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• Sewing Cushions

  Created: Wednesday, 08 April 2009 23:02 Author: Administrator

    This month the boys in Naomh Pádraig have been busy sewing. We are after designing and making our own cushions by using Fabric paints on some blue cloth and then sewing the cloth together and stuffing them. We really enjoyed this project as you can s...

• Chapel Street

  Created: Wednesday, 08 April 2009 22:45 Author: Administrator

  The boys of 5 class Naomh Antóin have been working as historians in recent times. They are researching and recording historical information on Chapel Street. The boys have left the environs of the school to visit and study the street and its buildings. ...

• Sese - History

  Created: Wednesday, 08 April 2009 21:31 Author: Administrator

  In the month of February sixth class studied two figures of Irish nationalism. Firstly, we looked at the life and times of Daniel O’ Connell. We studied this patriot in his peaceful efforts to gain Repeal in the Act of Union and Catholic Emancipation.As...

• Haka

  Created: Monday, 02 March 2009 19:57 Author: Administrator

  This past few weeks, the boys have been studying the magnificent Maori Culture and the beautiful country of New Zealand.To further immerse ourselves in this lesson we decided to integrate it into our P.E. lessons and covered the strand unit of Danee. We b...

• Circuits

  Created: Monday, 02 March 2009 18:00 Author: Geraldine Lehane

  Among many experiments that the 4 class boys have undertaken, one of the most exciting was making circuits. With a lot of investigation and experimentations the boys were able to create not only light bulbs but alarms, dimmer switches, trip switches and f...

• Poetry

  Created: Monday, 02 March 2009 17:18 Author: Geraldine Lehane

  Homework oh Homework - A random selection of poems by 4th class pupils Home' work' oh Homework by Shane Keevers Homework oh homework, There must be nothing worse, I’d rather go shopping with my mom and her big purse. I wonder if home...

• The lungs

  Created: Monday, 02 March 2009 16:48 Author: Karen Murray

  In Science we made models of the lungs to help understand how we breathe. When the plastic is pulled down the balloon fills with air. In the same way, when the diaphragm in our bodies moves our lungs fill with air. When the plastic is pushed up the balloo...

• Our study of Anne Frank

  Created: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:51 Author: Aileen Tobin

  In second class we studied the story of Anne Frank. We looked at pictures of her family and their hideout, the secret annex during the war.We created a classroom timeline on her life experiences. We also typed out diary entries and took part in drama acti...

• Ancient Egypt

  Created: Thursday, 15 May 2008 01:00 Author: Administrator

  We have been learning all about Ancient Egypt. Using books and the internet we have found out about the country, the climate and the lifestyle. In English the whole class did a piece of shared writing on Tutankhamun. We also examined pictures of ancient E...