Massive congratulations to everyone who took part in the Write a Book competition in March. Last Monday 9th June, the children from fourth class who received a merit or highly recommended award based on their books attended the awards ceremony in the Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise. This was a very proud occasion for these students, as…
On Monday 26th May, fourth class went on their much anticipated school tour to Causey Farm in Navan, County Meath. We were all extremely excited about the day that lay ahead and what a tour we had! After changing into our old clothes, we went and visited lots of the animals on the farm and…
Fourth classes have been receiving soccer coaching for the last four weeks. We have learned a lot of new skills, and thoroughly enjoy each lesson. We are looking forward to completely the six week programme in conjunction with the Irish Heart Foundation. Thanks to the two FAI coaches for…
Fourth class were extremely busy in January working on projects on China as part of S.E.S.E. We discovered lots of facts about this interesting country. We used the laptops in the computer room to browse through different websites our teachers gave us. We found lots of information about Chinese food, hobbies, schools, fact files, language,…
Before Christmas, all fourth classes were lucky enough to receive Gaelic football training for six weeks. Our two coaches were very kind and helpful and showed us some great tips to improve our football skills. We all thoroughly enjoyed these lessons, and learned a lot. We acquired some new skills including how to fist pass,…
Last week, the fourth classes learned a lot about magnets and we carried out experiments on this topic. Each child had to find objects around the room, and in our ‘magnetism’ box. We used a range of objects including nails, the sink, the whiteboard, pieces of wood, money, thumbtacks, tables etc. We then had to predict…
