The pupils of 5th and 6th class will be working on the topic of ‘Fairtrade’ over the next few weeks.
This is the blog link they will be doing tasks off. The pupils can do a bit of research on the topic from the suggested links on the opening Page.
http://08542465.blogspot.ie/p/fairtrade.html
A big well done to the boys and girls who did very well at the regional final in The Nuremore Hotel in Carrickmacross on Sunday. Both the younger and older teams did the school proud finishing in 8th and 6th place respectively out of a total of 25 schools!
The pupils got a nice present each for their hard efforts!
The pupils in 5th and 6th class were busy making different shades of a colour creating tonal strips. This will be good preparation for their Creative tonal monsters next week!
Everyone at St. Finian’s were very proud of our pupils who took part in the Credit Union Quiz last Friday. The teams scooped many of the places (1st, 2nd and 3rd) in both the Junior and Senior Competitions. Both winners of the competitions were also St. Finians’ teams! These 2 teams will now go on to represent the parish in the Louth quiz in early March. Well done everyone!
We had a fantastic day today when some grandparents’ came to visit. They came to our classrooms and answered our questions. We found out lots of information. The grandparents were invited to visit one classroom and we all had different topics to discuss. Junior and Senior Infants wanted to learn about the first day at school. First and Second Class wanted to learn about games that the grandparents played at school. Third and Fourth Class wanted to hear about equipment that grandparents used in school and Fifth and Sixth Class wanted to learn about school tours and extracurricular activities.
After the class visits the Sixth class pupils served tea and refreshments in the hall and the grandparents all had a little chat. Sixth class pupils made buns, cakes and apple tarts with some of the parents and grandparents yesterday! We would especially like to thank Ann Dunne for organising the ICA ladies to come in and work with the children. Our thanks also to Lorraine Boyle and Roisin Holmes for helping the children with the baking. Finally we would like to thank Barbara Keane and Catherine Woods for their help in serving the refreshments.
Some more grandparents will be in school on Thursday to help Third and Fourth class to make St. Brigid’s Crosses. We make one for every family in the school. Fr Daly will bless the crosses at our Friday Assembly.
Thank you to all the ICA ladies, parents and grandparents who made this a wonderful week.
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Well done to all the classes who took part in our Active School Challenge! The challenge was to see how many jumping jacks each class could do in the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas.
Each class was given a target number of Jumping Jacks to achieve and all the classes reached and surpassed their target.
The class with the most jumping Jacks was 3rd and 4th who managed 59,920 jumping Jacks. Great job everybody!
