Literacy

After 7 intensive Team Teaching weeks to develop good writing skills all 1st-6th class pupils wrote, edited, illustrated and published a book each for Monaghan Write a Book Project. Congratulations to Zara McRory The Little Tooth Fairy and Nathan Carleton – The Beach who have been awarded Merit Awards for their books in the ‘Write […]

The First Debate On Friday 17th November we travelled to Garron N.S. to debate against them. “To tackle climate change everyone should be vegetarian” . We were disagreeing with this motion. Their Principal welcomed us to the school. Their team began the debate, they spoke well and made some good points. But they didn’t refute […]

We play with toys and have fun. Every 2 weeks our theme changes. We have learned about our community – how the post travels from the post box and how our homes are designed. We played families with the younger class. We made things out of junk art. We used a large box and imagined […]

On Friday 22nd September, 6th Class went to the Education Centre to learn more about debating. We met lots of new people. We learned about Global Warming and Pollution. We also learned how some countries are treated unfairly by others. We learned how to express ourselves when debating, how to listen carefully and how to […]