Creative Schools Video: LEAD THE WAY

With the support of a grant from Cork County Council Artist in Schools Scheme 4th, 5th and 6th classes collaborated with Artist Sean Murphy in creating a rap song and video to accompany it. Well Done to everyone involved!!

6th Class Graduation

Photos from June 2022

June was so busy with City Sports, our Try-Sports 3 weeks of activeness, school tours and lots of other things going on. Here are some sample pictures....
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Mrs McCarthy's class go for Gold!

Well done to the children in Mrs McCarthys class who have been busy completing tasks throughout the year for the Incredible Edibles project, they were delighted that their efforts won Gold status and Healthy Eating status for the school .

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June activities in Junior Infants

June has been a busy but full of lots of fun for Junior Infants. They went on a teddy bears picnic, made ladybirds and bumble bees from clay and they even went painting outside.

Junior Infants School Tour

First Class Summer Teddy Bear Picnic

"Cover Me in Sunshine" with Lámh signs

All the pupils in our school really enjoyed performing "Cover Me In Sunshine" by Pink and Willow Sage Hart with Lámh signs today. It was great to perform together in the beautiful sunshine. Well done to all our pupils and thank you especially to Ms. Murphy and all the staff. 

Senior Infant school tour

Senior Infants were really excited heading off on their first ever school tour last Friday. For some it was also their first time travelling by bus.
​ It was an action packed day with air jumping, team challenges, bouncy castles and lots more.
They also got to enjoy 'outdoor dining' using our new benches.

May activities in Junior Infants

May has been a busy month in junior infants. Here is a snapshot of just some of the amazing things they have been doing-paintingfairy doors, trying out book creator on the iPads and taking play time outside to the sunshine.

Senior Infants showed off their skills at gymnastics.

Senior Infants really enjoyed Creative Schools Week. They also took advantage of the fine weather to take their free play outdoors.

Autism Assistance Dog Ernie Visits St.Lachteens 

As part of Autism Acceptance week within the school , some of us were very lucky to meet Ernie and his handler Sara. Mrs McCarthys class had the best of luck as they were able to rub him too. 

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PE in Junior Infants

Junior Infants have been really enjoying their PE lessons over the last few weeks. They have loved some of the dances they have learnt and had great fun trying out different movements in gymnastics.

Creative Schools Week 2022

St. Lachteen's N.S are participating in the Creative Schools initiative this year. The aim of Creative Schools is to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives. It will support our school to develop and begin to implement our own Creative School Plan as together we understand, develop and celebrate our engagement with the arts.
As a Creative School we have been given the support of a Creative Associate, Brían Crotty, to work with us for 2 years. Central to the Creative Schools initiative is the voice of the young people who are involved. Through this project we hope to deepen the arts and creative opportunities for our students and staff, to develop their creativity and challenge us to think in new and different ways.

Creative Schools Week took place last week, from the 9th – 13th May. We set up a Creative Schools Advisory Group with students from 3rd-5th class who have been doing a great job promoting creativity around the school and coming up with some really fun activities and competitions for Creative Schools Week. 

We held a ‘Decorate Your Classroom Door Competition’, with the theme being “Creativity Lives Here”. 6th Class were crowned the winners of the competition, but all classes were presented with a certificate for the fantastic effort they put into decorating their doors, which all turned out so well. Have a look at some of the amazing doors in the photos below and stay tuned for more updates on our Creative Schools Project!

First Class Buns!!

First class are are having a great Creative Week. Today we decided to make some Queen Cakes. The results were simply delicious!!

Sciath na Scol 2022

Congradulations to the boys and girls from fourth, fifth and sixth classes who played in the Sciath na Scol. We had a fantastic competition playing Gaelscoil Peig Sayers, Cloughduv, Farran and Dunerrow NS. We had some brilliant matches but, unfortunately the boys were just edged out at the group stage. Our girls however, advanced to the semi-final where we played Ballinspittle NS. They had a fantasic match but unfortunately after a valiant effort by all the girls, we just lost out.
Bualadh bos to all the boys and girsl!!

Senior Infants are really 'eggcited' and have been busy getting ready for Easter with egg hunts, aistear and Easter art work.

St. Lachteen's N.S. Soccer Blitz 2022

Throughout the past few weeks, pupils from 3rd-6th class have been taking part in our school soccer blitz as part of the FAI Primary School 5s Programme. The pupils really enjoyed this tournament and we could see great passion and teamwork by all. 
Today we held the finals. The girls' final between Team 1 and Team 3 was a very exciting match which ended 2-1, with Team 3 taking the victory. The boys' final between Team 1 and Team 6 left us all on the edge of our seats as Team 6 took the lead with a last minute goal to finish it as 2-1.
Congratulations to our winning teams and well done to all pupils involved! A special thanks also to our two referees today, Kurtis and Ben. 
We look forward to organising some more sports blitzes in the coming months.

Greenfingers!

First class had a bsuy few days planting lots of different fruit, vegetables and flowers. We planted strawberries, potatoes, lettuce and salad leaf mixtures. We also planted some flowers, including Borage and Dahlias flowers.
Our hands may have got a little dirty but, we had a great time!

Creative Schools: 6th Class Rap

As part of our journey this year as a Creative School we had to take the first step of thinking about Creativity and exploring what Creativity is. The pupils from 3rd to 6th Class brainstormed and did surveys on Creativity and 6th Class then did 3 workshops with Sean Murphy(a musician)  creating a rap to express their thoughts on the topic. Below are the amazing lyrics that the class came up with you can even LISTEN to the rap below...
  It's called...   ​LEAD THE WAY

Imagination, dreams and hope
Never let anybody tell you nope
Even if you’re heading down a very steep slope
Creativity can help you cope
Without it we wouldn’t have evolved
It's a great way to problem solve
World peace, the environment improving
If we believe, this world could be booming
You can get to your wildest dreams
And be anything you want to be
Jump up high, reach for the stars
Make the Olympics or get to Mars
Chorus:
Everybody here’s got something to say
Creativity is something great
You can go solo or collaborate
Just let creativity lead the way

Your imagination is so big
But sometimes you have to dig
You’ve a mind unlike a robot
Use the power that you’ve got
Creation’s are all around
From the sky down to the ground
Creativity is lit
Thats what we have to say about it
Always think outside the box
There’s treasures there to be unlocked
It’s fulfilling and it’s fun
Being creative you’ve already won

Seachtain na Gaeilge 

​Bhí rang a ceathar, rang a cúig agus rang a sé ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge le déanaí.
Bhí gach duine measctha le chéile chun foirne a dhéanamh.
Bhí an- spóirt againn agus bhaineamar an - sult as Tráth na gCeist.
Sa deireadh bhí an bua ag foireann amháin agus bhí áthas an domhain orthu .
Comhghairdeas ó chroí le Leah agus Ellie ó rang a cúig agus Jack B, Jack F agus Kate ó rang a sé.

Haka Gaelach

Bhain gach duine taitneamh as an Haka Gaelach. Rinne gach rang sár iarracht ag cleactadh an Haka Gaelach i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge. 

We all really enjoyed practicing and learning the Haka in Irish during Seachtain na Gaeilge. The whole school performed together on Lá Glas. We hope you enjoy our performance! 

Là Glas

Bhí an ghrian ag taitneamh ar Lá Glas agus bhain gach duine sult as ceol agus rince gaelach sa chlós. 
The sun was shining on Lá Glas and everyone enjoyed Irish music and dancing on our school yard. Congratulations to the pupils from each class who were the winners of our "Gaelgóir an Lae" raffle. 

Confirmation 2022

On the 9th of March, 2022, the 5th and 6th class students of St. Lachteen's made their Confirmation. The students had spent many months preparing for this special occasion and were fantastic on the day. Although we had rainy and snowy conditions, everyone enjoyed the lovely mass and celebrations afterwards. Thank you to Fr. O Riordan for all his help.
Unfortunately, some students were unable to make their Confirmation on this day, however, Firmount N.S and Aghabullogue N.S very kindly welcomed them in to make their Confirmation with the students in their schools. A huge thank you to the teachers of these Confirmation classes and to Fr. O Riordan and Fr. Peadar Murphy for facilitating this.
 

Daffodil Walk

Junior Infants went on a daffodil walk. They were so excited to get out in the sunshine and enjoyed finding lots of daffodils.

Senior Infants had great fun decorating fairy doors .

Here is some of Senior Infants work for February.

Spring has Sprung

Junior Infants have been really enjoying learning about spring. Our aistear has been based on the garden centre. They made some beautiful spring paintings and even planted some seeds.

​Third Class Maths Games
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Love is in the air

Busy throughout the school making Valentines , thoughful poems , pictures and even stained glass heart shaped  cookies in Mrs McCarthys Class. Mrs McCarthys class love cooking and this month also made quiche where they made the connection between food from farm to fork by looking at the story of the egg, one of the pupils even has their own hens so it was great to taste the organic eggs in our quiche. YUMMY.

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Chinese New Year
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This year we celebrate the year of the Tiger in the Chinese Calendar. Second class learned about all the Chinese traditions. We were very luck as one of our students had great information to share with us. She even supplied us with the materials to construct Chinese Lanterns! Look at the pictures below for the final product!

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St. Brigid's Day 

The boys and girls in Rang 2 were very busy making St. Brigid's crosses on the 1st of February. While this activity was a challenge for children in the junior end of the school, they showed great teamwork and problem solving skills in mastering the technique in making the crosses.  The children had great fun and learned new skills! We also learned the story of St. Brigid and her magic cloak.

St. Brigid's Day

To celebrate St. Brigid's Day, the 6th Class students made St. Brigid's crosses today. We had a really enjoyable morning with all of the students helping each other out, as sometimes these crosses can take more than one pair of hands to get right! They turned out fantastic and we would also like to say a special thank you to the family members who were up early this morning collecting rushes for us! 
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Well done Rang a Sé. 

Aistear: The Toy Shop

Junior Infants have been really enjoying their aistear topic of the toy shop. Have a look below at some photos to see what they have been up to.

December in Junior Infants

Here is a snapshot of some activities that Junior infants have been doing over the month of December.

Christmas Log Decorating Competition - 6th Class

Today we held the annual Christmas Log Decorating Competition. 6th class pupils were very busy rolling icing, creating snowmen out of marshmallows, melting chocolate and making magnificent creations all morning. The judges were very impressed with the amazing creations and found it very difficult to choose a winner. In the end, it was narrowed down to a 1st prize, 2nd prize, joint 3rd prize and joint 4th prize, but as you can see from the photos below, every single cake turned out so well and all of the pupils did a fantastic job! 
Congratulations to all of our winners! 

Christmas 2021

It has been a very busy run-in to Christmas with lots of Art and Christmas Cheer around the school. The Student Council organised decorations for outside the school and took out extra insurance so Mr O'Sullivan could put them up. They got 6th class to do some Christmas Window art and arranged a special XMas Factor Talent Show. Ho-Ho-Ho!!! Here are a few pictures...

Senior Infants

Senior Infants have had a busy few weeks getting ready for Christmas, making decorations, bird feeders,weaving,doing Aistear and lots more. Here are some of our photos.

Credit Union Creativity: Mrs McCarthys Class

👏 👏 Congratulations to our 2 winners in the Blarney Chapter of the Credit Union Art Competition, winning a €35 and €30 voucher.  The theme this year was Imagination and we spent lots of time discussing this before completing our final submissions- even Mr McDonnell got on Board drawing his own picture of a pig on a trampoline! 🐖 🐷 🐽 🐗 🐖 

Senior Infants Science week 2021

Senior Infants had great fun researching and carrying out many experiments for science weeks. Here are some photos of the class.

Science Week 1st Class 2021

First class really enjoyed Science Week investigating, exploring and carrying out many science experiments including, making Lava Lamps, Exploding Volcanoes and Walking on Balloons!!

Science Week 2021

Last week, 6th class pupils researched a number of really interesting and exciting science projects. Each student then brought in the materials and equipment needed to demonstrate their project to the class. We had some very impressive experiments with pupils designing a catapult, extracting DNA from a strawberry, making elephant's toothpaste, showing us fireworks under water, creating a storm in a glass and many more! Here are just some pictures from our week.

All Souls' Day - 6th Class 

Today, for All Souls' Day, the 6th class students walked to the local graveyard. We also prayed for and remembered our loved ones who have passed away by making this classroom display. 

Halloween Celebration

Some Photos of the Amazing Costumes and Dance Moves from our Halloween Dress-Up Day. Happy Halloween!!!

1st Class Nature Walk

Double Celebration!!

We had a special double celebration on Wednesday 20th October when the whole school wished Ms Murphy well for her upcoming Wedding and we congratulated Ms Curtin on being conferred with her PHD. We await to see if they will be changing their names to Mrs and Dr. after the mid-term!!!
The pupils were amazing and learned off a wedding medley with Lámh signs for Ms Murphy and Senior Infants even made a cake for her!!

Student Council 2021 - 2022

The Student Council plays a vital representative role for the entire student body of our school.  Representatives are elected from Rang 1 upwards. 

The Council meets monthly to voice student opinions and discuss ways to benefit and further improve the school and their school experiences. There is a dedicated page on our website ( currently under construction) where you can read more about our council activities, please click here

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Do you use your Maths Eyes?  

As part of Maths week children in Mrs McCarthys class have been busy using their Maths Eyes.  You too can use your Maths Eyes everyday, the website haveyougotmathseyes.com has lovely posters that we looked at and talked about, when we go on school walks we love to use our Maths eyes too! We have cooking this week so we will be using lots of other Maths skills and of course our Maths Eyes :) 

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Senior Infants are busy getting ready for Halloween

Halloween Art : Rang 4 and Rang 5

 The pupils in Rang 4 and Rang 5 have been busy using chromotography to make these fabulous , unique , spooky Halloween creations. Have a look for yourself :)

Aistear: The Wedding

Junior Infants are enjoying aistear based on the theme of the wedding. They had fun building a wedding car, constructing a hotel for the guests, making a meal for the guests to eat, painting pictures and making wedding cakes out of playdough and sand.

Our School Tour    
Shared Recount Writing by 6th Class

On the 22nd of June 2021, we went on our school tour to Ballyhass Lakes in Coachford. 3rd, 4th and 5th Class all went together. Everybody got dropped by their parents, some carpooled and we were very excited. Some were also nervous because they couldn’t swim or they were afraid of the water.
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When we arrived, it was a bright, sunny day. The first thing we saw were the high nets, which were at least 10 metres off the ground. We were amazed and even overwhelmed by the height of them. We got split up into groups and each group was assigned an instructor. Our teacher told us to put our bags away so we put them in the axe-throwing shed (unfortunately, you have to be 16 years or over to participate in axe-throwing, so we couldn’t do it).
 
The first activity we did was the high nets. We walked over to the nets with our instructors and they explained the rules to us: only one person was allowed to go down the slide at a time, no rough playing and no flips were allowed. To get up onto the nets, we had to climb up a slope. In the beginning, it was very scary because it was so high up and it felt like the net could break at any moment. We all rushed onto the high nets, knocking each other down and attacking each other (and the teacher!) with yoga balls. The nets were very bouncy and at first, it was hard to keep your balance. Eventually, it turned into a war of two teams grabbing yoga balls off of each other. The younger classes started robbing the yoga balls from us, so we had to rob them back. It was loads of fun but after a while we started getting tired and took a little rest.
 
The next activity we did was kayaking. We all went back to the axe-throwing shed to collect our bags with all of our swimming gear and we brought them down to the dressing rooms. We got changed into our swimming gear and got our wetsuits and life-jackets to put on. We were given helmets and paddles. We went over to the lake and the instructor showed us how to paddle the kayak. We divided up into groups of 1, 2 or 3 per kayak. Then, we set off into the water. Although some were trying not to get wet, a lot of people were trying to jump into the water. In the water, we were playing Simon Says, so the instructor challenged us to swap places with somebody else in another kayak, stand up on the kayaks or transfer the paddle from one hand to the other underneath the kayak. We also played a game of catch while in the kayaks. The instructors were really friendly and kept splashing people with the paddles. We came back to shore and lined up on the pontoon ready to go into the Aquapark. We were so excited and some people were scared jump in. Our adrenalin was so high we barely felt the cold.
 
The Aquapark was a mix between a bouncy castle and a waterpark. There was a swing, a slide and a big tower that you could jump off of. There were also monkey bars, a water trampoline and an inflatable dome. We all rushed up towards the dome but some of us couldn’t get on top of it because we were slipping off. We all teamed up on Mr. O’ Sullivan to push him off the dome into the water. Once we pushed him off we all started cheering! A few of us became more confident in the water and worked up the courage to jump off the highest tower. Then, we all held hands and jumped into the water together. Eventually, the whistle blew and it was time to get out of the water. We were all feeling happy and tired as the end of the day approached.
 
Finally, it was time to go home. Luckily, we were just hopping into the cars when it started to rain. On the journey home with our parents, we were exhausted but overall, the day was very enjoyable. We would definitely recommend Ballyhass Lakes for a fun day out! 

Meet Mat Man

He’s always on the go but who is this friendly hero, Mat Man! Mat man from The Handwriting Without Tears® programme is very popular in St.Lachteens and the children love making him :) 

Senior Infants 

• Senior Infants have had a busy September with outdoor learning, Aistear and lots more.

Art and Poetry Competition September 2021

Well Done to everyone who entered the Art and Poetry competition to show off the great things about St Lachteen's N.S.. The judges had a very difficult time picking winners from such a high standard of entries but congratulations to those that won prizes.

Who knew making sandwiches could be so much fun

Some of the children had great fun making their own sandwiches for their school lunch during school. Who know so much learning could be part of this activity. We made shopping lists, went shopping in Jamesies, figured out the steps to make a delicious sandwich ( of course we all had our individual choices for the fillings!), made them and of course ate the lot....yummy! 

Best of luck to our Cork Camogie team

We had a very busy Friday 10th September with a Red and White day to celebrate the Cork Senior Camogie team being in the All-Ireland Final and also fundraised money for the Community Air Ambulance. The Parents Association also presented all of the pupils in 3rd Class with a gift bag to mark the start of the Communion Weekend for those making their communion.

Junior Infants

A very warm welcome to our new junior infant class. Here are some photos from their first day.

Welcome back Senior Infants 2021/2022

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