On Thursday 28th May all of the sixth classes went to The Crystal Maze which was on the Cavan/Meath border. The maze was really good. There were riddles and obstacles and a river that we were able to swim in at the end! Sadly, that was our last school tour in Sallins N.S.
First Holy Communion
A couple of weeks ago all of the second classes made their First Holy Communion. Ms.Cullen’s and Ms. Dowler’s classes gathered in the church on Saturday 16th May to celebrate their First Holy Communion, at 11 am and 1 pm. On Sunday, Ms. Culhane’s class made their First Holy Communion at 12 pm.
Afterwards all the families met in the Community Centre and enjoyed treats. A great day was had by all!
Planting Potatoes
Mr Kelly’s fourth class planted potatoes. They started by getting bottles to put soil into and then sowed the potatoes. You then put soil on top of the potatoes and it should start growing in a few weeks. If you are lucky the potato should start sprouting. You must watch them carefully! If you see black spots on the leaves, you have potato blight and that would be the end of your potatoes!!
School Tours
This month most of the classes in our school will go on their school tour.
Junior Infants: Stonebrook
Senior Infants: Wallaby Woods
1st class: Lullymore
2nd class: Let’s Go Camp
3rd class: Fort Lucan
4th class: Funtasia
5th class: Clara Lara
6th class: Crystal Maze
We hope to have lots of fun.
Active Flag
In the next few weeks an inspector will be coming to see if we can get the Active Flag. We will show him/her our dances, which we have been practising for months.The dances that we will be doing are called Safe Cross Code, Macarena, Step It Up, Dinosaur Stomp, YMCA and The Cha Cha Slide. We have worked very hard so we are hoping to get our Active Flag.
Step 3: Engineering
During Engineers’ Week, we had a visit from an Engineer. You will find more information and photographs on our website. The 2nd classes were busy making different types of homes while the 6th classes had to make a table that was stable enough to hold to books!
AoSME Step 5: STEM Showcase
Our school got an award for our excellence in science.
Have a look at our STEM Showcase on our school website here.
AoSME Step 4: Maths
On our website we have put up projects, the link is down below if you want to check it out. The Maths projects were from 3rd, 4th and 6th class. You can see these projects if you follow the link down below.
AoSME Step 2: technology
Have a look at our website and see our slideshows about 6th class doing Scratch projects and us working on the blog!
AoSME Step 1 : Science
We have just been awarded the AoSME plaque of excellence in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Click on this link below to check out our Science slideshows!
Junior infants right up to sixth class have been experimenting!
http://sallinsns.scoilnet.ie/science–step-1.html
Let us know what you think of all their good work.
Girls Gaelic final
On Tuesday the 26th of May our girls Gaelic team went to Moorefield to play the final. They played Gael Scoil Chill Dara. Sallins started the match with a goal in the first few minutes. Sallins scored the majority of the scores in the first half. At half time it was 2-4 to 0-2. In the second half it was much more difficult for Sallins because the wind was not in our favour. After that Gael Scoil scored 1-2 but Sallins came out on top scoring 2-2 in the second half. The final score was Sallins 4-6 – Gael Scoil Chill Dara 1-4.