1916 Centenary Celebrations

We celebrated the centenary of the 1916 Rising. The whole school went to the hall, and 4th and 6th class led the celebrations. Our class sang the song 'Grace', which is a beautiful song about Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, and Grace Gifford, his fiancé. They were engaged, but he was taken prisoner after the Easter Rising. Grace visited him in Kilmainham Jail, they were married there, and spent 15 minutes together before she had to leave. Joseph was executed later that day. We also played the tune on our tin whistles.
After the 6th class Drama, we all sang Amhrán na bhFiann, and went outside to raise the flag. It was a great celebration.

Raising the flag

Attendance Awards

Congratulations to the following girls who won attendance awards for the second term, for their excellent attendance between Christmas and Easter: Wiktoria, Vanessa, Rachel, Maureen, Tangazo and Kayla.

St Clare's Credits

Just before Easter, Nika, Sarah S, Wiktoria, Vanessa, Petra, Sabrina B, Rachel, Sorcha and Nina filled their St Clare's Credits booklets. Stamps are awarded for good behaviour, good attendance, good work, being helpful and co-operative, and these girls have their books filled already. Well done girls!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge was from March 7th - 11th. There were lots of activities as gaeilge in St Clare's. We did our 4th class Irish Assembly on the Monday, where we recited our poem Mo Bhreithlá, and sang our Irish song Trup Trup a Chapaillín. We were go hiontach.
On Friday we had our big Trá na gCeist, a big quiz in Irish for the senior classes. We were all mixed up on different teams, and two girls from our class, Sorcha and Sarah S, were on the winning team! Comhghairdeas cailíní.



Waiting to perform our poem and song

Finally, our Gaelgóirí na Seachtaine were chosen. These were the two pupils who made the most effort to speak Irish all  week. Our winners were Kayleigh and Tanya. Comghairdeas cailíní.

Tanya agus Kayleigh

Sorcha agus Sarah S
 

World Book Day

Thursday March 3rd was World Book Day. We went to Crannóg book shop with our world book day tokens, and we each got a book for free.
Here we are, back in class, reading our World Book Day books.

Arts and Science Project: Award Ceremony

On Monday February 29th we travelled by bus to the County Museum in Ballyjamesduff, to the award ceremony for our project 'Beautiful and Natural Things Live Here'.
We listened to a talk on wildlife by two scientists, Éanna Ní Lamhna and Heather B, who showed us all about native birds and animals. Later we had a chance to see the exhibition of our work. We saw our poem displayed on the wall in the exhibition area, and our artwork hung on a display tree. We saw our Field Work notebooks also on display.
We loved seeing our work as part of an exhibition. It was very exciting, and we enjoyed being part of the whole process. We were presented with an award, and a certificate each. The award will be on display in the St Clare's Trophy cabinet!!

The Project

Our poem in the exhibition area

Looking at our Field Work notebooks

Marilyn Gaffney's Raindrops

Some of our art work

Admiring our work

With the scientists

Éanna Ní Lamhna and a red squirrel

Heather Brett, poet, talks to us

The Award Presentation

Our trophy

Congratulations!

Relaxation Yoga class

On Mondays we do relaxation yoga class. We really enjoy it. We do lots of breathing, stretching and relaxing our bodies and our minds. After the lesson we are ready to face anything!

Don't forget to wear PE uniform on Mondays.