Junior Infant Tour

Our Junior Infant Classes went on their school tour to Newbridge House last week. They had so much fun. The weather was so beautiful and sunny.

First, they walked around the farm. They saw lots of different animals.

After lunch, they visited the playground. It was brilliant!

Have a look at more photos of their tour on their very own webpage.

Click here: http://stpatricksjnsjuniorinfants.blogspot.com/

American Visitors!

We said goodbye today to our two American students who have been completing their final teaching practice in our school over the last number of weeks.

Katie and Kelsey come from Misericordia University in Pennsylvania and have been working with our First Classes.

Our school has hosted a number of students from the University over the past number of years and continues to enjoy a special relationship with our teaching colleagues in the USA. We hope that they have enjoyed their time with us in Corduff.

Intercultural Week

We had a special assembly on Friday to celebrate Intercultural Week.

Junior Infants learnt all about Ireland and told us some special facts about our country.

Senior Infants knew about Africa. Some parents came in to classes during the week and spoke about their country. Lots of families in our school are from Nigeria.

We have two American students working in our school at the moment. They taught First Class all about America.

Second Class learnt about Romania.

We pointed out each of the countries on the map. Each class level then sang a song. Junior Infants sang "Lámha suas", Senior Infants sang "A ram sam sam", First Class sang "Yankee Doodle" and Second Class sang "Hello Around the World".

Everyone wore a badge with the flag of their country on it. We really enjoyed learning about other countries.

Fundraising

Fr. Michael O'Sullivan, a former parish priest of Corduff, has been working the missions in Tanzania for a number of years now.

We held a raffle at our production of "Wish Upon a Star" in Draíocht and raised a grand total of €1,000. Fr. Michael is thrilled with the donation and we would like to thank our generous sponsors again for the great prizes.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann!

Táimid go léir ag déanamh iarracht Gaeilge a labhairt agus táimid ag imirt cluichí teanga inár ranganna.

Beidh tráth na gceist ar siúl sa halla agus beidh ceolchorm beag againn ar an Aoine. Táimid ag cleachtadh amhráin agus rannta agus táimid ag súil go mór leis. Beidh na múinteoirí ag tabhairt duaiseanna do na daltaí a dhéanann an iarracht is mó Gaeilge a labhairt sa sheachtain. Go n-éirí le gach duine!

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day last week.

At 10.00 a.m. we had D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) Time. We all read books from our class libraries.

At 11.00 a.m. we had a visitor from Second Class. The visitors brought Big Books from our school library and read stories in each class. They were great readers and we really enjoyed the stories.