Mr. Linnane’s 5th and 6th class pupils are working hard on their 1916 projects. As well as learning lots about both the leaders of the Rising and the ordinary people, they have continued their art work, creating the stories around artefacts from the rising. As you can see from the pictures below, the poster work is almost finished. The children will soon be working on recordings of the stories the posters tell.

Both the posters and recordings of the stories will later be displayed in DIT Grangegorman.

The class is also looking forward to two more visits to the National Museum at Collins Barracks – to see the new 1916 Exhibition, Proclaiming a Republic, and following on from that they will participate in a workshop with Dermot Bolger, a writer who will be in residence in the museum.

Mr Linnane’s 5th and 6th class are continuing work on their 1916 project this week.

The class is working in groups, each on one artefact from the 1916 Easter Rising. They are using images of the artefacts to tell a story – stories set in Easter Week. The artefacts the children have chosen include a charred green flag, a melted bottle, James Connolly’s shirt, a dummy rifle, a volunteer’s uniform, a bottle of iodine and a hat.

A picture really does paint a thousand words, and no doubt these pictures will tell interesting stories of what happened in Dublin 100 years ago.

Watch this space for updates and more pictures on the project

Operation Transformation 2016 has started. It’s great to see some new faces at activities and it’s not too late to join.

There are four activities each week, and parents (aswell as their friends and families) are welcome to do as many as they like. All activities start at 9:15. Weigh in on Monday is from 9am.

Mondays             Weigh in (optional) and football   Stanhope Street Primary School

Wednesdays       Aerobics                                   St Gabriel’s NS

Thursdays           Boxercise                                 Stanhope Street Primary School

Fridays                Walking (buggies welcome)       Meet at Kavanagh’s Pub

Watch out for the group video on this weeks Operation Transformation on RTE1 – Wednesday and Thursday night at 8:30pm.

Many thanks to Byrne’s Allcare Pharmacy on the Oxmantown Road for making a donation towards the running of our Breakfast Club.

Here in St. Gabriel’s, we are delighted to run a very popular and busy breakfast club for the children. The breakfast club not only provides the children with a breakfast to set them up for the day, and all the learning and play that they do, but it is also an important social opportunity for them. The breakfast room is always a hive of chatter and laughter in the mornings.

To provide this to the children right through the year, we need extra funds, so we were very grateful to accept a generous cheque for €250 from Fiona from Byrne’s Allcare Pharmacy. The money will go towards continuing to provide the children of St. Gabriel’s with a breakfast before school each morning.