St Mary's Convent Primary School

It is Catholic Schools week  this week. We have been learning about how we should live like God wants us to live. We love one another. We are kind to each other. We share and we are honest.

We celebrated Grandparent’s Day on Wednesday. We made beautiful portraits of our nanas and grandads! They look fabulous! 

Granny Peggy came to visit our classroom today for Grandparents’ Day.

She told us lots of interesting things about when she was in primary school in Dublin.  She didn’t have to wear a school uniform when she was in school!  She also had to do 7th class because she was too young to go to secondary school – you had to be 14.

We really enjoyed our visit from Granny Peggy.  Thank you and Happy Grandparents’ Day from everyone in Room 13.

We had a great day today in room 26. The Santa Dash was so much fun, we gave and received Kris Kindle presents and then we had a dance party! We are very excited for Christmas next week and we hope everyone has a wonderful break. We’ve certainly earned it after our magnificent Christmas Pageant on Tuesday night!! Merry Christmas!

We had great fun today on our last day of school for 2014! We had a Santa dash around the school and we all wore in our Christmas jumpers and hats. The whole school was out running! It was a really busy week! We were playing some board games , doing art, our Christmas play and we even did some baking.

We have had a great year so far! It was great to end 2014 with lots of laughter and smiles. Happy Christmas to all!

The actors and actresses in room 9 have had a busy couple of weeks getting ready for their Christmas play extravaganza- Jesus’ Christmas Party. They sang the songs so beautifully and really got into character for the play. Hollywood watch out! Happy Christmas every one! 

Look at this fabulous Christmas knitting!  Alannah knit the snowman and Meg knit Santa Claus.  Sophie built the set.  Doesn’t it look fantastic! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Last week was Hour of Code week across the world.  The children in Room 13 used the free website www.code.org and completed a number of puzzles using the code for Frozen.  They loved it!  You can follow 20 free lessons to create your own Frozen winter wonderland.  Just go to this site – http://studio.code.org/s/frozen  Have fun!!!

There was great excitement in St Mary’s this morning when Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh came to the school to raise the Gaelbhratach flag.  We are one of only three schools in Ireland who have been awarded this flag so it was a very special occasion.

We are taking part in the Clowns for Haiti pencil case appeal this month in St Mary’s school. The Clowns for Haiti charity aims to support school children in Haiti following the earthquake that struck in 2010. Out of the 4,000 schools in Haiti, 3,640 were destroyed.

The Clowns for Haiti visited our school before Halloween and asked for our help. They want us to fill a pencil case each for the boys and girls in Haiti. All of the pencil cases will be flown over to Haiti and delivered to the children by the clowns.

The pencil cases were distributed this week and the children in St Mary’s are busy filling the pencil cases with pencils, crayons, treats, hairbands, small toys etc! Imagine how excited the Haitian children will be when they receive your gift!

We will take a picture of all the pencil cases when they are all returned to school.

Let’s all be part of this simple act of charity! Watch this space….