St. Gabriel’s are celebrating all things artistic and creative this Valentine’s Day with Art From the Heart. This will be an exhibition of multiple art works from every child in our school, from Junior Infants right up to Sixth Class. On Wednesday 14th February (opening times 10:30am – 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 3pm) there will be art pieces on display in the school hall showing the different art strands, from Paint and Colour, Clay and Construction to Drawing. Admission is free and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!
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Christmas Concert a Sell Out!!
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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
Maths Week 2017
Maths Week Ireland took place in October of this year all around the country and as usual the children in St. Gabriel’s took part in many different activities, from Maths trails and Maths games to our first ever Maths Week Table Quiz. Thank you to all the parents who came along to take part in the events. The most important goal of Maths Week is that the children have fun while learning and we all agreed that this was definitely true!
Afterschool Club help create Smithfield’s Haunted House
The Wednesday Afterschool club is over for this half-term. There were two groups – Miss Fahey’s Variety Club , and Miss O’Loughlin’s Halloween Art Club.
The Halloween Art club made big, bright, colourful birds, autumn leaves and fruit for the trees in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Forest, and Golden Magic Mirror Frames for Snow White’s corner. The group had great fun creating the pieces, and they have now been brought to Step by Step’s building on Coke Lane in Smithfield, where the Haunted House “Escape from the Gingerbread Zombie Mansion” is again this year.
The Haunted House is open from 4-6pm on Halloween evening but get there early to avoid disappointment. There will also be lots of spooky family fun on Smithfield Square at the Cauldron of Smithfield from 5 – 9:30pm.
Wishing you all a happy and safe Halloween.
School reopens Monday 6th November at 8:50am.
Maths Week 2017
Maths Week Ireland takes place from the 14th – 2nd October (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. Continue reading
Good Friends Week
4th – 8th September 2017
Our special focus this year is to ‘Be Generous’. We hope to honour the life of our wonderful school gardener, Séamus Stone, who recently passed away. His generosity knew no bounds and has enriched the lives of our school community.
Each class will work hard this week to be generous with their time, their talents and their treasures, especially sharing our smiles and our kind words!
We will draw up our class charters with guidelines that we feel are important to help each classroom to be happy, safe, welcoming and productive places to be this year.
Ms. Fahey’s 5th and 6th class will display their generosity by becoming Playground Buddies to our new Junior Infant Class. What fantastic role models they are!
Wonderful World of Shape
Mr Smyth’s 4th/5th Class have been examining the properties of 3-D shape. Check out some of the shapes they have tried to recreate using printable nets which they cut out and glued. Here is a fun 3-D shape game you can play at home: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/3d_shapes/play/