On our last day in Third Class, we created Compliment sheets for each of us. Everyone wrote compliments for the others in the room and it was lovely to read the kind words everyone had written.
We also held a talent show today. Unfortunately we ran out of time and didn’t get to see every performance [...]
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A complimentary goodbye for 3rd class!
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Our class stars
Everybody in Third class is very excited to be finishing up next Wednesday for the Summer. Loads of people in the school are bringing in their NETNS T-shirts for others to sign. (by Brian)
We are going to miss Science with Caitriona. We will miss Lisa, Bryan’s mum, doing basketball with us. Some people won’t know what [...]
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Orienteering
We went orienteering with First and Second classes. We had lots of fun. The maps were well done. “Dumb and Dumber” were first. Deniz, Rowan, Benjamin and Eve won. (by Ben Mc)
We had bottles with numbers and letters on them and we had to go to nine different bottles. Then we had to unscramble the [...]
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Cool Pompoms
Third class have been busy making pompoms. Everyone in our class made the pompoms with cardboard boxes and wool. Some people brought in wool and cardboard boxes and some people shared their wool and cardboard boxes with others. (by Nosa)
We had different coloured wool and there were different sizes of cardboard. Some pieces of cardboard [...]
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Art experimenting
3rd class have been experimenting with different techniques in Visual Arts. We created some amazing clay sculptures and used our fingers and toothpicks to mould and design them. Following this, we used paint to cover each one in a base colour before adding the details. They turned out great!
We used the three primary colours along [...]
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3rd class news
Molly and Hannah came back to visit us today. The were in our class up to last Summer and we really enjoyed catching up with them. We also had a visit from a girl who may be joining our class in September. We really enjoyed meeting her and we are looking forward to having her [...]
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UCD – Fun or What?!
On Thursday 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th class went to UCD. There was a lot of things to do. There was rock climbing, a zorb ball, a computer horse riding, obstacle course and lacrosse. Of course there was alot more. Caitriona and a lot more achieved to get to the top of the rock climbing wall! Some people [...]
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We will miss you Gerry
What is good news for the new Portlaoise Educate Together National School is bad news for our school. Gerry our senior infants teacher will be leaving our school to take up the post of Principal in Portlaoise.
He will be missed a lot.
He is a great teacher who loves the Irish language and passed on [...]
Slimy Friday
This afternoon 3rd class made SLIME! We used cornflour, water and food colouring to create it. We had lots of fun and we hope to do it again and to play around with it some more. It was such a strange texture and kept changing from solid to liquid and back again.
Thankfully we did a [...]
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Welcome Wibby!
Third class have recently welcomed a new member to their class!
Wibby arrived last week in the middle of all the excitement of the Official School Opening.
Wibby very kindly showed us the DVD of The BFG that day, another Roald Dahl book we have really enjoyed together, and Wibby has been settling in since. Wibby is [...]
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