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Hard work is continuing in the school to achieve our Active School Flag with students and teachers working hard to get all students in Scoil Maelruain Snr more active. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, classes take part in a short Go Noodle activity for an active brain break between subjects. Break time Activity “Station Fun” is continuing, Continue reading Active Schools Update Wednesday is COW (cycle on Wednesday) and WOW (walk on Wednesday) day! Each week members of the Green Schools and Active Schools committee ask people how they travel to school and gather the information to see which class tops the poll with the highest number of active school travelers! The results are displayed on the Halla door and the winning class is awarded the Golden Boot for the week! Congratulations to students in Mr Lucas’s 5th Class students who are the first winners of the Golden Boot!
Scoil Maelruain Senior is currently working towards achieving Active Schools Flag status. The Active School Flag was launched by the Department of Education and is a non-competitive initiative that encourages schools to evaluate their current provision of P.E. and extracurricular sports to children and to examine whether they can be improved upon. We want to raise awareness about the importance of enjoyment, play and keeping fit and the Active Flags initiative helps us to do this.
Preparation for obtaining the Flag has already started with representatives from each class coming together with teachers to form a committee that is looking at new ways of to encourage all pupils to be more active. Check out the pictures from our committee meeting and first Active Flag lunch time activity which shows 3rd class students taking part in lunchtime “Station Fun”. Keep a close eye on the school website to check out all the new activities and initiatives that will be coming up over the next few weeks. Please take a look at the website www.activeschoolflag.ie to find out more about the Active School Flag.
On Saturday the 31st January 65 children from the school choir took part in the Peace Proms concert in the RDS accompanied by the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. It was a fantastic concert , the children sang and danced their hearts out. They also got to appreciate a live orchestra and we definitely have some budding Maestros in our school. Many thanks to Ms Hogan , Ms Biesty and Ms Carty who accompanied us on the day. You can see some photos of the rehearsal before the concert below. Wishing all the children, families and friends of Scoil Maelruain Senior a very happy and peaceful Christmas. The school will re-open at 9.05am on Monday 5th January 2015. The nativity play this year was staged by the children of Ms Flynn’s class. The hard work of the children and Ms Flynn paid off and the play was a great success. TV3 came along to film our nativity play and Christmas concerts. Please tune into Ireland AM on TV3 (between 7.00am and 9.00am) on Christmas Eve to see highlights from the day. Well done to all the children for their great performances in our Christmas Concert. Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, past and future students who attended. It was a festive day of music, drama and fantastic talent! On the 8th of April we held our annual talent show. Acts from all 5th and 6th classes took part. Planning for the show had been taking place over the last number of weeks under the direction of Ms McHugh. After all their preparation the standard of the acts was extremely high. The show was a huge success and the competition was tight. After much deliberation by our judges (Ms M Murphy, Ms Biesty and past pupil Scott Eccles) the winners were announced.
And the winners are ……
Singing: 1st place – Thelmar Chanakira 2nd place – Kacey O’Dowd and Hannah Gilson
Dancing: Joint 1st place Mileaha McCarton, Siobhán Byrne and Victoria Babilola
Special recognition: The Awesome Crew
A huge thanks to all who took part. Thank you too to our audience, all the parents and grandparents who attended and a special thanks to Ms McHugh, without whose hard work the show would not have been possible.
Many children volunteered to perform a song through sign language. Ms J O’Reilly taught the group the song “Not by might” through music and signing. It was a very memorable and poignant performance. Wishing all the children, friends and families of Scoil Maelruain Senior a very happy and peaceful Christmas. See you all on the 6th January 2014. Please see below a copy of our latest school newsletter. |
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Scoil Maelruain Senior, Old Bawn Ave, Tallaght, Dublin 24 - (01) 451 0706 |
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