June
Gaisce Awards Ceremony/ Leavers Lunch
Congratulations to all of our Leavers class of 2019. We enjoyed a lovely meal together and celebrated a special 18th and 16th birthday also.
Huge congratulations to our Gaisce award winners. We had 7 bronze medals and 5 silver medals and certificates to present which is such an amazing achievement. We are so proud of your hard work!!
May
Gaisce Adventure Journey.
What can we say about our Gaisce trip??
What an amazing time we had. The fact that the staff enjoyed themselves just as much as the students says it all!
Tayto Park - we really found out how many daredevils we have in our class! There was something for everyone, 5D cinema, rollercosters, Tayto factory, water rides.... it was such good fun.
We really enjoyed our pizza party and our movie night.
Newgrange - we had a tour with a very informative tour guide. We were amazed to hear that it is over 5,000 years old!
Massive thank you to Colin and Tony for being amazing!
We racked up 400 miles and 8 counties on the bus.....THANK YOU SO MUCH to Tony for driving the bus.
What can we say about our Gaisce trip??
What an amazing time we had. The fact that the staff enjoyed themselves just as much as the students says it all!
Tayto Park - we really found out how many daredevils we have in our class! There was something for everyone, 5D cinema, rollercosters, Tayto factory, water rides.... it was such good fun.
We really enjoyed our pizza party and our movie night.
Newgrange - we had a tour with a very informative tour guide. We were amazed to hear that it is over 5,000 years old!
Massive thank you to Colin and Tony for being amazing!
We racked up 400 miles and 8 counties on the bus.....THANK YOU SO MUCH to Tony for driving the bus.
How is it the end of May already? We have so much to pack in to our last two months of the year! Lots of learning outside of the classroom planned (our favourite!).
We got out and about a lot this month. We were very excited to use our bus to head to Ardmore. We did the Cliff Walk and took in all the history and geography of the area.
We got out and about a lot this month. We were very excited to use our bus to head to Ardmore. We did the Cliff Walk and took in all the history and geography of the area.
We got a challenge this month which we had lots of fun with!
Our challenge was to plan, prepare and cook a meal in groups for under €5. We discussed the rules of the challenge and got going planning. We used different websites to get a rough estimate of costings, used our calculators on our phones to do the maths and wrote out a shopping list.
Our challenge was to plan, prepare and cook a meal in groups for under €5. We discussed the rules of the challenge and got going planning. We used different websites to get a rough estimate of costings, used our calculators on our phones to do the maths and wrote out a shopping list.
Our next mission was to buy the ingredients in the supermarket. Again, there were some surprises when it came to prices so lots of phone calculations and compromising to be done for the perfect meal.
We tried something new this month which was Pitch and Putt. We really enjoyed it and it is great to do something different.
Another day out and about - we did our annual Spring Clean litter-pick.
What a fabulous day in Abbeyside beach. The litter-pick was a great excuse to stroll on the beach, the boardwalk and through the park.
We are just loving the great weather and fun we are having with each other!
We are just loving the great weather and fun we are having with each other!
We really took advantage of our bus and again took the learning outside. We went to Colligan Woods where we had a lovely picnic and a walk. These trips are the things we will remember from the year!
We had an extra special treat for our 18th birthday girl! We had a special trip on the Suirvalley train and a picnic and cake in Mount Congreve gardens. What a fabulous day especially being able to share it with special guests👌😀.
April
Remember we set spinach seeds??? We were so impressed with how fast it grew so we researched different ways which we could use it in cooking. We decided on a nutrient rich vegetable soup and of course crusty rolls to go with it. To say it was devoured was an understatement!
We really have developed green fingers in the class and decided to set more seeds. This time we have peas, cress and tomatoes.
We are so grateful to Paul in Rebike for all the bikes he has given the school. We went to visit his lovely cafe in Abbeyside for a nice treat.
It wouldn't be like us to get out an soak up any sunshine we get! We made a beautiful Rolo chocolate biscuit cake and enjoyed it outside while we read our class novel.
March
We have had such a busy month! We got lots of use out of our school bikes, heading off every week.
We gave the Polytunnel a much needed weeding and clearing. We also set some some spinach seeds which we got from GIY ....watch this space to see how we get on with them!
We celebrated International Women's Day with breakfast in the classroom.....the men made tea for the women (of course)! We had a great discussion of women who have made a difference in the world.
We loved our time Irish Dancing for St. Patrick's Day.
February
Ms. Lynch started off some sewing buttons with some of the class...such a useful skill to learn.
Our woodwork Junior Cycle projects are well underway.
We learned how to do marbling for Art.
We are working away on our individual work of courses and Arrow.
January
Our first mission for January as the start of a new year, was to review the news for 2018. We were so surprised at all that had happened.
We have been reading 'Wonder' and this week we got finished reading and we also watched the movie to compare. It got great reviews from the class and we would recommended it.
We got back to working on our Junior Cycle. This photograph shows us using technology for Communication and Literacy.
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We took advantage of the fine weather and got out on our bikes. Next stop 'The Greenway'!
We had a special 18th birthday this month. We are great at celebrating.
We got back to our weekly soccer.
November
Most of the class got out on Work Experience in November. We had a wide variety of placements between farms, garage and car sales, car valeting, Anne Le Roy, Chip Shop, Tesco/ Supervalu supermarkets, Cafés, shops, Day care centres for the elderly, Community development centre and Car sales.
We turned into Christmas elves this month preparing for our Christmas Market Enterprise Project.
We managed to get lots of work done also. We even got lots of certificates ready for the CV's. Lots of the class completed and passed a Health and Safety in the Workplace online course and we got some IXL maths certificates too.
We got started on more online courses and are continuing our novel 'Wonder' that we love listening to.
We got inspired by Eunice Power's Cookery Demonstration and gave on of her recipes a go.... we were very impressed. We made the chocolate tart and it was devoured!!
October
We had a few special birthdays this month. We know how to celebrate!
We had great group work chats discussing stress and managing stress.
We have been so busy getting work done on our QQI courses. Lots of determination and hard work but we got there. We had 8 students complete level 3 qualification in general learning. We are so proud of ourselves.
We are so grateful to have Karen in teaching us Yoga and Meditation. We love Wednesdays!!
A big thank you is in order for our volunteers who sold chocolate bars for the Hope Foundation. We had a speaker in to tell us all about how the money would help street children in Kolkata.
September
We had very special 18th birthday celebrations this month. Happy Birthday!
We have started an exciting venture of a weekly trip to the gym. It is great exercise and we are learning lots about different machines and how to work them.
We took a trip down to the cinema to see the portrayal of the Famine in 'Black 47' which we really enjoyed.
We started on our weekly cooking where the class decides what they would like to make. This month we had cheesecake, garlic cheese chips and pizza. We are amazing chefs.
Next on the menu was homemade pizza.
We got stuck into the weekly lotto that the school has started. Lots of sorting, counting and recording to be done.
Lots if artwork going on for different art competitions.
