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Christmas Show

On December 17th, our pupils took part in our annual Christmas show. They entertained the audience with singing, poetry, a beautiful narration of the Nativity, and a tin whistle performance accompanied by the bodhrán. It was a lovely day enjoyed by the pupils, staff, parents and grandparents.

Toys and Games in the Past

While learning about toys and games from the past, the Junior Room recreated some of the games their grandparents played when they were young.

The children really enjoyed experiencing these traditional games and learning how play has changed over time.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

Thank you to all our families who so generously donated and helped support a very worthwhile cause. Your kindness and generosity are very much appreciated.

GAA with Ellen

Science Week

All classes participated in a variety of exciting science experiments. Pupils investigated, explored and experimented, developing their scientific skills while having lots of fun along the way.

GAA

We are also very lucky to have Ellen from Tullogher Rosbercon GAA Club visit our school every Wednesday to teach GAA skills to all of our pupils. The children really enjoy her sessions each week and are making great progress. We are very grateful for Ellen’s time, energy, and expertise.

Trick or Treat

This year, our pupils once again took part in the fundraising event Trick or Treat for the Children’s Health Foundation. The children had great fun dressing up and helping to raise vital funds to support sick children and their families. A special thank you to one of our parents, Linda, who very kindly offered to face-paint all of the children’s faces on the day — it added so much fun and excitement to the occasion. Well done to everyone involved!

Jersey Day

Our school was delighted to take part in Jersey Day once again this year, raising money for GOAL.

Mindfulness with Bernie Woods

We are delighted to welcome Bernie Woods back to our school to deliver sessions based on the Creative Mindfulness approach. During these sessions, children take part in engaging activities that help them explore mindful breathing, understand emotions, practise self-compassion, be a good friend, and show gratitude. The pupils thoroughly enjoy their time with Bernie and always look forward to her visits.

Grow at School

Our pupils took part in the Grow at School programme again this year. In spring, they sowed carrot and turnip seeds in our school garden. When they returned in September, they were thrilled to harvest the vegetables they had grown themselves!

Welcome

We would like to welcome our three new Junior Infants to Shanbogh N.S. They have settled in brilliantly and have made a fantastic start to their school journey.

School Walk

Our annual school walk took place on Wednesday, 18th June. We were lucky to have a lovely, sunny day for the walk and it was great to have so many parents and past pupils in attendance. The ice-creams provided by the Parent Association afterwards were very welcome!

Flying our Kites

As part of learning all about Instructional texts the senior room made beautiful kites. To make the kites they had to follow a set of instructions and all of the kites turned out really well. They had great fun flying the kites in the yard.

Sports Day

After being rained off on Thursday our Sports Day went ahead on Friday, 13th June. A great day was had by all and we finished up with a delicious treat of ice creams for all.

Visit from the Gardaí

We had a very informative visit from Garda Lisa and Garda Seán. We got to hear all about their jobs and ask lots of questions.

Maybush

Once again we decorated our Maybush. We were lucky to have such a beautiful day for this and we are delighted to keep up the tradition.

Say Yes to Languages

Our Senior Room are having great fun learning Spanish as part of the Say Yes to Languages initiative. Teacher Marie is inspiring a love of the language through fun, interactive learning.

Easter Art

As part of our Fabric and Fibre Visual Art strand we had great fun weaving Easter baskets.

Wellbeing

For the month of March we held weekly ‘reading buddies’ sessions. The children from the Senior Room partnered up with children from the Junior Room to help them with their reading. All the children were delighted to receive their certificates at the end of the month.

Lá Glas

Our annual Lá Glas took place on Friday, 14th of March. We all proudly wore plenty of green to celebrate the end of Seachtain na Gaeilge and also to look forward to St. Patrick’s Day.

Heritage in Schools – Pollinator Workshop

Edel Heeran came to us with her exciting Pollinator workshop. We had the chance to become beekeepers. Edel brought an educational hive that we could safely handle to see what happens in a honeybee hive. We were also able to handle beekeeping equipment and taste local honey if we wished.

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday, March 6th. As usual everyone put great effort into their costumes. We also held a reading buddies workshop that day where the students from the Senior Room buddied up with students from the Junior Room to help them with their reading.

Céadaoin an Luaithrigh

We joined Fr. Dan (via livestream) as he celebrated mass for Ash Wednesday in the church in Rosbercon.

Pancake Tuesday

Everyone enjoyed delicious pancakes for Pancake Tuesday.

Fabric and Fibre

As part of our Visual Art theme of fabric and fibre the Senior Room are learning how to weave. We have first started weaving using paper and we have produced some gorgeous pieces of work.

A visit from a Dairy Farmer

Robert, Áine’s dad kindly took time from his busy day to come and talk to us all about life as a dairy farmer. We were treated to a lovely video (filmed by Áine’s mammy, Helen) showing us how the cows are milked each day and about how the calves are fed using the Blue Cow! Robert also gave us information about where the milk goes when it leaves the farm.

Valentine’s Day Art

Both classes had great fun making art pieces for Valentine’s Day. The Junior Room made beautiful love birds. The Senior Room practiced their weaving skills to make woven hearts.

Wellbeing

As part of our ongoing School Self Evaluation in the area of Wellbeing, we held a poster competition based on the theme of “One Kind Word.” This initiative was aimed at promoting kindness and positive communication within our school community. As part of this special event, we wanted to encourage all children to create their own poster to reflect the importance of kind words and how they can impact the lives of others. We were so impressed by the hard-work and thought that each child put into their poster. Well done everyone!

Printing our Christmas Cards

Putting up our Christmas Tree

Late Late Toy Show Day

To celebrate the Late Late Toy Show we had our own toy demonstration in the Junior Room. Great fun was had by all.

Team Hope

This year we again donated shoeboxes to the Team Hope appeal. Shoeboxes were sent to Eswatini in Southern Africa.

Science Week

Science week took place from 10th to 17th November and we took part in many activities to mark the week. Our senior room particularly enjoyed putting their knowledge of circuits into practice to make light up robots.

Heritage in Schools

We had an excellent session with Marina from Heritage in Schools. Marina introduced us to native Irish plants through storytelling and drawing. The children were introduced to several plants and trees and were able to hear the plants ‘sing’. They heard traditional stories about native plants and took part in a drawing tutorial.

Owls!

Colin visited our school with a lovely selection of owls and one hawk. We saw the following birds – Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Great Horn Owl, Harris Hawk, White Faces Scops Owl and a Little Owl. It was a great opportunity to learn about and to handle these amazing birds.

Watercolour Art

Our senior room had great fun learning how to use watercolour paints to produce autumn art.