We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday March 07th in DPETNS with an array of different activities. The school was a hive of activity with books being celebrated in a range of ways. Bunting Competition Children were invited to participate in a ‘Bunting Competition’ using their illustration skills to represent their favourite book or character … Read more
We are inviting students to take part in a Short Story Competition held by RTE Guide and Puffin books. The winning story will be published in the RTE Guide, and its author will win an e-reader and a hamper of books. Entries can be submitted electronically or by post. Ruth and Aileen will collect entries to … Read more
Buddies practice their building skills for Engineering Week!
The soccer season got off to a great start today. The girls team were up against St. Mary’s today and had an impressive 9-0 win. The team showed great passing and with lots of the girls getting goals. The girls played fantastic and showed wonderful sportsmanship. Best of luck to the boys in their first … Read more
Ger’s Fifth Class organsied a Tóraíocht Taisce for our class. It was great fun being outside and all over the school. We had to try solve some tricky clues to find out information. It was great to spend some time with our buddies and we even managed to teach them cúpla focal ourselves.
Engineer’s Week ran from Monday 4th March until Friday 8th. Senior Infants were very busy looking at the different types of bridges that can be built and trying to make a structure stable enough for a toy car to safely pass over it. We looked at long beam bridges, arch bridges and truss bridges. It … Read more
World Book Day 2019 Thursday 7th March 2019 The children from Sinéad’s class really enjoy reading. In our classroom we use adapted books to help engage the children so that they can really interact with the story they are reading. For World Book Day 2019 we thought we would share some of the adapted books … Read more
This week we are exploring the work of an engineer. We decided to kick off Engineer’s Week with designing and making our own paper airplanes. We talked about airplanes and how we think they fly. We learned that: Airplanes fly because they are able to generate a force called Lift which normally moves the airplane upward. Lift is generated by the forward … Read more
On February 13th we decided to strike outside the Dail against Climate Action. We decided to strike against Climate Action because we feel the Government aren’t doing enough about it, and a young teenage activist, Greta Thunberg , inspired us to start doing something about Climate Action. As we are the next generation and we … Read more
