We were kindly gifted this beautiful photograph of what is believed to be the first students enrolled in St Gabriel’s NS way back 131 years ago in 1895.
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Welcome Back
A huge welcome back to all our pupils, tomorrow, as we begin a new school year, Tuesday 1st September!
Here are the details of classes and their teachers:
Junior Infants: Ms Buggy
Senior Infants: Ms Fitzpatrick
1st Class: Ms Condron/ Ms Sweetman
2nd Class: Mr Delaney
3rd Class: Mr Cullen
4th Class A: Ms Curran
4th Class B: Mr O’Sullivan
5th Class: Ms Teeling
6th Class: Mr Flanagan
Autism Class: Ms Fahey/ Ms Tierney
Moderate Class: Ms Leonard
4th Class win Try Five Moon Base STEM Art competition
A massive congratulations to Mr Smyth’s 4th Class who were the overall winners of the Technological University Dublin “Try Five” Moon Base STEM Art competition. They came 1st out of 11 local schools.
They won some wonderful STEM based resources for the school.
Check out the pictures from the presentation day in TUD Grangegorman.
Well done to all the children!
STEM Workshop with educators from Hangzhou Normal University in China
Today in school we were delighted to welcome a special group from China visiting our school to observe a Try Five STEM workshop with 4th class. The group consisted of 7 professors from Hangzhou Normal University in China. Hangzhou Normal University is one of the leading universities in Zhejiang Province, China, known for its teacher education programs. Its Primary Education major stands out for combining strong theoretical learning with rich practical training.
Ms Comerford, the principal and Mr Smyth, our school STEM coordinator, with the help of Ms Sweetman welcomed the professors from the University, Institution of Education and the Director of the Future School Research Institute. They have close connections with their local primary schools and programmes covering not only STEM but also other subjects like language, art and music. Our visitors presented the school with beautiful prints created by students back in China.
The pupils in 4th class took part in a STEM workshop on renewable energy and wind turbines. They really enjoyed the workshop and the visit of the professors. A huge thanks to the staff of Technological University Dublin for arranging the workshop and the visit.
Busy March in Mr Smyth’s 4th Class
Its been a busy March in Mr Smyth’s 4th Class.
In Art the children are working with Fabric and Fibre creating colourful pom poms and jazzy bracelets.
In Maths, they have been working on chance– throwing dice and flipping coins and working out the probability of the outcomes.
In 3-D Shape, they learned about the Euler’s Rule discovered by Leonhard Euler in 1758, a formula in 3D geometry that helps them work out the number of edges of a 3-D shape when they know the number of faces and number of vertices.
On World Book Day the children took part in a World Book Day quiz:
Pupils make their voices heard- St Gabriel’s NS Referendum Day
Today, the pupils across the school from Junior Infants to 6th Class made their voices heard in St Gabriel’s NS Referendum Day. They gave their opinions on how they felt about school, spelling, maths and moving to secondary school. Their valuable feedback will help us as a school plan for the future.
Thank you & well done to all the pupils who took part!
School Garden Update – Day 2 with Joan Power
Today marked the second day that our horticulture expert Joan Power joined us in school to work with the children in our garden. It has been fantastic to see the students learning through hands-on experience in nature.
So far, the children have explored the edible plants growing in our school garden and learned how to care for them through activities such as transplanting and deadheading. They also discovered how these simple gardening practices help plants grow strong while supporting local biodiversity.
Another exciting milestone this week has been the start of our potato and onion planting. The children carefully planted them and are already looking forward to watching them grow and harvesting them later this year.
We’re excited to see our garden continue to develop while the students build their knowledge of nature, food, and sustainability.
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