FAI Spar Soccer School Zone Competition!!!
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SPAR Ireland and the Football Association of Ireland are joint sponsors and our school won soccer jersey's. Check out some photos of our new soccer kit!

Rugby: Coach Luke and the Barnhall Bull Mascot visit into our classroom.

School Tour- Soccer at Leixlip United and Walk to the Waterfall

Running Laps- We are on our 3rd Marathon 

Intercultural Day Quiz

Intercultural Day- We learned about New Zealand. Fun Fact: There are more sheep than people in New Zealand!! Check out our performance- we did The Haka.

Our New Wildflower Garden

As part of the biodiversity day that took place on 22 May 2021, John Paul Construction have asked our school to participate in a wildflower planting project where they provided the school with wildflower seeds and fruit trees. 

Tug a War with TugAWar Ireland. 

Sports Day 1st June: Obstacle Course, Races, Soccer, Basketball, Unihoc, Rounders, Stations

Biodiversity Week- We watched The Great Irish Zoo Off: Land v's Sea hosted by Fota Wildlife Park and Galway Atlantaquaria. We learned that STEM is used everywhere- in our zoos and seas. 
Mrs. Eastman showed us pictures of different ecosystems and pictures of different sealife. We even saw a Mermaid Purse!!

Wednesday 12th May 2021- International Nurse's Day. We did "Thank you" posters and cards to nurses for taking care of everyone, especially during the Covid Pandemic.

Clay- Animal Pot Plants

Rugby with Coach Luke from Leinster. 
​We have been learning rugby skills playing tag rugby.

We have completed our second marathon this year (another 42.2km). We have ran 84.4km this year. Check out some photos of us finishing our final laps.

Active Schools Week- 26th- 30th April

Obstacle Course Friday

International Dance Day-Thursday

Races Wednesday

Skipping Tuesday

Marathon Monday- Our class ran a total of 51,695m. 

World Earth Day- 22nd April 2021- planting carrots and peas in the garden.

Making Hand Puppets in Art

Spring Art- Cherry Blossom Trees, Audrey Hamilton (an Irish pop artist) inspired Animal Art

Jerusalema Dance- Check out our dance moves!!

Geography Walk

History- 1916 Rising. Look at some of the projects we have been doing.

Easter Art- Bunnies, Easter Wreath, Clay

Easter Egg Hunt on a world map

Our Spring classroom windows

Running our laps...

St Patrick's Day- Lá Glas- Art agus Tráth na gCeist

Look at some of the AMAZING work we've been doing at home!

World Book Day 4th March 2021
Reading books in unusual places

Seachtain na Gaeilge- Márta 1-12 2021

Engineer's Week- March 1-5th - Engineer factfiles and Bridges

SESE- Mountains

Religion-Ash Wednesday Crosses and Lent Promises

SESE Project- Women in History

Religion

GAA Projects

Explanation Writing

The Famine Projects

December

Christmas Maths

Christmas Jumper Day

We watched the Pantomime at school in our Christmas jumpers. We all really enjoyed it- it was great fun and interactive. We did some "Christmas presents" art this morning with all of the Christmas words that we know. 

Some of our Christmas art

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town....

Look at our Santa in our classroom... Can you spot him from outside too?

Our Christmas song !

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Check out our Christmas song and dance "Rockin'Around the Christmas Tree". We have been singing outside over the past couple of weeks. We made up the dance moves together as a class. We hope our performance puts everyone in the Christmas spirit :) :) :)

The 'Christy Ring Cup' Visit

John and Cathal from the Kildare Senior Hurling team brought in the Christy Ring Cup. We asked lots of questions. The two players were very proud of themselves and told us that training during the Covid restrictions were very difficult but worthwhile in the end!!

November

Check out these Irish stars congratulating our class on all of our running

Irish race walker Youth Olympian, Kate Veale and Leinster and Irish rugby player, Will Connors encourage the children running the laps of the yard in relation to the Daily Mile with Athletics Ireland. We were all delighted watching these videos. Check them out!!!

Intel Mini-Scientist

We have been so busy doing our Intel Mini- Scientist. Check out some of our projects in the pictures!

Athletics Ireland- The Daily Mile

We have ran 210 laps of the school yard which is a marathon (42.2km).We are onto our second marathon now. Our target is 420 laps. We concentrate and focus really well on our work after we do our laps. We practice running between 5-15 minutes or some days we practice our sprinting. It's our favourite part of the day and what we are most grateful for at the end of the day!!

Science Week

It's Science Week this week (9th-13th November). We have started our Intel Mini Scientist projects. We watched Electrified at the Explorium- very interesting!!

GAA

We are learning lots of new GAA skills in P.E with Coach Michael.

October

Halloween

We dressed up in 5th Class for Halloween. Check out our costumes and some of the Halloween art that we did.

Maths Week 12th - 16th Oct

Our class went on a Maths Trail to the train station and back to the school. We noticed that "maths is everywhere". We saw shapes, angles, patterns and different types of lines.

Goal- Jersey Day

September

The Daily Mile- 5th Class Laps

We are really enjoying our laps and our class has signed up with Athletics Ireland to promote healthy living by exercising. We are aiming to run a marathon (42.2km) around the school yard which is 210 laps. We are currently on 108 laps. We jog and sprint the laps aswell as running consistently for 10 minutes. We are doing really really really well!!!

It was National Fitness Day on Thursday the 24th September 2020. Our class enjoyed being outside playing some fitness games and doing fitness activities.

Art

We are doing some Silhouette pictures using oil pastels and sportstars.