Book Week Author Visit Photos!

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We were very lucky to have some brilliant Irish authors come to visit us during book week. Chris Judge came to share his fantastic picture book 'The Lonely Beast' with 1st class. Chris won the Specsavers  Irish Children's Book of the Year for this super tale of a lonesome beast trying to friend his friends!  1st class had great fun listening to the story, asking Chris lots of questions and drawing their own versions of the Lonely Beast. Chris also found time to share his brand new book … [Read more...]

Book Week 2012

What an exciting week we've here in NETNS celebrating books and reading! A HUGE Thank you to the parents and guardians who visited to read to the classes during the week, to the writers Chris, Mario and Suzanne and to all the children, staff, parents and guardians who took part in and supported Book Week; all of you made it a very special week for us. Remember, the Book Fair will be here until next Tuesday 13th March and will be open for the children during school and parents and … [Read more...]

Seachtain na Gaeilge 2012!!

We are very excited to announce that we will be celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in NETNS next week! We have lots of activities planned and here are just some the highlights........ On Monday we will be visiting the Scioból in the Gaelscoil for a Céilí Mór!! The Gaelscoil have very kindly invited us to do some Irish Dances with them and we are very excited! We have been practising our dances, poems and songs all week!! We are really looking forward to it!! Thursday will be Lá Glas. It … [Read more...]

Happy NETNS Book Week 2012!

To mark the end of Book Week we are inviting everyone to dress up as a character from a book this Friday 9th March. It could be anything from Snow White to Denis the Menace from Inky mouse to Shrek, use your imagination! Looking forward to seeing all of our favourite characters come to life on Friday! … [Read more...]

6th Class this week

Not much of a busy week this week in sixth class! We have been getting ready for our toraiocht taisce which is the treasure hunt which we are preparing for the other classes during Seachtain na Gaeilge. We have also been trying to finish our fantastic books for the write a book competition, which are due in on the 8th of March! On the point of books on Thursday we got to go into the school library and pick a book to read next week fro book week! We'll be authors by the end of this … [Read more...]

NETNS Book Fair 2012

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The Annual Celtic Travelling Book Fair will be arriving at the N.E.T.N.S. library on Wednesday March 7th. As always the Book Fair will have a fantastic selection of books for children of all ages and any money spent at the Book Fair automatically earns commission from sales which allows the school to buy books for the school library. The children will get time during the school day to visit the Book Fair and purchase books if they wish. If you would like to visit the Book Fair with your … [Read more...]

Sixth Class news

Hi from everyone in sixth class! We have been working very hard for the last month trying to finish our "Write a Book Competition", we have been drawing our pictures and putting our finishing touches on the books. For all of you who do not know what Write a Book is, it is a competition where everybody in the class has to write a book , then it goes off to be judged by another sixth class in another school. Then we get their books to grade. On the 24th of February, 8 people of our class … [Read more...]

Siofra’s super new design for NETNS.ie!

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The response to the first NETNS website header competition has been absolutely fantastic,  we received lots of wonderful entries and it was a very tough job deciding which was the winning entry! We'd like to say a big thank you to all the children who took part,  we are already looking forward to your entries for the next header competition! Siofra Munnelly's (1st class) design has been chosen as the winning entry.  Her design reflects the changing character of the spring weather … [Read more...]

Swimming – 5th and 6th class

5th and 6th class will recommence swimming lessons on Tuesday 21st February. This is the first Tuesday back after mid-term break. … [Read more...]

NETNS Website competition. Get your design on the NETNS website!

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The NETNS website has a fantastic picture at the top of every page called the ‘header’. This picture helps people know what our school is like and where it is.     We've decided to hold a monthly competition to re-design our header image.  Each month there will be a different theme for the design.  You can use any materials to make your picture, but your image must fill the blank template that you can download here.   You can choose to include the words … [Read more...]