This week is both EU code week (so big it gets a fortnight!) and Space Week 2017. Today we had a visit from BB8 and a lego We.Do kit. We worked in three core groups today.
Group 1 – coded BB8 through a maze – like a moon landing!
Group 2 – guided a astronaut through a maze of boxes to find a special light up box.
Group 3 – build Milo the Space rover with the Lego We.Do kit.
All our groups will move through tasks and challenges all week long relating to space and coding! Watch this space!
We have started Paired reading this year. Its a little like reading buddies but we have alot more structure on how it works. Pupils are paired together a reader and a listener who has to help the reader when they are stuck on a word. We are using the Pause, prompt, praise method of helping and all our listeners have been trained in how to use it.
If you would like to do paired reading at home heres a link to some ideas on how to start off: https://www.education.ie/en/Schools-Colleges/Services/National-Educational-Psychological-Service-NEPS-/NEPS-Guides/Reading-and-Dyslexia/Reading-and-Dyslexia-Shared-Paired-Reading-At-Home.pdf
We were very sad at the end of September, we said goodbye to our wonderful SNA Sharon McCabe. Sharon had been with us for over 2 years but is moving off to become a teacher doing the Hibernia course. We know she will be an amazing teacher and we hope she comes back to visit! Thank you Sharon for being so good to us.
The juniors have been learning lots of great facts about the human body!
Look at the great displays they made in pairs
The juniors were working very hard on projects all about themselves in September – they showed us all their hard work!
This month in the Senior room, we are learning about the artist Joan Miro – keep an eye out for all our great work in the school hall!
We went to Ballinrobe Racecourse on September to take part in the South Mayo Cross County Championships. We had a great day with everyone having a great run. Afterwards we went to Supermacs in Ballinrobe for some nice warm chips to warm us up!
Here we are in our new school photos for 2017 – 2018 – we are making some changes to our school outdoors this year -heres a before pic for memory!
We were busy decorating our windows with some great Mayo Art in September – not only had we Mayo in the All Ireland Mens football final but the ladies made it to the All Ireland Ladies football final too!!! We made a banner to cheer them on and it was spotted in Croke Park!
