Au Revoir 6th Class and have a Good Summer Everyone!!

Today is our last day of school for the year 2007/08. We will be back to school on the 1st of September 2008.

We would like to say a fond farewell to our 6th class who are leaving us for pastures new and congratulate them for being such great leaders this year!

Au Revoir et Bon Chance mes amis!!

Enjoy the holidays everyone and we look forward to meeting all our new students in September.

"We should try to give our children two things in life, one is roots and the other is wings." Hodding Carter.

Visit from the Fire Officer

Today we have had a visit from Diarmuid who is a fireman in Carrick-on-Suir. We all did a test about Fire Safety in the home and in school. We learned lots and we all got a pack about Fire Safety.

Sixth class graduation, Green Flag Raising, Nicky Brennan Visit

Yesterday there was a lot of things happening in our school. There was a Graduation Mass, raising the Green Flag Ceremony and a party for Mairead Anglim, Claire Halpin and Leonie O' Dwyer. Mariead is retiring, Claire is being redeployed to Mullinahone NS and Ms. O' Dwyer is returning to college. We wish them all the best of luck.

Once we came in at 7pm it was Graduation and we had to sing in the choir and Red Baron, Shortie, Dannan, Batman and Matilda.Fr. McGrath very kindly said a special mass for the 6th class. For the Graduation there was lots of people in the school. We were so lucky that Nicky Brennan and his wife, Mairead came to visit our school. Nicky is the President of the GAA. Lots of our parents and coaches from the local GAA and soccer clubs and our teachers and SNAs were also with us on the night. There was also a great turn out from County Councillers and representatives of the government. We were honoured to have Chairman of the County Council, John Fahy, Councillers Susan Meaghar, Jimmy O' Brien and Eddie O' Meara and Bernadette from Green Schools with us to celebrate.

After that the Green Flag was raised by Nicky Brennan. It was great fun. Then we had a bit of a party with food and drinks. There were crisps, drinks, bars, sandwiches and cocktail sausages. Then I went out and played with ....., Dannan, Matilda, Rose and Smiley. ....., Matilda, Rose and I made up a dance to the song ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone. After that we played games around the back. It was great fun. After the party there was music. A man called Eric Wilson sang and played the guitar. Everybody danced and had great fun in the marquee that was set up outside the school. It was the best part of the night.I went home at 10:15pm. Once I got home I went to bed. I couldn't get up till 08:45am this morning.

visit from John Thompson

On Friday the 20th we got a visit from John Thompson.He sent us pictures of planes and thats how we got the idea of the paper mache planes.He is the Granddad of two puples in this school, ******* and *******.We sent him lots of questions and we got great answers back.He told us about the different planes.We took pictures of him with ******* and ********.We did presentations for him.We all did presentations we did about the Wright Brothers ,the Robo show,Papier Mache,KNex and the Lego Models.We showed him how a story board works.

Microsoft and Helicopter Visit School

Click on the Posts link on the bottom right corner of the Player. Click on Helicopter Visit to hear a podcast about the visit of the Garda Air Support Unit and Captain Phillip O' Brien who came to visit us from Baldonnell.


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Yesterday Microsoft came to our school. But first at 9:30 2 guards called Sergeant Paul Duggan and Sergeant Tom Mansfield arrived. They showed us videos and told us about the radar and the gadgets that are in the helicopter. We saw different videos from car chases and people running from the police at night. They told us about the Garda Air Force and we asked them lots of questions. Then they showed us pictures of helicopters and at about 10:30 we heard a helicopter. I was on the camera and I took the camera off the tripod and everyone lined up outside in the hall. Ms O' Connell told us to stay on the school side of the wire that a helicopter was going to land in the pitch. The helicopter circled the school a few times and then hovered over the pitch before landing It was very loud and the rotor blades made the place very windy. It was raining and they took a long time to turn off the helicopter. Then Captain Philip O' Brien the driver of the helicopter came out with Carmel and the dog trainer with his English Springer Spaniel Deas. Captain O' Brien introduced us to everyone and then we went down to the helicopter. We split into 2 groups. 1 group stayed at the helicopter and the other group went to look at Deas the dog. Then we went for lunch and after lunch Captain O' Brien gave a speech about the history of flight. He then had to leave because it was raining and with too much rain the helicopter could get grounded.It only took them 35 minutes to come here from Baldonnell. Before they left they brought Ms O' Connell on a spin in the helicopter and we got even closer to the helicopter and it was even more windier. We had to go back inside and wait until Ms O' Connell came back and we got Roses sweets from Mrs. Brett and when they we about to land we went out again. Then they left after that.

Then we did our presentation that we have been practising for ages. We went up when we had too and everyone talked about their pieces. Mary Healy {Captain Philip O' Brien's cousin} Siobhan Moore from Microsoft, Cathal O' Connell{NCTE}, Deirdre Butler from Tech Net and St. Patricks Drumcondra and Fr. Mcgrath was here when we were doing our speech. Captain O' Brien, Carmel, the dog trainer sand the dog Deas weren't there because they had left before it. Mary Healy also made chocolate chip muffins for us aswell. Thanks Mary!!

At the end of the day we played games and sixth class got footballs from Cathal because we won't be here next year and that was probably the last time we will see him. Microsoft's Siobhan Moore also gave us a goodie bag with pens, PC mouse mats, calculators, highlighter pens and mints. Today {Thursday 19 June} we will be looking at some of the footage that we took yesterday. We had a really good and exciting day yesterday.
By: Danan.

Yesterday on 18th of June it was the best day of the eight years I was in school so far .At the start of the day there were Guards in our classroom to congratulate us for our Microsoft award. They were called Sergeant Tom and Sergeant Paul. They weren’t normal guards, they were helicopter guards and they rescue people aswell as arrest people. G**** was terrified that he would be arrested. Garda Paul was showing us ideos of car chases, motorbike chases and much more. Some of the videos were very dangerous like a motorbike crash and a video of a fight. We could see a video from a helicopter looking at a man during the night and it was pitch black but with the thermal imaging you can see a black shape moving and it is the person on the run, you can see the black because of his body heat. After a while at 11 O’ clock Miss O’ Connell brought us outside for a surprise and a Garda helicopter landed in the football pitch, the wind from the rotor blades is unreal, it makes you take a few steps back. Captain Philip and Carmel who is the navigator showed us all the controls of the helicopter and then to our surprise a small dog called Deas that was a Springer Spaniel(a sniffer dog)came out of the helicopter and got a lot of attention from everyone, mostly the girls! Now it was breaktime and everyone went and got their lunch and went into the shed and were talking about the helicopter . After break we went into our classroom and Philip started talking to us about helicopters and flight. He showed us a powerpoint of pictures of planes and helicopters that look unusual. Philip, Carmel, Deas and the dog trainer were leaving, but first they took Miss O’ Connell up for a spin and we got to closer to the helicopter for take-off and the amount of grass that flew back into our faces was horrible but the wind was lovely. The helicopter flew for around five minutes and it came back down to ground. They took off for real then to go back to Baldonnel and we all waved them off.

It was now time for our own presentation. ***** introduced us and I was first and I talked about the Wright Brothers and showed my LEGO model to everyone. In the audience were Sergeant Paul Duggan and Tom Mansfield, Siobhan Moore from Microsoft, Cathal O’ Connell(NCTE) and Deirde Butler(Teach net St. Patricks Drumcondra), Father McGrath and Mary Healy. The teachers and the junior room were looking too. Siobhan Moore made a presentation to mark our achievement as the best school in Europe, she also gave every student pens, calculators, highlighters and mints. Garda Paul put the handcuffs on ***** and the bulletproof vest . Cathal gave everyone in sixth class a football because it was probably the last time he would ever see us. As I said before it was the best day ever.
By: The Red Baron.

THE SCHOOL TOUR

On Friday the 13th ,we went on our school tour to Roscrea.It took us an hour and a half to get there.We met our tour guides,Elaine and Mary.We started at the obstacle course. It was fun because we were split into teams. Then we had to get changed for the water slide. We had to climb up a ladder ,then when we would slide down we would land in a pool of water. We then had to go and do the twister and swimming.We then got split into teams for the treasure hunt and archery.We got our lunch and played a game of football.We said thanks for every thing and came home. It was a brilliant day!!
by Batman.

Green Flag Award Ceremony.

Mrs. Brett, Sarah, Ronaldo and Kitten went to Cork to get the Green Flag.
When we got there we had something to eat and drink. Then we went into
the award ceremony and Michael John O'Mahony started the ceremony and then
Michael John and Jim Wilson gave us the green flag. After the ceremony
we had lunch Chicken Curry and a chocolate cake. Then after a busy day we went home.

We worked really hard around the school to make it environmentally friendly and a nice place to be for everyone! Congrats to everyone!
The head of the GAA Nicky Brennan is coming to our school on Monday 23rd of June next to raise the Flag. We are also having our 6th class Graduation that evening at 7pm.

by Ronaldo

Visit from Microsoft Ireland

On Wednesday the academic program manager of Microsoft Ireland Dr. Kevin Marshall, will be coming to our school to give us our prize for the Microsoft Innovative teacher forum.Dr. Deirde Butler of St.Patricks College will be coming also. She set up the Empowering minds in Ireland,this is the group that co-ordinate the LEGO project in Ireland. We have invited our old friend Cathal of the NCTE to come down to celebrate our win.

Today a few of us, including me will be staying in school until six o' clock to prepare for the day. Nine hours is a long time to be in school but I'm sure it will be worth it. Everyone will be talking about something that happened in school this year. I will be talking about the research we have done on the Wright brothers and the model of the 1903 flyer that I made out of LEGO. You will hear all about Wednesday soon enough.
By:THE RED BARON

Perrine leaving

On Monday the 9th of June we were all very sad to see our French teacher leaving us. Perrine (our French teacher)taught us a lot of French over the year since October to June.She taught us songs and lots of new words. She also played lots of games with us and she taught us a game that she used to play when she was young.On her last day we made a presentation and we gave her a frame with a picture of the whole school in it. We all miss her and will miss doing French every day.

Filming the Little Prince

We have been working on our Film of the Little Prince over the past few days. Here are some of the photos taken by Ronaldo.

Click on the posts link on the bottom of the player and choose 'The Little Prince Podcast' to listen to how the film was created, in the words of 'The Little Prince'.


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