STEM sa Bhaile and Engineers Week 2020

After our amazing remote STEM sa bhaile week, Ms Golding  created a super video which captures the week. ( see our twitter or school story on dojo for this). The children in all grades created some very impressive STEM work at home. During the year,  the School had a very successful Engineers Week too. Children from all grades participated in different Engineering activities throughout the week. Some school-based projects included different year groups working together on ‘buddy engineering projects.’ These included making robots with Lego, programming a toy car to...

Attendance 2019/2020 School Year

The school has a Three Year Attendance Plan that aims to improve pupil attendance over the course of the three years 2018 – 2021. We have a number of initiatives in the school to assist with improving attendance – monthly rewards for pupils and classes at assembly, pupil rewards for full attendance each term, text alerts to parents after 5 and 10 days absence and letters from the principal to parents after 15 and 20 days as absence reminders. Our targets for this year were: Improvement of 1% on baseline data (overall attendance for the year 2017/2018 which was 90.7%)...

6th Class ‘Hands on’ June 20...

Hi Everyone, At the moment we’re beginning to wind down to the end of the school year. The children have been working very hard up to now, in some unusual circumstances. During June the staff and children have been focusing on some ‘Hand’s on’ activities. Here are some pieces of work from 6th Class. Enjoy them and remember: please continue to post your work to Class dojo. It’s great to see everyone’s ‘Figure it out’ mentality and gorgeous art work. Thank you for sharing it with us. ...

TG4 Cúla 4 Ar Scoil

While the programming is aimed at children attending Gaelscoileanna, it is equally beneficial for all children for some Gaeilge lessons. The programmes are divided into different sections aimed at different age groups as can be seen from the lesson plans in the screenshot above. The shows are broadcast daily on TG4 at 10.00 Monday to Friday but can also be accessed on Youtube or on the Cula 4 Ar Scoil Player at https://www.cula4.com/en/shows/cula4-ar-scoil/ (Tip: scroll down to the bottom of the page to access different episodes.) Bainigí taithneamh agus sult...

RTE Home School Hub

  The RTE Home School Hub broadcast daily Monday to Friday at 11.00 on Network 2 featuring three teachers, Múinteoir Ray, Múinteoir John and Múinteoir Cliona who may already be known to some TG4 viewers as Aifric teach three short lessons daily aimed at children in First to Sixth Class. The programmes are proving very successful with both parents and children judging by the feedback on Twitter #rtehomeschool.   If you miss any of the lessons, you can catch up on any of the previous lessons and the accompanying activity sheets at https://www.rte.ie/learn/ In a...

Attendance – Term 2 – 2019/2...

Due to Covid 19 School Closures, it was not possible to present attendance certificates as usual at the end of term to pupils with Full Attendance. Instead using our Class Dojo system 61 children (23%), were awarded their certificate for Full Attendance—Term 2 by having it uploaded and approved on their ePortfolio. Attendance records for January and February show an improvement over the figures for previous years. However our March attendance records show a considerable drop over the course of the two weeks, first week we had an average of 90.2%, dropping in the...

Attendance – Term 1 – 2019/2...

Today in the school, 41 children (15%), were presented with a certificate and prize for Full Attendance—Term 1. However, our overall attendance statistics for December (down from 90.4% last year to 87. 4%) are not as good as anticipated due to the high levels of pupil absences this month, particularly on the three Fridays in December where 44 or 45 pupils were recorded as absent. Class Number of Pupils Third 10 Fourth 11 Fifth 11 Sixth 9 ...

Developing empathy through STEM activiti...

Hi, This term Ms Jenkins’ 6th class took part in an exciting STEM project in conjunction with the local college, TU Dublin – Tallaght. Two engineers from the college, Gerry & Lucy, visited our classroom every Friday for four weeks. The children engaged in STEM activities in the classroom. These activities helped to further develop the children’s empathy and understanding of the difficulties and challenges people might encounter when living in Dublin in the year 2100. The children very much enjoyed the STEMpathy activities. Some of the children had a...