all about their favourite books and we all recited Dr. Suess famous quote “The more you read, the more you know, the more you learn, the more places you go” .
After break students and staff dressed up as their favourite character and we had a Literacy Hunt where students experience cross curricular learning by visiting different subject classes to pick up different clues.
In the afternoon we had the privilege and pleasure of welcoming John Burke the author of the beautifully illustrated books such as Irelandopedia which gives you an an encyclopedic tour around Ireland giving you an insight into the history, culture and the richness of modern and ancient Ireland. John also judged the best costume for the staff and the students.
We are looking forward to tomorrow to see who won the prize for the best costume! Thank you to John Burke for visiting our school and answering all our students’ questions and to Mr.Ward for organising another fantastic fun filled learning day for Literacy Week, and special thanks to ISL interpreter Margaret Wolfe. Finally thank you to all our staff and students for making great effort for World Book Day.

Descriptive Skills Competition

Today the students focused on descriptive skills to communicate about different aspects of various book covers to their peers. They took turns communicating and receiving the information. They drew on pages how they interpreted the information that was shared amongst them. This was an excellent challenge on improving our communication skills. The students and staff had great fun!

Protecting Yourself

The most important action we can take to protect ourselves from Covid-19 is regular hand-washing and good respiratory hygiene.

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Make A Book Exhibition

4A and 4C had a fantastic time at the JCSP Make A Book exhibition.
4A created a book on their project “Science and Me” and 4C presented their new printed book ‘Signs’ which is a collection of the monthly school newsletters that they created. They represented their school very well and their teachers Ms.Owens and Ms.Lynch were very proud of them. The students also had an opportunity to see all the creative books by the other schools involved. Wonderful creative collection for Literacy Day.
Well Done All.

Literacy Galore!

Countdown

What a fantastic start to Literacy Week. Mr Ward and team organised DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) which will takes place every day from 10.30 to 11am. This afternoon he organised COUNTDOWN game enhancing all students Literacy and Numeracy skills in a fun and interactive game. Everybody had great fun and was so engaged. Special thanks to Mr. Niall Keenan for making the Countdown board and boxes for consonants and vowels.

Feb Newsletter

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Runner Up! in Student Enterprise Programme Competition

Congratulations to our second year students who entered into the Student Enterprise Programme competition with their mini-company. Their business idea was to design a playing deck of cards with ISL handshapes representing each letters and numbers. They borrowed the artwork from Brendan O’Rourke and produced the cards themselves. The aim of their business is to educate people ISL through a game, fun way to learn. Five students presented their company in the city hall today, in front of judges completing against other schools in the Dublin. They WON runner up of the intermediate category. Well to the students and to their teacher Ms. Linda Rankin. We are very proud. #studententerprise #creativelearning #activelearning #PromotingISL