Sixth Class Trip to Tallaght Village

Last week the pupils in Ms. Stack’s sixth class took Difi with them when they visited two of Tallaght’s oldest churches. First, they visited St. Maelruan’s Church and Cemetery. St. Maelruan founded his monastery in Tallaght in the 8th century. The tower of St. Maelruan’s Church dates back to the 15th or 16th century and the present church was built beside it in 1829. St. Dominic founded the Dominican order in 1216. The Dominican Order came to Tallaght in 1855 and founded St. Mary’s Priory. It became a college for training priests and is still...

Our 6th Class 1916 Rising Project

All the 6th class children in our school got together to do a project on 1916. Our group of 17 pupils decided we would do a PowerPoint on the main  men and women who took part in the Easter Rising . [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/157267068[/vimeo] We displayed all our work in the hall and presented our PowerPoint to the 4th and 5th classes and also to the parents. After we converted our presentation to a video and uploaded it here. It was a really interesting project to be part of and we learnt a lot about what happened in  our country 100 years...

A Surprise Visitor to 6th Class

Bernard Dunne , former World Bantamweight Boxing Champion, visited our Maths Class today! He talked to Michael who is an All Ireland Boxing Champion . Michael won the title last year when he was 11 years. Bernard encouraged Michael to keep up the training. He also said boxing was not all about strength but about using your brain and being clever as...