We had an excellent Sports Day last Friday. A big thank you to Leighton for all his help over the past few weeks as he worked with Junior Infants, Senior Infants , 1st & 2nd classes. A big thank you to all the moms and dads who gave up their time to make the day the huge success it was. Finally a big thanks to Niamh for organising all of it in the background.
On Friday the 15th June, we raised our 6th Green Flag since we opened our school in 2005. This year's theme was " Litter and Waster- Global Citizenship" . A huge thank you to everybody who helped to make our Green Flag Celebration Day so wonderful.
To Ken from " Green Earth Organics" for making a lovely speech and raising the flag. All the parents and children who made organic fruit smoothies and healthy treats, did face painting and helped with the clean up. To all the children who dressed up and wrote poems about Nature. To all the children who decorated the playground and windows with "Green Themed" Art. Thank you to Leighton for lending us his sound system for the day and Damien for putting together some great "tunes" for the outdoor disco. Thank you to all the children (and teachers!) who danced their socks off for the celebration and Niamh for supplying the bubbles! It was a lovely afternoon thanks to the enthusiasm and support from so many people. Well done to you all and thank you all very much.
From,
The Green School Committee
Summer Stars is an exciting reading based programme which is available free of charge from your local library. Children are invited to register and read books during their summer holidays. Each participation will receive incentives along the way. Those who complete the challenge will be invited to an end of summer party where they will receive a certificate and medal.
It is so important to read during the summer holidays….It helps maintain reading levels in preparation for September. It also boosts imagination and creativity.
Summer Stars Reading Challenge is starting in Westside Library on Tuesday 3rd July. For more details please contact 091 509091. It will also be running in all Galway County Libraries.
@StarsReading (Twitter)
Summer Stars at your Library (Facebook)
Junior Infants to 2nd Class have been enjoying Dance Fitness every Thursday morning for the past 6 weeks as you can see from the photos.
Thank you to Alma Jordan from Zurich Agri Kids who gave an excellent workshop to the children from Junior Infants to 6th class on "Farm Safety". See http://www.agrikids.ie/ for more details. She is very passionate about the topic and visited us free of charge. The children really enjoyed her as she was enthusiastic, interesting and informative. We hope that they will pass on the safety tips to others when they visit farms during the Summer holidays.
Congratulations to our wonderful hurling team who competed in this year's Cumann na mBunscol hurling competition in Sylaun on May 18th 2018. They hurled their hearts out and showed great sportsmanship on the day. Their coaches were very proud of them. Keep up the hurling boys over the summer!
Last week the whole school continued our commitment to protecting our local biodiversity by taking part in a National Spring Clean initiative.
A big thanks to Niamh for suggesting this project and organising the good weather on the day.
Photographs from each class have been uploaded to each class page.
Each class enthusiastically took charge of cleaning a particular area in our locality.
Junior Infants - Front and back yard
Sen Inf- Castlefield pitch and the path
1st/2nd - The Abbey Car Park
3rd- The green area and all space inside The Abbey walls
4th - The Abbey grounds outside the Abbey walls
5th/6th - The roadside from the T-junction to the new cemetery and inside the walls of the new cemetery.
Dear Parent(s)/ Guardian(s),
Please find a link below to a recommended parental guide to safer internet use. Your child has been following this programme in school as part of the “Stay Safe Programme” . The attached guide makes for valuable reading.
5th & 6th class have been using an app called Storybird on the ipads to help them write Animal Picture Books especially for Junior & Senior Infants. They really enjoyed reading their stories to the infants today ahead of World Book Day tomorrow.
See the 5th & 6th Class page for more photos ...
We had great fun in Junior Infants this year for Activity Week. This is a week when the parents come up with wonderful ideas to share with the children. We had Weaving with Isaac's Mum Niamh, Magnet Pictures with Karolina's Mum Asta, Heart decorating for Valentine's Day with Jenny, Leaf Arrangements with Grofu's Mum Ann-Marie, Spring Nature Hunt with Eimear, Paraic and Suzanne, Head massage with Tomomi. The Singing Mermaid Story with Aline, Alphabet Scavenger Hunt with Arron's Mum Ann-Marie and last but not least a Valentine's Day Cup-Cake Decorating Party with Sam's Mum Marina. Thank you so much to everyone who helped to make this a brilliant first Activity Week. They all said it was the best one they ever had!!!! ; )
