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Christmas Newsletter
Mercy Primary School, Birr Christmas Newsletter 2013 W ith Christmas upon us, we bring you our final newsletter of 2013. As you have seen over the last 3 newsletters, Mercy Primary School is a busy and active school and the month of December has been even busier! We started December with Confessions for 3rd to […]
Junior Infants have been busy preparing for Christmas
Junior Infants are after a very busy few weeks preparing for Christmas. We made beautiful Christmas cards using lollipop sticks. Don’t they look fab! We went to Birr Theatre to see a show called “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer” so we made our own “Rudolphs”!! And finally we made Santa with a lovely keep sake […]
Junior and Senior Infants Christmas Play
Junior and Senior Infants performed “The Sleepy Shepherd” play on Wednesday 11th December in the school hall. They had been practising hard for a number of weeks and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Well done girls!! Here are a few photos from their performance.
Fundraising for the Philippines
Mrs. Murray came up with a great idea to fundraise for the Philippines Disaster Fund – ask the children to collect the copper coins that are always lying around the place at home. This was duly done and would you believe, we raised a massive 603 euro!!! WOW! Well done to everyone. We […]
Christmas Centerpieces
Well done to all who made lovely Christmas Centrepieces! Thank you Carmel for spending the day with us and demonstrating how to make our own unique Christmas decorations. You made it look so easy and were on hand to help out at every turn! Parents arrived at 9.30 and quickly got busy making Christmas candle arrangements. […]
Christmas Cakes
Congratulations to all parents who baked festive Christmas Cakes. It was no easy feat but with Grainne’s guidance they ended up a treat! We iced and decorated them a few weeks later, now they are ready for the big day, if they last that long!
5th and 6th visit the sorting office for An Phost in Birr
On Friday 22nd Nov, the lucky girls from 5th and 6th class in Mercy Primary School got to visit the An Phost south Offaly sorting office in Emmet Square, Birr. We were welcomed by Gary Cahill, the postmaster, who gave us a wonderful tour. One of the highlights was finding our own personal slots where […]
Science Week – Hearty business in 5th / 6th!
In 5th / 6th we learned all about the circulatory system. We even got to see one up close! We also worked in groups and drew the heart – they are displayed on the Science board in our classroom! […]
5th / 6th November Remembrance
In November the girls in 5th / 6th are remembering those who have passed. We remember them in our thoughts and prayers each day.
Portraits in 5th / 6th!
The girls in 5th / 6th sketched portraits of some famous people in Art class! Take a look at the pictures below – can you guess who they are? They are proudly on display in our classroom!