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Active Schools Week

Active Schools Week was an event to try to get the active flag.

On Monday, we did tag rugby with Coach Niall. He taught us how to play rugby. We had lots of fun! On Tuesday, we did athletics with Threasa. She taught us how to run at a good pace. We had races and we were a bit competitive!                 

On Wednesday, we did Gaelic with James and Mark who played for Blackhall  Gaels. On Thursday, we did Brazilian Jiu J** with Ralph. We were taught how to do flips and spins! When we were finished, we played spider football and shark. Finally we did soccer on Friday with Coach Owen. He taught us soccer skills and before we went home we had a soccer tennis match. The blue team won! The poor yellow team lost! We hope we get the active flag soon!

By Emily (4^th Class) and Darius (5^th Class)

                                                     World Book Day

 World Book Day was on the 2^nd March. Everyone dressed up as their favourite book character and brought in their favourite book. 6^th 5^th 4^th and 3th class children read to the younger classes. It was a great day!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Caoimhe (5^th Class)

Seachtain na Gaeilge

For Seachtain na Gaeilge, we did some Irish dancing. The whole school leared how to do the Siege of Ennis and Shoe the Donkey. Micheal Fahy came in and played a music box while we were dancing. During Seachtain na Gaeilge, we did also did a Tráth na gCeist. We were put into groups of four and tried our best to answer as many questions as possible. We learned lots of Irish songs and poems.

                                                               Emily (5^th Class)

When we arrived at the library we were fifteen minutes early. Ms. Beirne told us to sit down and read a book while we waited. Finally, after fifteen minutes of reading the other schools arrived.  

They all sat down and then the poet arrived. He was called Paul Cookson. He told us of this poem called Bottoms! Yes there is such a thing as a poem called Bottoms! After that he told us of a book that was illustrated by the person who draws the Beano star Dennis the Menace. He then told us of a poem called Mrs Eagle Eyes and a teacher called Mrs. Hogsflesh. It was quite funny. After that we were told us of a song called the Boing Boing song or at least I think that’s what its called. After that we were told about his time in school and he told us of a thing in England called a lunch hall where you bought a lunch. He also told us a poem about one of his lunch ladies who was taller then him and wider which he joked about. He then told us of a poem called The Lunch lady. After that we said our goodbyes to him and we got a picture taken with him. It was a fun trip and I hope to do something like that again! (Alfie, 6^th Class)

Our Trip To Dunboyne Library

We went to Dunboyne Library to see Paul Cookson who is from England. He came out and read us a poetry book called Rude Words. Some of the poems were called Bottoms, Mrs Eagle Eyes, Pants on Fire, Boing, When the wasp flew up my brothers shorts and The toilet has teeth.  Then some pupils from our school showed him Pants on Fire and he enjoyed it! Then after an hour we went home. It was a very good day. (Kallum, 5^th)

OUR VISIT TO DUNBOYNE LIBRARY

 We met a famous poet called Paul Cookson and he performed poems and he told funny jokes. Here are some of his poems: Boing, Ms Eagles Eyes and Bottoms. But the best one was performed by me and a few other students from my class. We performed Pants on Fire! I liked the poem about a crocodile in the house. He told us weird teacher names such as Ms Hogsflesh. I loved the visit! It was funny and fun! Paul Cookson copied a few poems ... sorry he magpied a few poems! (Rory, 4^th)

1st to 3rd  went on a library trip last week. We went to Dunboyne library. There was an illustrator waiting for us. His name was Wayne O’ Conner. He told us that some stories have a meaning  like Roald Dahl’s stories. He told us a story, about a boy and his mean mother and how she made him sell a cow but came back with beans. He planted the beans but a giant bean stalk grew with gold leaves. A giant lived at the top and was angry that he was taking his leaves. His mum was angry and climbed up the stalk but the giant ate her. (Kate, 3^rd class)

Every  month  the  class  teachers  select  the  best  piece  of  art  from  each  class room. Then the  Students’ Council members  pick  a  piece  of  art to  put  on  the  notice board  outside  in  the  car park  for  the  parents  or  guardians  to  see. (Cathal, 3^rd class)

Every month we have an assembly in Ms Beirne’s room.   Ms. Molloy talks about what we will be doing in the year.  (Matthew, 3^rd class)

Every class 3^rd and up can be a student councillor. There is an election at the start of the year where you show your presentation and everyone votes. You don’t have to go for it if you don’t want to. The student council play a big part in the school, if they have good ideas they happen some of these ideas are the suggestion box, a buddy system and a few more. The student council are friendly, smart and responsible and they are the kind of people you can rely on. (Rebekah, 3^rd class)

On Roald Dahl Day, we had lots of fun. First of all 3^rd class read to Junior Infants,4^th class read to Senior Infants, 5^th class read to the 1^st class and 6^th class read to the 2^nd class. I gave out sweets to the school and lollies to my classroom. When I gave out the sweets to my classroom, we all watched a fun Roald Dahl movie. It was a very fun day and even though all of 3^rd class had to go to our English lesson, we still all had lots and lots of fun! (Tiernan, 3^rd class) 

First of all we signed a book with all of our names on it. Laura baked a cake for  Mr. McCabe and Ms. Preston. Then  Ms. Molloy did her speech. All the kids got some sweets and they were all very happy and we gave Mrs. Preston and  Mr. McCabe gifts and then we went home after a very long day. (John, 3^rd class)

Today was a very exciting and important day. It was a ceremony in memory of the 1916 rising 100 years ago. All the schools here in Ireland had celebrations. Our school did quite a lot for it. We raised the Irish flag and sang the National Anthem.

We did a poem called the Rose tree by William Bulter Yeates. Sean Ganley  planted a Rose Tree. Mr Mc Cabe read the proclamation and 6gh class read our own 2016 Proclamation aswell.

We sang songs and all the parents watched us and Daruis whistled the song Oró Sé Do Bheatha bhaile because Padraig Pearse whistled it before he was executed.

It was a very special event for our school. Soliders also came in earier in the year for the 1916 rising and we sang  the national anthem for them.

By Brian Ward and Patrick Walsh (6th Class)

On Sunday the 13^th of December 2015. After two cancellations our county final against Moynalty/Carnaross finally went ahead. It started off badly with a flukey goal from a free kick for Moynalty/Carnaross. But a few minutes later black hall Gaels took the lead with three amazing goals by our captain Conner Duffy. A few minutes later Moynalty/Carnaross got another flukey goal. Then the manager decided to make some changes by bringing on his secret weapons David Sheeran, Charlie Mulligan, Kilian Mangan and Luke Jennings. In the second half Black Hall Gaels kept on scoring and Moynalty/Carnaross soon lost. We won at the end by 11 points, thanks to our brilliant squad of 21 players. We were then presented with OUR trophy. We then went to SUPERMACS!!!!!!!!!!

By Charlie Mulligan, David Sheeran, Kilian Mangan and Podge Clarke

We had the spooky on the 23^rd of October. At one o’clock we went outside and then we ran around the car park. When the walk was over we went into the court yard and played games including musical chairs, guess the weight of the pumpkin and guess the goo. We also had prizes for musical chairs so all their time battling to get a chair was worth it. A girl in 3^rd won the guess the weight of the pumpkin and got to keep it. Some of the older kids (2^nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th) played Gaelic until three o’clock.  We all got sweets at the end so those that didn’t get a prize didn’t feel left out. Fun was had by all. Kilian and Podge (6^th class)

Everyone arrived at the school at 9.00a.m. sharp.The bus came at 10 minutes past 9. Then when we arrived at our destination at 10 o clock. We then had a break.Then we all meet Nelle and Ciara who were our guides for the day.We went into a tunnel to get to the wishing bell.Everyone made a wish.Then we helped  feed the horses. We then saw the donkeys and also helped feed them .After that we saw the hens. It was time for everybodys highlight of the tour but before that we went on a tractor to the obstacle course.  The obstacles were a tunnel,  a rope, monkey bars. You could fall into the water if you were not careful on the rope . Shortly afterwards we went bog hopping everyone jumped off the bank and were also dirty but happy. We finished off with giant bubbles and  a hay maze. (Patrick, 5th class)

We started of using the hose in the school garden to water our plants. Then 2 pupils came up with an idea to collect rainwater from the drains,water from the sinks and water from our water fountain from water that spilled out of the bottles. Then after some pallets were delivered for the bug hotel we had one pallet left over then we found out that loads of water flows off the roof off our shed. So we put old glass bottles and plastic cups filled with stones on the ground next to the shed. As they fell over very easilly, we put the pallet under it and we got an old piece of wood and put it behind the cups for shelter and then they didn't fall over. Then we wanted more water so we cut off the tops of old bottles and shoved them in the drains. We are now saving the water in buckets in case of a heatwave (Charlie , 4th and Kilian 5th class).

Today in the woodland we tied  some string to some trees to stop children trampling on the wild flowers that we planted a while back.  Mr.s Jones brought a tool that made weeding a lot easier. Some children cut back the hedges (Daniel, 4th class).

We are making a bug hotel to stop bugs from eating the plants and flowers and  to attract a wide variety of bugs to one area. First we got pallets and we got lots of black  flower pots and put them in the side of the pallets. We stuffed them with broken sticks and other  stuff  like pinecones, pebbles and woodlice. We are going to stuff straw in the sides of the bug hotel when we have finished stacking the pallets. (Paul Ross, 6th).

First Sean dug a post into the ground. He nailed another post to it for the arms. We stuffed his trousers with straw. We tied rope at the end to stop the straw falling out. Then we stuffed his shirt and buttoned it up. We attached gloved to his arms. We drew a scary face on a pillow case for his head which we also studded with straw.  He wrapped  ascarf around his neck. We need to add a hat and wellies (Carmelina and Cormac, 4th class).

4th-6th classes are doing a gardening project. We are cleaning up the garden by weeding the beds, cutting the hedges and turning the soil. We hope to plant vegetables, fruit and flowers. We intend on making a scarecrow, a bug hotel and nird feeders (Laragh and Lucy , 5th class).

We got a bus over to the Knights Brook Hotel . he first thing we did was set up our stall by putting posters on our table and we got a rocking horse and attached a stop block to it . Then when everyone was there we got a huge photo taken and went back in to get started . We were the first team to go up to present . Kilian and Jodie  did our presentation and they did a brilliant job ! After we did our presentation we watched all the other schools do their presentations . All the other presentations were all really good .  After all the presentations were finished all the teachers got an award for participating in the J.E.P .  We then had lunch and looked at the other stalls. Afterwards we packed up and went home (Charlie, 4th class).

Our show case day was on the 23rd of March at Abbeyfield Farm and Equestrain Centre. We were there to promote and sell our product the Stop Block. This product prevents horses from getting tangled up in their ropes. We arrived at 12pm and set up a rocking horse with the Stop Block attached to it. We also set it up attached to a horse in a stable  and outside a horse box. We made lots of sales  and had lots of fun. One of the parents brought food and refreshments (Kilian and David, 5th class).

4th-6th class are participating in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme which develops entrepreneurial skills within primary school children. The class have developed the Stop Block which allows the horse to feed without getting tangled up.