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Engineers Week: STEM Showcase
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2021 – Comórtas Selfie
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!
Piercestown Goes Hollywood for Seachtain Na Gaeilge 2021!!
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
WORLD BOOK WEEK CHALLENGE
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;
Monday
Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants: Gracie Murphy
1st-3rd class: Ava Quirke
4th-6th class: Micah McMahon
Tuesday
Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants: Levi Devereux
1st-3rd class: Joseph Collier
4th-6th class: Sarah O Mahony
Wednesday:
Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants: Caoimhe Gleeson
1st-3rd class: Katie Whitmore
4th-6th class: Ethan Devereux
Thursday
Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants: Kate Power
1st-3rd class: Sean Power
4th-6th class: Aoife Crosbie
Friday
Ms. Sinnott’s, Junior and Senior Infants: Oisin Quigley
1st-3rd class: Chloe Cooper
4th-6th class: Chloe McCluskey
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
WORLD BOOK DAY 2021
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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Fr. O’Reilly’s Retirement
On the morning of Thursday 11th 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.
WORLD BOOK WEEK
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:
PT Young Scientist Week 2: Engineers Week
Hello everybody,
This week for our PT Young Scientist we are going to be putting on our engineers hats and designing and planning various STEM activities this week. An engineer is a person who designs and builds complex products, machines, systems, or structures. Engineers want to know how and why things work. They have scientific training that they use to make practical things to make things better, safer or more efficient. This week I am challenging you to get involved and to become an engineer too. Just like last week you can pick any of the activities from above and you can watch the helpful videos below for ideas, explanations and links to help with the activities. Best of luck Junior Scientists!
PT Young Scientist
Hello everybody,
Thank you to all who took part this week in our PT Young Scientist. I was amazed and delighted with the amount of pupils who got their scientific hats on and took to solving the various questions I set out for the week. As well as that other classes through their amazing teachers completed more STEM activities rather in class, over zoom or through projects. Pupils planned and created hot wheel highways, nests that any bird would be proud of, houses that the three little pigs or a mini-beast would love to own, amazing science with skittles and many, many more. A huge well done to all this week and have a look at our amazing scientist hall of fame below and some amazing videos too showing off their experiments. Keep an eye on the blog next week for some more amazing STEM challenges for engineering’s week and also some using technology.
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