On Thursday we had an exciting (and stressful!) day as the finals of the Maths Week Tables Championships took place. A huge well done to all the children who reached the finals and showed everyone their amazing number skills and strategies. Congratulations to Alan, our junior champion and well done to Marta and Karol who were our runners up. In the senior final it was congratulations to Alistair who came in 1st place and his worthy runners up were Daniel and Leon. Well done to all involved.
Junior Infants and 5th and 6th Class went on another adventure to the Phoenix Park today, this time following a Maths Trail! Each group was tasked with finding lots of different items such as 3 pieces of bark, 7 leaves, 9 stones, 5 chestnuts, 12 twigs etc. The pupils also had to look out for any circles, triangles and squares in the environment and to make 2D shapes with the twigs and stones they found. The Junior Infants children were so enthusiastic that we all had a really fantastic time. Watch this space for more adventures throughout the year with these classes!
There is a lot of excitement this week in St. Gabriel’s as we are celebrating Maths Week 2016. One of the pupils, teachers and parents favourite events took place on Tuesday when the whole school came together at the same time to play Maths Games. This year’s event was as enjoyable as ever and everyone was very proud that we broke our previous records for the amount of parents in attendance. All the pupils and staff appreciate the time that the parents gave up to come and be a part of the fun. There was a wonderful atmosphere of friendship and learning in the P.E. hall that was felt by all. Next up, the Tables Championship finals!!!!
Maths Week Ireland will take place from the 15th – 23rd October 2016 (see www.mathsweek.ie for a list of activities nationwide) In St. Gabriel’s we always enjoy an active Maths Week each year and look forward to this event for months. Most importantly, each child from Junior Infants to Sixth Class gets involved in the various activities.
Our whole school Maths Games event will take place this year on Tuesday 18th October at 9am in the P.E. Hall. As every class is involved in this one event, we need our parents to come along and help out with the fun and games! If you are free to be a part of this fantastic event, please come along next Tuesday morning for a really enjoyable morning.
Junior Infants went on an adventure to the Phoenix Park last week with their buddies from 5th and 6th Class. In October, each class is focusing on the strand Outdoor and Adventure Activities in our P.E. lessons and the pupils from 5th and 6th Class were delighted to be asked to accompany their ‘Buddies’ from Junior Infants to the park. We managed to include some S.E.S.E. on our trip and discovered lots of different coloured Autumn leaves and chestnuts. We are all looking forward to doing some more fun activities together during the year!
Well done to our pupils who were recognised for their extra efforts to speak Irish in class and around the school this week! Ar fheabhas go léir!
Friday June 10th saw another year of our annual Poetry Reading in St. Gabriel’s. The children from 1st to 6th Class came together to share some poetry that they had written themselves and to read aloud some poems by famous poets that they have enjoyed themselves. We heard some limericks, acrostic poems, group poems and some really moving pieces in particular from the pupils of 6th Class who had attended a writing workshop with Dermot Bolger, Irish novelist, playwright and poet. A really enjoyable morning was had by everyone present. Watch out for some of these poets in the future!
