During the month of March, we have been learning some hip-hop moves with our dance instructor. A massive thank-you to Emma Courtney who has been absolutely fabulous with the children. The children really did enjoy every moment!
Active Breaks 2025
Our Active Schools Committee of 2025, have been busy planning, organising and playing lots of games with our pupils on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at lunch-time. They are great leaders and the children are all having a ball!
Term 2 in 3rd and 4th Class
The girls and boys in 3rd and 4th class have been super busy from Halloween to Christmas. In Gaeilge, we have been looking at the theme of An Scoil and learning lots of vocabulary around this theme. We have been singing songs and practicing poems in this subject too. In the last week, we have been looking at An Nolliag, learning lots of Christmas vocabulary, alongside making Irish Christmas cards.
In English we focused on persausive and narrative writing. We discussed the impact of advertising slogans and jingles on our purchases and completed our own persausive ads, trying to convince people to buy ROBOTS. We also composed our own Christmas stories through narrative writing.
In maths, we have been focusing on multiplication and I am proud of how the boys and girls have mastered this. We have engaged in lots of maths games and hands-on activities to come to grips with this topic. We used our ‘maths bags’ to figure out some Christmas themed problems.
For Science Week in November, we looked at Light and Sound and we experimented with reflections in mirrors and identified sounds solely by listening. We learned about the science of how we hear sounds with our ears.
We learned lots of interesting facts about our county and country in Geography. In History , we looked at Games and Pastimes in the past compared to nowadays, completing interviews with our parents and grandparents to explore this. We learned about the history of Christmas and traditions around the world.
In S.P.H.E., we have focused on the negative effects of smoking and also the importance of personal hygiene for our wellbeing.
In religion, we have been focusing on the theme of Advent and Christmas.
In Art, we completed drawings of local buildings, made clay decorations and elf door hangers and entered the Monaghan Shopping Centre Christmas colouring competion.
We have been busy practising for and taking part in our Christmas play ‘No One Wraps Like an Elf’. We have fantastic actors, singers and dancers in our class! They put on a fabulous performance in Lisdoonan Hall!
We took part in Friendship Day, the M.S. Readathon, Crazy Hair Day and also had a visit from Santa.
Well Done Boys and Girls on a fantastic term! Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to everyone!!
Move to Improve 2024
All classes in our school engaged in the MOVE TO IMPROVE PROGRAMME, over six weeks from September to October.
Move to Improve is a fun based, active program that focuses on the development of kids vital motor and social skills. Move to Improve also promotes kids involvement in multi sports, many of which are not given enough exposure. This will help to increase the ratio of kids who continue an active, healthy lifestyle into their teens. A massive thank-you to Ryan Burns and his colleagues, who provided fantastic P.E. lessons for all our pupils!
MS Readathon Launch
We were very lucky today to have the opportunity to dress up for the MS Ireland Readathon Launch. We had a visit from Derek Kielty who gave us a taste of his writing from his collection of books. He even did some magic tricks for us. Liepa and Luke were chosen from our classroom to be interviewed about their love for reading and they did a fantastic job. Well done boys and girls on your efforts!!
School Disco 2024
On Thursday 6th June the children were delighted to attend our annual school disco arranged by our student council. The student council organised disco lighting, the playlist and of course some disco accessories for each student. The photobooth was a particular hit with the students – have a look at the photos below!!
W.O.W.
As part of our ACTIVE SCHOOL Campaign and our HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOL Campaign and as part of our ‘Transport’ Theme in our GREEN SCHOOL’S Campaign, our whole school take part in WOW (Walk on Wednesday)on the first Wednesday of each month. It’s a great way to come together as a school community, getting some exercise and having a chat with our friends before school commences. Look at some of the pictures below!
Busy Bunnies in February!!
First and Second Class have been very busy during February. We learned lots about Saint Brigid and Lent in Religion. Second Class also celebrated their First Penance on 13th February. In Irish we learned about ‘An Gruagaire’ and even sang a hair themed song on ‘Crazy Hair Day’. Maths was all about positional language and shape – we sang lots of songs, danced to different directional instructions and played lots of interactive games involving these topics. We also made our very own shape people. In English, we learned a spring poem and wrote some fantastic spring poems of our own, which we presented to our classmates. We learned about water and the importance of water in Science and in History we visited the topic of the Chinese New Year. We learned about Saint Valentine and the traditions of this special occasion. We created lovely cards for someone special in our lives. We learned about Internet Safety on Safer Internet Day in S.P.H.E. and we also learned about family types and the importance of being part of a family. We enjoyed learning new soccer skills with Euan and putting them to practice in some very competitive games. We also tried a little Irish dancing in class and showed our fantastic rhythmic abilities. As part of our in class rewards system, we got to bring in board games and had great fun playing these together. Well Done boys and girls on a fantastic months work!
2-D Shape Work in 1st and 2nd Class
In February in Maths, we have been busy learning about directions and shapes. We learned different positional language terms and practiced directions in various online games and also in dance activities. We even had the opportunity to get outdoors and find and take photographs of various 2-D shapes in our school environment. We also worked in groups to make 2-D shapes with our bodies. When we came indoors, each group explained which 2-D shapes they found, using the interactive whiteboard. Well done boys and girls! Who knew we had so many shapes all around us.
Sacrament of Penance 2024
Eighteen wonderful pupils celebrated the Sacrament of Penance on Tuesday 13th of February in St. Lastra’s Church, Donaghmoyne.
Well done and congratulations to the nine boys and nine girls in second class for their respectful and prayerful participation on the evening of their First Confession.
Every one of them should feel very proud of their efforts, both in preparation for and during the ceremony. The occasion was a memorable one, enhanced by beautiful singing and readings. Thank-you to all our pupils for joining our choir on the night!
A huge thank you to Father Daly for celebrating this special occasion with us.