Christmas is magical here in Scoil Bhríde, Mountnugent and we want to share that magic with you! 3rd & 4th class have been getting all set and ready for Christmas during the month of December. We’ve been doing some Christmas Art, decorating our classroom, playing some Christmas songs/games and visited the crib in the parish church. We also performed some Christmas songs and jingles for our parents on Thursday 15th December. We sang ‘Rockin Around the Christmas Tree’, It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, a poem called The Fourth Wise Man, Snow is falling and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. We had great fun performing for our familes and everyone enjoyed being back together again for the annual Christmas performances. We went for a walk down to our beautifully decorated village were we saw all the beautiful Christmas decorations created by local people. It really got us into the Christmas spirit! We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

During the month of November, we celebrated Kindness. In class, we talked about how to be kind to one another, ways of being and kind and how to promote kindness within our school. For our art lesson, we created kindness posters with various quotes to promote kindness within the school! 

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In Art, we created an Autumn display. We talked about the different types of trees and the animals preparing to hibernate. We went on a nature walk around the school with Mrs. McEvoy and collected different types of leaves for our art. We placed the various leaves on the paper and painted around them using autumnal colours to create an outline for each leaf. We also created hedgehogs for our Autumn display. Students coloured in hedgehogs, cut them out and stuck them onto a blue background. They also cut out triangles from different coloured card (red, orange and yellow) to represent the leaves that have fallen from the trees. The triangles were glued around the hedgehog to show the hedgehog hibernating amongst the leaves.

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3rd and 4th class had a great day in their Halloween costumes playing games and learning about Halloween traditions. A huge effort was made with all the costumes this year and everyone looked fantastic (although some were scary!) To end the day, we watched a scary movie with some treats. Happy Halloween!

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This week we discussed debating. As a class, we discussed a topic to debate and had a for and an against for the argument. Our argument was “Homework should banned from school”. It was very interesting to hear both sides of the argument. Debates are important in oral language as they develop a child’s ability to argue a point of view, a skill that is valuable in many aspects of life. These activities allow them to become better debaters through time and help them become critical thinkers, expressing their opinions and thoughts and gaining self-confidence. This activity was hugely popular amongst the students. It was wonderful to see the fantastic level of teamwork and preparation the classes put into their pieces.

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During October, we enjoyed some rugby with coach Jon Watt. We learned many rugby skills and put them into practice during a game. The students really enjoyed rugby this month and are well on their way in becoming players of the future Irish rugby team!

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Friendship week took place from the 26th – 30th September. During this week, students engaged and enjoyed all sorts of activities as we focused on what it means to be a friend and to have friends. 3rd and 4th class designed a friendship flower during their Art class. In each petal, students wrote the different qualities of what makes a good friend. They also hosted a friendship lunch where they all brought in some yummy treats to share amongst eachother. During the friendship lunch, students got to move around the classroom, talk to different people and create new friendships within the classroom. The students really enjoyed this! A huge thank you to all the parents who provided some treats and baked goods for the children for their friendship lunch! It went down a treat!!

We had great fun solving some clues to help us find the Easter eggs!
We watched a movie and enjoyed some of our treats before finishing up for the holidays.

Here are our projects on the different planets in The Solar System. We worked together in groups to complete these and then presented them to the rest of the class. We wrote reports about the Sun and painted lovely planet pictures.

We really enjoyed constructing these 3D shapes in Maths.