On Tuesday June 18th 5th and 6th class had an early start as they departed for Emerald Park in Co Meath. Upon arrival we began our tour with a walk through the zoo with our fantastic guide Darragh before letting our adventurous sides out exploring the rollercoasters and other rides in theme park. We arrived back shortly after 7 o clock after a fantastic day!

We celebrated Active Schools Week from June 10th-14th. Over the course of the week our class participated in basketball, soccer, rugby, athletics as well as our School Sports Day. We had a fantastic week of activities. We would like to say a big thank you to all of the coaches who gave up their time to help out throughout the week.

On Thursday 21st March we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day in our school with our class performing a special song written for the day. Our class were delighted to perform it for the entire school during our assembly for the Parents Association Easter Raffle.

On Wednesday 20th March our class took part in an egg hunt with our Senior Infant buddies. Our little friends were so excited to get into the fairy garden to find the eggs we had hidden for them. Thanks to Mr Treacy for inviting us to set up and participitate in the egg hunt.

For Seachtain na Gaeilge we had fantastic fun over the past 2weeks. We completed a 'Tráth na gCeist' with 6th class. Well done to our winners and our runners up. On Thursday, we enjoyed a Céilí Mór as part of our Lá Glas in the hall and loved watching the classes perform different songs in Irish. We performed Despacito. Check out our performance. We also tried to use our cupla focail over the two weeks and learned some seanfhocail.

As part of our Music Generation programme 5th class have been learning Ukulele over the course of the year. On Friday March 15th they recorded one of their performances 'The Walk of Life'. You can click here to view the performance. 

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday March 7th. We had a great range of characters represented including fictional characters from books that our class wrote themselves. Well done to everyone who went to the trouble of dressing up for the day. We finished the day off with a parade of our costumes with all of the school watching. Reading is a valuable life skill and it was great to see so many boys and girls bringing in books with the characters they were dressed up as.

For the past 2months our class have been busy planning, writing and bringing their creative writing to life using the Book Creator app. Our class have entered the Write a Book competiiton and we had some amazing entries from members of our class. Well done to all the boys and girls who take part. It is a fantastic competition to participate in and they learned about the process that author's go through when writing novels and stories. Our class library is now available to view here. 

Our 5th and 6th class were invited by Presentation College to their performance of 'Back to the 80s' in Kilcornan on 28th February. What a fantastic show it was. All of our boys and girls had a blast and really enjoyed the songs. It was great to see some past pupils from our school lighting up the stage also!

The week of 26th of March was our week to help ensure the yard and school grounds were free from litter. Well done to all the boys and girls who  cleaned up the grounds. Thankfully we are very fortunate not to have much of a litter problem in our school. It was still a helpful reminder that if people decide to litter then somebody still has to pick that rubbish up.

On Thursday 21st December our class performed their Christmas Play Straw and Order to a packed audience of parents and family. All of the boys and girls gave a fantastic performance on the day. All of the hard work over the last few weeks paid off. Well done everyone! To watch the performance please click on this link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lOj-6mJ8TMLMNWLU0CEuQ0jfI0pueLbP/view?usp=drive_link 

As part of Science Week our class took part in a Coding workshop. Corrib Kids facilitated the workshop. We used Microsoft Make Code Arcade to create a simple computer game.  

Last year before the summer holidays our class planted lettuces in the school garden. We harvested them recently and finally got to taste them. Nothing tastes as good as when you have had to put in some hard work to grow it yourself!

There was great excitement in our class with the news that Robin would be performing in The Late Late Toy Show. Everything was top secret in advance of the show but we were so proud of Robin when we saw  her singing and playing the piano as she performed on the show. All of the class made posters wishing her good luck before she travelled to Dublin to take part in the biggest show of the year! Well done Robin!

On Monday 13th November we were very fortunate to have a Zoom call with Olympic medallist Aifric Keogh as part of the Dare to Believe programme. Aifric spoke to the children about her journey from taking up rowing as an 11year old all the way through to representing Ireland and competing at the Olympics. It was very interesting to learn that she has experienced plenty of ups and downs throughout her career due to injury etc. We would like to wish her well in her preparations for Paris next year. It was great to see her Olympic bronze medal too!

We had some fantastic spooky costumes for our Halloween Dress Up. Well done to all who went to the effort of dressing up for the day. We had some brilliant double acts too including Mario & Luigi, 2 Barbies and M&Ms. The whole school came together for our Halloween Parade which was a fantastic opportunity for everyone to view each other's costumes.

5th class had great fun organising and running elections for our Student Council, Wellbeing Committee and Green School Committee this week for the rest of the classes in our school. They learned how to tally votes as well as what constitutes a spoiled vote. Well done to everyone who was elected for the various committees.