Our Incredible Camogie team showed great skill and determination in beating Coolderry in a thrilling Cumann na mBunscoil County Final on Tuesday 27th May in St. Brendan's Park, Birr. Consisting of members from 4th, 5th and 6th class our girls showed fantastic teamwork, committment and tremendous skill to overcome a valiant Coolderry team. This marks the first time in our school that our girls have won the double in the same year, bringing home the title in both the football and camogie. Huge congratulations girls. What an amazing bunch of players you are!
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Fifth & Sixth Class went on tour with Birr OEC and we had a brilliant day! We participated in team games and archery at the outdoor education centre in the morning then went to Banagher Marina to canoe on the Shannon and pier jump. It was a fantastic tour.
On Wednesday 9th April a team from our class participated in the VEX Robotics Competition in the Marian Hall in Birr. We built our own robots in the months leading up to the competition. We worked with an engineer to build the robots and really enjoyed improving our STEM skills.
On Friday 28th March we held an in-school Young Enterprise event for 5th & 6th Class. Ms. Mary Grennan and Ms. Mary Walsh were our guest judges. The over all standard of entries by the pupils was extremely high and the judges had a very difficult task selecting twelve pupils to go forward to the regional Young Enterprise event in Tullamore. Well done to all the pupils for participating so enthusiastically and creatively in the event and a huge thank you to our guest judges who were very impressed by the excellent exhibits!
Fifth and Sixth class read storybooks with Junior and Senior Infants to celebrate World Book Day. Fifth andf Sixth really enjoy sharedread  Oisin Coughlan won the 6th Class Cumann na mBunscoil Skills Competition on the 1st October in Tullamore. He competed against sixth class pupils from all across the county. Oisin will now go forward to play in the half-time game in Croke Park during either the All-Ireland Final or Semi-Final. Huge congratulations to Oisin for representing our school and parish with such distinction! We are very proud!
We celebrated Halloween in spook-tacular style today! Fifth and Sixth looked appropriately scary in their costumes with a number of home made and upcycled costumes on the day! Well done to everyone. We went to the hall before little break to have our customary Halloween show and each class performed some spooky, Halloween themed poems and songs. Our class recited the poem "Oiche Shamhna" and sang the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. M.J and Noah acoompanied this with some excellent moon-walking!
After break we played some traditional Halloween games such as Bobbing for apples and cutting the flour. We then watched "Hocus Pocus" and had treats and sweets. It was a fun-filled day to mark the end of our first term and the beginning of Halloween mid-term break. Enjoy the break and the trick-or treating everyone! |
