Samhain - Dress Up!!!!

We dressed up today to celebrate Samhain!  Enjoy the mid-term break everybody!!!!!

Learn Together - Samhain - Baking

Today we wrapped up this half-term by baking some flapjacks for our class Samhain party, and they were all delicious!

History - Eras of Change & Conflict: World War 1 - Ryan & Holly Letters

Holly from our class and Ryan from the other school recorded themselves reading their letters.  We put the audios and written letters into a video for all to hear and read.  Try not to cry!

History - Eras of Change & Conflict: World War 1 - Project

KT produced a very interesting mini-project on World War 1 at home and presented it to the class today.

History - Eras of Change and Conflict: World War 1 - Letter Replies

We finished out World War 1 letter replies today replies and posted them back to the local school.  You can read them by clicking on the image below.

Gaeilge - Téama: Bia - Sraithphictiúir

Mar chuid den staidéar atá á dhéanamh againn faoi láthair ar an téama bia dhearamar sraithphictiúir bunaithe ar an dán Ocras ar Dhaithí.  An bhfuil tú ábalta scéal an dáin a thuiscint?  Brúigh ar an sampla thíos chun níos mó a fheiceáil.

English - Recount Writing - Warhorse Timeline

We are learning about recount writing at the moment.  Today we produced timelines of events that have taken place to date in our current class novel, War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.  Click the timeline below to see some more of our timelines:

Visual Arts - Construction: Rockets

We constructed paper rockets today.  Before we built our rockets we designed them on paper.  Here are some of our plans:

Science - Energy & Forces - Propulsion

Today we started to learn about rockets and how they move.  This is called propulsion.  We demonstrated how a chemical reaction can lead to a build up of energy which can be used to move an object.  Click on the image below to read some of our reports.

Gaeilge - Téama: Bia - Biachláir

I rith mí Deireadh Fómhair táimid ag staidéar an téama Bia.  Lá amháin dhearamar biachláir do bhialann.  Is féidir leat iad a fheiceáil anseo:

Maths - Maths Week Fun with Senior Infants

This morning we spent some time in the hall with our friends from Senior Infants.  Their teacher set up maths challenges for them as part of maths week and we had lots of fun helping them out.  Click the picture for more images.

History - Eras of Change & Conflict: World War 1 - Letters Received

Today we all received World War 1 letters from 6th class in a nearby school.  The students in the other school imagined that they were participating in the war or they were at home writing to someone at war.  We empathised with the letter writers and look forward to replying next week.  Click the image below to read the letters:

Maths - Data: Multiple Trend Graphs

In maths lesson today we moved on to multiple trend graphs.  We were given data on the final position of 5 Premiership football teams from 2004/05 season to 2013/14 season.  We plotted the data on our multiple trend graphs.  Here are some examples of our finished products by CO'N and EL.

CO'N

EL

Class Diary by BCM

On the 7th of October  me and 11 other people from 6th class went to St.Stewarts.

We got to help loads of boys and girls of many ages.  We played catch and football.  We got to push their wheelchairs towards the goal and they pushed it in.  Some couldn't talk but we all had loads of fun.

Unfortunately we had to go but we were all so happy that we got to play with them.  I hope I can go again because I really enjoyed spending time with such amazing boys and girls.

BCM

Class Diary by KT

To start off the day we did maths we played around the world and after we made our own multiple bar charts. We where doing them on favourite T.v programms when you where small , if you had a pet and what it was, how you get to school and your favourite food.

Our class are doing something called dojo we all have a monster and our names underneath and when ever we do something extra and if you do something bad like not doing a task or talking out of turn and bullying.

For Irish we made our own comics about a poem that we did in Irish yesterday. After we had to write a sad thing that happend to you.

KT

Maths: Data - Multiple Bar Charts

This week we are learning about data. We are focussing on how to collect data, as well as how to represent and interpret data on graphs.  We revised pictographs, pie charts, bar charts, and multiple bar charts during today's lesson.

We worked in our maths groups and compiled data by asking our group leader to visit the other groups and ask questions.  We plotted our data on a multiple bar chart.  You can see our results by clicking on this image:

All of our multiple bar charts are on our Maths wall for all our visitors to see.

Maths: Trail in Griffeen Valley Park

Today we went on a maths trail in Griffeen Valley Park.  We worked in teams of 3 people.  We were given a booklet with a scavenger hunt as well as maths questions.  Here are some photos ...

Visual Arts: Henna

To celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha we learned about Henna today.  We made a stencil of one of our hands and designed it with a unique Henna design.

When the stencil was designed we cut it out.

Then we displayed them in the classroom for all to see.

Learn Together - Christianity Project

Our faith for the month of September was Christianity.  AR produced a wall display with an excellent overview of Christianity which you can read here:

Gaeilge -Mé Féin

Bhíomar ag staidéar an téama Mé Féin i rith mí Meán Fómhair. Is féidir linn comhrá a chur ar siúl eadrainn faoi rudaí atá ar siúl inár saolta.  Freisin, chaitheamar am ag foghlaim na baill choirp.  

Seo í an taispeántas atá ar an mballa Gaeilge anois!

Science: Global Warming & Climate Change

During the science lesson today we drew pictures to explain how global warming occurs.   Click on the image below to see more pictures:

Equality & Justice Award Ceremony

Conor Cusack visited our school today to receive our biennial Equality & Justice Award, following in the footsteps of Fachtna "Doc" Clandillon and Louise Bayliss.  Conor talked to us about mental health and bullying before being presented with a cheque for the National Suicide charity Console.

Visual Arts: Casting Our Hands using Modroc

Today's visual arts class was influenced by the work of the sculptor George Segal (1924 - 2000).  Segal used plaster bandages (modroc) to cast lifesize figures.  Here is an example of his work:

Using Segal's work as inspiration we made casts of our hands using modroc.

First we cut the modroc into small pieces.

We covered our hand in Vaseline to make it easier to remove the cast from our hand when it's dry.

We dipped the modroc into water and placed it on our hand.

Gradually, we built our cast, layer upon layer.

After 15 minutes the modroc was dry enough to remove.

Click on this image to see some of our work:

Our work is hanging up in our classroom now for all visitors to see.

History: Field Trip to St.Finian's Church & Cemetery

This afternoon we visited a local ruin.  It's called St.Finian's Church and Cemetery.  It is 1.5 km from our school and a lot of the children in our class live beside it.  However, not many children were aware of it's existence.

Here is some information from South Dublin County Council's Griffeen Valley Park booklet:

On the summit of one of the nearby hills overlooking Esker Lane and the  Griffeen Valley Park, just north of King John's Bridge, lie the ruins of the medieval parish church of Esker, probably dating from the 12th century. In earlier times, it stood in a commanding position overlooking the former village of Esker. In the early 1200s, King John gave the church to St. Patrick's Church in Dublin, and when St. Patrick's became a cathedral, the dean had a right to the church at Esker, which he dedicated to St. Finian. It is recorded that in 1830 there was a private school based beside the ruins of St. Finian's Church. It was run by a Mr. Sturgeon and provided a classical education for boys only. 

St. Finian's Church was a long plain rectangular building, built of roughly coursed masonry. During the sixteenth century it was extensively rebuilt and re-roofed in timber. In 1615 the church was recorded as being "in repair", but the chancel was in ruins. Later that century, the church was recorded to be in a ruinous state. Today, only the belfry end and some parts of the north and 

south walls remain. 

In the wall of the ruin there is reputed to be a cavity shaped like a chalice. There was a local tradition whereby people were cured of eye ailments by dipping their fingers in the water from the chalice and using it to wash their eyes. Another reputed cavity in a nearby stone is known as the 'Devil's Foot'. The story goes that anyone who puts his or her hand or foot in the cavity will be unable to remove it. 

Within the ruins of the church are several graves, some with headstones dating back to the early 1700s. Information is known about some of the people buried there such as Fr. James MacCarten, R.C. Lucan, who was murdered in Lucan. On the night of the 3rd of June 1807, Fr. MacCarten was returning home from Palmerstown when at the Hill of Lucan, today known as Chapel Hill, he was set upon by a gang of robbers who robbed and shot him dead unaware of the fact that he was a priest. A stone monument set in the wall outside St. Andrew's Church of Ireland School commemorates the event. 

We worked as historians while exploring the ruin, seeking information about the people buried here.

More photos from our field trip can be seen here.

Class Diary by LC

Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Today in school we done lots of cool things.

In drama we learned the rules of drama and how to respect the actors and the audince.  Next we done since we done since we used a metrial called modrock.  It was really cool it was hard and then you put it in water and it goes very stiky.  Then you put it around your hand and it dries in the shape of your hand.  Then we took it off and it was in the shape of your hand.  Then we done it with ballons so we could paint them.

In irish we don bingo it was really fun.  We also learned a new game were you count up to 75 and when you get to a multibal of five you say doo.

In school I enjoied doing every thing thats what we done today.

LC

Class Diary by HW

Maidin Mhaith Domhanda!!

Tá ranga i rang a sé agus ta ranga i do chonaí i Leamhcan. Tá anim scoil Gleann An Grifín ag folom le cheile .

Thosaigh ag lá ar matimatica agus béarla . Gan mhoill ina death sin .Thosaigh ranga an dithim Ag lón.Ar a haon deag a chlog rithfhoigh ranga sa chlós.

Gan mhoill ina diath sin thosaigh ranga ag léamh.  Ansin thosaigh ag ranga an gaoilge.  Ansin thosaigh an rang gníomhaíochtaí agus ag deireadh an lá chuaigh ranga isteach sa bhaile ar deich tar eis a dó.

Is breá liom an scoil!!!:]

HW

Music - Listening and Responding: Vivaldi vs Ed Sherran

We listened to 2 pieces of music today.  Without knowing who the composers are or the titles of the pieces of music we responded by drawing pictures/words on a page about both pieces of music.

Click on the image above to see more of our work.  The pieces of music were Vivaldi's Autumn from The Four Seasons suite of violin concertos and an instrumental version of Ed Sherran's song Autumn Leaves.  The common theme was autumn.  You can hear both pieces of music below.

Learn Together: Christianity - Tall Crosses

Today we discussed Christian symbols.  
We focussed on Tall Crosses and discussed the Tall Cross at Monasterboice:

We learned that sections on the cross depict scenes from the Bible.  We designed our own crosses to depict significant scenes from our lives.  Click this image to see some of our work:

More information on the Tall Cross at Monasterboice can be found here.

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