St. Joseph's National School

New Songs Hymns School Mass

We are learning new songs at assembly. We learned the Galway Girl, Can you hear and Bless the Lord. I am going to be singing Bless the lord at our mass. It will be held on the 22 of September at 11am. I am so excited.

Gardening

Last year in school we planted some vegetable seeds in our school garden. We grew potatoes, radishes, carrots, French runner beans, scallions, cabbages and tomatoes. Some vegetables that didn’t grow were tomatoes. Some of them died. Some of the children took some of the tomatoes home. Last week we planted some bulbs.

HUGH LANE ART GALLERY

On the 24 of September we went to the Hugh Lane Art Gallery up in Dublin. We went on a bus from Halverstown to outside the gallery .We saw some paintings from various artists .They were colourful paintings. It’s their Centenary year this year. We had a great day.

Race Night

Our school Race Night will be on the 17 of October in the Hideout. This year we have to raise at least €9000. You can buy a horse for €10. If you win you get €50. If you want to buy a horse contact the school at 045-485374.
It starts at 9.pm

New chairs

We now have 33 children in our school so we had to get some new chairs. The chairs are made of wood and metal. The new children will be moving into the new class room after Christmas. We put some of the old chairs into the learning support room.

Our extension is at roof level.

New Teachers

The new teachers are Ms. Dixon and Ms. Lysaght. Ms. Dixon is the junior room teacher and Ms. Lysaght is the learning support room teacher. Ms. Dixon is replacing Mrs. Brown (temporarily) and Ms. Lysaght is replacing Ms. Lacey. We welcome them both to our school.

Extension

St. Joseph’s N.S. Halverstown is getting two new classrooms. It will be finished by Christmas. The junior room is getting a new classroom and the next one will be the learning support room. The old junior classroom will be the new library. We lost the football pitch for the whole year. The football pitch is been dug up for the pipes for the new classrooms. We don’t have a lot of room to play. 5th and 6th class took pictures of the wall and the football pitch.

Our New Infants

We have five new infants in our school. We welcome them to our school. We put their pictures on the notice board.
The big room have new people as well. Three pupils moved into third class. They are all setting into the class very well.

WATERPROJECT

We did things about how we use water and how many litres of water we use every time we take a shower. We use 100 litres of water every time we take a shower and when we take a bath we use 120 litres of water. I learned that I use 300 litres of water every day.

HUGH LANE ART GALLERY

On the 24 of September we’re going to the Hugh Lane Art Gallery up in Dublin. We are going on a bus from Halverstown to outside the gallery .We are going to see some paintings from various artists .They are colourful paintings. It’s their Centenary year this year. We are all looking forward to going.

Paul Henry Paintings

We painted Paul Henry pictures. It was great fun. We painted them with oil paints on canvas. We picked our favourite pictures and painted them. We had to look it up on the internet. When they were finished they turned out great. Some of the paint stayed on the table. Paul Henry lived in Achill islands for 10 years.