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...

The Normans

We in Ms Nestor’s class have been working very hard over the last while learning about The Normans. We spent lots of time in our groups researching about the different aspects of life during Norman times in Ireland and compiled our information into a video using Powerpoint. Have a look at it below!   During our research we were very interested in how the Normans celebrated so we decided to have our very own Norman Banquet. We put all the tables in the shared area into a U shape as that’s how the Normans would have been seated and covered them in nice...

All About Our Friends

It is friendship week in our school so we decided to make a PowerPoint on friendship .It is so important to have friends and to be a good friend to others. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/79868614[/vimeo]

Parents’ Powerpoint Presentation

  Over the past number of weeks a group of parents, along with the HSCL coordinator have been working together to produce a PowerPoint presentation based on our school. The main purpose of the presentation was to incorporate all the different aspects of our school. The parents met on Wednesday mornings over a 4 week period . During these sessions the parents decided on what should be included in the presentation, for example the pictures and content to be used. One of the difficult tasks the parents had was to shorten the content because there are so many different...

European Project 2012 – 14

You are probably aware that the school has become involved in an international education project. This is a two year project that involves pupils and teachers from five different schools communicating and learning together on a variety of topics. The other four schools in the project are from Pisa in Italy, Kolding in Denmark, Oulu in Finland and St. Mark’s SNS, just up the road in Springfield. Teachers from all of the other schools spent a full day in Sacred Heart in October, and saw our pupils performing Irish songs and dance; they visited their classrooms, and also...