Sallins National School

Walk on Wednesday ‘WOW!’ is a new campaign started in our school as part of the ‘Active Schools’ programme.

Don’t forget to walk to school every Wednesday. Every four weeks there will be a prize for the classes that have the highest percentage of walkers!

our record charts

As you know the children in Mr McDonnell’s 5th class have been doing 1916 Easter Rising art. In the past few weeks we have made our frames and drawn  or painted our pictures. The pictures and the frames look very good. We have had a great time making the frames and drawing or painting the pictures. We are going to hang them in the hall for Seachtain na Gaeilge. After we are probably going to hang them in the libary.

   These are some of the pictures we did. We really enjoyed doing these pictures. We think they are really good.

The Easter raffle is coming. From today until next Wednesday morning you can buy tickets for 1 euro or seven tickets for five euros. You can also bring in Easter eggs for the raffle as well. Do not worry! if you’re in, you can win!

Most  people will get an Easter egg and some people will get two if they have a number of tickets. The Easter holidays start from the 16th of March to the 4th of April. There is also a half day next Wednesday! I’m really looking forward to the holidays!

Don’t forget to buy your ticket!

We are learning about the 1916 Easter Rising. It happened 100 years ago. A lot of people were very poor at this time. In Dublin three or four families often had to live in large houses. In Dublin in 1913 two people, James Connolly and Jim Larkin, began fighting for better wages for workers. People began to get angry and they locked people out of their jobs. Women began fighting because they could not vote. So lots of people were unhappy about lots of different things and all of these things and more led to the Rising being planned.

During Easter Week the main places, in Dublin, that were important were, The GPO, St Stephen Green, the Four Courts and Boland’s Mill.

Padraig Pearse read the Proclamation on the top of the GPO. It said everyone is equal. When Padraig Pearse saw a family get shot even when they had waved a white flag he decided to surrender. He sent out Elizabeth O Farrell to meet General Lowe to surrender. This was the official surrender of the Easter Rising.

Today on the 1/3/16 the three 6th classes had their class photos taken by the photographer. This is where they bring in something that tells us something about their personal interests. Some of the hobbies included football, horse riding, art, hockey and lots, lots more.  The 6th classes have a really good time while getting these pictures taken. When they leave these photographs will be hung on the 6th class corridor to remind us of them all.

The students of Mr McDonnell’s fifth class are doing an art project on the 1916 Easter Rising. We are using recycled cardboard.  This cardboard was given to us by Tesco who had used it to advertise their clothes.  We are now using it to make frames for our artwork. The artwork has to be based on a story, picture or poem relating to the 1916 Rising.  We made these frames from cardboard, newspaper, tissue and glue. We will paint the frames and put our drawings of different scenes, people or events of The 1916 Rising into them.  So far we have made our frames using  the cardboard and papier maché. We are enjoying it so far.

Getting Ready

The Painted Frame

Our Window Display

Three girls from our class, Maeve, Yen Lin and Kaitlyn, each won an amazing Amazon Fire tablet  at the BTYSE at the RDS on Friday 8th January. Their amazing invention using electronic lego was chosen at the end of the day from lots of other amazing designs by children from our school and lots of other schools. The girls were shocked and amazed to receive such a great prize. Well done girls!!

Thank you to Intellectual Ventures who sponsored the Lego sessions and provided the great prizes. Thank you to the Lego engineers who helped us on the day. Their project was an electronic arm using Lego. Check our website for more photographs.