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A fun day at bloom

 

Last Friday we went to Bloom. Bloom is a festival for your garden. It is held in Phoenix park in Dublin. Ms Keane, Kevin, Ms McMahon and 20 children in 5th class were chosen to go to Bloom. This year it was their 10th anniversary. It only took about an hour to get there. We learned that sweet potatoes are actually an over grown root or stem and a lot more. We got to taste lots of different foods and we met Enda Kenny and took some photos with him. Overall it was a great day!

 

 

 

 

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5th class were invited to Bloom 2016!

It was an enjoyable day for some  5th class pupils. Bloom is a massive festival for people who enjoy gardening. We were minded by Ms McMahon, Ms. Keane and Kevin our caretaker. We put ourselves into pairs for the bus journey. It was a LONG ride!! It was in the Phoenix Park.

Our tour guide David lead us around. We learned so much about gardening.

It was HUGE!!!

It was HUGE!!!

Posted by Mr Kennedy’s 5th class.

 

 

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Hurling Final Highlights!

Get The Sliotar!

Get The Sliotar!

All Out Attack!

All Out Attack!

Hurling Final

Sallins Emerged Victorious

Sallins Emerged Victorious

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Brian Kirk

This term an author, Brian Kirk came to fifth class. He showed us his book, The Rising Son. It was a very good book and very enjoyable to read. We were learning about The Easter Rising this year because it is the 100th anniversary.

He showed us pictures of The Easter Rising 1916 on the white board. One of the pictures he showed us was of a boy in front of the GPO. Then he asked us questions and got us to write a short story about it in 6 minutes. Half of the class wrote in 1st person and the other half in 3rd person. Some people read their stories out to the class and they were very good. This was very fun and would love another author to come back.

blog by Sophie, Amy and Jenna. Mr Kennedy’s 5th class The Rising Son

 

 

 

 

To visit Brian Kirk’s Blog click on the link below:

http://briankirkwriter.com/?p=1249

 

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Senior girls football division 2.WINNERS

In May the under 13 Girls Football Team won their final. The girls played very well against Gaelscoil Ui Fhiach. They  won by two points. The score was 1-5 to 1-3. The team put in a lot of hard work and deserved the win.

WELL DONE GIRLS!!!

Blog by Anna,Katie and Ailbhe,  5th class.

Pictures to follow.

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Senior under 14 div 2 win the final

Yesterday the Sallins senior hurlers won the division 2 hurling final. It was a tough match but Sallins just pulled away in the 2nd half. The pitch was a bit bumpy but it didn’t bother us. It was a great feeling being a part of the team. We were very grateful to win the finals. We had to beat five very good teams to win the final. The final score was 4-10 4-4

CHAMPIONS !

CHAMPIONS !

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Brian Kirk is back to school !!!

Brian Kirk is an author and he published a new story called The Rising Son . He visited 5th class to talk about his new book. His book was about a boy who was living in 2016 and when he went to sleep he was in 1916. We were learning about 1916 this year since it was the 100th anniversary. He read a chapter of the book to the classes, we also did writing exercises and looked at pictures. It was very interesting and really fun , we all want to read the book because its about our  own  country’s  history.

Blog by Hannah,Curt and Saoirse.

Brian Kirk

 

 

Link to Brian Kirk’s Blog:

http://briankirkwriter.com/?p=1249

 

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Match Actions

Sallins receiving the cup!

Sallins receiving the cup!

team photo after the match

Team photo after the match

battle for the cup

Battle for the cup

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Hurling Finals Senior Under 13 Division 2

 

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Scratch Certificates

Every student in the computer club took part in the ICS Scratch competition. We all got a certificate for our projects.

 

Everyone is very proud and we will continue to do Scratch.

Maeve, Jenna, Lauryn

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The 1916 Rising remembered in Drama

Today we went to the hall and saw a play about 1916. There were two people in our class in the play. The drama was about a young boy called Jimmy Conway who witnessed the 1916 rebellion as it happened. The drama showed  Easter Monday 1916 when the rebellion took place. The actors were great and we felt we were part of it. The narrators were very good too. We learned a lot of facts about The Rising and we enjoyed the drama.

Thank you for reading! We will be back with more information and pictures about the 1916 celebrations in Sallins National School.

Goodbye!

Chloe and Charley.

When will Ireland be free?

When will Ireland be free?

We are taking a stand!

We are taking a stand!

Proud to be Irish

Shoulder to Shoulder

Shoulder to Shoulder

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Celebrating 1916 on 10/3/2016

Today, Thursday the 10th of March 2016, our  school  celebrated the 1916  Rising. There were good dramas done by pupils from 2nd to 6th class and the actors were really good. They put  great plays.  One drama told a story of the rising and we felt involved. We are going to do the dramas again tomorrow! Thank you for reading goodbye.

"Charge!"

“Charge!”

"The Guns of Easter"

“The Guns of Easter”

Telling it as it was!

Telling it as it was!

Job well done!

Job well done!

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Our famine projects

Hi we are from Mr Kennedy’s  Fifth class room 16. For the past few weeks we have been working on famine projects. There were four people in one group. In my group one person would do one or two topics.We all got details off of the internet about the famine and displayed it on our projects.

We got lots of details on the Famine.

Look at a few of the pictures.

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We learned a lot and we enjoyed doing our projects.

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Easter Holidays 2016

On Wednesday next week we are going to be getting are Easter holidays. I really hope you all have a great holiday and you do nice things over the holiday and hope the Easter bunny comes to your house. We will also have a raffle to win Easter eggs on Wednesday 🙂

 

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Easter Raffle 2016

On Wednesday the 16th of March we will be getting our Easter holidays but before we go we get to have an Easter raffle We get to bring in eggs and buy tickets and if the number is called then you get pick an egg and take and eat it. We hope you have a good holiday. We will see you again on the 4th of April.

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The Famine Project

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Mr Kennedy’s 5th class have done some projects on The Famine. We were divided into groups of 4. We started writing and researching in school.  We did some more work on them at home. We could write about the causes of The Famine, Workhouses, The Effect of the famine, and we could print or draw pictures. When we were ready  we glued our pictures and our  writing onto chart paper. When we were finished we did a presentation. It went really well.

Look at some of the pictures that I took.

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1916 Easter Rising Drama

Hello readers! In this blog I’ll be talking about the 1916 Easter Rising Drama taking place on Thursday 10/03/16.

I haven’t seen anything of it yet but I’m really looking forward to it.

The drama is about the rebellion of 1916.

That’s all I know about it, so I hope we all enjoy the drama.

See you in the next blog! I ‘ll let you know how it goes!

 

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Green action day

Today  was green action day. We all saved energy for the day. We all had to close doors/windows and turn off the interactive boards. My class did a Quiz on saving energy. During the No Energy Hour we turned off all the things that use electricity! We will get feedback from The Green Schools Committee about how much we saved!

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