This month we are studying China as a whole school. We will be doing lots of activities and lessons on all things China. We made a Chinese Dragon for everybody to play with and use in drama lessons, golden time and other times throughout the month. The pictures below show all the steps the dragon went through to get to it’s final form and we are delighted with how it turned out! A big thank you to all the staff and pupils involved in making him!!

On Wednesday this week lots of Saint Francis NS pupils, their families and some pets walked from the Castle Inn in the Village to the school. We got given high-vis jackets and we walked to the school grounds. This was called WOW (walk on Wednesday) and we did it because this week is wellness week. It was a very cold morning and we were all wrapped up warm. Everybody loved it and maybe we should do it more often!

~ 3rd & 4th class

We are making a school mosaic mural with local artist Christien van Bussel. A couple of weeks ago we made our clay tiles and decorated them with lots of fun designs, including pasta shapes. On Monday she came back in to school with our hardened tiles, so we got to paint them. It was very fun. Christien showed us all the special paint called glaze. The tiles will get fired again and then our mural will be ready.

~ 1st & 2nd class

Last week we made board games and we got to play them in school on Friday. It was so much fun to try each other’s games. We had 10 minutes to play a game, then we switched to another game. We hope we can do it again sometime.

~ 5th & 6th class

On Tuesday 23rd September 3rd – 6th class went to Avondale for the annual cross country races. There were schools from all over the county and hundreds of children competing. Well done to everyone who ran in a race!

We are very lucky to have some school pets in the way of hens. We currently have seven hens. They have a coop at the back of the school and are let out to roam the school grounds everyday. The hens are very good at laying eggs and they are for sale outside our school in the honesty box. A box of our free range eggs costs €3.