Summer Term News 2021
Mr. Forde’s 4th class
After the Easter break or class started working on our electric cars. They turned out really well and were great fun to make. We also did a sports commentary. The topics were golf, basketball, GAA and 2 groups commentated on soccer. We listened to a podcast called Mish Mash, it had a mix of all our podcasts put together. Some of our favourite Brain builders were the Stone Age, Blessington Aircrash, WWII, Eels, the walrus, the Normans, the swallow, Bloody Sunday and vaccination. Some of our favourite Photo of the Days were Harry Houdini, Blacksod Lighthouse, D-Day, Katherine Switzer, WWI Trenches, Sonia O’Sullivan and the Motherboard. FINALLY we dug up our time capsule this week. When we went out to dig it up we had no luck finding it so we came back in. We went back outside after lunch and we FOUND it. When we opened the time capsule it smelled really, really bad. There was a cast in it and the cast got WET so it smelled terrible.
By Tia & Niamh
Ms Lucas 4th Class
For Active Week Ms Lucas 4th class took part in Rounder’s which was so much fun. On Tuesday of that week we did a number of games including dodge ball and penalty shoot outs. Later in the week we had a Scavenger Hunt. We drew Easter bunny’s and made cards for our friends and family. We also completed a stay safe sheet and read a story about Stay Safe. We did two story writing competitions and also read our class novel. We made faces out of paper plates and clowns from scrap paper which we all really enjoyed.
Ms Kenny’s 4th class
A few weeks ago the whole school had a sports day. Out class loves sport so we really did enjoy the day. We all played GAA, No man’s land and life saver tag. Since last Monday we have been popping a balloon every day until the end of the year. We popped a balloon last week and it said “ Creative Day”, so we could draw and paint all day. On Thursday we popped a balloon and it said “Kick rounders & GAA”, so we played them during the day. Last Tuesday we had a picnic and sat outside with our friends. We had a movie day also last week and everyone got to vote on their choice of movie. We have been taking part in the daily mile this term and have started to run longer distances each week. Since it is the end of the year, we have been cleaning our classroom and sorting out all our rental books. It has been a really fun few weeks.
Ms Dineen’s 5th class
During the month of May, we did our Drumcondra English test and the two parts of our Sigma-T Maths test. We also participated in the Maths Tables Champion. It was a lot of fun and Lorenzo Viterbi and Adam Dwan came out on top, well done.Sports day of 2021 was like no other. We really enjoyed playing dodge ball, no man’s land and relay races. We also really enjoyed the circuits which is a fitness circle which consists of sit ups, push ups and running. Also included was also rock paper scissors tag which was so much fun. The relay race was used with tennis balls. We have also been running most days. The green schools have been working on keeping the wild life healthy. They have planted a tree for each class. Due to Covid-19 we have been off school for a long time. Whilst at home we continued school through online learning. We started catching up on lots of other
work when we got back to school. Hopefully upon our return to school in September Covid-19 will have eased and normality will be in sight.
St Mary’s SNS raised their active schools flag in June. Every day we carried out exercises in our line whilst we wait for our teachers. Oisín is the active school representative in our class.
We had two under 13 GAA finals, Oisín and Luke played on one team and Conor and Barry were on the other team. Oisín and Luke won their match but Conor and Barry lost out this on occasion. Better luck next time.
We hope everyone has a fantastic summer and hope you stays safe.
By Matthew & Conor
Ms Nugent 6th Class
We all had the opportunity to draw and colour our own custom made Islands with four coastal towns and a central city. They had to include the perfect public transport! We did a project on an EU Country of our choice. We had to include traditional foods and the history of the Country. This project was very fun. We all participated in the story writing competition wrote our stories over a few weeks. Last week was active week and on Friday it was Sports Day. We did lots of activities such as penalty shoot-out, dodge ball, football rounder’s and rock paper scissors tag. It was such a fun day. We have started work on a magazine. Each group got to pick a subject and we all did some pages on our topic for the magazine. We started our last project and it was a subject of choice for everyone. We had to do at least ten slides each and we hope to finish these projects on Monday.
By: Oisín Gilmartin
Ms Heraghty – 6th Class
This year 6th class had lots of fun. Some of the 6th class decided to go to Hidden Valley Aqua Splash next week which we are very excited about and looking forward to the day out. Active week was last week, we had lots of fun. The 6th class sports day was last Friday. We played games similar to rock paper scissors, tag, kick rounder’s and more! In Art we designed flip-flops which was so much fun. We also created our summer bucket lists. We made a music playlist of all the songs people liked in the class as part of Art which is really nice.
By: Anna Lindsay and Lucy Walsh
Ms McGrath’s 6th Class
Over the term we have been doing all sorts of art, including clay. We made bowls, pencil holders and much more. We have also been working on the Stay Safe and Walk Tall programmes. Last week, it was Active Week. We had our Sports Day and did all kinds of activities. Since we are in 6th, we have been preparing for Secondary School. We had a meeting with Blessington Community College. We are all looking forward to starting Secondary School.
By Sara Nugent & Jamie O’Toole
Spring Term
3rd Class
4th Class- Ms Kenny
The last few weeks we have be doing google meets.
We all have enjoyed doing all the games on the meeting,I think we all enjoy rock paper scissors the most.
At two o’clock we do art,bingo,and quizzes.
We had a lot of fun making are mad hatter hats,we also enjoyed making are little bug friends.
We have finished a lot of books on epic this week.
Are class have been learning about European countries and today there is going to be a quiz.
We hope to be back to school in a few weeks see you soon!!!
By Abby McCarthy
This term we have been doing alot of exciting things.We have been doing art.We have been making board games hats and lots more.We are currently working on famous buildings we have been making models on buildings such as the leaning Tower of pisa,twin towers, eiffel Tower and big Ben.We have been enjoying the class calls and the rock paper scissors knockout game every day at the end of the class.Im am personally enjoying the work from home but I am still very excited to get back to school and see all my friends again.We have gotten our 200 book medal this week and are challenging all the 4th classes to a race on the app epic.I hope you all are well stay safe and this is what Mrs Kenny’s class has been doing this term. 🙂
By Zach Geoghegan
5th Class– Ms. Dineen
This term we did over two months of home-schooling. There were advantages and disadvantages. The advantages were that you could work at your own pace and time. You could also wear your own clothes. The disadvantages were that it was difficult to do the work, when you didn’t understand it. We missed seeing each other every day. We were happy to come back to school 15th of March. Since coming back to school, we have enjoyed learning about the 1916 rising. We researched and wrote information reports about the leaders and we also wrote some newspaper articles based on the events. We were surprised to learn that so many children were caught in the crossfire. We also enjoyed Easter art and reminding ourselves about the story of Easter. Tree Week took place the week of the holidays and we planted a tree, completed a tree hunt and undertook a tree investigation. It was a good term overall.
Ms. Nugent’s 6th Class
Over the past few weeks, Miss Nugents 6th class has participated in various different activities in many different subjects.
History: We have been doing a lot of history in the past few months, such as the history of Martin Luther king Jr, Native Americans, the healing waters and so much more.
Music: In music we have been doing something such as writing your own music on the county that you live in and other things
Maths:In maths we have been learning about the circle amongst other things such as directed numbers and value added tax.
Art
We have participated in many different activities in art, including Native American symbols, Kandinskys art artwork on the circle, as well as totem poles. The totem poles and Native American symbols were linked to our history work.
PE
For PE, We were encouraged to go outside for walks within our 5km radius as well as given exercises in which we could do.
Geography
For Geography, we studied the environment snd we also did some work on our own home county, Wicklow.
English
We have been keeping up to date with our Spellbound, English in practice, Word Wise, Matter of Fact as well as additional topics such as learning about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks actions against racism and completing a project on the topic, poetry work, as Well as using EPIC resources to read on various topics.
Irish
We have been keeping up with our Abair Liom, Hardback verbs and phrases and Fuaimeanna Agus Focail.
By: Oisín Gilmartin and Julia McDonald.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in St. Mary’s S.N.S.
Have a look at our fantastic festive displays!
Mr. Forde’s 4th class
After the Easter break or class started working on our electric cars. They turned out really well and were great fun to make. We also did a sports commentary. The topics were golf, basketball, GAA and 2 groups commentated on soccer. We listened to a podcast called Mish Mash, it had a mix of all our podcasts put together. Some of our favourite Brain builders were the Stone Age, Blessington Aircrash, WWII, Eels, the walrus, the Normans, the swallow, Bloody Sunday and vaccination. Some of our favourite Photo of the Days were Harry Houdini, Blacksod Lighthouse, D-Day, Katherine Switzer, WWI Trenches, Sonia O’Sullivan and the Motherboard. FINALLY we dug up our time capsule this week. When we went out to dig it up we had no luck finding it so we came back in. We went back outside after lunch and we FOUND it. When we opened the time capsule it smelled really, really bad. There was a cast in it and the cast got WET so it smelled terrible.
By Tia & Niamh
Ms Lucas 4th Class
For Active Week Ms Lucas 4th class took part in Rounder’s which was so much fun. On Tuesday of that week we did a number of games including dodge ball and penalty shoot outs. Later in the week we had a Scavenger Hunt. We drew Easter bunny’s and made cards for our friends and family. We also completed a stay safe sheet and read a story about Stay Safe. We did two story writing competitions and also read our class novel. We made faces out of paper plates and clowns from scrap paper which we all really enjoyed.
Ms Kenny’s 4th class
A few weeks ago the whole school had a sports day. Out class loves sport so we really did enjoy the day. We all played GAA, No man’s land and life saver tag. Since last Monday we have been popping a balloon every day until the end of the year. We popped a balloon last week and it said “ Creative Day”, so we could draw and paint all day. On Thursday we popped a balloon and it said “Kick rounders & GAA”, so we played them during the day. Last Tuesday we had a picnic and sat outside with our friends. We had a movie day also last week and everyone got to vote on their choice of movie. We have been taking part in the daily mile this term and have started to run longer distances each week. Since it is the end of the year, we have been cleaning our classroom and sorting out all our rental books. It has been a really fun few weeks.
Ms Dineen’s 5th class
During the month of May, we did our Drumcondra English test and the two parts of our Sigma-T Maths test. We also participated in the Maths Tables Champion. It was a lot of fun and Lorenzo Viterbi and Adam Dwan came out on top, well done.Sports day of 2021 was like no other. We really enjoyed playing dodge ball, no man’s land and relay races. We also really enjoyed the circuits which is a fitness circle which consists of sit ups, push ups and running. Also included was also rock paper scissors tag which was so much fun. The relay race was used with tennis balls. We have also been running most days. The green schools have been working on keeping the wild life healthy. They have planted a tree for each class. Due to Covid-19 we have been off school for a long time. Whilst at home we continued school through online learning. We started catching up on lots of other
work when we got back to school. Hopefully upon our return to school in September Covid-19 will have eased and normality will be in sight.
St Mary’s SNS raised their active schools flag in June. Every day we carried out exercises in our line whilst we wait for our teachers. Oisín is the active school representative in our class.
We had two under 13 GAA finals, Oisín and Luke played on one team and Conor and Barry were on the other team. Oisín and Luke won their match but Conor and Barry lost out this on occasion. Better luck next time.
We hope everyone has a fantastic summer and hope you stays safe.
By Matthew & Conor
Ms Nugent 6th Class
We all had the opportunity to draw and colour our own custom made Islands with four coastal towns and a central city. They had to include the perfect public transport! We did a project on an EU Country of our choice. We had to include traditional foods and the history of the Country. This project was very fun. We all participated in the story writing competition wrote our stories over a few weeks. Last week was active week and on Friday it was Sports Day. We did lots of activities such as penalty shoot-out, dodge ball, football rounder’s and rock paper scissors tag. It was such a fun day. We have started work on a magazine. Each group got to pick a subject and we all did some pages on our topic for the magazine. We started our last project and it was a subject of choice for everyone. We had to do at least ten slides each and we hope to finish these projects on Monday.
By: Oisín Gilmartin
Ms Heraghty – 6th Class
This year 6th class had lots of fun. Some of the 6th class decided to go to Hidden Valley Aqua Splash next week which we are very excited about and looking forward to the day out. Active week was last week, we had lots of fun. The 6th class sports day was last Friday. We played games similar to rock paper scissors, tag, kick rounder’s and more! In Art we designed flip-flops which was so much fun. We also created our summer bucket lists. We made a music playlist of all the songs people liked in the class as part of Art which is really nice.
By: Anna Lindsay and Lucy Walsh
Ms McGrath’s 6th Class
Over the term we have been doing all sorts of art, including clay. We made bowls, pencil holders and much more. We have also been working on the Stay Safe and Walk Tall programmes. Last week, it was Active Week. We had our Sports Day and did all kinds of activities. Since we are in 6th, we have been preparing for Secondary School. We had a meeting with Blessington Community College. We are all looking forward to starting Secondary School.
By Sara Nugent & Jamie O’Toole
Spring Term
3rd Class
4th Class- Ms Kenny
The last few weeks we have be doing google meets.
We all have enjoyed doing all the games on the meeting,I think we all enjoy rock paper scissors the most.
At two o’clock we do art,bingo,and quizzes.
We had a lot of fun making are mad hatter hats,we also enjoyed making are little bug friends.
We have finished a lot of books on epic this week.
Are class have been learning about European countries and today there is going to be a quiz.
We hope to be back to school in a few weeks see you soon!!!
By Abby McCarthy
This term we have been doing alot of exciting things.We have been doing art.We have been making board games hats and lots more.We are currently working on famous buildings we have been making models on buildings such as the leaning Tower of pisa,twin towers, eiffel Tower and big Ben.We have been enjoying the class calls and the rock paper scissors knockout game every day at the end of the class.Im am personally enjoying the work from home but I am still very excited to get back to school and see all my friends again.We have gotten our 200 book medal this week and are challenging all the 4th classes to a race on the app epic.I hope you all are well stay safe and this is what Mrs Kenny’s class has been doing this term. 🙂
By Zach Geoghegan
5th Class– Ms. Dineen
This term we did over two months of home-schooling. There were advantages and disadvantages. The advantages were that you could work at your own pace and time. You could also wear your own clothes. The disadvantages were that it was difficult to do the work, when you didn’t understand it. We missed seeing each other every day. We were happy to come back to school 15th of March. Since coming back to school, we have enjoyed learning about the 1916 rising. We researched and wrote information reports about the leaders and we also wrote some newspaper articles based on the events. We were surprised to learn that so many children were caught in the crossfire. We also enjoyed Easter art and reminding ourselves about the story of Easter. Tree Week took place the week of the holidays and we planted a tree, completed a tree hunt and undertook a tree investigation. It was a good term overall.
Ms. Nugent’s 6th Class
Over the past few weeks, Miss Nugents 6th class has participated in various different activities in many different subjects.
History: We have been doing a lot of history in the past few months, such as the history of Martin Luther king Jr, Native Americans, the healing waters and so much more.
Music: In music we have been doing something such as writing your own music on the county that you live in and other things
Maths:In maths we have been learning about the circle amongst other things such as directed numbers and value added tax.
Art
We have participated in many different activities in art, including Native American symbols, Kandinskys art artwork on the circle, as well as totem poles. The totem poles and Native American symbols were linked to our history work.
PE
For PE, We were encouraged to go outside for walks within our 5km radius as well as given exercises in which we could do.
Geography
For Geography, we studied the environment snd we also did some work on our own home county, Wicklow.
English
We have been keeping up to date with our Spellbound, English in practice, Word Wise, Matter of Fact as well as additional topics such as learning about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks actions against racism and completing a project on the topic, poetry work, as Well as using EPIC resources to read on various topics.
Irish
We have been keeping up with our Abair Liom, Hardback verbs and phrases and Fuaimeanna Agus Focail.
By: Oisín Gilmartin and Julia McDonald.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in St. Mary’s S.N.S.
Have a look at our fantastic festive displays!
