Naíonáin Bheaga

This is a video of Naíonáin Bheaga singing a song about their thumbs!!

Gaelscoil na Ríthe vs Dangan

Our school had a fantastic gaelic football match (a bit like Aussie rules) against Dangan. They got of to a fine start hitting around five points, but we also got a goal. After a while Dangan got a goal but we where still in the game. We struck back with a long range goal and a stunning point. But they didn’t give up and got a quick goal.

Dunshaughlin V Summerhill

The Dunshaughlin senior team were in the Meath county final two weeks ago in Pairc Tailteann (the biggest stadium in Meath.) When the ball was thrown in Summerhill won the ball and they ran ahead and scored a point but we came back quickly and scored 2 points. We gave a free in front of the goals and they capitalized and took their chances well. We almost scored a goal but the Summerhill goalkeeper saved it. Both teams scored a point each within five minutes. But they scored another 3 points.

All Ireland Final

The All-Ireland Final took place in Croke Park on the 18^th of September 2011. The teams that were playing were Dublin and Kerry. In the 19^th minute Kerry got a goal through Colm Cooper.  In was a brilliant match to watch Dublin came back at half time and it was Dublin 0- 5 Kerry 1-7 . After the break Dublin came back and got a goal  and it was a draw 1-11 to1-11 and there was 6 minutes to go and Stephen scored a free kick and won it for Dublin. Up the dubs come on u boys in blue.

The end

by Dylan Rang 4

Rugby, Ireland vs Australia

Congratulations to Ireland in the match. I have to say it was absolutely great to watch. I saw the whole match and it was so even for so long. It was so annoying the way until the second half the Ireland couch kept Sexton on. I mean he’s good but not good enough. As soon as O’Gara went on the whole match changed. It was still even but the Australian’s just didn’t have enough time left. But just as we all thought Ireland had the match in the bag Australia came forward and beat their way through the Irish forwards. They had the ball literally on the Irish try line, we all thought Australia were going to score. But at the final second, Tommy Boe went in, got the ball, sprinted the pitch only to be tackled at the end of the Australian 22. Then and there everyone knew Ireland had won seeing as there was only four minutes left.

By Ray,

Rang 4

Making Butter Rang 2

Dunshaughlin Harvest Festival

Hi my name is Ellen. There is a festival going on in Dunshaughlin called the Harvest Festival.

There are lots of things going on like a carnival, inflatable obstacle course, and traditional music and there is live music in the village. There are great things going on. Do you have anything exciting going on in your village? 

Ellen Rang 4

 

Rang 1 singing a song about moving house and all the things that must be packed into the big van.

Hoop time

This term the grade 6’s got to go to the Warrnambool Stadium to compete other schools in basketball.  We versed, St. Patricks, St. Josephs, Timboon, Warrnambool Primary school and a lot of others.  We won all of our games and got through to the Grand Final. We versed Warrnambool Primary school, and we won. We now get to go to Werribee and play teams in other parts of Victoria. 

By Ally, Ebony and Caitlin

Solid State Circus

Last week three people from the circus came to our school. There group name is called Solid State Circus. They did flips, juggling, and balancing and trampoline tricks. It was fantastic!!!!  By Myra and Emma

GRASSROOTS FOOTY TOUR!

On Thursday the grade five and six students at our school went out on a bus to Jamo Primary School to meet some AFL (Australian Football League) superstars. In Australia our main sport is AFL. We got lots of signatures and we had a great day. Do you have special days to meet your rugby stars?

By Tom, Jackson and Georgie.

Rugby World Cup 2011

Ireland are playing Australia in the Rugby World Cup tomorrow. We have to get up really early in the moring at 6.45a.m to watch the rugby. We hope ireland win the World Cup.

                                            Up Ireland, Éire Abú!!!

                                                                                      by Dylan Rang 4

News from Rang 4

Hi from Rang 4. There are 22 in our class. 9 girls and 13 boys. Our teacher's name is Fionnuala. She is really nice. We have sport on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The class is reading a book called Twist of Gold by Michael Morpurgo. It is really good. It is about the famine in Ireland.
Are you reading any good books ?

Ninja Houses.
The ninja houses sound really intresting. Could you put a photo up when you are finished ?

Cameron Rang 4

Rang 2 Go Bananas!!!

Rang 2 singing the banana song in Irish. This song is taken from The Rose Of Tralee contest and translated into irish. See it: Here

News from Rang a 5

We are in a new class. Our teacher's name is Breandán.
We have started a new Wiki. Breandán wrote the first line of a story called ,The Lost Parrot. We all had to add one line to complete the story, which we did at home as part of our homework. We will soon be starting a project.
You can read our story here

Megan Rang a 5

Blackberry Milkshake

Rang 1:We made Blackberry Milkshakes in class today.

Ingredients for blackberry milkshake.

2 ice cubes

1 cup of fresh blackberries

2 tablespoons of sugar

4 scoops of vanilla ice cream

½ cup milk

How to make it

New School Year

Helllo from Gaelscoiil na Ríthe. We have returned to school after our long summer holidays.We are in Rang 1. Our teacher's name is Deirdre. Today we went for a nature walk. Lots of  flowers have grown in our wild flower garden while we were on holidays.

We picked some apples and brought them into our class. We all had a taste. They were delicious.

Pinocchio

Our vice Principal Mr. Ewing decided that we were going to have a school play. Some very lucky people made the main roles. Lots of people auditioned but there were only 18 main roles. Now every day the people who got the main parts are practising to remember their parts. The best part about it is that those who didn’t get a part get to join in because it’s a whole school play.

Hi from St.Pius X Primary School 

We are doing a school play and everyone is involved in it. Every class has a different song to learn and our class is singing “We’re in a Whale”. Singing “We’re in a Whale” is fun and we have to practice and practice a lot ‘til we get it right.   

Ninja Houses!

This term in Japanese we are building ninja houses. We need to put tricks and traps in the house and it can’t have any electricity. We have group’s of 1-4 people. We had to collect boxes to make our ninja houses. We call our teacher Sensei and we learn Japanese on Monday’s. Do you learn any other languages?

By Maddie, Ally and Emma.

Mary Mackillop Feast Day

On Wednesday the 10^th of August the whole of St Pius is going to go to our church to celebrate Mary Mackillop being canonised. We do this every year.

Emergency Fire Dill

At our school we had an emergency fire dill, we do this because if there is a fire in our school we are prepared.

We had a man from the Warrnambool Fire Station to tell us a bit about fire safety when we evacuate buildings.

By Mikayla 

Hoop Time

Hoop Time is a basketball tournament. All the primary schools in our area come together to play in a tournament for grade 3/4s and 5/6s.

Summer Camp

We are now on our summer holidays and during summer camp last week, we had a surprise visitor form Australia!!! We think that you might know who he is !!!

We hope you are enjoying your winter holidays and look forward to hearing all your news when we are back at school in September.

Literacy Class

In the first part of this video we are reading posts from our school website which is as gaeilge (in the Irish language). The second part of the video we are having turns reading our shared blog.

Irish Dancing

We do Irish dancing every Tuesday. We learn lots of new steps. Ursula is our Irish dancing teacher. Sometimes she brings in her son Ciarán. He is really good at Irish dancing. We had an Irish dancing show a few days ago. There are three main types of dances, the jig  the reel and the hornpipe. All the five, six and seven year olds danced two or three dances like Jelly on the plate. Then all the ten, eleven and twelve year olds danced four or five dances.. The show was really good there was lots of people there.

Kailin Rang 4

Gaelscoil na Rithe - School Tour Rang 5

For our school tour we went to Tanagh it’s a HUGE outdoor adventure centre. We went there on the 7^th of June 2011. First we went canoeing; we did canoeing for about 1 hour, at the end we all got to jump out of the boats.

After that we did the Slippery Slope, Slippery slope is a big piece of white plastic on a hill covered in soapy water and then you slide down on it (mostly on your belly not your back).

After the wet activities we went on to do land activities, the first thing we did for that was orienteering it was fun, after we did an obstacle course which was great .The last thing we did was rock climbing, for the rock climbing we got 2 chances to climb to the top of the wall. We also played a game of gladiators which is when you have to try take the other peoples shoes off while climbing the wall.

On the bus when we were coming home our teacher bought us all a McDonalds which was yummy and there was a little playground and we played in it for a while. It was fun.

By Sinead  R and Amy F

Tayto Park School Tour, Rang 3 & Rang 4



We went on our school tour this week. We had lots of fun in a place called Tayto Park. First we had a look at all the animals. A tour guide called James brought us around the place and gave us loads of information about the animals. Here’s a list of   some of the animals we saw: buffalos, birds, foxes, highland cows, donkeys, monkeys, pot bellied pigs, porcupines, lamas, wallabies, ducks, leopards and racoons.

After we had a look at the animals we went to the Tayto factory where they make 9 different types of crisps like Hunky Dorys, King Crisps, Tayto, and Chicketees. Did you know that Tayto Crisps were the first  in the world to add flavouring to crisps? After the factory we had lunch in the picnic area. After lunch we went to the Sky Eagle Zone where you can do loads of activities like rock climbing, bungee jumping and sky walking. There was face painting and body art in one of the tipi tents and we all got our names painted on our arms.

Luke Rang 4



Our boys’ hurling team made history by winning our third succesive county tital when we beat Rathbeggan national School in the final.  We started well with an early goal and then we followed with two quick points. Rathbeggan responded with a point but we ended the half on a high note with a poacher’s goal from our full-forward. In the first ten minutes of the second half they put a lot of pressure on us but our defence held strong by only conceding a goal and a point. Then we finished them off with two well taken goals. The game ended 4-5 to 1-2.

After the game our captain Aodh O’Suilleabháin was presented with the cup to finish off the three in a row!!!

Le Aodh agus Seán (Rang 6)

Gaelscoil na Rithe Rang 2 school tour

The zoo Rang 2

We went to Dublin zoo yesterday. It took us a long time to get there.

When we got there we saw a snow leopard , giraffe , snowy owl ,

Flamingo and a hippo and lots more. We had our lunch in the

Meerkat Restaurant and there were meerkats there. Then we went to the

Phoenix Park and played on the grass and the teachers bought us sweets

And then we went home. It was great fun.
 http://www.dublinzoo.ie/           http://www.phoenixpark.ie/

Saoirse Rang 2 



Gaelscoil na Ríthe, Trim Castle

On the way home from swimming classes last week we visited Trim Castle.

This is a well know local attraction which is very close to our school.

Trim Castle, the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland, was constructed over a thirty-year period by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter.

Gaelscoil Na Ríthe, Fairy Tales.

We wrote some powerpoint fairy tales for Junior Infants. They really enjoyed them. Maybe your Infant classes might like to see them. ( Download as PPT to view slide show)

Charlotte Rang 4 (4th. class)

Micky & Minnie Mouse By Ciara

Pugs The Cutest Dogs In The World By Seán

The Wedding By Liam

Princess Penelope By Emma

A Happy Ending By kailin

Apes V Aliens By Niall

How Did This happen? By Rachael

Rang 5 Gaelscoil na Rithe

Hi St. Pius X all the way from Dunshaughlin, Meath, Ireland. If you want to see our school just go on to Google, street view. It’s a small town so it should be easy to find.

                                      

Our school is called Gaelscoil na Ríthe {School of kings in Irish}. We have 193 students in our school, 14 teachers and 8 class rooms.

We have two gardens with sunflower seeds, oak trees and much more. We also have a scarecrow and a bug hotel. About a week ago an Australian came to our school to see our garden. His name was Dale, he was from Tasmania. Oh yea we have a chicken and 5 chicks in the school too.

We have a computer room, library and a playschool, which we call the Naínora in Irish 

We made a lot of aboriginal art like a picture of Australia and some animals. We also did a project on Australia which everyone in the class did. We will post a couple of pictures to see what you think.

                                  

           

We play loads of sports such as basketball, olympic handball, soccer, rounders and a different version of Aussie rules called Gaelic football. Another game we play is called hurling, it’s like hockey but you pick up the ball, you should have a look at it on Youtube if you can. Our school team is in the final on Saturday, we will take some photos of the game and post them to the blog.

Here are some questions from 5th Class

What is the most popular sport in Australia?

How many people are in your school?

What sort of pets do you have?

Do you have a garden in your school?

What games do you play at lunch break?

Séamus & Darragh Rang 5

Year 5-6 SP4

Schools

In Warrnambool there are three high schools and seven primary schools.   There are four Catholic schools and St Pius is included. There are one or two high schools that are Catholic. How many Catholic schools, high schools or primary school’s do you have in your town ?

By Leah, Carl and Dante.

Sports uniforms

At our school we have sport uniforms. We have four team colours, they are red, green, yellow and blue. We have t-shirts that are the colours of the teams and shorts for the bottoms, when it cold we have tracksuit pants, we also have navy jumpers and sneakers. And in summer if we have sport outside we have hats. Do you have sport colours and if you do what are they?  Emma, Ricky, Myra                                                           

After School Program

After School Program is when people stay after school and play sports and games. The grade preps to 2s do multi skills and the grade 3 to 6s do things like tee-ball, football, tennis and cricket. The after school program is ran by a teacher called Shay and she gets people to teach us multi skills and sport. Shay also sets up food for us before we start. Do you do sports after school? James, Mitchell and Hayley.

Warrnambool

  In ‘Windy’ Warrnambool there is many attractions like the beaches, many rivers, Flagstaff Hill, Hopkins Falls, the break water and once a year there is Fun 4 Kids. Fun 4 Kids attracts many children of all ages and has lots of fun activities. Do you have many attractions in Ireland? Jack, Kyella and Stacie.

Lining up

Yes, we do line up but only the grades prep and 1/2 line up at recess.The whole school lines up after lunch for assembly. We line up in our classes and are expected to be able to line up into pairs and after we’ve done that one of the school teachers will talk to us about some notices and important information.

Do you have a small assembly when you line up?

From Georgina, Harry and Jackson

Interschool sports

Yes, we do have interschool sports, we have different stages to move up to if you get a good score. We have our normal sports day as the first stage where the whole school competes and selected students get into interschool. Then after interschool there is zones, regional’s, states, nationals, and then internationals. At the athletics, we have seven events; there are hurdles, sprints, high jump, long jump, triple jump, long distance and big bash. We also have house colours and the house colour with the most points win a trophy that the captains get.

How many events do you have at your sports?

By Taylah, Lauryn and Isaak.

Assemblies

At our school we have assemblies every fortnight, after lunch and on pastoral care days. We have a student leadership team who run our assemblies and they do a great job. In assemblies we also have awards for each class and there are also trophies for each year level. Do you have a student leadership group and do you give out awards at your assembly?

Ebony, Caitlin and Tom.

Excursions.

At our school, we have excursions from grade prep to grade 6. We go anywhere the teachers organize with a permission note from the parents. Every year the grade 5/6 get a camp and we go somewhere for two or three days. Do you have camps or excursions?

Ally, Shona and Sam.

Gaelscoil na Rithe, Assembly

 We have assembly once a week. All the school gathers together in the hall. Each class is given the opportunity to  perform or sing a song.

Do you have assembly in your school?

Rang 5

Rang 4

Rang 3

Rang 3

Gaelscoil Na Ríthe, Rang 6

Last week the whole class went on a five day trip to the North West of Ireland in a place called Anagaire (pronounced Ana-gi-ra) which is a Gaeltacht (pronounced Gale-tocht). A Gaeltacht is place where only Irish (or Gaeilge (pronounced Gale-ge) is spoken). Visitors stay in the residents’ houses. The Gaeltacht that we were in was near a beach and an activity centre. We all had a great time and would definitely go back again. There are Gaeltachts all over the country.

Every class will go on a school tour before the end of term. Do you go on schol tours and if so where?

Tomás Rang 6

Gaelscoil na Ríthe

When the bell rings after break we all line up with our classes until the teacher comes out. The best line gets more time to play in the yard.
Do you line up in your school?

Charlotte Rang 4 (4th class)

Senior Classes

Junior Classes

Gaelscoil na Ríthe, Handball

Gaelscoil na Ríthe’s U-11 Boys team won the Meath Olympic Handball title when they defeated St. Oliver’s Navan by 6-0  in the final at Claremont Stadium,Navan. Along the way they also defeated two other big Navan schools,St.Anne’s, 5-0  and St.Joseph’s Mercy 5-2. A remarkable achievement as this is the second sucessive year for the team to win the Meath title , as in 2010 they were crowned U-10 Meath Champions also when they beat Yellow Furze in the final.

Gaelscoil na Ríthe, Sport

Senior Infants are learning some tennis skills. We wear a green tracksuit for sport.

Gaelscoil na Ríthe

Gugalaí Gug!!

Here is a video of Junior Infants singing a song about a black hen sitting down and laying an egg every day.

This second song is called ,Can you?

Gaelscoil na Ríthe

At the end of 5th class we were introduced to the children that would be starting school next year and we were assigned buddies. Our names are Saoirse, Sadhbh and Séamus. Our buddies' names are Niamh, Ruairí and Séamus. During their first term in Junior Infants we played with them and introduced them to the school playground.

By Saoirse, Sadhbh and Séamus.  Rang 6

Buddies and Responsibilities

At the start of the year the year 6’s got a prep buddy to take care of them and have responsibilities. Our names are Kurt, Emma and Shannae all year 6 our buddies names are Ella, Lumi, Lilly and Lachlan.

We also have a student council which have a responsibility to take care of the school and run lots of fundraisers throughout the year.

We would like to ask you does your school have buddies and/or student council.

By Kurt, Emma and Shannae.

Japanese

Hi our names are Zac, Jordon and Grace. We would like to tell you about one of our special subjects Japanese. We do many things like learn Japanese words, number and     sentences. We can play different games like Sam and Sally, Pac Man, bang bang and the music game.

from Jordon, Zac and Grace

PS, We will have pictures on our next post

School Uniform

Girls uniform in summer

·         Blue and white school dress

·        Blue and white  Shorts

·         White T-Shirt with  logo

·         Dark red jumper

·         Navy blue hats with logo

Boys uniform in summer

·         White Shirt

·         Navy blue shorts

·         Dark red jumper

·         Navy blue hats with logo

Girls uniform in winter

·         White shirt with logo

·         Dark red jumper

·         Navy Blue skirt

·         Optional tights

Boys  uniform in winter

·         Dark red jumper

·         White shirt

·         Navy blue pants

Ps. We would like to know what your school uniform looks like.

Nikki, Adam and Maddie

Our Subjects

We are in Grade 5/6 and our topic for this term is the history and our Religion topic is history on the Catholic Church of Australia. Our every day subjects are Maths, Religion and Literacy and then we do history.

A question that we would like to ask is what subjects do you do in school?

Zac, Georgia and Heidi

P.S We will put on pics next blog.

Winter Sports

We are preparing to represent the school in football and netball. We are training at the moment by playing footy on a Wednesday night and the netball team are training two times a week, on Wednesday and Thursday. We would love to learn more about the sports you play and what activities you do after school.

Ally, Travis and Liam.  

Our Class Room

 In our class room we have really great people. Our teachers name is Mrs P and she is really cool. Our class room is white and our feature wall colour is red. We would like to know what does your class looks like and what does your school uniform looks like?

Mikayla, Liam and Courtney.

We will attach photos next time we blog

Gaelscoil na Ríthe, Our New Chickens

This week our chicken eggs have hatched and we have 5 new chicks. One is yellow and there are 4 black.

A chicken story

The process takes 21 days

The eggs

Eggs have slightly moist, protective coating or bloom when first laid. This should not be washed off as it prevents micro-organisms getting in through the pores of the shell and infecting the egg.

First crack

After three weeks the chick is fully formed and ready to hatch. An egg-tooth on the beak helps the chick to break through the shell.

Chick breaking through shell

Once the egg shell is cracked air gets into the egg which stimulates the chick to further activity.

We are in sp3(senior pod 3), we have about 24 children in our class. our teacher, Mr S, loves maths. We have newly built classrooms. We start school at 8:50am and conclude at 3:25pm. Our snack time goes from 11:00am till 11:00am and lunch goes from 1:30pm till 2:30pm. The weather here is windy, wet, cold and very miserable.We have included a picture of us and a part of our new school.    Claudia, Jye, Jenna.

We are in 5/6 and our current topic is History.In religion we are learning about the catholic church in Australia.Our teacher's name is Michael,and our ICT teacher is John.In ICT we are learning about bee bots, Inspiration as well as blogging.

Will,Tamika and Caitlin

Hi we attend St Pius X School. we live in Warrnambool a town in Victoria with a population of 32 000.
We are in Autumn it is very cold,windy and wet.
Hannah, Rebecca and Todd.

4th Class Gaelscoil na Ríthe

We are in Rang a 4 (4th class) in Gaelscoil na Ríthe. There are 20 in our class, 12 girls and 8 boys. Our teacher's name is Onóra. Our favourite subjects are sport and drama.          
We start school at 8:50am  and finish at 2:30pm.


It is raining and very windy today so we will have to stay in at break time.
We are looking forward to hearing all about your school and your news.