Clontibret N.S. Newsletter
May 2023
- The school tour for all pupils will be to Todd’s Leap Adventure Centre on Friday 9th The children will participate in Team Games, the Big Yella Slide, Bungee Run and Last Man Standing Activities. They will need to wear P.E. clothes and runners. A change of clothes will not be necessary. They will need a good packed lunch and plenty of water. The tour will cost €30 per child. We hope it will be a fun-packed day.
- Swimming lessons are continuing on Mondays. The children are really enjoying the lessons and are making good progress.
- Congratulations to Holly on winning 1st place for Clontibret N.S. in the Primary Schools Pony Jumping Competition.
- We will be assessing the children’s reading and maths over the coming weeks. The senior pupils will also have some SESE tests. Crawford will revise the History and Geography with the senior pupils.
Hot Lunches
12/5 Mince and Potatoes
19/5 Sausage in a Bap
26/5 Chicken Curry and Rice
2/6 Goujon Roll
9/6 School Trip
16/6 Mince and Pasta
23/6 School closes at 12.00
Dates for your diary
Monday 6th June Bank Holiday school closed
Friday 9th June School tour
Friday 23rd June Summer Holidays school closing at 12.00
Wednesday 30th August School re-opens for new term
Heritage Visit – Goska – Mammals
On Wednesday 3rd May, Goska spoke to us about wild mammals in Ireland. She put up pictures on the board. She has cameras in her lane and had recorded the wild mammals for us. She had a video of a young fox and a dead chicken and the fox didn’t know what to do with it and it just ran away. The fox call is like a baby crying. They would kill the chickens/hens if they weren’t closed in properly. Lot of the mammals are nocturnal.
She had a box of little teddies of the animals. She also had skull bones of some mammals – badger, fox and a rat. She had a dead bat in a container.
30 years ago grey squirrels had a disease and the red squirrels almost became extinct as they ran away when the others died. The pine martin also killed grey squirrels and the red squirrels came back. She told us lots of interesting facts which we enjoyed.
By Leah and Danielle
BLAST – Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers with Heather Brett
We made up poems with Heather Brett about our Grannies; she helped us with the 1st verse and we continued with the poem. We also drew pictures. She told us about other children’s poems to give us an idea on what our poems should be like. She asked us to find out what our names meant and who we looked up to. Haiku are short poems with 3 lines and don’t rhyme. In the middle it must have 7 syllables and in the top and bottom lines have 5 syllables. She told us about a man who went round towns in China and made a haiku about each one. She had a saying “You are not a drop in the ocean, but the ocean in a drop”. Goska told us about a man in Spain who wrote a poem about Ireland. He mentioned the scenery and the waves around the coast.
We had to design a super hero logo and speak about what super power we would like to have and how we would use it. It was very interesting and enjoyable.
By Noah
Europe Quiz
On Tuesday 9th May we took part in a zoom quiz against other schools. It was about Europe. Some of the questions we knew bur some were new to us. The highest score in our room was 13/18. The highest score received a Smyth’s Voucher, but it wasn’t us.
By Abigail and Bella
Africa
- The Seychelles is the richest African country.
- Africa is the 2nd largest continent in the world.
- South Sudan is the newest country in Africa.
- 95% of the world’s diamonds come from Africa.
- Africa covers 30 million square km.
- The Equator runs through 6 African countries.
- Africa has the largest dessert, the Sahara.
- The Nile River which runs through Africa is the 2nd longest river in the world. But some people think it is the longest.
- The elephant is the largest African animal.
- The crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- Starfish don’t have a brain.
- There are 54 countries in Africa.
- Africa grows 70% of the world’s cocoa beans.
- Africa got its name from the Ancient Romans.
- There are at least 3000 ethnic groups in Africa and around 2000 different languages.
By Aaron, Joseph, Reuben and Lenex.