Credit Union Quiz 

The very best of luck to our quiz teams who will be participating in the Blarney Credit Union Quiz this weekend. 

Indoor Hurling Blitzes 

Third and fourth class boys and girls recently took part in indoor hurling blitzes with neighbouring schools in the Sports Complex in Stuake. 

Chinese New Year 

The Chinese New Year was celebrated on the 22nd of January this year. 2023 is the year of the rabbit. Lots of classes enjoyed learning about the Chinese New Year and completing art projects for the Chinese New Year. 

January in Junior Infants

January has been a jam packed month in Junior Infants. They have been trying out lots of new materials for painting, even painting on shopping bags and tinfoil with cotton buds. They enjoyed exploring magnets and seeing what was magentic in the classroom. Here is a snapshot of some of their learning activities.

Welcome Tiana

A big welcome to Tiana! We are absolutely delighted to welcome a school therapy dog from My Canine Companion to our school. Tiana returned to school with all the teachers and staff after the Christmas Holidays and she is settling into our school. It is a huge asset to have a school therapy dog and we are looking forward to working with her. Thank you to My Canine Companion and Mr. McDonnell. 

Cycle Right - 5th & 6th Class Cycling

5th & 6th class are taking part in a 5 week cycling programme to develop cycling skills. They are learning about road safety, bike and helmet checks and will get the opportunity to cycle around the community during their final session. The students are all really enjoying the cycling programme, and luckily the snow on the yard melted just in time for our session today!

Art 

Ms. Sexton's class really enjoyed their art collage project inspired by the Mola textiles and patterns from Panama. 

Classroom Plants 

Thank you to the Student Council who welcomed us all back to school this New Year with a gift of two plants for each classroom. We are looking forward to taking care of them and watching them flourish over the next few months. 

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Rang 2 - Christmas Cribs

The children in second class were very busy in December designing and building their own Christmas Cribs.  This was done as part of our learning about the story of Christmas when Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem and Jesus was born in a stable. 

​I think we will all agree that the children made a huge effort. Maith sibh!!!

Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh ó rang a ceathair

4th class had a busy month making lovely festive art. We made Christmas wreaths, sock snowmen using rice and amazing clay Santas.

Merry Christmas

We hope you enjoy our whole school performance of "Away in a Manger". A special thank you to all staff especially Ms. Murphy who taught us the lámh signs to accompany this beautiful hymn. We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and look forward to welcoming everyone back to school in the New Year. 

Christmas Flower Arrangements 

Ms. Sexton's class made some wonderful flower arrangements to decorate their homes for Christmas. 

1st Class decoration makers

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December Assembly 

Well done to all our Kind Kid raffle winners for the month of December. This was our last assembly of 2022 and we were all put in the festive spirit with a wonderful performance from pupils from our 4th to 6th class school choir. 

Christmas Greetings from Junior Infants

 December has been an exciting month in Junior Infants. They were busy preparing for their Christmas concert, They did lots of lovely art work and enjoyed playing Christmas games on the ipads. They enjoyed playing board games with senior infants and 5th class.

Senior Infants finish 2022 in style

Senior Infants had great fun with junior infants and fifth class trying out the new board games.
​They went on a winter nature walk and were busy getting ready for Christmas. Here are some photos of them in action.

5th & 6th Christmas Tree Decorations

Pupils from 5th & 6th Class made fabulous Christmas tree decorations out of clay. How great do they look on our class Christmas tree?! Thanks to Faye B for bringing in our lovely Christmas tree.

Board Games 

We have lots of new board games in school thanks to the Student Council. We are looking forward to lots of competitions throughout the year. Fifth class had great fun trying out and learning how to play the new games. 

Christmas Log Decorating Competition

The St. Lachteen’s Annual Christmas Log Decorating Competition took place today. The 6th class pupils had been awaiting this day for many years and it certainly lived up to expectations. The pupils produced amazing cakes with such creativity! The staff found it very difficult to choose winners as the standard was so high!
A huge well done to all pupils for putting so much time and effort into their creations. A special congratulations to our 1st place winner: Emma, 2nd place winner: Ellie, 3rd place winner: Caitlin and 4th place winner: Cathal.

Christmas Concert

Christmas Hamper Raffle 

Getting into the spirit of Christmas , Mrs McCarthys Class.

We cannot believe it is nearly Christmas and we have been busy making lots of decorations and unique baubles to decorate our class notice board. We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and has a ball!!  

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Winter helpers - Feed the birds... let them know it's Christmas time!

Christmas Wreaths with Jessica Mason

Pupils from 5th & 6th Class made wonderful Christmas wreaths with Jessica Mason last week. Jessica provided the willow branches and the students brought in plenty of foliage and decorations. They created beautiful wreaths which will look fabulous on the doors around Donoughmore this Christmas!

November Assembly

Congratulations to all the winners of our Kind Kids Raffle from every class for the month of November. Thank you to 5th and 6th Class for their musical performance which included a song sung in English, Irish and lámh signs. Thank you to 4th class for reading a diary entry which they had written from the perspective of a passenger on board the Titanic.  

Ms. Sexton's Class Trips

Ms. Sexton's class really enjoyed our recent class trip to Mallow. We had a great trip around Mallow and are looking forward to another trip soon. A special thank you to the bus driver Ted for being so kind and helpful. 
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We also enjoyed our class visit to our local church and graveyard as part of November to remember the Holy Souls. 

Second Class Art 

We are getting into the festive spirit in St. Lachteen's N.S. This is a selection of some of the fantastic art in second class. 

Coding in Third Class

Third class are really enjoying working on Scratch Programming. We are learning lots of new coding skills and having lots of fun. 

Clay with Norah Porter 

Third Class, Fourth Class and Ms. Sexton's class really enjoyed clay workshops with Norah Porter. The pupils concentrated very carefully to create clay models of Santa. These Santa models will be placed into a very hot kiln. After this we are looking forward to glazing them. It is a very interesting process and we we will post some photos of our finished masterpieces before Christmas. 

Toy Show Treat Bags 

The Toy Show Treat Bags were a big hit in St. Lachteen's. Thanks to all who donated to My Canine Companion and to 5th and 6th class, Ms. Sexton's class and all the staff who were involved in this fundraiser. 

November in Junior Infants

November has been a busy month in Junior Infants. They used ipads to take photos of the 2D shapes they found on a shape hunt around the school. They were busy exploring primary colours and what colours you make when you mix them.  They have been learning about building sites and really enjoyed playing with building tools.

Senior infants are all set for The Late Late toy show with their treat bags.

Book Builders - 1st, 5th & 6th Class

Today, we had our second session of Book Builders where the 5th & 6th Class worked with 1st Class students to create books entitled 'My Day at the Toy Show'. They used the Book Creator app on the iPads and came up with some really exciting narratives! We look forward to finishing them off in our next session!

Senior Infants

Senior Infants have been busy this November visiting the local cemetery, working on their phonics and making lots of new words.
They used the ipads creatively for maths and did lots of art work. Here are some photos of them in action.

5th & 6th Class Science Experiments 

Students from 5th & 6th class have been busy researching science experiments over the past week. We had great excitement today when they got the chance to demonstrate their experiments in front of the class. There was a fantastic variety of experiments including; making oobleck, fireworks in a glass, lava lamps, burp in a bag, floating eggs, dancing ghosts and many more! Well done to all pupils for putting so much time and effort into their experiments! 

Science week in full flow

Exploding lunch bags were great gas!
We learned all about reactions that release gas!!
All you need is baking soda, warm water, vinegar and a resealable lunch bag. 

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First Class Gardening 

Science Week 2022 

There is a big excitement in St. Lachteen's N.S. for Science Week. We are trying out and enjoying lots of experiments. We may have many budding scientists in our midst! 

Seó Faisean  - Rang a dó
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Toy Show Treat Bag 

1st, 5th and 6th Book Builders

Halloween Disco 🎃

Today our school was taken over with all sorts of spooky costumes. We really enjoyed the day and had a great time at our Halloween Disco. We hope you all have a wonderful midterm break. 

Halloween Art by 4th Class

We had great fun making these amazing pieces using chromotography.

HALLOWEEN ART & BAKING

We had great fun in Ms. Sexton's class preparing for Halloween with some Halloween Art. We also really enjoyed making and especially eating some Halloween Spiders and Witches Hats. 

Halloween Art

We hope you enjoy a selection of Halloween Art from around the school. 

On Top of the World 

We all felt "On Top of the World" today after 5th and 6th classes performance of Imagine Dragons "On Top of the World". Go raibh míle maith agaibh! 

October in Junior Infants

October has been a jam packed month for Junior Infants. Here is a snapshot of just some of the activities they have been doing recently: a nature walk, collecting leaves, doing leaf rubbings,making leaf prints with paint, making hedgehogs from clay, making spiders with their handprints and they even made spooky witches potions. They also have been busy baking- they made hedgehog cookies and monster krispies. The best part was getting to eat the lovely treats they made- yum.

5th & 6th Class Book Club 

This year, we have started a Book Club in 5th & 6th Class. Students keep track of the books they have read throughout the month and give them a rating out of 5 stars. In preparation for our Book Club, a number of bakers are chosen each month to bring in some tasty treats for the class to enjoy while we discuss our books. It has proven to be a great success so far and encourages the students to read for pleasure. For this month's Book Club, we decided to bring in cushions to sit on while chatting about the books we have read. It is a great opportunity for the students to share their thoughts about their reading and to get some good recommendations of books that they could read next month. 

Mrs McCarthys Class Meet Botley the Robot 

We are having great fun with Botley our Coding Robot. Of course we also had to go to Jamesies shop to get the batteries to make him work!  Then we had to make sure we know our positional words like forward, back , and turn and now we are starting to follow codes and sequences - we even made Botley dance ......although we did discover that he goes slower on the carpet :)  

Maths Week 2022

Students from 4th, 5th and 6th Class took part in a Maths Table Quiz for Maths Week 2022. All of the teams worked together and helped each other out to solve some tricky maths problems, with a few maths jokes thrown in along the way! 

Maths Week 2022 

There were lots of fun activities in St. Lachteen's N.S. for Maths Week including Maths Quizzes, Coding and Maths Trails. 

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Drámaíocht as Gaeilge 

Bhí Rang a Cuig agus a Sé ag déanamh drámaíochta leis an teáma Bia. Bhí na freastalaí agus custaiméirí sa bhialann 'Bia Blasta'. Rinne gach duine an-iarracht - Maith sibh! 

Senior Infants are busy preparing for Halloween with lovely art work.

My Canine Companion 

​A huge thank you to Irene, Maeve and Maria who visited our school with Irene’s dog Jackie and her puppies Kassie, Kipper and Kalia.
 
Jackie and her puppies are very special as they are part of My Canine Companion. My Canine Companion are a charity who provide service dogs to children. These dogs are life-changing for the children and families that they are placed with.
 
We had lots of fun with Jackie and her puppies. We loved having puppies in school. They put a big smile on the faces of all the children and adults. We rubbed them, played with them and even did some work with them. Sometimes they joined in with our work and sometimes they had a little nap and rest after all the fun and excitement while we did our work. It was a very special experience for us all. 

Pizza Party in Rang 2!!

At the end of a very busy month in September, the children in second class were treated to a pizza party! The children each got to make their own individual pizza and choose their own toppings. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed making the pizzas and they tasted delicious! We hope to have many more opportunities to use the ovens this year in school. 

Student Council 2022/23

Well Done to everyone who ran for the Student Council this year, and especially to those that have been elected to represent the Student Voice this year in the school. Maith Sibh

Positive mindset from Rang 2 for the year ahead!

Senior Infants Autumn walk

September in Junior Infants

September has been a very busy and exciting month for Junior Infants. They have been painting, making shapes on peg boards, using stickers, even learning to use I-pads. As part of Maths they have been working hard at sorting objects by colour. They have been learning the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and we managed to put him back together using plasters.

1st Class Science

Clean hands experiment.

3rd Class Rounders

​ART and POETRY WINNERS 

We had an Art and Poetry competition at the start of the school-year to show off that St Lachteen;s NS is Active, Healthy, Green, Friendly and Creative. Well Done to all the pupils that took part and here are some of the winning entries....

5th & 6th Class - Touch Typing

'This year, 5th & 6th class pupils are learning touch typing. Each morning, the students spend 10-15 minutes practicing their typing skills, even using tea towels to cover their fingers to make sure they cannot look! They are also doing 10 minutes of typing for homework each evening. The programme we are using shows each student's individual progression, with certificates for each section completed. It will be great to see the students' improvement over the coming terms. 

Start of School Year Senior Infants 

Senior Infants have got the new school year off to a great start. They have been busy working on ipads, taking their learning outdoors and doing lots of creative art work. Here are some photos.
Working on ipads:

Senior Infants were very proud of their finished pieces and engaged in great team work.

Painting together outdoors.

More fun with paint.

Practicing writing their letters using chalk.

New Junior Infants 

This morning we were absolutely delighted to welcome our new Junior Infants to St. Lachteen's. Have a look below at some photos to get a snapshot of some of the activities they did today.

Lots of fun in Mrs McCarthys Room! 

We are having lots of fun exploring and trying out new things . We particularly love our classroom tent, we can relax in it, read stories or play with the cuddly toys. Some of our favourite activities are pulling the suckers off the radiator and playing with the smooshy sand in the tuff tray.