Posted by Fifth Class on Mar 12, 2019 in Third Class, Fourth Class, Fifth Class, Sixth Class, School News | 0 comments
Engineers Week 2019
Engineers Week has been in full swing at the Sacred Heart Senior School. All classes have been busy designing and building different engineering projects. Children in both 5th and 6th classes have taken part in engineering workshops at the Tallaght stadium. These activities were part of South Dublin County Council’s programme for Engineers week. At school the children have been very busy making ‘Wigglebots’ , ‘Paper bridges’ and ‘Spaghetti and Marshmallow Towers’ . We also started our ‘Buddy Engineering’ which involved children from 5th class talking...
World Book Day
On Thursday the 7th of March in school we had an event named World Book Day .On World Book Day some of the students dressed up as a character from our favourite book by choice. Lauren and I done a group costume from little Red Riding Hood .I was little Red Riding Hood and Lauren was the woodcutter .It was so fun. At 2.00pm the whole school went down to the P.E. hall for a group photograph and gave out a couple of prizes for the best costume. Soon after we came back up to the class room and gave out a couple more prizes I won a prize also. It was very fun and exciting...
Performance at Peace Proms 2019!
On Sunday the third of February 2019. At 4pm we arrived at the school to go to the RDS Co. Dublin. The bus left at 4pm sharp. It took a half an hour to get to the RDS. When we arrived at the RDS it was very crowded. We were to stay near the blue area. There were maybe about 2,500 children there. We are not so sure but about over a thousand parents there. Our practise run started at 5pm and the real thing was at 7pm we had 2 breaks to go to the bathroom and to eat a bit of food and have a drink of water. We sang all our songs with the cross border orchestra and I think the...
Third class experiment with helium
In Mr. Maguire’s class, The children have been learning about different gases and how they work. Last week they got to experiment with Helium. Helium is less dense than other gases in our air, so it rises up into the sky. The children got to see how this works. They blew up balloons with a helium tank and then attached them to pencils. Their mission was to lift the pencils into the air using the Helium. Most of the children estimated it would take a two or three balloons to lift the pencils but it took around 7 balloons for some pencils to fly up. It was great fun...
Christmas activities in Third Class
We have been very busy in third class getting ready for Christmas. This week we had our nativity play and mass in the Church. We also had our Christmas concert where all of the grades sang Christmas songs. Third class sang Jingle bell rock and bualadh bos. We got to wear our Christmas hats to the concert that we decorated last week. Thanks to all of those who came in to help us decorate them and also to Ms. Murphy for organising it. It was great fun and some of us even got up for a dance! You can see us in action below as well as us enjoying some hot...
Third Class Win Attendance Prize to the ...
Today, Thursday 20th December, all of third class went to the cinema in the Square to see The Grinch because we won the best attendance for the month of December. The film was really funny and we also got to bring some treats. It was actually my first time at the cinema and that was a great experience. We are actually lucky this week because we got to go on another trip on the bus yesterday to see the play called ‘How to Catch a Star’ in the Ark Theatre. It has been a busy but fun week for us! By...
HSCL Christmas News
HSCL Christmas News We have been very busy here in Sacred Heart SNS in the run up to Christmas. Firstly, I would like to thank the children for their kind donations to the ‘Tallaght Adventure World Christmas Dinner’. We were thrilled with the kindness the children showed at this special time of year. It is unfortunately a very hard time for some. Your kind donations will go a long way to making people happy. Giving is a very important lesson to learn in life. Thank you again for being so thoughtful. In other news we have been busy bees crafting in the parent’s...Sacred Heart S.N.S. was founded in 1977. At the moment there are about 260 boys and girls, from third to sixth class. We are situated at the foot of the Dublin Mountains, in Tallaght, about eight miles from Dublin City Centre.
