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    • Competitions school closure - March 20
    • Working at home Covid 19 School Closure
    • Active Schools' Week
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  • Archive
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      • Daily Challenges!
      • Classes >
        • Junior Infants >
          • Ms. O Grady's Class
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          • Ms. Doyle's Class
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    • 2018 - 2019 >
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        • Cake Sale
        • Radio Maria Ireland
        • Farewell Mrs. Murphy
        • Seachtain na Gaeilge
        • Friendship Week
        • Active School's Week
        • World Book Day
        • Mrs. Daly
        • Sheila O'Hora Art Competition
        • Laudate
        • Open Day
        • Christmas Fair
        • Chess Club
        • The Three Tenors Performance
        • Farewell Mrs. McAuliffe
        • Halloween
        • Jersey Day
      • Classes >
        • Junior Infants >
          • Ms. Lenfestey's Class
          • Mr. Lynch's Class
        • Senior Infants >
          • Ms. McBrearty's Class
          • Ms. Doyle & Ms. Gilsenan's Class
        • First Class >
          • Ms. Milner's Class
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          • Mr. Lynch
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        • First Class - Ms. Doyle
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      • School Initiatives >
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      • Activities and Events >
        • Cake Sale
        • Special Olympics Torch Arrival
        • Sports Day
        • Lucan Football Blitz
        • WOW Walking Bus
        • Active Week
        • Intercultural Day
        • Sheila O' Hora Art Competition
        • Egg Incubator and Chicken Hatchery
        • Lá Glas agus Ceilí
        • Tráth na gCeist
        • Snow 2018
        • Grandparents' Day
        • Jersey Day
        • Halloween
        • Survey
    • 2016 - 2017 >
      • Activities and Events >
        • Green Flag Ceremony
        • Halloween
        • Grandparent's Day
        • Friendship Week
        • Jersey Day
        • Credit Union Quiz
        • Seachtain na Gaeilge
        • Intercultural Day
        • Active Week
        • Sports Day
        • Open Day & Christmas
      • Classes >
        • Junior Infants - Ms. Shelly
        • Senior Infants - Ms. Doyle
        • First Class >
          • First Class - Mr. Lynch
          • First Class - Mr. Byrne
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      • Green Schools >
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    • 2015 - 2016 >
      • Activities and Events >
        • Halloween
        • Jersey Day
        • Intel Mini Scientist Competition
        • 1916 Construction Competition
        • Open Day
        • Carol Service
        • Sheila O' Hora Art Competition
        • Seachtain na Gaeilge
        • Proclamation and Flag Ceremony
        • St. Patrick's Day Parade
        • Intercultural Day
        • Sports Day
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          • Senior Infants: Ms. Shelly
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          • First Class: Mr. Lynch
        • Second Class: Ms. Walsh
        • Third Class: Ms. Conneely
        • Fourth Class >
          • Fourth Class: Ms. Doherty
          • Fourth Class: Ms. McCormack
        • Fifth Class >
          • Fifth Class: Ms. O' Donnell
          • Fifth Class: Ms. O' Driscoll
        • Sixth Class: Ms. O' Mara
        • ASD Class >
          • Room 3: Ms. Fisch
          • Room 4: Ms. Irwin

Competitions
​School Closure March '20

Competition (8)
Dance


Copy the moves of the
Kidz Bop Kids
to the song "High Hopes"
Here is the link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNJFORsSFic
or make up your own moves.
​
Practise on your own, with a sibling or with your whole family! Send a recording of your performance to:
scoilmhuirecompetition@gmail.com
​

Be as creative as you like!

This competition is now closed


Congratulations 
Well done to our winner of the Creative Dance Competition.
Grace F. from 2nd class
We have sent you an email to arrange collecting your prize.


Competition (7)
Art Appreciation Project


In Scoil Mhuire we love to enjoy art and regularly look at famous paintings and discuss them. Many museums and galleries have been asking people to recreate famous paintings. We'd like you to do the same.
 
1. Choose your favourite painting
2. Recreate the painting by dressing up or using household objects
3. Take a photograph of your creation

​Send us 2 photos only
(A photo of your recreation and a photo of the famous painting)   
scoilmhuirecompetition@gmail.com
 
This competition is now closed
​
All entries will be included in a raffle for a wonderful prize!​
 
Best of Luck!

Congratulations to our winner - Melania!

Watch the video of the raffle below to see how our winner was selected! 


Entries we received 

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The Girl with the Pearl Earing- Vermeer
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Bowl of Oats - Morgan Weistling
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Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear - Van Gogh
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Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit - Paul Cézanne
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The Son of Man - René Magritte
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Hands - Michelangelo
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Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream)- Edvard Munch
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A Windy Day - John Slavery
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Campbell's Soup - Andy Warhol
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Marin's Quilt - Barrie Maguire
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The Girl with the Pearl Earing- Vermeer
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Two Dancers on a Stage - Edgar Degas
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The Sunshade - William Leech
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He ain't heavy Father, he's my brother - Boys Town logo 1943
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We Can Do It - WW2
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Unknown Painting & Artist
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Man Throwing Flowers - Banksy

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Mother Four Children - Vickie Wade
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A Boiled Egg According to Salvador Dali
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Woman and her brushes
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The Flower Thrower - Banksy
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Mother and Daughter
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Boy with a Book
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Mike and his Bike - Martin Driscoll
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Self Portrait Necklace of Thorns - Frida Kahlo
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Star Dancer (on stage) - Edgar Degas
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Christ in the Desert - Ivan Kramskoi
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The Girl with the Pearl Earing- Vermeer
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The Scream - Edvard Munch
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Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
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Pablo Picasso
Competition (6) 
Declan O’Toole Memorial Poetry Competition 2020
'My Hobbies'
​
This is the 24th year of the Declan O’ Toole Poetry/Illustration competition which has been running every year since Declan passed away at the young age of 6, while he was a student in Scoil Mhuire.

3rd – 6th : Write a poem 
(decorate the poem as you please)

Junior Inf - 2nd: Draw a picture 
to illustrate the theme
(if any child at this level wishes to write a poem, they can)

The winner will be presented with the perpetual trophy which they can keep for a year and will receive an engraved medal.
There is also a medal awarded to the top poem in each class.   
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Declan O’ Toole Poetry Competition for 2020 is Darragh in 6th class. The following children were awarded medals from each class:

In the Junior Section:

Abigail D
Liam W
Isabelle L
Jack B
Leon T
Lucy G


In the Senior Section:

Grace W
Ava B
Clara BR
Aoibhe K
Eoin C
Shaira A


We have contacted the above children. Well done to all the children who sent in such wonderful pictures and poems! 
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Overall Winner 

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Top Entries in Junior Classes 

Top Poems in Senior Classes


Competition (5) - Obstacle Course
Create an obstacle course for your family in your garden using household and garden items
This competition is now closed. 
The judges said the entries for this competition were fantastic and that the competition was very difficult to judge as the standard was so high! Well done to you all..Congratulations to the following winners:
1st Place: Sean
2nd Place: Grace
3rd Place: Emily and David
4th Place: Liam
4th Place: Jack  
Many thanks to our wonderful local clubs for donating these prizes.
Here are a sample of some of the obstacle courses.....

Competition (4)
Animal Themed Baking Competition

This competition is now closed.
The standard was so high.
Well done to everyone. The winners are: 
1st - The Snake by Clara and Milly
2nd - The Dog by Meabh
2nd - The Tiger by Emily
3rd - Monkey Cupcakes
​by Ava Rose and Harry
See prizes below and photos of the entries.

Construction Competition (3)
Make a model of Scoil Mhuire out of lego / blocks / playdough /cardboard / recyclable materials.
This competiion is now closed.
Closing date - Friday 10th April 
Thank you to all children who sent in models. They were fantastic and represented Scoil Mhuire so well. Mrs. Mescal and Pat were amused to see themselves featured in so many of the models. 
Congratulations and well done to the following winners:

Seniors (3rd-6th): 1st: Isabelle C, 2nd: Conor  D.
Middle (1st-2nd): 1st: Liam B,
2nd: Kaelem and Darragh.
Juniors (JI-SI): 1st: Dylan D,
​2nd: Michael F. 
​
Well done and Happy Easter.
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Prizes for
Competition 1 and 2

The winners of these fabulous hampers, sponsored by
​Maynooth Bookshop are:
Tara, Chloe, Jasper and Harrison.
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Competition 2
'Ireland 2020'
Poetry Competition

(3rd - 6th)
To celebrate World Poetry Day, 
write a poem about Ireland this year.
Closing date - Thurs 26th March.
Winners: Tara and Chloe

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Competition 1:
​'Historical Leixlip' Colouring Competition (Junior Infants - 2nd)

Click below to download a colouring sheet or draw your own picture of one of the historical sites near Leixlip.
Closing date - Thurs 26th March.

Winners: Jasper and Harrison
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