June ☀️🎓

We started off the month by designing and painting our memory boxes!

We created projects for Whitechurch’s Bicentenary after interviewing a number of people who played a part in the school’s history. We then attended the celebration service in Whitechurch Parish.

Afterwards, we got ice-cream from an ice-cream van and tasted some Whitechurch-shaped cake!

We had lots of workshops this month, including Study Skills with Ms Brown, Science & Electricity with Eve Prendergast and Kick-boxing with Robbie Whitehead.

We had our last Sport’s Day in WNS!

We had Rainbow Inclusion Day and Teachers v Students. The Students won!

Tessa-May won the Gillian Butler cup!

We made gummy bears!

5th Class organised super Active Stations for us.

We’ve been busy preparing for Graduation.

We had a call with some Past Pupils who gave us great advice about secondary school.

We went on our 6th Class trip to Petersburg Outdoor Adventure Centre in Galway.

We attended the opening ceremony of our new Outdoor Classroom.

6th Class got pizza in school as a treat from the PTA!

We had our Graduation ceremony and BBQ!

We wish you all the best as you move onto secondary school. We will miss you in W.N.S!

April & May 🎨

Sixth Class have been doing lots of their Gaeilge lessons through ‘Stations’.

We walked to Ballyroan library for a workshop with UCD’s Department of Philosophy.

When learning about directed numbers, we made positive and negative number lines with chalk in the yard.

We went on the Sponsored Walk in Marlay Park.

We had a Zoom Call with the National Gallery of Ireland where we learned about the highlights of the collection.

The May Fete took place and we volunteered for the Splat game where wet sponges were thrown at us!

In Maths, we completed ‘Probability’ stations when learning about Chance.

We used an Augmented Reality app called Quiver to help our artwork come to life!

We did a block of Gymnastics with Alberto.

We had donuts to celebrate all the hard work we put into our tests!

We’ve also been painting the new mural beside the Outdoor Classroom.

March 🐣📚🍪☘️

We started off the month with a ‘Book Tasting’ to mark World Book Day! 6th Class went to an imaginary restaurant to ‘taste’ different book genres!

The class also sent in photos of bookmarks they made and of them reading in unusual places!

The Write a Book winners were announced. Well done to Marianna and to the runners up, Ivor, Aoibhinn and Liam!

We watched the this year’s Oscar-winning short animated film ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’ and then had a video call with Lisa, one of the animators! We asked her lots of questions about her job.

During Seachtain na Gaeilge, 6th class ran the ‘Siopa Gaeilge’. Other classes came to our room to by items while only speaking Irish!

Ms Whittle, a 4th Year Student Teacher, taught us for a few weeks. We did lots of fun activities with her!

6th Class also created and presented two projects in groups this month. One about World Religions and one looking at the main figures of 1916.

We had 8 weeks of Irish Sign Language lessons with an amazing teacher named Jenny.

We’ve been doing Dance lessons with Veronika. Here’s a video of us performing at the end of term dance show: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YdCNaSubMRbCpPiB7

Finally, both the boys are girls made it to the Leinster hockey finals! We are so proud of them all and so impressed with the supporters. 😊

Have a lovely Easter, everyone!

January & February 🧁⛪️🏈

We started the month by going up to Whitechurch church for a tour led by Reg Richards. We learned so much about Whitechurch’s history. Thank you Reg!

The Archbishop Michael Jackson came to visit our class.

We had our annual Mini Fair and 6th Class ran the Cake Stall.

We’ve been enjoying active learning, which has included playing Twister as Gaeilge, practising our times tables on the iPads, and using the parachute in P.E!

We learned all about Pancake Tuesday and got to enjoy our own pancakes!

We learned all about genetics and our traits in Science.

Alex, Alfie and Eli taught everyone about American Football and we went outside to play some!

Ivor, Isla, Arthur, Winnie and Eli helped Ms Barry with a Well-Being assembly. 😊

December ❄️☃️🎄

We started off the month by decorating the classroom!

Alex, Marianna, Kirsty and Leon represented W.N.S in the inter-schools Maths Masters Quiz in St Attractas S.N.S. Well done guys!

We did a virtual workshop called ‘Museum Explorers’ with the Museum of Decorative Arts and History. We learned all about Collins Barracks and its artefacts.

We went to Killakee Christmas Tree Farm for a tour and scavenger hunt. We even got goodie bags with little Christmas trees to plant. Thanks to Vann’s mum for organising and for all of the parents who provided lifts, treats and hot chocolate!

We made Christmas beanie hat decorations in Art.

Lots of snow came to W.N.S so this ‘fireplace’ made by some of the pupils was much appreciated! 😊

Ciara and Kirsty prepared a super lesson for the class all about K-pop, complete with fact booklets, quizzes and prizes.

We did our class Kris Kindle. Everyone was so generous and creative!

In Science, we made catapults and tried to catapult marshmallows into hot chocolate!

We performed a Nativity in the Senior Carol Service and 6th Class were superstars! Watch it here: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNB-g6Kxkn_1ZRqY8ehXLS1BO0jabNif2TZawRyjoN8oNTPaoTvIvHIjGuZn4yhnQ/photo/AF1QipNeX89dWFw_SvIrYjHGCQxmGpx_KzMRvnY2uTc?key=R0g4QVlKRGEtVHhRaXVKS2FPRnFXMjd3X0ktelR3

Finally, we ended the year with a Christmas fun day!

Have an amazing Christmas, everyone! ☺️

November 🎨🏛️

At the beginning of November, we tie-dyed our 6th Class hoodies!

We went to Wesley College’s production of Grease!

Everyone prepared a talk about something they’re interested in and were so confident getting up in front of the class to speak. Well done everyone!

We went to Leinster House and the National Archaeology Museum.

On Thanksgiving Day, we had ‘Friendsgiving’ in Sixth Class and we played lots of fun games with our friends. 😊

Finally, we did a virtual workshop with Geraldine from the Natural History Museum.

Tune in next time for December’s blog post!

October 🎃🍂🧪

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At the beginning of October, we went to Ballyroan Library for an illustration workshop with children’s author and illustrator Alan Nolan.

We appointed our committee members for the year. Congratulations to our Student Council presidents, Eli and Kirsty, our Green Schools members, Ciara and Lily M, and our Active School members, Josh and Tessa-May!

We went shopping at the annual Book Fair.

We had a Science workshop with Mr Joyce all about acids and bases.

It was Maths Week and we did lots of Active and Outdoor Maths.

Some of us attended the Diocesan School’s Service in Christ Church Cathedral. We went early and explored the Crypt first!

We decorated the classroom for Halloween!

We designed Christmas cards.

Our hoodies arrived!

We marked Black History month by learning about the Black Lives Matter movement and the danger of stereotypes. We also celebrated black stories by completing a film study of the movie ‘Soul’.

We did lots of Halloween activities in class.

We dressed up on the last day of term! 👻🎃

September 🍯🏏🏆

Welcome to the Sixth Class blog!

We’ve been enjoying using the new Outdoor Classroom and getting back into the Pupil Library!

We learned about Growth Mindset, which is the belief that our abilities can improve through hard work and perseverance. We completed challenges in class and even led a whole-school Assembly about this.

We also learned about Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, proving that ‘intelligence’ doesn’t just mean one thing and that everyone has their own individual intelligences.

Vann brought in some honey from a honeycomb for us all to try!

We’ve been doing lots of active Maths, including body angles, coordinate Battleships, and an Escape Room!

We had a Cricket taster-session and have also started Multisport and Drama lessons each week.

To top it all off, we won Class of the Month!

Check back next month for our October blog post!

June ☀️🎉🎓

In June, we started prep for our Graduation. This included painting our memory boxes and writing compliments about each other.

We displayed our favourite pieces of Art and work for Open Morning.

The bottle top mural was finished and, one day, we went outside with our sketchpads to draw it.

We did a Science Workshop with Eve Prendergast and got to use microscopes!

We did a Study Skills Workshop with Ms. Brown.

We had our Green Schools Flag Raising Ceremony and Juliet made a speech. Well done on all your Green Schools work this year, Juliet and Jack!

We had our annual Sport’s Day!

Past pupils from last year’s 6th Class spoke to us about their experience of secondary school and answered our questions.

For Active Fortnight, 5th Class set up Active Stations for us.

The Mini Fair took place. We worked on the cake stall and brought the Junior Infants around.

We went to Marlay Park for the day and even got a chance to buy treats in the Café.

Sixth Class battled against the teachers in our ‘Teachers vs Students’ competition and 6th Class won! It was also Random Act of Kindness Day that day and the whole school got ice pops.

We got pizza as an end-of-year treat!

We had our Graduation and BBQ!

Mark won the Gillian Butler cup for outstanding sportsmanship!

We went on our end-of-year trip to Petersburg Adventure Centre in Galway. Check out the video here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7JdEEG2SNPcWbUsW6

We’ll all miss you here in Whitechurch but hopefully you’ll come back and visit us! Wishing you the best of luck in your new schools – I know you’ll all go far! Ms. Masterson 🙂

May 🚌🏛🎬🍿

In May, we went on an amazing school tour to Leinster House. We got to watch the Dáil and the Seanad in session, and even got to have a soft drink and a treat in the Dáil bar. Thank you to our brilliant tour guide, Eoin, and to Neale Richmond for inviting us!

We also visited the National Archaeology Museum that day and explored the Ancient Egypt exhibition.

We used a range of Augmented Reality apps this month. Firstly, we used Merge Cubes to explore various educational objects, and then we used the Quiver App to make our colouring pages come to life!

We’ve been helping to assemble the Bottle Top Mural and can’t wait to see it displayed in the yard!

We had a ‘Book Tasting’ in our class where we set up a restaurant to ‘taste’ different types of books!

We partook in a Grammar ‘Escape Room’! 🔐

We had the premiere screening of our Panto, ‘Superstan’. Thank you so much to Mark Magennis, Sandra Younge, Nichola Kinch and the 5th Class Parents who provided food, decorations and help on the night!

We made our own gummy bears in Science.

We’ve been doing lots more learning, too, and have been enjoying using the courtyard to work outside when it’s sunny.