Well done to Nessa, Ava and Rachael who played in the Exhibition Match at half time during the Ladies' All Ireland Football Final on Sunday. We hope they experience many more All-Ireland finals on the pitch!
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Wednesday was a beautiful sunny day. What better way to spend it than a walk around the Botanical Gardens exploring the sculptures. First class had a great day.
In September we explored habitats in the Botanic Gardens and looked at the wonderful sculptures. We also wore blue to support our superb GAA teams. Up the Dubs!
Recently in Room 11 we have been learning about Mt. Everest. We read a story in our Reading Zone called "On Top of the World", all about Mt. Everest and Edmund Hillary who reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29th, 1953.
We began to wonder what it would be like to climb Mt. Everest and wished we could ask Edmund Hillary all about his adventures! Luckily for us, even though Ms. McGrath couldn't provide an interview with Edmund Hillary, she could provide an interview with her friend Richard who had climbed to Everest Base Camp. We compiled a long list of questions for Richard about his time climbing Mt. Everest; we wanted to know about the weather, what sort of equipment he needed, what food he ate and what training he had to do. On Monday 21st September, Richard came to our class and we conducted our interview. He told us all about how he trained by climbing smaller mountains in Britain and Ireland, how his cup of tea froze over night on the side of Mt. Everest and how if you didn't get out of the way of a mountain yak, he would knock you off the mountain!! Richard showed us pictures of his climb to base came and brought in a Nepalese flag to show us. Check out some of these pictures below! If you know an interesting fact about Mount Everest, please share what you know below too
Dear Parents,
The INTO has launched a pre-budget campaign calling for greater investment in primary education. The ‘Stand up for primary education’ campaign is demanding improvements in class size, funding and supports for school leaders in next month’s budget. State funding for primary schools has never been generous and as you know we rely on your generosity to make up the shortfall. Irish class sizes are also the second biggest in Europe with about 125,000 pupils in classes of thirty or more. State funding for school running costs at primary is 92c per pupil per day while second level schools get almost double (€1.77) for each student. This funding covers school running costs such as electricity bills, heating costs and water charges. Primary school classrooms must be opened, heated, cleaned and maintained for a month longer, but are expected to do this with just over half the funding. A lifting of the ban on promotion would also help schools to deal with increased demands like special education, computing and literacy and numeracy. Your support for this campaign is needed and would be greatly appreciated. It’s also easy to do.
Thank you for your support in standing up for Primary Education Last Friday, 25th September was Roald Dahl Dress Up Day and Room 14 were very busy celebrating it! All week we have been listening to James and the Giant Peach in Reading Carousel. We are great fans of this author and his books so we were delighted to get into role as some of his most famous characters. On the day we described who we were and which books we were from, we improvised some dialogue as that character as we took part in a fashion show to the sound of the Oompa Loompas before we sat back to enjoy the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Of course, we agreed that the book is better!) Have a look at our gallery to see which characters you can spot! :-) And let's not forget Ms. Ryan! ;-)
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