School & Class News

We celebrated Maths Week last week.  On Tuesday we merged PE and Maths together and had a Maths Relay Race.  We were split into five teams. Each team member had to run to a certain spot and answer the Maths question on the clipboard.  Points were given for both correct answers and the overall times it took each team to complete all the questions.  The winners received green cards.

We also had to estimate how many sweets were in a box.  The three boys who had the closest estimates got to share the sweets between them.

On Friday October 3rd, we lead the School Assembly in the hall.  The theme of our presentation was 'Friendship', At the start of the assembly we held up the letters that made the word 'friendship' but in the incorrect order and the rest of the school had to work out what the theme was.  It didn't take long for a boy in 6th Class to get it right! We recited a poem called 'A Friend is like a Star'.  Some boys read aloud what they had written in their copies about firends (in Irish).  One boy read aloud the recount he wrote titled 'The Sleepover'.  We read some prayers asking God to bless our friends and ended the assembly with 'Count on Me' by Bruno Mars.  Everyone said that our assembly was great ... and it reallly was!!

The boys in Second Class have made a great start to the year!  We are improving our tennis skills and touch rugby skills in PE.  We have produced imitations of Picasso's abstract faces in Art.  This year we are using the 'Spellings for Me' programme where we will be given personalised spellings to learn.  We hae been sitting placement tests using the Chromebooks so the the most appropriate spellings are generated for us.