Category: 1.- School Blog

Our 3rd and 4th class pupils made some lovely festive Christmas art recently, including a Nutcracker construction from recycled materials and a snowman painting.

5th class pupils have been working on their persuasive writing and as part of this they wrote a letter to a local garden centre. In the letter they shared their plans to plant an orchard on the school grounds. A big thank you to Future Forests who donated 6 apple trees of different varieties and delivered them to the school. On the day of the Christmas holidays 5th class spent their morning planting the trees. We are looking forward to watching them grow. A big well done to Mr. Jennings and 5th class.

As part of our Christmas celebrations we held a table quiz where all the children took part. Congratulations to our winners and a big well done to everyone who participated. Thank you to our quiz master Mr Jennings.

This month, 5th class had a December Geography challenge. Mr Jennings arranged a zoom meeting with another school. Their school name was not shared with 5th class and vice versa. Students had to ask yes no answered questions based on geographical features, political maps, rivers, roads and coastline of Ireland in order to identify the school before they identified ours! We had a great morning and learned a lot about communication, map studies, orientation and had lots of fun along the way!

3rd and 4th class pupils were delighted to visit Fairfield Nursing Home here in Drimoleague to sing Christmas Carols. Thank you to all the residents and staff at the nursing home who made us feel really welcome and for provide us with treats that were appreciated after all the singing. Thank you to Mr. Collins for preparing the children.

We were delighted to donate to Feed West Cork again this year. Our Student Council visited the food bank to deliver our donation. While their they met some of the food bank organisers and got the opportunity to ask questions and learn all about the food bank. A special word of thanks to Sandra, Esther and Mark who met the children and spent time answering their questions. Thank you to all the children and their families who donated to such a worthy cause.

5th class have been busy this month creating diorama’s. All pupil’s worked really hard to create diorama’s of all different types of places including football pitches and the solar system. A big well done to all.

We had lots of fun in Drimoleague N.S during Math’s Week. All pupils took part in a whole school math’s quiz with Mr. Jennings doing a great job as quiz master. 3rd class pupils carried out a traffic survey and made bar charts to display the results. All pupils also had great fun doing target boards, guessing the weight of the Lego and completing surveys. A big thank you to Mr. Jennings for organising all activities.

3rd and 4th class pupils recently took part in a cycling skills programme as part of the Sprocket Rocket. As well as having lots of fun, they improved their cycling skills and learned lots about cycling safety.