The students from the Senior Room undertook a Maths Trail, which found them outside discovering maths in their school environment. The Trail tested their skills on topics such as: symmetry; area; length; shapes both 2D and 3D; direction; chance; problem solving; lines and angles; multiplication; estimating; and much more!
The whole school was caught by the love bug on Valentines’ Day. Both the Senior room and the Junior room created amazing art work for their Valentines!
The Green Schools’ Water Flag Project – Conservation of Water
This walk took place on February 15th.
Spring has come!
We intend to monitor the progress of the frogspawn over the next few weeks. We might be lucky enough to spot a frog.
Junior Room’s Trip to the Pond
Kate and Ellen visited with their silverware. Kate is a past pupil of our school.
Well done girls.
The EPA visited the school last week. We learned a lot about protecting our environment. This will be of great help to us for our 3rd Green Schools Flag (Water). We all got a present of a bag and a ruler.
Thanks to the EPA
In the Senior room we designed our own tinfoil boats and tested their buoyancy. The Junior classroom experimented with static electricity.
Look at the sea creatures we created from clay. What a selection!
We celebrated St. Brigid’s Day on February 1st by making St. Brigid’s crosses.
Well done to Séan, Wayne, Sorcha and Annie who represented the school in the Credit Union Quiz last Sunday. Good fun had by all.
At our most recent Board of Management meeting, we ratified policies on Work Experience / Placement / Teaching Practice and Swimming. They are available to view under the ‘Policies’ tab.
This week we learned all about the Moon. We discussed how a lunar eclipse happens when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon casting shadows over the Moon. In Art we created our own shadows.
Dear Parents,
Please refer to page 2 of the following document
https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/lifestages/schoolhealth/midschapters/File,14328,en.pdf
for information about chickenpox.
We were visited by members of the Fire Brigade from Dunmanway yesterday. We had a great time learning about their equipment, a little about what they do and of course we had to hear the sirens as well!
Pupils from 1st – 6th classes recreated a ‘rince fada’ (long dance) with Tonya recently. It was great fun!
Just a reminder that we will hold our annual Enrolment Day for prospective pupils and their parents on Wednesday week January 23rd from 12:30 – 1:30pm.
While it is usually attended with Junior Infants in mind, we would welcome interest from pupils and their parents who may wish to join any of the older classes as well. All are welcome to attend!
Please contact us on 023 8848000 or email rnsns@eircom.net if you require any further information and we will be delighted to help you out!
We learned about the counties of Ireland this week and had a novel way of being examined on what we know – we used an app called Kahoot on the iPad and answered multiple choice questions! It’s not as easy as it looks!
We are working towards our next Green Flag and were monitoring water levels this week.
We met a very special visitor who called to see our friends in the pre-school before home-time today! He arrived in true style in a horse and cart!
Happy Christmas everyone!! See you on January 7th 2019!!
Huge well done to our magnificent pupils who provided a wonderful evening’s entertainment last night in The Celtic Ross Hotel! We saw some amazing, budding talent on display – we are all so proud of you!
A big well done must go the parents too for organising such fantastic costumes!
Thanks to all who donated spot prizes for the raffle as well.
We will close for Christmas holidays this coming Friday December 21st at 12 noon. The bus company have been informed and will be there for collection at 12:00.
We will re-open for the new term on Monday January 7th at 9:10am.
The staff and Board of Management would like to thank you most sincerely for your co-operation and support in the past year and wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
After weeks of practice and having worked so hard to learn our lines and songs, we cannot wait to perform for you all tomorrow night!
The Junior Room will present ‘The Elves Go On Strike’ at 7:30pm sharp and that will be followed by the Senior pupils who have prepared ‘Cinderella and Rockafeller’.
All arrangements for tomorrow night and a reminder about our early finish on Friday were contained in a letter that went home today. You can view it by clicking https://reenascreena.scoilnet.ie/blog/files/2018/12/17.12.2018-1.pdf
Any queries, as always, should be directed to us by phone or email.
See you all tomorrow night!
We put the finishing touches to our plays this morning in the Celtic Ross. We can’t wait to perform for you tomorrow night!
The pupils of the Junior Room were busy investigating the speed at which cars could travel in class yesterday! It looks like great fun!
The pupils of the Senior Room have been busy making Christmas decorations!
3 of our pupils recently contributed to the latest edition of the ‘Rosscarbery Past and Present’. Editor Charlie Coughlan called in today to present those pupils with a copy of the book. Well done girls, we are very proud of you!
The pupils of the Senior Room used a variety of different coloured and shaped buttons today to create seasonal cards with Ann. As always, they showed great flair and imagination. Well done everyone!
The pupils of the Senior Room took the opportunity to squeeze in some PE with Ann today in between those heavy showers of rain! They set up a variety of circuits and spent time at each one, working in pairs. It looked like great fun!
It’s hard to believe but we must start thinking ahead to September 2019! With that in mind, prospective parents and pupils are invited to our open day on Wednesday January 23rd from 12:30 – 1:30pm.
We are really looking forward to showing our incoming pupils their new classroom and giving them a chance to meet the staff and their future classmates, some who they know already and some who are friends-in-waiting!
You can e-mail or phone the office if you require any further information. We look forward to meeting you all on the day!
There will be the usual raffle during the interval of our concert on Wednesday December 19th. If anyone would like to donate a spot prize, we would be delighted to accept your donations in the school office between now and the 19th. Thanks for your continued support!
We had a very beneficial visit from Cathal of the RSA today who spoke to all our pupils about the various aspects of Road Safety.
We have started getting our props and artwork ready for our big night on December 19th! These posters might not make much sense yet – you will need to attend to understand the context!
The pupils in 1st and 2nd were very busy this afternoon!
The pupils of 1st – 6th worked on their maths skills collaboratively today. Look carefully for the following creations – a skyscraper, castles of various standards (!), a village, a city, a robot, a rocket, a floating island and a jetpack! These were the pupils’ own creations – their imaginations really are endless!
We are continuing to learn about the history of Irish music with Tonya. This week, pupils re-enacted the Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 and made their own harps for the occasion!
We didn’t let the bad weather get in the way of our PE lesson – we stayed indoors and played football on the floor!
Unfortunately, we will not be able to have our concert in the Parish Hall this year. The power has been disconnected, leaving it cold, damp and generally unsuitable for use. We will perform for you instead in the very comfortable surroundings of the function room of the Celtic Ross Hotel on Wednesday December 19th at 7.30pm.
As always, families are most welcome and encouraged to attend! The Junior Room are to perform Elves on Strike while the older pupils will present Cinderella and Rockerfella. It promises to be a great night, more details will follow closer to the time.
I have uploaded today’s letter in the ‘Letters home’ tab and the most recently ratified policies – Anti-Bullying and Internet Acceptable Usage in the ‘Policies’ tab following our most recent Board of Management meeting last night.
The pupils (and staff!) are really looking forward to the Threshing next Sunday and have been busy getting ready to decorate!
We had lots of fun (and made plenty of noise!) drumming yesterday!
Our midterm will start a day early tomorrow on account of the school being used as a polling station. I hope you all have a lovely break after such hard work in the last 8 weeks and in advance of the hectic half-term to come up to Christmas!
As regards the school tracksuit, the consensus was to go with a pale blue t-shirt and plain navy tracksuit bottoms (any sweatshirt / jumper is fine). We will start this on Friday November 9th.
Looking forward to seeing you all bright and early on Monday November 5th!
Both rooms took turns having a parade in their costumes, it was great fun!
Yard time was more fun than usual in our costumes today! We still managed our Active Circle exercises as usual!
A long held tradition in this school is that we bring fruit for our Halloween celebrations rather than sweets and treats. As you can, we really enjoyed them all!
We have really enjoyed dressing up for Halloween today! Every pupil made a huge effort, some must have been up applying make-up and face paint very early this morning! It’s just as well we have a break from school coming up!
The pupils in Mary’s room did a Science experiment about floating and sinking today!
It was such a nice day yesterday that Tonya decided to do her music lesson outside. The pupils were put into groups, given specific rhythms and instruments and then put sequences together. The results were very impressive!
We are approaching a very busy time so here are a few reminders of what’s happening in the next week or so:
Tuesday October 23rd: Library Bus – get stocked up with entertainment for the mid-term break!
Thursday October 25th: Dress up for Halloween!
Friday October 26th: No school as the building will be used as a polling station for the presidential election
Monday October 29th – Friday November 2nd inclusive: School closed for the week for a well earned mid-term break! We will re-open on Monday November 5th
This afternoon, pupils from 1st – 6th came together to explore Numicon. They were undoubtedly sceptical when they saw first saw the materials – Isn’t this for Infants? they asked. But they were well and truly won over by the end of the session! It was a great opportunity for younger and older pupils to work together, the creative juices were well and truly flowing by the time I had to finish the session. We look forward to exploring Numicon further!
