St. Fiacc's National School

5th classes visited the Carlow County Museum this Thursday. It was a great tour and a huge thanks to John McDarby and his team for showing us around. We saw

• a pub, kitchen and shop from the 1920’s
• the original gallows trapdoor from Carlow Gaol;
• the 6m carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral;
• items from Carlow’s Sugar Factory, which operated for almost 80 years;
• the smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn;
• items relating to John Tyndall, the Carlow scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect;
• a 340 million-year-old fossilized squid

and much more!!!

Mr Shiel’s class were busy this week in Maths using Izak 9 cubes which are a brilliant resource here in St Fiacc’s N.S. Children are enjoying solving and discussing maths problems in small groups.

5th classes are busy with the Report Writing Genre this term. We are using i-pads to research our own topics for our fantastic reports.

Today in Junior Infants we started forming the letter c using a multi-kinaesthetic approach; tracing folders, sand trays, gel bags and whiteboards

First Class had a great time exploring what trees could be found on the school grounds.

Congrats to all our Students of the week, Gaelgeoir na Seachtaine and Footsol Winners who received their certificates this morning!

Second class room 10 have been exploring shapes and completing different shape challenges during maths week. We have investigated tangrams, created different 2- d shape images using lollipop sticks and sorted 2 – d shapes into different categories.

We are looking forward to going on a 2 – d shape hunt in  school. Fingers crossed the weather will be good!

Second class room 10 have been learning about separating colours by using chromatography. We tested different colours to see how each colour is made. We used our lovely creations to create spooky halloween pictures. This was a fun activity and one that can be completed at home.

Second Class room 10 have been learning all about autumn! We have been learning about plants and animals in our local area. We went on a nature trail around our school grounds and used the iPads to take pictures of signs of autumn. We collected different types of leaves, acorns and other materials. When we went back to the classroom we looked closely at the materials we collected and studied the photographs that had been taken. We also did some leaf rubbings! It was a fun day! We love autumn

First class enjoyed using the iPads and encyclopaedia to find out information for their reports.

ENROLMENTS 2020

Enrolment forms for Junior Infants starting school in September 2020 are available from the School Office. Closing date for receipt of applications is November 8th.

Thank you second class for a wonderful year! Have a wonderful safe summer and see you all in September!

Some beautiful butterflies room 10 created following a story and movement 

Best wishes to all of our 6th class students who graduated from St Fiacc’s N.S on Wednesday night in St Clare’s Church. It was a very special night and a huge thanks to Fr Dunphy and all the parish team for helping us with the preparation. Well done to our fantastic 6th class students who raised €2300 for the Cancer Society through donating some of their Confirmation money and for organising a very successful Bake Sale. It was an amazing achievement fundraising that amount of money and we are very proud of all your hard work. Best wishes in Secondary School and in the future from all the staff of St Fiacc’s N.S!

The sun was shining last Wednesday in the Wicklow mountains as the 5th classes visited Clara Lara activity centre. Everybody had a super day out!

Well done to the 32 6th class boys and girls who represented the school in the Laois Cumann na mBunscol Rounders Semi-Finals in The Heath GAA grounds last Thursday. All three teams played very well on the day and had a great day out.