Begin by separating the egg yolk and egg white…. Look at our easy way to do this! It works every time!
Whisk the egg whits to a meringue…. The TEST of a job well done is to hold them over someone’s head…. upside down! We did well!
Mix the egg yolks with yogurt and sugar, and then mix with the meringue. It is really fluffy…..
Fry for 5 minutes and place the pan under the grill till golden brown. Share using FRACTIONS! Top with yogurt, fruit and jam. Delicious! Try this at home
The Moon and Sixpence Puppet Theatre came to the school today to entertain the Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd classes. Their performance of Little Red Riding Hood was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The show had some important messages including the importance of recycling and the girls and boys learned a new song about picking up litter (See the video below).
A big thank you to the Parents Council who funded the show.
In preparation for the Little Red Riding Hood puppet show at the end of the week, Room 3 have been busy coming up with their own version of Little Red Riding Hood.
The Confirmations of 2020 are on the 29th of February in the Sallins church.
The candidates have been learning about the fruits, gifts and the symbols of the holy spirit leading up to their Confirmation. On the 29th of January the candidates had their ceremony of light, this is their second step in their Confirmation journey the first step being the enrollment mass, on the 18th of October. Mrs. MacNamara taught them all the songs for the Ceremony of Light e.g. Moving on up, the Psalm and Christ be our Light. Some of them will be included in their Confirmation. They have been learning lots of new prayers for the conformation such as the Nicene Creed and the Gloria. They have been doing lots of work in their religion book and thinking about what the holy spirit would do in some hard situations.
We know that they are looking forward to their confirmation and becoming adults in the eyes of the church.
Written by Molly, Naoise, Emma and Lili-Rose. Mr. Kennedy’s class.
On the 9th of January 2020 the sixth classes had their Ceremony of Light in Sallins church at 7:30pm. We wore our uniforms and we brought our Baptismal candles . We sang songs, we had Seán bring up the Paschal candle, Charlie read a reading from Isaiah. Kate, Leah and Ailbhe sang the Psalm.
We had our Confession and afterwards our parents brought up our candles to have them lit. They passed the candle on to us we said a prayer and extinguished the flame. We sang the last song of the mass and the priest ended the mass. We really enjoyed the evening and we are excited to make our Confirmation!
We would like to thank all the priests who took part in the mass, all sixth class teachers and Ms. MacNamara for helping us learn our prayers and songs.
We had our first bake sale on Wednesday 19th February to fund raise for mirrors for all students’ bathrooms. We raised €795. That was so much more than we expected. Every class in the school got to attend. The food that was left over was donated to two charities – the Peter McVerry trust for the homeless and The Dining Room table, Newbridge. It was a huge success but this was only possible due to all that was contributed. So a huge thank you to all the students and their parents for all the delicious and professional looking baked goods. There was so much effort put into all the baking. We had a fantastic experience selling and meeting people. We had a great time and were very proud of the event. Hopefully we can do it again.
Investigation: What is the science behind roller-coasters? Team members; Chloe, Kate, Lucy & Ailbhe.
We had to get up at 7:00am as our bus was leaving at 7:30 am😪. The bus ride felt so long as we were so tired!When we arrived at Blanchardstown IT we set up our board and roller-coaster. The event started at 9:00 am.
We had a lot of time to check out all of the other projects. The judges came around to us at about 11:00 am. We explained our project to them . After that we got our lunch and watched a science show by science Sue. We were called up to the stage to assist Sue in her experiments. Her theme was potential and kinetic energy so we were experts!
Then at about 1:30pm it was the award ceremony.
The judges called out the names of the projects moving forward on to the next round. We didn’t hear our names straight away so we were having doubts😓 . But then, we heard our names being called out! We ran up to the stage and received our medals and trophy!🏆
We got our pictures taken with the Intel judges with our rewards. We took down our rollercoaster and wrapped our board in a plastic bag and went home on the mini bus.🚌
Our Rugby team has had 4 matches so far and still have 1 more to play
So far they lost 3 matches and have drawn1.
The first and second match were played in Clongowes Wood College(Clane) against Willow Park and St.Gerald’s. The third was against St.Gerald’s again, and the fourth was in CUS (Catholic University School).
The next match they will be playing on the 25th of February and it will be against Willow Park in their own school.
Last year only 9 girls had joined the rugby team to play on the B, C and D teams,however this year 13 girls joined the rugby team.
The 6th Class soccer team played 3 games against Kildare schools. Our first match was against Ballymany school in Newbridge.
We played Ballymany in Newbridge Town astro. It was a very tight game. The score finished 2-2. We started the match brightly and got a deserved goal by Jake Connolly. Around five minutes later Ballymany scored to go level. Both teams came close to scoring but the game finished 1-1 at the end of the first half.
We came out strong in the second half and dominated the first 15 minutes and Cameron Keane scored a brilliant goal to get us ahead. We fought very hard but they scored a fluky goal near the end. It was a great performance from the team. We are currently in preparation for the 5 aside blitz in Kilcullen astro.
MINI SCIENTIST
Mini Scientist happens each year. A team can be made up of three or four people. Every team asks them selves a question and they’ve got four weeks to answer it. On the day everybody presented their investigation to the judges. The winners of Mini Scientist of 2019 were Kate, Ailbhe, Chloe and Lucy and their investigation was ‘What is the science behind rollercoasters?’. They will move on to the next round and we wish them the best of luck.👩🔬
On the 23th of January ,Mr Kelly and Mr Monahan took the rugby team up to St. Gerard’s to play their 4th rugby match against St. Gerards. Mr Kelly took the D team and Mr Monahan took the A team, with parents and fourth year students helping with the B and C teams. With varied results;
the A team won 5 tries to 2,
the B team drew 5 tries each ,
the C team won 10 tries to 0
and the D unfortunately lost 2 tries to 4
The book fair is on the 12th, 13th and 14th of February. It comes to our school every year and has lots of new books for all ages. It is in the school small hall. There are lots of books for all ages. You can buy books from 9 o’clock to 4 o’clock.
There are books from all categories such as gaming, fiction, non-fiction and adventure. The prices range 4 euro to 14 euro. You can help us get books for our school because every book you get is one for our school. The main books they have are Dog Man, David Williams books, Tom Gates, The Wizards Of Once and Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wrecking Ball. There are books ranging from two plus to thirteen plus. Everyone loves the book fair!
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Written by Liam, Cillian and Matthew in Mr.Kennedy’s 6th class.
On the 19th of February 2020
The student council are raising money for mirrors in the bathrooms and goals for the new astro pitch.
Max amount of money allowed to be brought is 2 euro.
3rd to 6th class are allowed to bake.
Us pupils in 6th class are so excited for the bake sale to come.
You are not allowed to use nuts in any way possible.
For the month of January the Junior Infants’ monthly Aistear theme was Homes and Houses. They have been busy and active and have learned a lot. Please click on the video below to see what they have been creating:
The All Weather pitch was finally finished in September after months of planning and months of construction.We were playing in it by October. It was officially opened by Bishop Denis Nulty during a mass on the pitch. All of us pupils play on it every school day for break time and we all enjoy it. At break time we play soccer and there are hula hoops, shuttlecocks and Badminton rackets. We do P.E and after school training for soccer, rugby, gaelic and lots more. It’s a great new addition to the school.
Over the past few weeks the Friday Group have been meeting to cook and blog for you some warm snacks to cheer everyone up on the cold winter days.
On Friday last week some of us met to share Hot chocolate and freshly backed brioche.
This week we all met to grill mini Pitta Pizzas from The Book of Children’s Foods: Lorna Rhodes.
This is a step by guide that we followed to make our Pitta Pizzas! They were delicious. We each picked the toppings we liked. Some of us don’t eat meat so we knew to pick the toppings best for us.
Recipe book and ingredients
Split the pitta pockets in half
Spread with tomato puree and tomato sauce
Slice the tomatoes
Add ham and spring onions if you like! if you like
It’s fun to use the cheese grater…
it’s hard work turning the grater
but we did it…
It greats really well
ready for cooking
5 minutes under the grill
Bon apetite
TRY THESE PITTA PIZZAS AT HOME….. SO EASY TO MAKE AND DELICIOUS!
Last week some of us were at the Jui-Jitsu while the rest of us met in Room 18. We made hot chocolate and we baked Brioche.
We saved brioche for our friends who were having their turn at the sport. We had our sport turn earlier in the day. Bon Apetite.
Start with Brioche doughh
Roll out bases and tops
Base and Top
Ready to Bake
Oven bake
Measure out a cup of milk for everyone…
Add spoonfuls of cocoa
Heat on the stove
An adult will help…
Share
with friends….
Bon Appetite!
Hot Chocolate and Brioche! Warming snack on a cold day!
The band met again: Wednesday 23rd January after school.
We have been working on our Trad Pieces the past two weeks……
Now it’s time again for “The Sound Of Music” Songs.
Next Thursday Choir and Band members will attend the musical at the Bórd Gáis Energy Theatre. We are learning some of the songs in band. So far we play:
Edelweiss
Do – A – Deer
My Favoutite Things….
Today was our first time playing My Favourite Things!
We will be listening out for our favourite songs when we go to the theatre…..
Listen to how well we got on today! Our first time seeing the music and playing this together! Well done everyone!
We invite you to sing along together at home in preparation for the special occasion of the Ceremony of Light. 29th January 2020. We will be singing together on the night.
Opening Song – Gather Round
We gather in body, we gather in mind, In peace and in quiet together to find
God’s Holy Spirit round and about us, Through us, with us and in us.
Today after school The Band met and started preparations for this term’s events. Mr. Kelly had 2 new POLKAS ready for us to learn. Some players who also play in Trad Groups know these pieces and helped us all!
A POLKA can be very fast! So… today we decided:
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE! (Aesop’s Fables)
We recorded our slow polkas so we can all practice at home. ENJOY!
Today we decorated Christmas Tree Cookies for our families.
First we each counted the people in our family with cubes. Then we traded each cube for a cookie! Like shopping!
Some of us had less cookies than others so we decided to have a fair share ……. like in DIVISION. We are learning about division in Maths. It’s all about fair sharing….. sometimes there might be cookies left over!
So we looked at who had the MOST cookies and we all matched this number.
Now each of us has 6 cookies!
We saved 6 cookies for one of our friends who was not at school today.
Once we each had 6 cookies we melted the chocolate “Bain Marie” (in a bowl over hot water). Next we spread the melted chocolate on the cookies and decorated them with sprinkles. We prepared boxes and gift tags!
Today we met to prepare fresh pasta and to play UNO.
See how we got on.
To make the dough you need: 3 eggs, 2 cups of plain flour, a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of cooking oil. Mrs Macnamara made the dough earlier and showed us the photos!
We flattened and stretched the dough by turning it through the roller machine. Then we attached the cutting rollers and rolled it through again and it came out in thin strips. It was fun to do!
Mrs. Clancy helped us cook the fresh pasta. While it was cooking we played a game of UNO. It’s a great card game. We have to get rid of our cards and say UNO when we have just one card left. Pádraig was first get rid of all his cards! 🙂 When play stops the rest of us add up our card numbers! Maths is everywhere! It is in the cooking and the card games!
Serve with cheese and tomato sauce and eat with friends! Bon appetite!
Next, we prepared two jugs: one with milk and vanilla and the other with yoghurt, apple juice and runny honey. Then we put the fruits into the two jugs. We took turns doing the jobs.
With the help of the adults we set up the BLENDER. It was really loud and we watched all the ingredients whiz and swirl together.
TASTING:
We tasted both smoothies. The milk smoothie was very smooth…. and the yoghurt smoohtie was really tangy!
We all picked our favourite. Then some of us mixed them together!
It doesn’t have to be summer to enjoy smoothies with friends! Friday was a really wet day! We had all been out to the new all weather pitch in the rain! Bishop Denis blessed and opened the pitch.
Today we gathered all the ingredients and things we need to make FRENCH TOAST. We decided to call it “Friendship Toast”. You can visit this website and you can follow our picture collages of how we worked together to make Friendship Toast! Try it at home. It’s YUM!
We needed:
4 eggs
2 cap fulls of vanilla extract
A small jug of milk
Slices of bread
Butter for frying
STEP 1: Mix the eggs, vanilla and milk….
STEP 2: Cut the bread shapes and dip soak them in the egg mixture.
