Archive for Fifth Class
5th class tour

What a day 5th class had on their tour. They visited the National Museum, the Jeanie Johnson famine ship and finished it off with a trip to the Dáil where they were met by Marcella Corcoran Kennedy. A great day was had by all.
World Book Day

WORLD BOOK DAY IN MERCY PRIMARY SCHOOL, BIRR. World Book Day on Thursday 5th March was a fantastic success in Mercy Primary School. All the teachers and most of the children dressed up as book characters. Everyone made a huge effort. Scooby Doo, Pinocchio and countless princesses roamed the school for the day. Mary […]
World Book Day Thursday 5th March 2015
We had a fantastic day on World Book Day. Have a look at our photos to see all of our great costumes.
Fun in the Snow in Mercy Primary.

January 14th 2015
Science Week in Mercy Primary School

Science Week in Mercy Primary School ran from Monday 10th November to Friday 14th November. All the teachers and students worked very hard, had a great week and learned a lot. It finished with “Science Day” on Friday and we invited all our parents to the school to see what we had done. Here is […]
Science Week fun in 5th and 6th Class

What fun was had during science week 2014, and then to top it all off, it made us very proud to display all our work for our parents on Friday in the P.E. hall. Well done to all involved!
5th Class are a class of ‘geniuses’

On Wednesday the 12th of November we participated in a Sugru workshop in Birr library which was presented by a scientist from Ingenious Ireland named Patrick. First of all we learned about Irish inventors and did you know ….. Tayto Crisps were invented by an Irish inventor. Then we started to come up with ideas […]
Halloween fun in fifth class!

We all dressed up on the day we got our Halloween holidays. We had to keep up Irish traditions, as the customs of Halloween originally started in Ireland. We had great fun. A big Thank you also to Mrs. Murray and seven girls from our class who made us delicious home-made vegetable soup! It was […]
Maths Week 2014
Maths Week was from Monday 13th October to Friday 17th October. There were lots of very interesting Maths Activities in every class. One of the most enjoyable was the Maths Trail around the school. Mrs. Fitzgerald spent a very long time creating a trail – it was brilliant! […]
Friends Forever in Fifth and Sixth!!!

Friendship week came with a bang to fifth class and what fun was had! From friendship notes, to meeting for a chat in our ‘Friendship café’, we had a blast. Our motto in fifth class, is that Friendship week is not over, it has just begun!!!