We had a variety of fun events in the school to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. We held a Trá na gCeist, spot the seanfhocail and a Leprechaun Hunt. We also created our own St. Patrick’s Day Shape Poems.

Shrove Tuesday – A Lot of Pancakes!

The Junior Room made their own batter, weighing, measuring and mixing the ingredients. They waited patiently for the finished product, which was quickly eaten, as well as being given thumbs up for taste.

The Senior Room arrived armed with their own batter. The queue by the cooker was never ending or so Claire thought! Luckily Aobh volunteered to be the second pancake chef, she poured the mixture like an expert into the heated pan, produced perfect golden brown delicious pancakes every time and even flipped them with expertise. Everyone got their fair share and left the kitchen content! Though most were planning on having more when they got home.

Pancóga

Comhábhair:

• 250g de phlúr bán
• 3 uibheacha
• 500ml bainne
• salann
• im

An Fuidreamh

1. Cuir an plúr isteach i mbabhla. Déan log i lár an phlúir. Cuir na huibheacha isteach sa log agus cuid den bhainne. Measc go maith iad.
2. Cuir an chuid eile den bhainne isteach de réir a chéile agus tú ag meascadh i rith an ama.
3. Cuir gráinne salainn leis an meascán. Ansin fág sa chuisneoir é ar feadh uair an chloig.

The students of the Senior Room worked using STEM projects. “STEM education is the integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an effort to increase students’ interest, engagement awareness in these areas. It also encourages pupils to work together as a team using communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills while persisting with STEM challenges or projects“. (Prim-Ed Publishing)

Two projects were worked on, Build a Bridge and Designer Shoe. The task for Build a Bridge was to design and create a bridge from a material that is strong enough to hold a toy lorry. The task for Designer Shoe was to design and create a shoe based on the features of a duck’s foot.

Take a look at our work, we are super proud of our creations.

With the beautiful weather we are experiencing this week, Tonya delivered her music class outdoors. The students had plenty of space for dancing the Heel and Toe Polka.

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.

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 are working towards our next Green Flag and were monitoring water levels this week.

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!

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!

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!

The pupils in 1st and 2nd were very busy this afternoon!

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.

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!