Piercestown became Hollywood last week with our boys and girls becoming film makers using some cúpla focail. The entries all showed a fun and engaging way to use Irish and technology. A huge bualadh bos to all who took part. Some prizes will be given out Friday to celebrate our Oscar winners.

Best picture and most creative goes to Aoife Crosbie in 6th class with her superb use of Gaeilge and Lego to recreate a scene from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. Best Male Actor went to Tom Mageen McGuire with his amazing trailer to the next Batman film as Gaeilge. Best Female Actor went to Estelle Gooden for her heartfelt ‘Slán’ to Jack in the Titanic. Best Director went to Cora Roche for her superb work in keeping a shark under control in Jaws. Best Costume went to sisters Gracie and Cara Murphy giving Piercestown their own version of Anna and Elsa from Frozen as they sang ‘Lig é dul!’. Best Singer went to Amara Duffin for a lovely rendition of ‘Lig é dul!’ as she channelled her inner Elsa. Best Dancer went to Zoe Szabo for her amazing teamwork with her mother to show an Irish jig using some tin whistle music. Finally Best Superhero went to Ashton Duffin for his truly super Batman, proving Piercestown is safe while he is around. Well done to all who took part it was tremendous to see such effort put in.

This year, for fun we are tried to incorporate the home, environment and technology through a returning competition called ‘Comórtas Selfie’. This saw our pupils take the ‘selfie challenge ‘ by taking a selfie  with some Gaeilge and sending it into a dedicated email address. While out and about the idea was to keep your eyes peeled for some signs ‘as Gaeilge’ and take a photo. They were then put on display on the ‘Seachtain na Gaeilge’ noticeboard.

We have included just a small selection in our slideshow for you to view.  Remember, there is more Gaeilge in the environment that we probably are even aware of.

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Another super week of STEM Science activities hit Piercestown NS again this week. The pupils of Piercestown NS put on their engineering caps and planned and designed some amazing structures and projects. A huge congratulations to all our junior scientists and their amazing work.

This year sees the return in Piercestown N.S. of us embracing the use of technology with our Seachtain na Gaeilge in the form of our competition / comórtas ‘Comórtas Selfie’ – this is where we ask the children to work with their family in finding some ‘Gaeilge’ in the environment and take a selfie with it. We then ask for the photo to be emailed to bmurphy@piercestownns.com . On Tuesday the 16th, the best two will be chosen for a small ‘duais’ (prize). So let’s get our thinking caps on, where do we see Gaeilge in our local community?! Sometimes, we don’t see things until we actually go looking for them. Lean ar aghaidh agus bain triail as!

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Dia daoibh go léir!

This week to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge we are going to go virtual in a fun and new competition for all to try. Below are 15 famous movie lines/scenes translated from English to Irish. This week using technology I want you to try and re-create these famous scenes using your cúpla focail. There will be prizes for Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor, Best Costume and Most Creative upon on return to school. All scenes are very short as to make it easier to take part in and send. You can pick a different scene from any movie or even have a scene where you use both Irish and English. Best of luck and get creating!! All entries to be sent to bmurphy@piercestownns.com

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Happy Friday everyone. We all just want to say how much FUN we have had this week as a staff with all of you in school, and at home, to celebrate world book week!!! From book scavenger hunts, to recreating book covers, from reading to giving our favourite stories alternative endings, from mini quizzes in class to guessing the book each staff member read each day, it has been a lot of fun!!!

Thank to you EVERYONE for taking part and making the week so enjoyable. Ye are all SUPER STARS!!!!

And now, for the moment you have all been waiting for…… our winners of the “Guess the Book” competition 2021, who will each receive a HOMEWORK PASS VOUCHER for the night of your choice AND an EASTER EGG are as follows;

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Monday

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:       Gracie Murphy

1^st-3^rd class:          Ava Quirke

4^th-6^th class:        Micah McMahon

Tuesday

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:       Levi Devereux

1^st-3^rd class:                       Joseph Collier

4^th-6^th class:                      Sarah O Mahony

Wednesday:

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:            Caoimhe Gleeson      

1^st-3^rd class:                   Katie Whitmore

4^th-6^th class:                  Ethan Devereux

Thursday

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:                  Kate Power

1^st-3^rd class:                         Sean Power

4^th-6^th class:                        Aoife Crosbie

Friday

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:              Oisin Quigley

1^st-3^rd class:                       Chloe Cooper

4^th-6^th class:                      Chloe McCluskey

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Congratulations to everyone who took part, we had a HUGE response to this week’s activities and we hope you all had lots of fun!!!

Prizes will be ready to give out (in school) on Monday for the children in Miss Sinnott’s class up to 2nd class. Arrangements will be made for the prizes for the children in classes 3rd to 6th.

WELL DONE everyone! Have a fantastic weekend!! 😊😊😊

Ms. Taylor

HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY EVERYONE!!! One of our favourite days of the school year. This year we decided to challenge you all to recreate your own book cover, and we were honestly amazed and blown away by the response from you all. Sit back, relax and have fun looking through these amazing creations…. WELL DONE EVERYONE who took part, you are all so creative and talented – we hope you had lots of fun!!! 😁😁

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On the morning of Thursday 11^th February, Fr. O’Reilly celebrated his final mass in Piercestown. He was joined by Fr. Aodhán Marken and handed over the key to the church during the ceremony. Many parishioners and members of school staff joined in the celebration remotely. The following day was his official retirement day. Ms. Walsh arrived at his doorstep and presented him with a book full of good wishes from the whole school community. It was a lovely way of marking the day, especially in the absence of a ‘big send off’ which unfortunately is not possible at this time. Fr. O’Reilly was truly touched by the gesture and commented on how, for the first time ever, he would have plenty of time to read the book! Once again, on behalf of our whole school community we would like to thank Fr. O’Reilly for his many years of dedicated service and wish him the very best of luck in his retirement.

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GUESS THE BOOK…..

DAY 5:

Apologies for the delay uploading these…technology was not my friend this morning 😊

HAPPY FRIDAY everyone!!!!! Here is the final challenge of the week, can you guess which books are being read today???

WINNERS ANNOUNCED TODAY AT 4:30pm on our blog – GOOD LUCK!!!!

Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants:

1st – 3rd class:

4th – 6th class:

DAY 4:

HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY EVERYONE!!!!! Here it is, one of our most favourite days of the year!!I hope you have all enjoyed your week so far and that everyone is safe and well. I was blown away with the response to the ‘guess the book’ challenges this week and we had so much fun putting it all together. Take a look at today’s videos for world book day and see if you can crack the mystery book title. Best of luck everyone – today is your second last chance to enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning a HOMEWORK PASS for the night of your choice!! HAVE FUN!! 😁

Junior/ Senior Infants and Ms. Sinnott’s Class:

1st-3rd class:

4th-6th class:

DAY 3:

WELL DONE everyone, we have had a huge response to our “Guess the Book” competition so far this week, we will be picking the names out of a hat and announcing the winners here on the blog on Friday afternoon. Keep up the great work everyone!!

Here are today’s challenges, have fun!!

Junior/ Senior Infants and Ms. Sinnott’s Class

1st-3rd class:

4th-6th class:

DAY 2:

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYONE!!!!!! A huge well done to all who participated in yesterday’s ‘Guess the Book’ activity – we had a huge response!!! All correct entries have been entered into a hat and a winner will be chosen from each level to win a HOMEWORK PASS for the night of your choice!!! WELL DONE!!!

Just a little reminder about our competition to recreate the book cover of your choice – all participants entries will be posted on our blog this Thursday to celebrate WORLD BOOK DAY!!! We have received some FANTASTIC entries so far and look forward to sharing them all with you – why not give it a try if you haven’t already, have fun!!

Here are today’s clips….can you guess what books our staff members are reading today?? HAPPY GUESSING!!

Junior/ Senior Infants and Ms. Sinnott’s Class

1st, 2nd and 3rd class:

4th, 5th and 6th class:

Please see Aladdin message on how to enter 🙂 GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

DAY 1:

Hello everyone and HAPPY MONDAY!!! To kick World Book Week off we have a little challenge for you.

Can you guess which popular children’s books these members of staff are reading??? 

Take a look at the videos below and see the whole school Aladdin post from this morning to see how to enter. 

Best of luck everyone, enjoyyy!!! 

Junior/ Senior Infants and Ms. Sinnott’s Class

1st, 2nd and 3rd Class:

4th, 5th and 6th Class: