Ms. Flynn

Fáilte chuig Rang 5

June

5th Class School Tour

On Wednesday June 21st, 5th Class attended 'Zipit' in Tibradden Wood for their school tour. It was a great day out and we were all exhausted in the end after all our climbing and zipping around!

Annual Bake Sale

Intercultural Day

Rugby

Explanation Writing: Volcanoes

Fun in the Sun with our Friends

Active Schools' Week

5th Class has a very busy Active Schools' Week:
Monday--> Ms. Flynn went to the National Concert Hall for choir practice so 5th Class helped the infants with the Wake Up, Shake Up and PE lessons.

Tuesday--> 5th Class attended a soccer blitz in the Amenities. (photos on main website page).

Wednesday--> Sports' Day (photos below).

Thursday--> Marathon: 5th Class ran for 20 minutes. Combined, we ran almost three full marathons in that time.. WOW!

Friday--> Friendship Friday with 1st Class. We tried to pass on our soccer skills to our younger pals! We also had a teachers vs students rounders match. Our 5th Class reps were outstanding!

May

Sports' Day!

On the 31st of May, we had Sports' Day as part of Active Schools' Week. It was great fun and we all got stuck in. We began our day with basketball (Ms. Flynn's favourite) and rounders. After break we had great fun on the bouncy castles and raced one another on them.... Our teacher tried to cheat more than once to keep up and we did races/obstacle course. After lunch we did soccer and rounded off the day with unihoc. Definitely a day to be remembered!

5th Class Soccer Queens!

5th Class girls who were members of the winning team on the 30th of May at the Leixlip Schools' Soccer Blitz in the Amenities.

National Children's Choir performing in the National Concert Hall

On the 29th of May, three 5th Class pupils and three 6th Class pupils attended a rehearsal for their final National Children's Choir concert in the National Concert Hall. These children made up the final National Children's Choir 2023 which was a mixture of children from around Ireland. The venue was beautiful, the choir sounded superb on the night and it rounded off the amazing experience perfectly!

Summer Art

World Bee Day 2023

Thanks to Edel for filling us with all we need to know about bees in Ireland and how we can protect them. We had so many questions! Did you know one beekeeper's hive can home over 40,000 bees? Whoa!

Wonders of the World projects

April

Gardening with Mr. Brennan

National Children's Choir

On the 27th of April, 5th Class performed in the Kildare National Children's Choir concert in Tallaght Basketball Arena. They were absolutely super on the night and all of their hard work and dedication paid off.

March

Litter-picking with Leixlip's Tidy Towns committee for Green Schools

On Thursday March 23rd, 5th Class spent an hour litter-picking with Leixlip's Tidy Towns committee. We were astounded by the amount of rubbish we found. We now realise that even one hour can help our environment so much. Every bit of litter collected counts, whether big or small. Thank you to Ms. Dowling for allowing our class to help make our school more green, and thank you also to her, Anne and Ms. Keating for accompanying us.

3D Shapes

Lá Glas and Céilí dancing

Bhain Rang 5 an-taitneamh as Seachtain na Gaeilge. D'fhoghlaimaíomar amhráin nua chun iad a thaispeáint don scoil go léir. Bhíomar ag léamh triad an-chuid seanfhocail chun iad a phlé sa Bhéarla. Chaitheamar éadaí glasa chun céiliúradh a dhéanamh ar conas a bheith Éireannach freisin. An rud is mó ar mhaith le Rang 5 ná a bheith ag cleachtadh 'An Dreoilín' don chéilí. Bhíomar ar mhuin na muice tar éis seachtaine den scoth!

Happy Mother's Day from 5th Class!

Engineering Week 2023

While our classmates were doing a fantastic job representing us at the FAI Soccer Blitz, 5th and 6th Class were visited by Claire from Leixlip Library who provided us with a really fun marble run workshop. Here we worked in teams to see who could develop the slowest marble run. It was really interesting for all involved.

World Book Day 2023

February

Lá na bPancóg

Valentine's Day Art

GREEN SCHOOLS: Action Day

This year, Scoil Mhuire is looking at marine life as part of Green Schools. On Action Day, 5th Class discussed what we can do to protect our marine wildlife and plant life, as well as keeping our oceans clean.
We engaged in a really interesting quiz based on the topic, the results were extremely close, and we designed beautiful posters to raise awareness on the topic also.

Sheila O' Hora Art

Here is a selection of beautiful paintings based on the title 'Taking Care of Our Planet' from 5th Class.

Spring GAA

5th Class are looking really forward to enjoying more sport and recreation on the grass and outside for PE as the weather begins to improve! :)

Internet Safety Day 2023

We celebrated Internet Safety Day in 5th Class by having a discussion about how to be safe online and how to treat others in the process. We used the resources provided by Webwise and everyone got really involved in the conversation. Have a look at some of the ways we can stay safe online -->

St. Brigid's Day

January

Grandparents' Day 2023

Garda Visit:

Thank you so much to Garda Chris for imparting so much knowledge on us as to how to be safe and act as good citizens in our communities.

Gymnastics

December

Secret Santa

Maths: length

The cold weather and fog did not stop us measuring the school yard while we looked at the topic of length in Maths.

The World Cup 2022

We learned all about the 2022 World Cup during November and December. We researched the countries of the teams involved and held a sweepstakes to see which team would win. We even managed to fit some time in to watch some matches. It was very entertaining overall!

Christmas Art

SNOW DAY!

Santa visit:

Thank you so much to our local Gardaí for bringing Santa to us on Monday the 6th of December. A festive start to our week!

Buddy Class Playtime:

Winter Art:

November

In November, we remember:

5th Class created a 'Garden of Remembrance' at our sacred space to remember all of those who have died that are important to us.

SCIENCE WEEK

We love Science in 5th Class. During this week we investigated to best substance to clean coins, we extracted protein from milk and we discovered whether Coca Cola or Diet Coke work better to form a reaction with Mentos.

October

INTEL 'MINI SCIENTIST' COMPETITION 2022

A massive congratulations is in order for 5th Class who spent the first eight weeks of the school year preparing for the Intel 'Mini Scientist' Competition 2022. This competition involves groups or individual senior primary school students investigating a scientific question and presenting their findings through a written booklet and oral presentation. Unlike the past few years on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were visited by judge, Patrizia Odierna, from Intel who chose one project to represent Scoil Mhuire in the regional finals of the competition in January. She highly commended the calibre and hard work that went into all the projects. She was highly impressed by the topics investigated also. As a teacher, I am so proud of each student's work and delighted to have been part of the process. The hard work and preparation were most definitely worthwhile.

Topics investigated include how chewing gum affects concentration, crystals, what car type is best to buy, gravity, black holes, oobleck, differences between dogs and humans, the effect of coconut oil on hair growth, which milk goes off quickest, the effect caffeine has on sports performance and whether blue light glasses should be used in primary schools.

The winning project, 'Crystals', will go forward to the regional finals.
In joint second place were the projects 'Does caffeine affect sports performance?' and 'Gravity'.

Congratulations and well done to all in 5th Class. :) Comhghairdeachas libh go léir! :)