Category Archives: Whole School Events

Primary 1 Nativity

This week was a very busy week.

We had a lovely Christmas 🎄 dinner together on Wednesday. On Thursday we enjoyed Peter Pan the Panto but the highlight of the week was our Nativity show.

We were all super proud of each other for being on stage in front of an audience. Some of us were super nervous but we persevered and supported each other and all tried our best.

Photos of the nativity have been uploaded to seesaw, please have a look.
Thank you all for coming to watch us.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Catholic Education Week 2024

Catholic Schools Week 2024 | Diocese of Meath
We celebrated Catholic Education Week / Fortnight in November.
This year’s theme is “Pilgrims of Hope“.  Pope Francis has confirmed that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee, which happens every 25 years.
Pilgrims of Hope centres around the idea of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, ongoing effects of Covid and climate crisis.
“We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire; that is why I have chosen as the motto of the Jubilee, Pilgrims of Hope. ”  The Holy Father, Pope Francis.
Catholic Schools Week 2024 | Diocese of Meath
Jubilee Pledge 2025:
We are pilgrims of hope.
We walk in solidarity with our sisters and brothers
worldwide, sharing challenges and celebrating joys.
We promise to be agents of change, working together for
justice, love and peace, locally and globally.
We want to build a fairer world, where every person,
and the earth, can flourish.
Look at some of the work out wonderful pupils created during Catholic Education Week / Fortnight in St. Mary’s…..

Rannoch News

We have had a lovely festive week in Rannoch class…We have enjoyed making festive baubles with our photo on them and we are looking forward to taking them home!

We have also enjoyed some time outside in the crisp air and time in the Sensory Room.

We have also continued with our studies of initial sounds and revised our understanding of 3-D shapes.

We have also enjoyed listening to Christmas music and songs as the festive season gets underway.

Primary 6R

Primary 6 have been very busy this week

We presented our Solo Talks this week on various topics that we find interesting, we were also given the opportunity to peer assess. We noted the things that worked well and provided feedback on things they could do even better for future talks.

On Tuesday we got to watch a movie with the whole school. We really enjoyed it.

We started our whole school rehearsals for our carol service, we are feeling quite confident that we know our reading and songs. “We Three Kings” is the favourite.

We led Advent Mass today (Friday) and welcomed parishioners to our school. Many students had a part to play in the mass – welcoming our parishioners, bidding prayers and offertory procession.

After our mass we participated in a Christmas themed Daily Mile with the whole school, 14 laps of our playground to be exact!

Primary 1 First week of Advent

We have a great first week of advent.
We had a special visitor arrive on Monday, a class elf called Sparkles. Sparkles has added a extra bit of fun to our week. He delivered us a real Christmas 🎄 tree which we are going to look after and plant in the garden in spring time. We decorated the tree together. He has also delivered us lots of Christmas 🎅🏻 books to read before Christmas holidays as well as some chocolate puddings.

We have been learning all about the nativity story and what we do in the build up to Christmas.  In class we made advent wreaths and spoke about the significance of the candles.

On Friday we joined the whole school to celebrate an advent mass. We were all very respectful and tried our very best at singing.

The whole school joined in on the Daily mile today, this was the first time we have done it but we are looking forward to doing it regularly 🏃

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Christmas Comes to Rannoch!

This week we have enjoyed decorating the classroom…we have our own tree and lights and tinsel!! We have even painted pictures on the windows!

We have also enjoyed making Christmas cards with our pictures on to give to our families.

We have also taken part in the Santa run…wearing coats and wellies to keep warm and dry…with Santa hats on to keep our heads warm too!

In class we have finished our studies of 3-D shapes and are moving on to displaying data next week.

We have continued our phonics studies too…looking at the initial sound ‘d’.

 

It’s been a super week!

 

P2 news

We have had a super week….Our Read, Write, Inc. studies are progressing well and in our Maths we have moved on to Addition and Subtraction within 20.

With December round the corner we have also been really excited to begin our rehearsals for the Christmas play in a few weeks. Our singing is coming on really well and we are learning all the actions too!

For the Christmas fayre we enjoyed designing our own elf door hangers and Christmas tree decorations –  we hope you like them!

Rannoch News

We have had a lovely week in Rannoch class…we enjoyed ‘super crunchy’ time on the Trim Trail with the frost early in the week. We found it surprisingly warm in the early winter sun.

We have also progressed in our learning of the initial sound ‘s’.

In our Beyond Number studies we looked to 3D shapes in the world around us…next week we are moving onto learning about displaying data through tally charts and block diagrams.

We also had a lovely time in the sensory room and enjoyed listening to relaxing music in class.

We are also really proud of our gifts for sale at the Christmas Fayre,,,we made glitter painted glass tea lights holders with Christmas ribbons…we think they look lovely!

Responsive Planning leads to Tasty Creations in Ness

Its amazing how Ness Class can lead their own learning! Stumbling upon an article during our Afternoon Group, the pupils were keen to learn about Fondue- what is it and where did it originate. We used our Floorbook to plan and organise our very own Fondue tasting session.

As you can see from the pictures, we found it…

‘interesting’ -Lochlan

‘super crunchy tasty’- Dominic

‘lots of tasty bites’- Laura

‘I put sprinkles on my fondue’- Hunter

‘I like the orange’- Shay

‘Thumbs Up’ – Nathan.

We were lucky to have our P7 Prefects in to help us with our tasting session- we found they enjoyed the event too!