best week.

This Monday we watched Oliver in St. Oliver Plunketts.
It was very good and entertaining.
Aoife f, Naomi, Dj, Brian and Finneen were in it.
We didnt get any homework that day.
All that week they had to do the show so they came in late all week.
On Tuesday our student teacher taught us about weight,we got to weigh lots of things.
We also learned about Africa that day,we then got into small groups and we had to do African chants and we learned some African songs.
On Wednesday we did circle time with Ms.Ryan.We played loads of games from different countries like Chinese whispers.
On Thursday we learned about Holy week and we wrote nespaper articles We also looked at pictures from the newspaper.
We did art on Thursday too.We all painted eggs for art and we then decorated them with feathers and stickers.
On Friday it was Ms.Ryan's last day and we gave her a card.
We were all very sad she had to go.
Friday was a half day and we got off school early and got off for 2weeks for Easter.
! we had a great week!

ST. PATRICKS DAY

On St. Patricks day this year a lot of people went to different parades.People went to parades in Skerries, Ashbourne and the city centre.In Ashbourne there were colourful floats,different stalls and lots of bouncing castles.In the city centre there were lots of bands in the parade and it was very colourful.Lots of people were wearing green,white and orange. There was a St. Patricks festival in the city centre. It had lots of big rides and games.On the news that evening there were lots of different parades around Ireland. In New York the longest parade was five hours long.The shortest one was two hundred metres around a village in the country .Lots of people went to visit relations in graveyards around the country aswell.

Lots of people celebrated their St.Patricks day with friends and family and Some people were just happy to get a day off.

OLIVER TWIST!!!!!!!

This year the school is doing a production of Oliver Twist.The rehearsing started in January.It is now March and we all have our parts. From our class Brian,Finneen,and Dj are all in Fagins gang, Aoife Fitzpatrick is Fagin,and Naomi Feehily is BET, Nancy's best friend.We all love our parts so much.It's coming on great and we started rehearsing on stage just 4 weeks ago.Our opening show is going to be next Friday on the 19th of March only for the junior school.Our shows will be on the 23rd,24th,25th,and 26th of March.All the tickets are sold out.At first from Monday to Thursday tickets were sold to only all the cast.Then they went on sale to the public.Unfortunately there were no tickets left for the public as all the cast bought all of the tickets.This Saturday the 13th of March we are having a big dress rehearsal through the whole show .It takes 6 hours from 10am to 6pm.On Sunday the 14th of March we are having a 4 hour rehearsal.It takes hard work but in the end it will be brilliant.The teachers,students and parents volunteer to work extremely hard and use most of their time to help us with the show.I hope you all get to see the show!
Goodbye for now. Break a Leg! KEEP READING BLOG READERS!!!!! Naomi and Finneen!!!

Our Visiting Teacher

This past week we have a visiting teacher,Miss Ryan.She will be here for the next three weeks.She had come a few weeks before to talk to our teacher about us.Her first day was Tuesday 9Th of March.First we introduced ourselves,Then we moved on to Maths.We learnt about 3D shapes. We also played a game called "Whats My Rule?". In Irish she taught us about "Ar scoil". We talked about the differences between Ireland and Africa,it was really fun. Next we did some music. We sang "Spancil Hill" and "O Conamara". The next day we concentrated on games from different countries. So far it has been great!

THE RETREAT

On the 8th of March 2010 Ms. Magraths, Mr. Molloys and Mr. Fortunes class went to Emmaus. Emmaus is a Retreat house and a convent in Swords. We went there on a bus and it took about twenty minutes to get there. When we got off the bus we took a short walk around the perimeter of Emmaus. The first thing we did when we went in to the house was sing three songs. There were three people there with us Rose, Therese and Gearoid ( which means Gerard in English). After that we were split into three groups of 13. We went in to small rooms with our leaders and gave some information about ourselves like are name, hobbies and Confirmation name. After that we had a cup of tea and a square bar. When we went back into our groups we had to do a play for the other groups. Then we had big break which was pasta. Most people really liked it and some even went up for seconds. After this we had about half an hour to play outside. When we came back in we had a meditation and talked about the gifts of the holy spirit. Then we sang the three songs again and left Emmaus while singing ''walk in the light'' it was a great day and we'll all remember it.

Ceremony of Light

On Monday,the 1st of March,all the 6th classes went to St.Sylvesters Church at 8pm.At least one parent from every 6th class student had to be there and they had to arrive at around 7:50pm to 7:55.At the beginning we all sang 'Christ be our Light'.After the song Father Tanham welcomed us .During the Presentation of candidates,every parent promised that they would help us to stay away from dangerous drugs.All the children had to make two promises;1.I promise not to take any alcohol until the date stated on my Commitment Card and I ask the Holy Spirit to help me keep this promise.2.I promise always to avoid dangerous drugs and to help other people to do the same.I ask the Holy Spirit to help me keep this promise.The next song we sang was 'Close to You '.Father Paul told us a story about light.The story was about a man who went to a stadium and asked to turn off the lights.Once all the lights were off the man turned on his lighter and everyone could see the tiny flame,because,though the light was small it was powerful.After the story,some students read some readings.Keith,from our class,read great.Then,after the readings,Father Paul told his homily.The Prayers of the Faithful and Alex's dad read great.Once the Prayers of the Faithful were read,some students went up to light the Paschal Candle and Claire represented our class.Once the Paschal Candle was lit,some adults went up to get some of the flame to light everybody elses candles.When the candles were lit,Father Paul told the parents to give us our candles.Once we had our candles,we had to blow them out,but before we blew them out the whole church looked really nice.Our final song was 'Be not Afraid'.Before we left,we got blessed and we all shook hands with Father Paul and Father Tanham.

Bye for now!!!!

Entrance Assessment

On Saturday the 27th of Febuary we had our entrance assessment in Pobail Scoil Iosa.
It started at 9:30 but we had to be there for 9:00.
When we went in the teachers told us where to sit.
When everyone was seated the test began.
The teacher welcomed us and told us what the assessment was about.
The assessment included English Maths and Shapes and Patterns.
There were three parts of each test.
The first part was English.
Here's an example: apples ___ on trees (a) bloom (b) bite (c) grow (d) spread.
The test was easy at the the start but got harder at the end.
There were 3 parts of every subject and we had around 10 minutes to do each one.
At the end of the assessment we handed our answer sheets.
The test wasn't that hard and we're really excited about going to secondary school!!! Bye For Now!!

INTERCULTURAL WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

Monday 22nd was the first day of intercultural week.We have two people from England,one from Australia,one from Germany,one from Belgium and one from China.For intercultural week we all learned a bit about each country.Everybody in the school who is from a different country got their picture taken and the pictures were put on a big board in the hall beside the countries that the people were from.Claire,Lucy and Shane all did a project on Australia and we hung it on the door.Everybody researched facts on whatever country they wanted to.Claire brought in a proper boomerang and Lucy brought in a didgeridoo.Naomi brought in loads of stuff from China. She brought in Chinese dresses, a Chinese doll called Tomy, Zodiac animals,Chinese paper cuttings and Chinese tea that we all got to try. It was lovely!!!!!!!!!.Intercultural week was really fun and we all learned a lot!!
Bye For Now BLOG READERS!!!!!!!!!!!

Friendship Week!!

It was Friendship Week in the last week of Febuary in Oliver Plunketts. The week started off by each of us getting a special person that we had to be nice to for a whole week! We each picked out different people and we had to do nice things for them without them figuring it out. It was really hard to keep it a secret!!! Some boys got girls and some girls got boys. We all had a class discussion about the good qualities you need in a friend. The things that came up were kindness, loyalty, fun and good sense of humor. On the last day of friendship week we all had to write a poem with our secret friend. Most of the friendship poems rhymed and others didn't. At the end of the week each of us had to play a game of guess who got you to try and figure out who got you for friendship week. It was great fun doing nice things for people in secret, it was a great week and we enjoyed it alot!!!