November Highlights

This month was busy with our theme of Houses and Homes, Science week which involved a trip to DVS to try some experiments with 5th Years, a visit to the Senior Citizens group, School Mass and Student Council class elections. […]

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Houses & Homes

For the month of November, we have been studying the theme, Houses & Homes. We have looked at the materials homes are made from all around the world and looked at their similarities and differences. For science we have been […]

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Chess

We have been exploring Ficheall lessons in class and learning all about the game of chess – showing respect, being patient, planning, taking turns, being gracious in defeat, learning from your mistakes, concentration, teamwork and much more. Mrs Flynn has […]

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Maths fun!!

We really enjoyed working with the calculator this month. We even decoded sums to give us answers as word.!!! We worked very well in pairs and are looking forward to using the calculators again.

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ICT – Scratch, Light Bots and Lego

For the past four weeks we have been working with Ms Noone and Ms Mc Manus exploring Scratch, a coding programme. We have been working in small groups once a week and have really enjoyed the sessions. For November we […]

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Halloween

We really enjoyed our dress up day on the day of the Halloween holidays. We had assembly and a raffle in the hall and in calls, we had some treats and watched a movie. Laura, Cara and Cian were lucky […]

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Football and Hockey

When the weather is nice, we love playing games outside but when the weather isn’t being kind, we are very lucky to have our new PE hall to use.

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Tennis

We had great fun with Josh and Jeremy this term doing tennis. We really enjoyed each session and developed our tennis skills also. Have a look at us during some sessions below.  

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Author Nicola Pierce at Drumshanbo library

On Friday morning, the 28th of October, we were invited to meet the wonderful author Nicola Pierce at Drumshanbo library. We were very excited as we have started reading her book “Chasing ghosts – an Arctic adventure” in class. We […]

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