Wassily Kansdinsky

At the start of the school year we recreated Wassily Kansdinsky concentric circles. We put 6 to 8 circles on our page and drew miniature circles inside them. We were told to get creative and make the circles bright and colourful. The same colour wasn’t allowed to touch each other. We practiced our concentric circles on smaller pieces of paper. They also turned out good. It took us two art sessions to finish our concentric circles. We painted the concentric circles with different paints. Our pictures turned out really good.

Clay Tiles

In spring we made clay tiles. We drew normal pictures and we made view finders from thin cardboard. Then we put the view finders on the most detailed part of our drawing. We got some clay and we made it into a tile shape. Then we drew the part of the view finder onto the clay. When the clay had dried we painted it in bright colours and it was beautiful.

Ms O'Connor's Fifth Class have been participating in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. We began as a group with many ideas in December. Following a Dragon's Den in our classroom, we took the advice of our dragons on board and decided to create a Multicultural Cookbook. We were so lucky to have over 20 different nationalities in our school so it was easy to get our hands on some tasty recipes from around the world.
We applied to our principal for a loan and were very lucky to receive one. We sent our recipes and drawings off to the printers and received a fabulous cookbook a few days later. We have successfully sold 350 books and have a great profit. We intend buying games for our playground so that all children in our school will benefit from the money we have made. Our teacher has promised us a little treat for all our hard work also!

Ireland’s Woodlands

On the 13/06/18 a man called Joe came to our school and told us all about Ireland’s Woodlands. He was really kind and funny. He told us about biodiverse ecosystem, which is when all the living things in the forest work together to make it beautiful and great for every season. Fungi plays a great role in the system. Have you ever wondered where all the autumn leaves go after they fall on the ground? Well the fungi on the ground eats the leaves and makes rich soil for all plants in the spring. He had displays everywhere. One of them told us what tree we were depending on our birthday, mine is birch wood tree. We had a great time, thank you for teaching us Joe J

By Fizah

Woodland Habitats Science Presentation

On the 13^th of June after little break me and my class went to a nature exhibition in our hall. The man’s name who was doing it was Joe. He had lots of fake bird displays. Then he showed us some videos about fungi etc. It was very interesting and we got to learn about a lot of new things. We all enjoyed it.

By Rihanna

Our School Tour

Our school tour was to the fantastic Lochcrew Adventure Center. The sun shone and we had a great time there. We went rock climbing and soaring on the zip line. Best of all we got really mucky! Soon hunger struck us so we had a mouth-watering barbeque. A huge thanks to the teachers and the bus driver.

By Meadhbh

Our performance at the Variety Show

Hi everyone on Wednesday 9^th April there was a talent show in our school.                   

It started at 7 o clock but people that took part in the show had to come in at 6 o clock or quarter past 6.

The first performance was peace proms which 6^th and 5^th did. After peace proms everyone that did the dance called thriller had to get ready. While they were getting ready Enya, my friend, was playing the piano. She was good, all the teachers were stunned.

Then it was thriller. After that we all ran and took our makeup of and it was time for the other groups to dance or do whatever they had practiced.

At the end we had to do the last song for peace proms. The show finished at quarter to 9  and we all went home

By Mariya Roy

The Variety Show

On the 9^th of May St. Clare’s will be having a Variety Show. The point is to show people what we do outside of school, there is music, dance and singing .There are also specials that the school will perform like “Peace Proms” and the “Theatre Dance”. Everyone from 3^rd – 6^th is doing the Variety Show. People from 3nd – 6^th are doing posters for the Variety Show so we can stick them around the school. We started practicing in February and the girls that take part in the Variety Show have worked really hard on it.We hope to have a great show.

By Enya 

Cyber Bullying

On Wednesday afternoon a lady from Dublin came in to talk to us about cyber-bullying. She came in when we were in 4^th class as well. She taught us to be safe on the internet. Cyber-bullying is bullying on the internet, take social media for example like Instagram, Snapchat, Musically or Twitter, well they are really dangerous and you have be careful and don’t bully and if someone bullies you, don’t be afraid to get evidence or take a picture if you can and give it to someone you trust, for example the principal, your teacher, your parents or your friends. The internet is a dangerous place even if you’re just on YouTube or even this blog. Bullying could also destroy your future careers and college applications because all of your bullying gets tracked and the people in colleges and schools know about it so don’t bully and anyway why would you want to? We all have our negatives thoughts about things and people but let’s just keep them to ourselves and not cause drama. So that’s all Paula taught us, just remember be a ‘Buddy Not A Bully’.                                                           -Phoebe

World Book Day

Last Thursday was world book day and we had so much fun. We first had to go into class and get into pairs. My partner was Rhianna, we had a lot of fun on the way down. Teacher gave us our book token and after that we walked down town. When we finally reached Easons all of us picked a book. I got the book Brain Freeze. Then the woman gave us either a chomp or a freddo bar, I got a chomp. After that when we got back to school teacher let us read a bit of our book.

By Keely 

Our upcoming assembly

On Friday 23/2/18 we are doing an assembly and It’s about 20 things we should say more often, for example If someone said ‘You can’t do it’ how would you feel ? I would feel very sad, but if someone said, ‘You can do it, I know you can!’ How would you feel?  I would feel very happy. If you are cheering someone on, you are encouraging them to do well

By Leah

Nutrition talk

Today we had a nutrition talk from fresh today. We learned all about the amount of sugar we eat everyday and how we could cut it down.

Sleeping Beauty

On the 06/02/18 we went to our school hall to watch a show. It was based on the movie Sleeping Beauty. It was about a girl that was a princess but she did not know she was a princess because when she was very young a witch cast a spell on her. Then on her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and she would die. But then the good fairy reversed the spell when she pricked her finger and she would not die but fall into a deep sleep from which she could only be woken from by being kissed by a prince that truly loved her.

So the Fairy brought her to a cottage in the middle of the woods away from all the wheels in the land. So soon her sixteenth birthday came but the witch found her and put on a disguise so that the princess would not find out that she was the witch. She then gave the princess a present and it was a spinning wheel, she forced the princess to touch the spindle of the spinning wheel and the princess fell into a deep sleep. But she knew no prince, let alone a prince that loved her, the only person that loved her and that she loved back was the wood cutter’s son. So the wood cutter’s son went to go find the princess but he got locked in the witche’s dungeon.  But the witche’s minion did not like the witch so he helped the wood cutter’s son to get out and get to the King so he could change him into a prince. He went over to the princess and kissed her. She awoke and they had a huge wedding and invited all the kingdom and they lived happily ever after

                                                                             THE END

That’s the original story but they done like dances in between all the scenes. It was really funny because they got two teachers to get up and dance with them it was really good. Everybody in my class enjoyed it. It was the best version of sleeping beauty ever!

By Aisling

The Dublin Peace Proms 2018

On the 4^th of February 5^th and 6^th went to the Dublin Peace Proms concert were we had to sing. There were about 2,500 children singing from different counties, we had to sing about 12 songs. We wore a white t-shirt, black trousers and black shoes.  The peace proms concert started at 2pm and we came back home at 6:45pm. It was a lot of fun there.  We had to bring a bottle of water, lunch, a treat, a snack and a plastic bag. You were not allowed to bring a phone, IPad or money, they were very strict about that. There was a conductor there, his name was Greg Beardsell who is renowned for his extraordinary ability to lead powerful exhilarating performances. And there were soloists too their names were Ross Scanlon, Tenor Lauren Murphy, Vocals St. Colmcille, Pipe and Drum Corps Cormac Keegan, Uilleann Pipes King Academy of Irish Dancing, Katie Weir, Soprano Patricia Treacy, Violin Grahame Harris, Bagpipes Michelle Johnson Dancers. The whole class enjoyed going to the Peace Proms concert. Thank you for reading my story.

By Samanta.

Sleeping Beauty

We are having great fun this morning watching Sleeping Beauty by M and M productions

Thriller!!

The girls are making great progress with Kevin and their Thriller dance! Check out those zombie moves!!

Peace Proms

On February 4^th we are going to the RDS in Dublin to take part in Peace Proms so we are practicing really hard. There are some of our favourite artists/bands like Katy Perry, Imagine Dragons and the Vamps included in the songs. We are doing Disney songs like Moana and Zootopia.  5^th and 6^th class are doing Peace Proms. There are a lot of schools doing peace proms from all over Ireland! Peace Proms is supported by the Department of Education. The CBOI (cross border orchestra of Ireland) is a charity in Ireland and the UK. Peace Proms give school children all over Ireland (North and South) a chance to sing and get together to have fun and also raise money for charity. I think it will be very fun and I hope that we have no homework on Monday. 

J ~Lillie 

Peace Proms Choir

Happy Christmas from 5th Class

Christmas Play

We were treated to two wonderful Christmas plays today. Well done first class, ye were brilliant