St Mary's Convent Primary School

We really enjoyed Biodiversity Day, which was on Wednesday 11th February. We would like to thank Mrs Nally for organising fantastic guest speakers to come in and talk to us about many different aspects of biodiversity. In 5th class, we had visits from Aidan Gray, who spoke to us about coastal biodiversity, and from James Murray, who told us all about biodiversity on the River Boyne. We also loved dressing up as part of the biodiversity theme!

There was lots of red and pink in the classroom for Valentine’s day on Friday.

In the afternoon we went to the PE hall for our skipathon. Some of the children were able to skip over 100 times without stopping! It was lots of fun!

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.