January in Clare’s third class. We began junior achievement with our volunteer Jean from MSD. We are learning all about sustainability and how to reduce reuse recycle. We celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Chinese New Year.
Laura’s Junior Infants had a very special visitor today. One of our junior infant parents came in to read Tri Male Prasiatka in Slovak to the class. It was great to hear the story in another language. She even surprised them with some treats too!
4th class have enjoyed learning lots about the Aztecs this month and created some brilliant projects.
Clare’s class are learning about Martin Luther King Junior this week. They completed these water colour portraits during art class. They look even more impressive in person.
From everyone in Carlow Educate Together National School we wish you all the very best over the holiday season. Whatever you're celebrating, whether Christmas or time with your family, keep happy and safe.
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful December. See you all in a couple of weeks!
Very happy Christmas and Happy New year to you all. Thanks for your all hard work. Have a lovely holiday, see you soon....
A very happy holiday to all of you guys too. Thanks so much for all the support throughout the year. You are all amazing ☺
Happy Christmas Simon,Siobhân and teachers🙂
Happy Christmas to all of you! Thank you for everything that you do! 🎅🎄🎁🥂
Happy Christmas and thanks for all you do
Mark's class had a mini-international food day today where lots of the children brought in food that they made at home. We had Makovka - traditional bread rolls from the Czech Republic, Panfried Plantain from the D.R. of Congo, Pandis,pan - a vanilla and chocolate spongecake from Romania, Piragi - pork and pastry rolls from Latvia, crepes from Guadalupe, galettes from the Republic of Congo, Paratha from Morocco, chocolate brownies and rice Krispie buns from Ireland and freshly baked American cookies. It was all polished off with some chocolate rice cakes and more treats.
We also helped make a big pot of vegetarian lentil Dahl and a cucumber, chilli and mint salad.
Thanks to everyone who helped. It was really nice to share our food together - will definitely be doing it again.
All foods look delicious....
And I made my first 2022 batch of mince pies from my home made mincemeat! Happy Christmas everyone!
On Tuesday a group of our 6th class pupils and some of their former classmates who graduated last year were invited to address the Oireachtas Committee on Children in the Dáil. They spoke to the Committee members about their experiences of living in Carlow town. This was the culmination of a year long action research project on how the children felt things could be improved in Carlow Town to better serve its young people. They categorized their research into 5 areas - Active Travel, Shared Public Spaces, Our Natural Environment, Art and Design of Public Spaces and Prioritising People and gave a detailed presentation to the Committee outlining their findings and recommendations on what they believe needs to change.
The project was a fantastic experience for the children in participatory practice and how they have the right to have their voices heard as members of our society. It was also important to remind the assembled adults, politicians and public representatives of their responsibility to listen and give the children's views due weight when making decisions which affected them.
We had a brilliant day in Dublin and the children can be incredibly proud of everything they have achieved so far. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen - Susanne and Adrian, Muireann Ranta who gave excellent advice on Children's Rights, Clare Breen from the Visual Gallery who first gave us a forum to present our work and all the people involved in the planning of Carlow Town who took the time to listen to us in May.
The presentation is available here for anyone that might be interested in watching - It starts 26 minutes in
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Mark
Congratulations to you all for delivering such an informed presentation of your ideas and recommendations for a greener and more accessible Carlow. We are all waiting now for a similar corresponding response and less kicking of the can down the road. From a child rights perspective, Mark you were brilliant in how you framed the group's presentation and highlighted the legal obligations of involving children in decision-making processes. This is a huge step for children everywhere in showing us all how to use the UNCRC to advocate for the changes we want to see in the world. Please keep us informed of the committee's feedback. And thank you all..... 😎
Well done to all involved in doing this project. Really excellent work done here.
I watched this today and I was absolutely amazed! I couldn't believe how much work the group had done, how prepared they were and how confident and eloquent they were in their delivery! Absolutely outstanding!
Fantastic! Mark suited being up there questioning Jennifer 😅 Let us know when the kids get the answers to their questions regarding funding..
Wow fantastic! Well done to all involved.
Congratulations to all kids...You were amazing, proud of you all....
Absolutely amazing. Well done to all. 💛
Brilliant. Well done Zena. 👏👏
🪩We had so much fun tonight 🪩
It was a lovely night they all were brilliant
It was fantastic Christmas concert...
You were all amazing. 👏
Love this ❤️
Love this 😍
Well done everyone 🤩🤩
Thank you to our parents council for arranging our wonderful prizes for our Winter Concert and a big thank you to everyone who sponsored a prize. Raffle tickets will be on sale at the concerts.. also a big thank you to ND Clinic - Beauty & Holistic Center and Paul Healy for our calendars
Today we remember Eric Ene.
Eric will forever be missed! Every milestone or new year that passes we will continue to remember him. 💜
Rest in peace beautiful boy. Thoughts with mammy & daddy today. ❤️🩹❤️🩹🙏🏻
Remembering this beautiful little soul and his parents today. Rest in peace little angel.
Beautiful Eric never forgotten. Rest in Peace
♥ may Eric rest in peace. Thoughts are with his family
Rest in peace little boy 💔💔💔💔
Beautiful soul, may rest in peace. ❤️
Rest in peace gorgeous boy 💔🖤
Such a touching and beautiful remembering ❤️ my heart goes to the parents in this emotional time of the year ❤️❤️❤️❤️
May Eric rest in peace 😪
Reast in peace dear Eric! ❤️😢
R.I.P. Eric!😢
R. I. P Eric😢
Very moving ❤
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❤️❤️❤️
That's just Heartbreaking Rest in Peace Eric
Beautiful Little Boy 🌈💙
Eimear and Caroline's class have been busy creating some winter themed art. They also attended an English and Art online workshop today based on the book "Ketchup on your Reindeer" with the author/illustrator Nick Sharratt. They had great fun recreating the characters.
They are really good..lots of talent evident. Well done everyone.
Thank you for sharing!
Susanne did some great willow planting weaving with some of the children from Mark's 5th class. They harvested the new-growth willow from our archways and dome and used it to extend and strengthen our structures. We hope to do more willow work over the winter.
Just some of the fantastic Viking work completed in Clare’s third class this week.
Very impressive!
Lovely assemblies today. Sharon's 4th class and Gillian's Sen Inf performed some lovely poems in Irish for the Siamsa. Well done to all the Students of the Week and Gaeilgeoiri na Seachtaine.
Outdoor education: Susanne and some students up-cycled this old cable reel to create beautiful new tables for our outdoor classroom.
Assembly pics
We had lovely assemblies today. The Siamsa was fantastic with great performances by Sive/Angela, Marlena, Caitriona and Mark's classes.
Senior Infants are learning all about the cafe this week.
How to prepare vegetables, follow a recipe, set the table, take orders and design and build a cafe.
Gardening Club: the harvesting is all done, we’ve sown spring veg and cleared and prepared the beds for their winter rest. Thanks to all the parents and grandparents for their tireless work and Dee Sewell for her guidance and knowledge. We’ll be back in the garden again in February and look forward to seeing more joining us.
We're delighted to welcome @SARI (Sports Against Racism Ireland) to our school today. 5th and 6th class got to take part in their fantastic workshop. Thanks very much to Kerrie, Fayaaz and Dori for their really important work. Kerrie warned us she was the best at being sneaky, she wasn't lying! We learned a lot in a really fun way.
