The children in 4th Class visited a Dublin City Council commissioned exhibit by artist Lucy McKenna called “High Strangeness” and took part in a workshop facilitated by IMMA. The exhibition explores ideas and stories at the edge of our understanding of the universe, inspired by storytelling.
The school received a lovely message of appreciation for the wonderful fundraising at the Junior Infant Nativity Show. Parents donated €250. This was noted as a generous and valuable donation and a much-appreciated act of kindness. Thank you do all who donated!
Today, Lithuania won in the girls final and Hungary won in the boys final in an exciting end to the inter-class intercultural football competition.
Well done to all who took part and we hope you had fantastic time!
Special thanks to all at Aughrim St. Sports Centre and James and Aibhinn at Bohemian FC for their help.
It was fantastic to have a visit from Orlagh Fitzpatrick from Bohemian FC’s women’s team. The pupils and Orlagh had a great chat about how to manage school and football and had some time to practice some skills. This is part of Bohemian FC’s Community outreach work and a longer term relationship between St Gabriel’s NS and Bohemian FC.
Running alongside our Intercultural Football Competition in the school, children from 1st to 6th Classes worked together in language groups on promotional posters for the competition in both English and other languages such as Polish and Romanian.
It was fantastic to see the children across the school work collaboratively through the various languages on their posters. The posters will be displayed throughout the school for the week.
Well done all! Bravo tuturor! Dobra robota! Maith sibh gach duine!
3rd Class took part in an engineering workshop in TU Dublin recently. They looked at examples of engineering used by the Roman Empire for building bridges and arches. In groups they worked on building their own arches using a keystone. Finally everyone created catapults and competed to see who could launch their pompom the farthest.
