The girls had some exciting visitors last week. The wonderful Agri Aware Mobile Farm paid a visit to our school. We opened up our yard to some pigs, a sheep and her lamb, a calf, some geese, hens, chickens and a beautiful goat named Popcorn. The girls learned about each animal, from their natural habitat to their role in food production. It was both an educational and hands-on experience.

Grandparents’ Day takes place during Catholic Schools Week. It celebrates all the wonderful grandparents and affirms and values their place not only in the lives of their grandchildren, but in the community in general. The girls thoroughly enjoyed showing the grandparents around their classroom and displaying all their fabulous work they have done so far this school year. The girls played Mo Ghile Mear, Dawning of the Day and The Rattlin Bog. Everyone joined in for their song ‘Grace’, I am sure this will be a memory to hold onto forever.

Some girls from 5th and 6th Class got the exciting opportunity to take part in the Féile Fichille tournament this year. It was held in Gaelscoil Nás na Ríog. The girls represented the school as part of teams. They used their amazing chess skills and strategies to compete in six rounds of chess. It was a brilliant way to perform and build on their own knowledge of chess. It was a non-competitive and fun-filled day for all.

The 6th class girls enjoyed learning a fun way of exploring lines and angles. There was great competition in the room to see who could make and measure the most angles.

The girls have been working hard learning new tunes to perform on tin whistle. Here is a clip of their amazing work during December.

Science Week was an exciting time as the girls partnered up with other 5th and 6th Class members to host the annual Science Fair. Each group had to research, construct and present an experiment to the whole school. They learned the science behind their experiment and were able to explain it to the children in every class in our school! It was a great day all round.

The girls showcased their immense amount of hard work and effort in their final 6th class play. It was a great performance and they should all be thoroughly proud of themselves. They are a very talented class. I hope you all enjoyed the performance as much as we did.

The girls in 6th class thoroughly enjoyed participating in Friendship Week. They each received a secret friend in which they had to be each kind towards for the week. They loved the secret element of this. Furthermore, there were many golden tickets handed out for all the kind acts in the classroom as well as around the school. On Friday, the girls took part in a coffee morning where they chatted and shared treats with one another. It was a brilliant week to mark the important statement of ‘The only way to have a friend, is to be one’.