Tag: History (Page 1 of 2)

Happy Halloween!!!

23/10/2025 / kwalsh4968

Third class had a day full of fun and excitement today to celebrate Halloween. We learned about the history of Halloween and enjoyed some traditional Halloween games in class. We played ‘Grape Escape’ – trying not to knock the grape off the flour mountain, apple bobbing and stick the hat on the witch. We also made a traditional Halloween treat of chocolate apples….. Yum Yum!!

: Grape Escape

: Apple Bobbing

: Put the hat on the witch

: Making chocolate apples

Happy Halloween from 3rd Class!!!

Family Time Capsule Project!

27/04/2020 / sgrimes6928

This week we have a lovely family project for our school community! We are always living through history, but this has never been more obvious than in these days of quarantine and Covid19. We would like you to think about how you might capture what life at home is like as we make our way slowly through these unique days and weeks and store those memories for different days in the future. Then, we will look back and try to remember what we did to get through it, how we all felt, who we spent our time with and what the world looked like from this place in time. We are all history makers!

Step 1:

Have a family meeting- What would each person like to put into the capsule? Here are some ideas to pick from:

Each child can put in their completed Great Isolation Activity Book, or parts of it, that they received last week.
Family member handprints/ heights etc
A momento of a family celebration (birthday/Easter/anniversary etc.) E.G A party hat, deflated balloon, sign…
Children record an interview with members of their household
Photographs of family, pets ( a member of staff recommended the FreePrints photobooks app for a free monthly book, just pay delivery)
A price list: What does the milk/ loaf of bread can of beans cost today?
Cuttings from a newspaper/magazine from this week
A personal profile- My favourite things: Movie, food, song, subject in school, colour etc
A letter from me to my future self!
Favourite family recipe

Keep in mind what you have put in it- It shouldn’t contain anything that you wouldn’t want somebody outside of your family to see or read!

Step 2:

Find/ make a capsule!

This should be watertight, if possible airtight (an old large lunchbox, large sealed jar, large biscuit tin, whatever you can find!)
Decide where it will be kept (best to be out of daily sight- e.g The attic, garden shed, buried in the garden).

Step 3:

Get going!

Get working on the contents! You could do this over a couple of days. How much you put in will depend on the size of your capsule.
A nice idea might be a picture of everybody who helped to create it with the capsule before it disappears from view! You could include this pic if you have access to a photo printer.
Put everything in and seal it up tight. Label the front of it clearly: Will it say who is to open it? Will it say Don’t open until_______? Will it say who created it?

We would love to hear about and see your capsules! You can private message us on FaceBook with them or else email them to us.

: Idea for cover design

: Question ideas for interviews!

: We are History Makers

PhotoBook app

A New Year in Room 4

16/09/2019 / kwalsh4968

The children from Room 4 have had a lovely summer break and are settling back into school life. It has been a busy start to the year setting up routines and adjusting to life back at school – but we’re getting there!

Meet 4th class of 2019 – 2020!

To start our year off, we began learning about what school was like in the past. We have learned that it was a difficult place at times – very cramped rooms, often cold and if you were in trouble, you could have been ‘caned’ – hit with a stick a number of times!! We’re thankful it’s not like that today.

We also talked about the signs of Autumn – as our weather has changed so much lately. We do love when the leaves fall off the trees, changing colour and becoming crunchy so that we can walk on them and hear the crisp sound. In art we created stained glass autumn leaves to brighten up our classroom. When the sun shines through them, the colours of autumn enter our classroom.

The Crocus Project

13/03/2019 / sgrimes6928

Last December, sixth class from rooms 1 and 12 planted some yellow crocus bulbs in one of our courtyards in memory of the one and a half million Jewish children (6 million people in total) who perished in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945 across Europe. It is very important that we never forget this terrible period in European history. We must make sure that we never allow anyone or any group of people to murder or harm others because they do not like them or do not agree with their views.

December 2018

: Preparing the soil

: Planting the bulbs

: Teamwork

: Crocus bulbs planted

The yellow flowers recall the yellow Stars of David that Jewish people were forced to wear under Nazi rule. But these beautiful flowers also remind us that, even after the most terrible events, new life begins again and we can hope that things will be better than they were before. The flowers remind us that there is still beauty in the world and hope for our future. Crocuses bloom usually around the beginning of February.

March 2019

Check out the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland website for further information. International Holocaust Memorial Day is held on January 27th each year.

A nautical start to 2019

03/02/2019 / cmcgowan5006

Some Titanic art from Room 11. The children in 5th class have been busy learning all about the famous Titanic liner, exploring it through English, history, geography, science, drama and art!

Rope Making

09/10/2018 / rkilcoyne4216

In September the senior classes enjoyed a rope making workshop with Steffi from Heritage Ireland. We learned about rope making in Sligo and how natural rope is made. We had a great time enjoying the ‘Coits’ target game and the ‘Áras’ challenge as well as some good old fashioned skipping together.

: Steffi showing us the ropes

: How does this work?

: Take aim!

: Skipping old school style

: Don’t let it fall!

: Skill!

: Ready steady skip!

Visit to The Northside Centre and The Green Fort

10/11/2016 / sdavey2393

As part of our history, we went to visit the Northside Centre .We asked Johnny and Danny some questions about The Old St.Edwards School and visited the old classroom there .

We also looked at the model of what this area looked like many years ago .It wasvery interesting .

Danny them took us up to the Greenfort and told us a little history about it .The views from here are fantastic and we could see our school . We also had some free play on the track and basketball court here .

Thank you very much to Johnny and Danny for a very enjoyable ,educational trip .

Our new Green Flag, Reading Certs and SALF Folders in 3rd.

29/06/2016 / cheneghan7717

In May our school won our 6th Green Flag – ‘Global Citizenship Litter and Waste’. A girl from 6th and a boy from 3rd who are on the Green School Committee got chosen to go to Claremorris to collect the flag. They had a great day out.

At the end of June our class had a presentation of reading certs which we won by doing library quizzes. We have enjoyed reading books in the library this year.

We worked on SALF folders during the year in 3rd class. SALF means – Self Assessment Learning Folder. During the year we put some of our best work into the folders to show to everyone. We had fun working in groups and looking at all the folders. We have pictures here of our class showing some lovely work which we are very proud of.

Arts Activities and Nature Trail in 3rd Class

31/05/2016 / cheneghan7717

Third class did some creative work in the Arts this month. First we listened to and described music in various styles and genres, including familiar excerpts. We enjoyed listening to Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg. We discussed mood, rhythm, tempo and how we felt when listening. Then we responded through art (clay sculptures of trolls). We made some trolls from the story. After we made the trolls some of the class made vases and other decorative objects like egg- cups.

Later in the month we worked with Fabric and Fibre. We all designed our own pictures and put them together using glue.

This month we also went on a nature and history trail. We visited the Famine Graveyard and learned about the impact of the famine in Sligo. We found out about the workhouse, emigration and the life of poor children in famine times. We also learned about how children got educated in hedge schools. We looked for native wild flowers on our nature trail and learned their names. See our pictures here.