He comes from the land down under

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Huge thanks to Sam, Martha’s dad, who popped into 3rd Class for a visit today to talk about the land of his birth Australia, which the children have been learning about.

They got to dress up as the legendary Ned Kelly, taste Vegemite and hear stories of Kangaroo crashes, Geelong AFL, snakes and much much more. They got to bring the AFL football out to GAA too!

Thank you Sam!

Thank you for donating to our Summer Fun Day Fundraiser!!!

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A huge thank you to all of you who have donated to our Summer Fun Day Fundraiser to raise money for our new solar panels. So far we have raised €2,429.50!

A big thank you also goes to our lunch provider Glanmore, who kindly donated the cost of the ice cream van and bouncy castle yesterday!

The solar panels were installed last Friday by Solis Green Energy. We were also provided with a display screen which shows us a live reading of how much solar power we are generating.

Once again, thank you all for your very generous support!

Summer Fun in 2nd Class!

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We are having a fantastic last couple of weeks in 2nd Class.

We have been doing shared reading with our friends in Junior Infants. We also made some delicious oat biscuits from scratch. Mr Donnelly, *ahem, overdid a few in the oven but we all had one each and some to share afterwards!

And the Fun Day was super, as shown by an ice-cream treat above! Thanks to Ms Delaney, Ms Comerford and all who helped organise this school fundraiser.

Solar Panels Installed

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Today was an exciting day for St Gabriel’s NS, which saw the solar panels installed on our roof.

Check out the pictures below with some “before” drone footage, some pictures of the work being done and some “after” photos of the panels in place!