ST. FEICHÍN'S N.S., CROSS, CO. MAYO

a wet week

10/14/2017

A wet, October week. We made a great attempt to train for the Mini Sevens taking place in Kilmaine pitch on Friday, 13th October. Unfortunately it was postponed due to the weather. 4th, 5th and 6th classes had been training hard for the event. We were determined to give it our all, even though the weather was wet and cold. Ms. Geraghty and Mr. Cathal Harte were helping us with the training. They worked on techniques such as solo skills and hand passing, which we found useful. We hope to do well up against the other local schools whenever the Mini Sevens is rescheduled. Our Parents Association have been working on upgrading and improving the pitch.

We had a visit from Miss McAlpine, the Deputy Principal of P.C.H., telling us about an exciting Open Day in Headford next Tuesday. Our sixth class children Lucy, Maeve, Roisin, Alan, Jason and Karl will be heading there. It will be a very exciting day for them. They will try their hand at various subjects including Woodwork, Metalwork, Technical Graphics, German, French, Spanish and pretty much all sports. The sixth class were given resource packs with all the details.

Violin lessons are in full swing.

We also had a busy IT week. The sixth class did some Peer Tutoring (teaching Miss Muldoon's room how to use the Seesaw app.) I think Seesaw is great. It is very clever because it can make students feel more involved by using comments and likes. You can display pictures of the work that you feel proud of. Also your classmates and teachers can put encouraging comments on your work and even put a like on it! The Senior Room had a great time using the app Kahoot on the ipads. It was competitive but really good fun.

The Junior and Senior Infants in Ms.O’Haire’s room made some scary spooky pumpkin facemasks....Tá Oíche Shamhna ag teacht agus tá na puimcíní reidh.............

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes in Ms. Muldoon’s room were learning about Pablo Picasso. Picasso was a Spanish artist who drew obscure, out of shape pictures. People like his work because the pictures were unique. So we attempted to create our own unique pictures. We drew Picasso type pictures using either witches or Frankenstein,....most of the boys went for Frankenstein while the girls did the witches......Don't they look great with our scarecrows?

We are really looking forward to next week as it is Maths Week. Check out Ms. Presnail’s super display.......

Emma and Conn

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SPace Week

10/6/2017

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We did a lot a science this week. Declan from Science Ireland came to visit again on Tuesday 3rd October. This time, as it was Space Week, he demonstrated a 3D virtual reality tour of the eight planets....Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He showed us what would happen if the sun was a 1000 times bigger...BOOM. We really enjoyed looking at all the planets in detail.
An interesting fact we discovered was about the length of the jumps a person could do on each planet. Declan explained that planets have different gravities so jumping lengths are different. For example, if you could survive on the sun you would only be able to jump 3cm and on Uranus you would only be able to jump 1cm.

As part of space week 2017 our school has been included in TARA moon project. We will receive our unique image of the moon soon-how exciting!!!
We even got mentioned on Science Ireland’s Facebook page

Ms. O Haire’s room had great fun playing with the parachute and ball.

They have been working on the "The Gruffalo" story. The Junior and Senior Infants drew gruesome Gruffalos and they are on display in our hallway for all to see and scare!!!!

Ms Muldoon's room are making great progress with Scratch Junior on the iPads. Scratch is a form of animation and programming where you make characters move. Danny likes Scratch because you can change backgrounds and headings. Luke likes Scratch because you can make the characters move and talk to you.
The Senior room have been using the app "Seesaw" to upload work into their online e-folios. We each have a digital folder to put work into. You have to use the class Q.R. code to access the folders. It’s an exciting way of displaying our work.

Yesterday PE outside was fun. We were playing football and basketball. Everyone had a great time and we all kept getting shot after shot in the net. We love basketball.
John McMahon, the photographer, came on Thursday to take our photos. We all looked lovely.

Aisling, Eleanor and Stephen

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september ends

9/30/2017

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Last week in September....a wet one but we had lots of fun in the classrooms doing lots of interesting things.

Ms. Muldoon’s room did some marbling and then created photo frames. They look fantastic

The Senior Room are learning about China, a country of 1.4 billion people!
We created some lovely Chinese art as we listened to both traditional and modern Chinese music. We researched our names in Chinese, traced them and decorated the page. Surprisingly a lot of Irish names translated into Chinese.
We looked at a Chinese dragon made out of cupcake wrappers, we made ours from paper plates. We decorated them with our own designs......they look really bright and colourful.

In maths we did the number of the day. The number of the day on Thursday was 124. We had to make sums that made 124. It was fun and got our brains going. There were some very good sums.

We started playing a new sport called Futsal. It's like soccer just there are a few different rules.
The rules are mainly no kicking ball above the waist and you have to stop the ball with the ball of your foot. Also the ball is heavier than a regular soccer ball.
We were also busy freshening up our window boxes...we removed the dead pansies and dahlias and put in lovely heathers and cyclamens.
They look colourful and full of life, they stand out and the colours look great together!

Eóin and Niamh

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Science Show, Music and Brick Club

9/22/2017

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A science teacher called Declan Holmes came to visit us on Thursday. He told us about the history of space travel. He asked us if we wanted to build super cool rockets and of course everybody said YES!!
Declan is very imaginative and smart and he loves science, especially rocket science. He taught us a lot of interesting stuff about space. We named our rockets too. One of the rockets was named “Apollo Girls”. Declan said that within 15 to 20 years, anybody will be able to go to space.

This weekend Mayo Ladies will compete for the Brendan Martin Cup in Croke Park. Mayo Ladies last won the Brendan Martin Cup in 2003.
Maybe Mayo ladies might win the cup and bring it home to the west....they will be looking to beat Dublin in the final and show the rest of Ireland how good a team they are....
Lots of the girls are travelling up to Croke Park in two buses...the under 14s and under 12 girls are going with coaches/parents Cathal Harte and Brian Costello.
Violin lessons with Sorcha are going well. We really enjoy them. 3rd to 5th classes are learning violin. Sorcha is a great violin teacher. She is a very kind teacher and she explains a lot about violins. We are very happy that our school has decided to do violin lessons. It is a great opportunity to learn music.

Congrats to the children from 1st and 3rd classes who completed their first Brick Club Project this week.

Lucy, Karl, Tom and Grace

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