​Congratulations to Hazel, Mia, Aonadh and Conor who all received the Sacrament of First Penance
on the 28 th of February. The Ceremony was beautiful. Many thanks to Fr. Meade for all his help and
support in preparing the children. We wish the children all the very best on the 11 th of May, when
they will celebrate their First Holy Communion. 

As a school we are taking on a project all about bogs. We invited Sorcha Doyle, a Heritage Expert on bogs to our school for the day. The children learned so much about bogs. We are now looking forward to our trips to Boora with Sorcha to learn more about our local bogs.

As we are in spring we can see new life all around us, we like to take this opportunity to teach the children about different life cycles. Our first lifecycle that we will be looking at is the lifecycle of the frog. We have frogspawn in the classroom and the children are very excited to see the frogspawn develop and grow into frogs. This is a great way for the children to learn about the life cycle of the frog and give them a greater appreciation and understanding about the environment where they live. 

In class we enjoyed learning about money while playing monopoly. We have changed the board games so that all the game is using euro and suitable for different abilities. It was great to see them adding money and giving out change while having lots of fun.
We are also learning about fractions and an enjoyable way to get a visual concept of fractions was to make pizza and divide it into fractions when it was cooked. We also used this lesson for procedural writing and the children wrote / drew the procedure to making a pizza, but most of all the children enjoyed eating the pizza. 
In Science we are busy learning about electricity in class. The children have enjoyed building circuits and learning what is needed to complete a circuit. As a class we are in the process building the Boora Wind turbines. We are using recycled materials to build the project and we will use our circuits to make the blades move.

​Well done to the Senior Room children for making their own pancakes in school on Pancake Tuesday. The Junior Room children enjoyed choosing their own toppings to put on their pancakes. Well done boys and girls!

On the 7th of February the Senior Room visited Birr Theatre to attend a Science show entitled “Where Is The Air?” which introduces the children to 1. Air and 2. Pressure. The Mad Scientist used giant wind bags, vortex generators and even a hovercraft to help the children understand the power of air.

The Senior Room created lovely pieces of Art on St. Brigid’s Day.