This week on RTE’s News2Day children were asked to submit questions to the presenters rather than answer a question.
After some discussion in class, the children in Mr Smyth’s Class asked: “How many people work on making a News2Day episode?”
Check out the news item by clicking HERE.
(You will find the piece 7minutes and 25 seconds into the show)
WELL DONE Boys and Girls- Great question!
This week’s News2Day’s ‘Question of the Week’ was
Should everyone get a medal on Sports Day, even if they don’t win?
Mr Smyth’s Class discuss the Question of the Week every week and this week we discussed the issue in class and sent in our answer to the show. You can watch the show HERE
Check out our answer below:
News2Day were in touch and sent a lovely message back to the girls and boys in Mr Smyth’s Class. You can read their lovely message to us below:
Hi everyone in Mr Smyth’s class,
Thanks for your super answers. We think you are very kind and yes, we agree, sports day should be fun!
We will be reading answers out all week, so stay tuned and we might read yours!!
Best wishes
Avril and the news2day team
We had a very special visitor to St. Gabriel’s this week.
Santa Claus came to visit on Wednesday. He said he had heard that we are the best school in Dublin with the best boys and girls. And he’s right!
He very kindly gave a gift of a book to every single boy and girl in the whole school. He reminded the children how reading is so important and also lots of fun.
We were very impressed that Santa has been learning Irish too, and was able to use his cúpla focail. He was very impressed with the good manners of the children throughout the school in English and in Irish.
Wishing all the children and their families a very happy Christmas.
School reopens Monday 8th January at 8:50am
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Huge thanks to all the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, friends and neighbours who came to support the children in the Christmas Concert this week. The children and their teachers had been working hard for many weeks to present … Continue reading
Last month Mr Smyth’s Class learned about Recycling. This month in Art we are doing construction and have created very cool Junkyard Robots from recyclable materials we found around our homes. Thanks to all the mums and dads who helped the children collect materials. Anything we didn’t use went into our classroom’s recycle bins for plastic, paper and cardboard.
Check out our futuristic Robot Creatures below:
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As part of Science Week we in Mr Smyth’s 1st and 2nd Class have been talking about Forces.
We carried out experiments looking at the effect of slopes on how far cars moved.
Check out this cool website about forces…click on the picture below:
One of the most popular events every year in Maths Week in St. Gabriel’s is the Tables Championship. Pupils from 1st to 3rd Class battle it out to become the junior champion, and those from 4th to 6th Class compete for the senior crown. In a tense final, Ms. McLoone had to keep adding more and more difficult sums until the winners finally emerged. Well done to all involved!