Using the language we have been learning in Oral Language lesson about Halloween, the children in Mr Smyth’s Class wrote this lovely acrostic poem- that spells out the word Halloween. Enjoy!
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Monthly Archives: October 2019
A Splash of Colour with Henri Matisse
The Cut-Out art of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
This months Art theme is Paint and Colour and 1st Class have being studying the art of French Artist Henri Matisse, who loved colour. When he was old and no longer able to hold a paint brush he began his famous cut-out art, where he cut and arranged pieces of coloured paper in wonderful arrangements. Check out the children’s Matisse inspired creations below.
First Class have their Maths Eyes on this Week
It has been a busy week in First Class and around the entire school with Maths Week. In Mr Smyth’s 1st Class it has been all about Maths. We measured our heights this week, had Maths games in class and a mega Maths Games morning in the hall with parents. In Maths Class we have been looking at categorising and sorting objects and in PE we even had our Maths eyes on with an Orientation activity. Its been Maths all round. Check out the pictures below! Later in the week we will survey another class about how they get to school for our geography lesson and make graphs of the results.
Maths Week 2019 is here!!!
This week sees St. Gabriel’s take part in another Maths Week Ireland. The children will be having a great time taking part in extra fun Maths lessons, Maths trails around the school and in the Phoenix Park, practising using their ‘Maths Eyes’ all around and also the older children will be taking part in the Tables Champion competition.
Our Maths Games Extravaganza will take place on Wednesday 16th at 9am in the PE hall and we welcome all family members who are free to come along and take part in what is always a fantastic event.
For more information on events taking place see www.mathsweek.ie/2019/
Painting Autumnal Colours
Here is a Recount piece of writing by 1st Class about our afternoon yesterday.
Painting Autumnal Colours
Yesterday, our class did some painting in class.
First we put on some painting bibs, got paint, brushes and paper ready and we mixed different colours together to make new colours.
Next we painting these new colours on our pages.
After that, we painted some leaves using autumn colours- yellow, brown, red and orange.
In the end, we left the painting dry, tidied up, washed our hands and took our bibs off.
That was the best day ever!
Maths for fun !
With Maths Week fast approaching the children in 5th and 6th have really enjoyed learning some new Maths Games. Today they learned how to play Salute!
The children play in groups of three. One pupil is nominated as the dealer and deals the other two pupils a card face down. When the dealer calls ‘Salute’ the pupils place their card on their forehead without looking at it. The dealer then calls out the sum of the two cards and the pupils have to try and guess their card. 
Mental Health Week in North Dublin City
This Thursday at 10am in St Gabriel’s library there will a simple talk and workshop based on mental health and wellbeing for families.
This week is Dublin City North Mental Health week (coordinated by CYPSC – Children and Young People’s Sevices Committees), and Step by Step project coordinator Paul Ring will host the workshop based on the MindOut programme and tea and refreshments will be available.
Please see below some wellbeing tips and services that are available to young people and families in your area.
Dublin City North CYPSC Therapeutic and Counselling for Under 18s