November 2021
A tribute to Archdeacon Seán O’Doherty
17th-December-2020
The children from Our Lady’s Meadow have been super this year and are a credit to themselves and their parents/guardians. While we can’t have visitors inside this year we wanted to spread some Christmas cheer!! Please check out our video below and have a happy, safe and fun Christmas everyone 🙂
Junior Infants working from home in March 2020
Well done to all the Junior Infants who are leading the way with online learning!
EGG DROP CHALLENGE
CAN YOU DESIGN A SYSTEM TO PROTECT AN EGG FROM CRACKING OR BREAKING FROM A HIGH FALL?
This was the challenge that 3rd class undertook for Engineers Week 2020. Check out the photos to see how they did!!
Congratulations again to our wonderful debate team and Mrs. O’ Shea who did us extremely proud this year 🙂
Well done to all the children in 3rd class who made space projects at home to go with their written projects in school. We had lego, rockets, spaceships, space slime, stories, the International Space Station, edible planets and so much more. The projects were fantastic and so creative. Well done again 3rd class. 🙂
Marty and Bernard made a surprise visit to Our Lady’s Meadow on Friday 🙂
A visit from the LSPCA
We were lucky to have Finn come and talk to all the children about animal welfare and how to take care of their pets. Finn reminded us of all the hard work completed by the LSPCA on a daily basis. She even brought some VIP guests 🙂 Here is the link to find out more about the LSPCA : https://www.lspca.ie/
A busy first week back in 3rd class 🙂
Pictures from our shadow experiment in science and of making some new sentences in Gaeilge!
Photos from our Christmas Talent Show and Carol Singing!
Our Trip to Aladdin
November 2019
A big thank you to Mary Walsh for your hard work and dedication over the past number of years. We will all miss you dearly and wish you the best in your retirement.
3rd Class
This month 3rd class have already been very busy! They have been working hard as scientists especially as it’s Science Week. They worked in groups to try and make the tallest structure that they could with matchsticks, focusing on triangular shapes in tall structures. They also worked together to make catapults to get a better understanding of stored energy and measured the distance a piece of paper travelled to revise their maths skills.
A taster from some of our Halloween art and our talent show!
Lego
4th to 6th class were very lucky and got to take part in some Lego Workshops in the local library!
Halloween!
September/ October 2019
Everyone has been extremely busy since our return to school this year!
Kay O’Connell, a local author from Tipperary visited our school to speak about her new book ‘Swanky Spider Meets Professor Pendulum’. We were even treated to an excerpt.
Éanna Ní Lamhna has visited us twice and even took 3rd and 4th class on a nature walk in Dumore Woods.
3rd Class were busy using the i-Pads to research countries taking part in The Rugby World Cup.
3rd Class have been enjoying working as scientists too, designing, making and even testing out telephones.
June 2019
Well done to ALL our children from Junior Infants to 6th Class who did brilliantly in their agallamh this year. A big thank you to Mrs. O’Shea for taking the time to interview every child in the school in an effort to keep our native language alive and to prepare children for secondary school where a major focus will be placed on oral Irish. Another big thank you to Eddie Brennan who presented children with their certificates and gave them a few hurling tips.
‘Friends for Life Party’ with 1st and 2nd Class 🙂
Sports Mad 🙂
June has been an incredibly busy month regarding sport with children taking part in hurling, camogie, rounders and golf.
‘On the 3rd of June we won our Rounders Féile and we are now All Ireland Champions. It was really fun but we were exhausted afterwards. We were playing in The Heath and beat beat The Heath in the final. There were three Durrow girls on our team. Their names were Aoife, Gráinne and Paige and all the other nine girls were from Cullohill. When the match was over Seosamh Murphy who owns the Castle Arms Hotel kindly bought everyone in for dinner and gave us all chicken goujons. They were lovely.’ By Gráinne
3rd and 4th Class School Tour
Children in 3rd and 4th class had a great day in Castletown House. They had the chance to dress up as lady’s, lords and servants and learned all about the history of Castletown House. They also took part in orienteering activities within the grounds.
3rd Class
3rd Class were busy replanting vegetables outside.
May 2019
6th Class learning what to do if someone is choking. The class listened and learned a lot from the firefighters from Durrow Fire Station.
4th Class are busy recreating Peruvian Masks in clay! Looking forward to seeing the final product páistí!
3rd Class are busy planting fruit and vegetables as part of the Incredible Edible’s Programme and were acting as scientists to investigate different soil samples!
4th Class are participating in the Cycle Right Course and are having loads of fun while learning all they need to know about staying safe.
Éanna Ní Lamhna visited our school again, talking all things nature!
3rd and 4th Class want to say a huge thank you to Susan Lawlor who took us on a guided tour of Knockatrina Wood where we got to see the blue-bells and wild garlic in full bloom. Susan also told us lots about the history of Knockatrina House and surrounding areas. Thank you Susan and Lena 🙂
April 2019
3rd and 4th class went on a walk as part of the Outdoor and Adventure Strand of the PE curriculum, integrating SESE by searching for signs of spring.
3rd Class
3rd class were busy using i-Pads to search for information about Life in Norman Ireland and facts about different provinces of Ireland.
Dima and Gabriela treated us by teaching us some words in Latvian and Russian!
March 2019
4th Class
4th Class were very busy working as scientists this month!
4th class really enjoy Shared Reading!
4th and 5th class made the trip to the Shackleton Museum in Athy.
3rd Class
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! We hope you enjoy our recording of Take My Hand, as Gaeilge.
Bain taitneamh as!
3rd class were lucky to go to Dunamaise Theatre for Engineers Week 2019. They had loads of fun with three of them lucky enough to be brought on stage.
February 2019
Senior Infants and 1st Class
Every week 4th class read with our senior infants and first class. We love telling them our news and hearing them tell their marvellous stories.
Senior Infants have been learning all about length. Look at our measuring skills!
We were feeling ‘LOVEly’ in senior infants and first class as we created our Valentine’s art!
Senior Infants and First Class had great fun on our visit to the library. We chose our favourite books and read them to each other so everyone could enjoy the super stories!
3rd Class
We had great fun on pancake Tuesday. First we had to learn all the words to do with pancakes in Gaeilge. Then we had to help Ms. King write out the recipe in Gaeilge and then FINALLY we got to make some pancakes and most importantly….. EAT THEM. Is breá linn pancóga!
October 2018
3rd Class
This month things were getting spooky in 3rd class… We had fun making clay sculptures for Halloween, gloopy Newtonian liquid and sticky Halloween treats in science, writing spells and Halloween poems and stories in English, learning Halloween poems and words in Gaeilge, studying Halloween traditions and comparing them with Day of the Dead in Mexico and figuring out spooky word-problems in maths! Hopefully the ghost teacher from our poem doesn’t make an appearance….
4th Class
5th Class
Check out the new news letter from 5th class, giving you monthly updates of what’s happening behind the scenes!
6th Class