As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, Mr Cullen’s Third Class and Ms Teeling’s Sixth Class came together for a lively céilí in the school hall. The students learned and enjoyed traditional Irish dances, including the Walls of Limerick and the Siege of Ennis. It was a fantastic opportunity for the older and younger classes to work together, celebrate Irish culture, and have great fun through music and dance. ☘️
We love books in St Gabriel’s NS so everyone is always very excited when World Book Day comes around every year! This year the children had a great time dressing up as literary characters and bringing their favourite books to school to share with friends. The junior, autism and moderate classes enjoyed some interactive story telling in the library and Bernie even used the book theme for our dance classes. Some classes designed book covers and bookmarks while others took part in quizzes. We can’t wait for next year.
St Gabriel’s has a visiting horticulturist from Heritage Ireland coming to help us with our school garden. Today 5th class were learning about the different plants growing in our garden and how to maintain them. 5th class enjoyed “growing” their understanding of all the wonders in our garden.
February was a busy month for the children in 4th Class with the children making Brigid’s crosses and Chinese Lanterns, surveying other classes for Maths activities on Data and Bar graphs and having Dance with Bernie and Tag Rugby with Leinster Rugby.
We had our STEM Try Five workshop number 3 with scientists from TUD Grangegorman. This one was on electricity learned about electrons, protons, flow of electricity and circuits. At the end the children made Star Projectors using a simple electrical circuit.
The class began their group History research project on Ancient Egypt where they began working in groups to research different aspects of Ancient Egyptian life from mummification, the Pharaohs and much more.
As part of learning about Chinese New Year and their zodiac animals, the class in Art created paper Chinese lanterns.
Second class enjoyed exploring shape and symmetry recently. We loved identifying symmetrical shapes and wanted to create our own symmetrical pictures. Below are a selection of images we made using our attribute blocks.
We also created our own symmetrical structures using Blue Blocks in our P.E. hall.
Last night, eight students from 4th, 5th and 6th Class attended the Credit Union Table Quiz in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Blanchardstown making up two teams of four.
There were 52 teams taking part in the quiz. Our two wonderful teams finished 7th and 10th overall. They should be very proud of themselves for the hardwork they have put in. A massive thanks to Mr Delaney for all his hard work in organising the teams for the event!
In maths, the children in 1st Class have been busy learning all about 2D shapes. We engaged in lots of oral discussions and hands-on activities to explore a variety of 2D shapes and discover their different properties.
The children in 1st Class truly adore their weekly trips to the school library. They are very responsible when using their own library cards to borrow books and they take great pride in choosing their reading material. We especially enjoy having a little peek through our new books just before home time.
In Art, we recently painted our clay creations. These included emojis, hearts and a variety of imaginative pieces inspired by the children’s own ideas.
The children constructed dragon puppets as part of the Chinese New Year Celebrations, which will begin on February 17th 2026.
