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World Book Day with 4th class & Senior Infants

seniorinfants — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:26:55 +0000

What a great day in school!!! 4th class with the help of Ms. O’Meara put on a great show for senior infants to celebrate World Book Day. Students from 4th class dressed up and re-enacted some of our favourite fairy tales. Seniors had to guess which fairy tale was being dramatised!! 4th class also recited some very entertaining poems.

Later in the afternoon the students from 4th read stories to senior infants. A really enjoyable daywas had by all!!

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4th Class School Tour

fourthclass — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:03:52 +0000

At ten past nine on the 7th of June Mr Brislane, Ms Lynskey, Mrs Maher and 4th class went on their school tour. We went to Craggaunowen first. Craggaunowen is a Celtic themed park. We arrived at Craggaunowen at 11 o clock.Our tour guide welcomed us.Her name was Annika and she was dressed up as a Celt. We went to the castle first and saw the fireplace, throne and spinning wheel.We then went to the Crannog. We had to cross a bridge since the Crannog was an island. Annika told us that years ago there was no bridge and the people living on the Crannog had to use secret stepping stones to get across. We saw the watchtower and the homes they used to live in. We then went to the Fulacht Fia. The Fulacht Fia was where they used to boil water to cook the food.We then went to the RingFort. Inside one of the houses was a secret tunnel.The Celts used the tunnel to store food and to hide in battles. We all went down there.It was very cold down there. When we came out we went to Saint Brendan’s Boathouse.The boat was a replica of the one Saint Brendan had. Tim Severn wanted to see if Saint Brendan really did cross the Atlantic in a boat like the one he made. After we looked at the boat we came across some pigs called Wild Boar. Annika said they have the power to kill a human. That ended the tour so we got our lunch and ate some of it and then we went to Funworld where we were going to play bowling.We arrived at Funworld at 1 o clock.When we went in we changed into bowling shoes and got into our teams. We played for about an hour and a half and then we got ice cream.We left the bowling at half past 2 and after a long bus journey we arrived back at the school at a quarter to 4.

A Special Visitor

fourthclass — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:23:16 +0000

Recently in Fourth class we spent quite a bit of time learning about Mt. Everest the World’s highest mountain. While doing so we discovered that a past pupil of the school, Mr. Martin Byrne, was actually the first Offaly man to have climbed to the summit of Mt. Everest, a feat he achieved in 2011. This intrigued us and so we set about writing letters to him and had a little competition to see who would write the best letter which we would then send to him on behalf of our class, asking him to come visit us. Aisling’s letter was chosen, which in turn was hand delivered by Joe and lo and behold a little while later a reply arrived from Martin telling us he would be delighted to come see us and share his experiences with us. Martin will be speaking to 4th, 5th and 6th classes next week. We cant wait to hear his story and hopefully we can tell you all about it here shortly. Watch this space!

Amazing Volcanoes

fourthclass — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:03:34 +0000

Fourth Class have learned an awful lot since Christmas about the Earth and some of the amazing natural phenomena that occur within it and around it. One of our favourite topics was volcanoes and we had great fun learning in Science how to make our own erupting volcano. This week we had even more fun in Art where we made volcano models using clay and then decorated them using paint. Check out the results.

Fourth Class enjoy Science Experiments

admin01 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:11:19 +0000

In Fourth Class we have being doing lots of different things since we came back to school. Some interesting things we’ve learned do far have been telling the difference between warm and cool colour tones in art and making collages of magazine clippings for each.

We have also learned a lot about our bodies and the fuel we need. We learned how our lungs bring oxygen to fuel our bodies and how different foods we eat contain different nutrients. We learned that carbohydrates give us energy, proteins help us grow and repair our bodies and fats protect us and give us warmth.

In Science class we learned a cool but simple experiment to test foods for fat using just a piece of brown paper. This we are testing foods for carbohydrates. We wonder how we are going to do that!

Write a Book Fourth Class

fourthclass — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:34:11 +0000

Congratulations to Luke , Emma and Amy who’s books were all highly commended by the judges of the Write a Book Project 2012. A special well done to Laura who was chosen as the overall winner in fourth class and finally a big well done to all the other children in the class who took part but unfortunately were not successful this time around. Keep up the writing!!

Ancient Civilisations

fourthclass — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:31:41 +0000

Recently in Fourth Class we completed projects on Ancient Civilisations. We learned loads about groups like the Celts, Vikings, Native Americans, Normans and loads more. Some of us created our own models of Ancient dwellings. Here are the pictures of Brien’s Celtic farm and Kelly’s wattle and daub roundhouse.

Road Safety

fourthclass — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:08:27 +0000

Fourth class attended an excellent presentation from the Road Safety Authority today in Grants Hotel.

We really enjoyed ourselves in the ‘village’ role playing various road safety scenarios and also love all the nice road safety goodies we brought home especially our cool personalised safety licences.

Pop Art

fourthclass — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:32 +0000

This week in History were learning all about changes in the world around us since the 1950s. In doing so we learned alot about the 1950s and what was in fashion then, what toys kids played with and how different school was for children then. One of the things we most liked though was the style of art we found was most popular at the time, Pop Art and particularly the work of Andy Warhol. Check out our own efforts. Perhaps there are a few budding Warhol’s in our midst!

Visitor with a Difference

fourthclass — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:56:01 +0000

Fourth class had a very interesting visitor or should we say visitors yesterday. Our class mate Brien arranged for his Mum to bring in some newborn ducklings to our class for us all to see. We are still debating what we’d like to call them but Clumsy(He falls a lot), Chicken nugget (unfortunate!) and Pebbles are current favourites. Watch this space, photos to follow.