We have been busy planting bulbs in school. They come in all different shapes and sizes. When we planted the bulbs we planted them with the stem facing up. We covered the bulbs with clay and in Spring we will have lovely crocuses.
This Halloween we made a “Báirín Breac” with Mrs Callaghan and Mary. Mrs Callaghan brought in the ingredients, which included raisins, sultanas, mixed peel, cherries, flour and brown sugar.
First we soaked the fruit in tea. The next day we sieved the flour into the mixture. We put in two rings and then put the breac in the oven. It smelled lovely as it was cooking. There was great excitement when the breac was in the oven and we were wondering who would get the rings. Later we played the saucer game. We had great Halloween fun.
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth class were learning more about their home county Roscommon in Geography. The children were split up into groups and each group did some research on Roscommon. The children learnt learnt lots of interesting things about Roscommon including that the population is 64,336, it is an inland county, it is the eleventh largest county in Ireland, Seltnasaggat is the highest point in Roscommon and Clonalis House in Castlerea, Kings House in Boyle and Lough Key Forest Park are just some of the tourist attractions Roscommon has to offer.
We were delighted to be able to raise our first Active Flag on Sunday last June 25th at our Annual Fun Run.
Maebh and Miss. Tansey raised the flag together. Its great to see the flag flying high outside our school after a year filled with fun active activities.
Pictured above is the Active Committee.
The Active group,also Cloadagh and Abi were given a number of games to explain and play with the other children. They explained the rules, set up the game and put the children into groups.
Our Be Active after school is going very well so far.We have had a great turn out from the children. Thank you to all the parents that have helped out so far. We are getting fit and having great fun. It continues next Tuesday May 30th at 3.10pm.
The active committee carried out a questionnaire with all children to see what local clubs they were involved in. Here are the following results:
Irish Dancing-Etna Fahy
St.Kevins GAA
Kings Basketball
Horse Riding
Castlerea Celtic
Creggs Rugby
Comans Swimming
Boxing
Karate
The children were very lucky recently as Michael agreed to show the senior room how to play handball. The children really enjoyed this sport, as it was something new to everyone.
Tennis has taken over in term 3 as the sport that is most popular among all classes during break and lunch time.
Well done to the following students on their recent art competition results in Castlerea.
Boys U.8 1st-Michael Kearns 3rd-Sam Bligh
Girls U.8 1st-Zoe Joyce 2nd- Aisling Gunning
Boys U.10 2nd-Daniel Diggins
Girls U.10 1st-Elisha Joyce
Girls U.12 2nd-Kacie Joyce 3rd-Roisin Connolly
Boys U.12 3rd-Shae Gaffney
Girls U.14 1st-Abi Flanagan