Karate exhibition

Well done to Corina from our class, who along with some other children from her karate class, took part in a karate exhibition in St Clare's recently.

Gymnastics

As part of our PE curriculum, we are learning gymnastics in class every Wednesday. Our lesson takes place in the hall. We do cartwheels, handstands, balancing, skipping, forward rolls and lots more. Our flexibility is increasing because of all the stretches we learn. Gymnastics is fun!!

Sportathon

The annual St Clare's Sportathon took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 25th and 26th. Activities for senior classes were on Tuesday.
We started off with Orienteering with Mrs Reilly. This was followed by skipping with Mr McGovern in the main yard, before athletics with Mrs Cosgrove. Before breaktime we had Co-operative Games with Mr Walsh.
After break we participated in Gymnastics with Ms Hughes, Ball Skills with Ms E Brady. Next it was our turn to have ice-cream, which we all enjoyed!
After lunch we all took part in Circuit Training with Mr Arkins, Ms Meehan and Ms Phelan. This was followed by Yoga with Mrs Lynch, and finally our day ended with Dance with Ms Gorby.
We had fantastic fun. It was a brilliant day, and all funds raised will go towards buying new computers for the computer room.
We hope you like the photos!!!

Orienteering

Skipping

Athletics

Cooperative Games

Ice-cream: our favourite!

Ball skills

Gymnastics

Circuit training

Circuit training

Yoga

Dance

Dance

Dance

Easter Attendance Awards

Congratulations to all these girls, who have had full attendance since Christmas:
Paula
Caragh
Dearbhla
Keeva
Rebekah
Darani
Corina
Julia
Also, congratulations to Nicole, Katie and Grace who missed just 2 days or less.
Have a wonderful Easter everyone, see you all back on April 24th!!!

Green Schools Walk for Water

On Thursday April 6th we took part in the Green Schools Walk for Water. This is part of our work towards our Green Flag for Water.
We watched a video which showed how women and girls in Ethiopia have to hike up hills twice a day to collect water. This water is not even clean, it is contaminated. Here in Ireland we take our water for granted. In some countries they are not so lucky.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

We celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge from March 13-16. There were lots of activities as Gaeilge happening around the school. We sang Amhrán na bhFiann every morning at assembly. We practiced Frasaí an Lae every day in class. We had a Tráth na gCeist on Tuesday in the hall. Our school band performed for the school on Wednesday. On Thursday we had a concert, and a Céilí Mór. Caragh sang Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile.
Congratulations to the following prizewinners from our class:
 Paula and Andreja, our Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine winners.
Julia, our Comórtas Ealaíne winner.
Nicole and Rebecca, who won prizes in the Tráth na gCeist.
Caragh, who won prize in the raffle.
Comhghairdeas!!!!

World Book Week

We celebrated World Book Week in St Clare's last week. There were lots of activities going on all around the school. We read Revolting Rhymes in class. We went to Eason's with our World Book Day tokens, and got a free book. We did paired reading with 1st class Room 5. We took part in a Monster Book Swop on Friday, where we all went to the hall and got to choose a book to take home. We also designed our book marks. We had a great week, and read a lot!!!