Category Archives: 1st Class

School Tours to Dublin Zoo!

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This year due to Covid classes will not be able to go on any school tours which involve travelling on a bus or indoor activities.

However, St. Gabriel’s N.S. is so lucky to be located within walking distance of Dublin Zoo! All classes will be visiting the zoo this year for their school tours.

 

Junior and Senior Infants – Thursday June 10th

1st class and 2nd class – Friday June 11th

3rd & 4th class – Tuesday June 15th

5th & 6th class – Wednesday June 16th

 

The Sunshine class are going this Wednesday May 19th. We hope they have a fantastic time!

We will be sending out a letter to all other families this week with more information and permission slips.

Easter Closure

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School closes Friday March 26th – half day.

Children will be collected in the following order:

  • 11.30am: Junior Infants, Senior Infants and their siblings
  • 11.45am: Sunshine Class
  • 12.00 noon: 1st Class – 6th Class

School reopens Monday April 12th.

Please remember to complete the Return to School Questionnaire before your child returns to school.

Green Day Fun – Spórt agus Craic ar an Lá Glás

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This year in St. Gabriel’s NS we chose the day before St. Patrick’s Day to hold our Lá Glás (Green Day).  In the morning we certainly got a lot of exercise when we had our Céilí Mór outside in the playground.  Some amazing dance moves were on display, especially from Second Class!  Everyone has been making an extra special effort to speak cúpla focail as Gaeilge (a few words in Irish) for Seachtain na Gaeilge and each class enjoyed an Irish movie and popcorn to wind down after the all the excitement.

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Art Workshop with The Ark!

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Today the children from First Class took part in a virtual art workshop – a unique experience for everyone!  The title of the workshop was Winter Tales and Animal Shadows and we were lucky to be working with artist Lucy Hill and Clara from The Ark.

To begin, the children looked at some beautiful animal paintings that are part of the online Winter Light exhibition (you can have a look at the exhibition here https://ark.ie/projects/details/online-gallery-winter-light).  Each child gave their ideas about what they could see in the paintings and they discussed the shapes and colours with Lucy.

Then it was time for Ms. Fitzpatrick’s class to make their own animal shadow puppets!  Using colour to create the movement and shapes of their own animal, next they cut out the outline of their puppet.  Even as the children were cutting, they were changing their designs and adjusting to what they thought would look best.  Lucy also showed us how to make a shadow box to perform a puppet show at home!

First Class really enjoyed their workshop and are all looking forward to creating more art and stories from the pieces that they created.

 

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Our Christmas Advent Calendar

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Christmas is a magical time of year and First Class have been enjoying all of the fun and celebrations. To help us count down to Christmas Day we made a classroom Advent Calendar. Every morning we lift a number on our Advent Calendar and complete the fun Christmas activity underneath. We sure have been busy in First Class doing lots of fun activities including playing Christmas games, listening to Christmas songs and telling Christmas jokes. There were lots of laughs and giggles coming from our classroom! Here our some of our favourite jokes:

What does a snowman travel on? An icicle!

Who delivers presents to cats at Christmas time? Santa Paws!

What is green, covered in tinsel and goes ribbit ribbit? Mistle-toad!

Stay Safe Catch-up

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Stay Safe Lesson Catch-up

In January 2020 teachers began teaching the Stay Safe Programme at all class levels. The school closures in March meant that teachers were unable to introduce all topics of the programme to children. The Department of Education has advised all schools to complete the teaching of the programme during this school year. In St. Gabriel’s N.S. teachers from senior infants to sixth class will teach the remainder of the programme to pupils between now and Christmas.

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Parent Teacher Meetings update

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Usually at this time of year we would be preparing to welcome all our Parents and Guardians into the school for our annual Parent Teacher Meetings.  These meetings are always a positive way to involve everyone in the learning of the children of St. Gabriel’s NS. 

Unfortunately this year we will have to postpone these meetings to a later date in the school year due to the Covid-19 crisis.  Until then – as always – teachers will contact parents if there is anything of an urgent matter that needs to be discussed about your child’s needs.  Class teachers can also be contacted by email if you have any queries about your child’s learning.

Thank you again for your continuing co-operation during these unusual times.