Archive for October, 2021
Happy Halloween 5th 🎃💀
Take a look at all of our Halloween costumes in 5th.🎃💀 An Amazing effort was put in by everyone 👏🏻 We had a SPOOKTACULAR Day. Lots of kindness shown with girls baking goods and bringing in treats for the class 💖 Big thank you to all the parents/guardians too💖 Happy Midterm 🥳
Happy Halloween 🎃
Halloween preparations are well underway in Mercy Primary. Pumpkin carving, spooky artwork, Halloween games and ghoulish dancing to name but a few activities enjoyed by the girls. Happy Halloween from all in Fourth Class 🎃 👻
5th Class Haunted Houses Silhouettes 🏠 👥 👻
5th Class really enjoyed painting and creating some ‘Spooky Haunted Houses Silhouettes’ with Ms.Maloney – they all turned out great, we are really getting into the Halloween mode this week 🎃 👻 🧟♀️ 🍭 🍫
Traditions in October
This past couple of weeks, the girls in Second Class have been learning g all about different cultures, and the traditions and festivals that are celebrated during October! We have learned all about El Dia de Los Muertos (the day of the dead) and Diwali. We compared these traditions to how we celebrate Halloween, and […]
Sixth Class Zoom with Derek Landy
Thanks to Joe Kinnane in Birr Library for hooking us up with a great zoom with author Derek Landy. Derek is world famous for his Skulduggery series which gave us our inspiration for our art lesson. Check out our creepy illustrations.
Space Week
Space Week was celebrated in Fourth Class this week. They had a Zoom with Dr. Niamh Shaw and were fascinated to learn about space, space exploration and what life is like on the international space station. Thanks to Birr Theatre for organising this event. On Friday, Offaly Libraries organised a Zoom workshop hosted by Seanie […]
5th Class Nature Art
Fabulous Nature Art based on artist Andy Goldsworthy with Ms.Maloney this week. The girls were super creative with their pieces. Using resources the girls collected they constructed some animals and insects- they turned out AMAZING 🤩 🍃 🍁 🍂 🐘 🐱
Green Flag Awards
Fourth Class were delighted to attend the virtual Green Flag Awards Ceremony today. We received our fifth green flag for Biodiversity
Children’s Book Festival
First David Walliams and now Judi Curtin!! As part of the Children’s Book Festival, organised by Birr Library, the girls in Fourth Class met Irish author Judi Curtin over Zoom today. She told the class all about her family, her schooldays, her love of reading and writing, her interest in history and the authors she […]
Our Class is a Family
To begin the school year in first class we read the book “Our Class is a Family” by Shannon Olsen. We discussed different ways we can show one another we care and did some fabulous activities. Each girl made a pinky promise with another girl in the class. These pinky promises show how much the […]