Carol Singing at St. Ann’s Church
The children from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class went carol singing outside St. Ann’s Church on Dawson St yesterday for the Black Santa Appeal. Everyone sang charmingly!
Thank you to Ms Fitzharris for all the choir rehearsals in the lead up to it and for conducting so beautifully.
Everyone looked super festive in their Santa hats and festive jumpers.
What an excellent way to close out the Winter term!
Last week 2nd class were preparing for their show and learning about how to care for the environment.
They have drawn truffula trees and created real life ones at home!
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better”- The Lorax
1st class and the Green School Committee took to the streets with their litter pickers and did a fantastic job in cleaning up the local area. They were super vigilant and as a result they compiled six bags of rubbish!
They had lots of fun also in completing the Picker Pals Activity booklets and are looking forward to their next Picker Pal day out!
Many thanks to everyone who took part in our annual Heart to Hand Shoebox appeal this year. Heart To Hand collected our boxes on 18th November which were loaded onto the lorry and were delivered to Albania earlier this week!
Thanks so much to all who donated and special thanks to all the children for preparing the shoe boxes, they will make a lovely surprise to children in Albania.
This week 5th and 6th class went on a trip to the Gate Theatre where they saw a production of The Borrowers.
Everyone had a great time!
Last week, we took part in Gratitude and Wellbeing week, and we all enjoyed sharing in lots of activities centred around this important theme.
We all dressed up last Friday and enjoyed yummy smoothies to end our theme week with a Feel Good Friday.
Do you like our positive affirmation tree? Lots of us used our home languages to write something about ourselves.
Thank you to Mrs. Anderson and Ms. Comerford for organising such a lovely week.
1st class have been learning about toys in the past in History. The class learnt about the history of teddy bears. They also designed their own teddy bear and made a lost poster about a toy that went missing from the story ‘The Lost Toys’. Everyone was asked to bring in their favourite teddy bear or toy that is linked to the past for show and tell on Friday afternoon. It was wonderful!
Before the break, JSNS participated in Maths Week!
The week was filled with fun activities including codebreaking in 6th Class and ‘Maths on Me’ dress up day. Here are some highlights from the week. Maths week Ireland is an all-island initiative promoting positive attitudes towards maths and highlighting the importance of maths in our lives. Maths Week is one of four national STEM festivals and is the world’s largest maths festival.
4th Class are debating whether Hallowe’en should be celebrated in school or not. They have been working hard to incorporate the characteristics of persuasive writing they’ve learnt.
What do you think?
2nd Class celebrated space week by creating their own mini factbooks on each planet with coloured pictures of the solar system. They learnt about the first man on the moon, sang about stars in Irish, the planets in English and successfully launched a balloon rocket!
They have done almost everything besides travelling there themselves!
Lovely work 2nd Class!