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Every month, students from each class are chosen by their teachers as Students of the Month in appreciation of their hard work in school. Here are the students chosen from Rang a Trí. September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April The competition was stiff but the warriors from third class came through in the end and came first in the NCI Monopoly Challenge. A huge achievement and so well deserved! A special thanks to the NCI team who came to our school to play with us and also to the staff of HSBC who also visited us!
Last month, we studied the Vikings. We made Viking helmets, axes, shields and daggers using cardboard and paper machie. We then wrote a Viking story and used green scressn technology to place ourselves in different backgrounds to create our story. It's not quite finished yet but here are a few shots of us in costume. Twelve students from our class will take part in the Monopoly Challenge organised by N.C.I. next Wednesday at three o'clock. We have spent the last month preparing for the challenge by playing Monopoly in class. It has been great fun learning about banking, buying and selling property and getting mortgages.
WISH US LUCK NEXT WEDNESDAY!!!!
Next we visited Wood Quay, the original Viking settlement in Dublin. Unfortunately, the Civic Offices were built over this in the 1980s. We looked at the bronze replicas of artefacts set in to the cobblestone to see what kind of evidence was found here when they excavated. We also looked at the outline of a Viking longhouse. Here we are standing around one. It looks big but a lot of people would have slept, cooked and ate in this one room. We picked out the bedding areas, the cooking areas and we think we even found where the toilets were!!
VID00143 from St Josephs Co-Ed on Vimeo. We studied the art of Pablo Picasso and then we created out own Picasso Heads. Our teacher thinks they are self portraits but they aren't!! We read a poem written hundreds of years ago by a famous writer called William Shakespeare. It is from a play called Macbeth. This is the poem! Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,-- For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. We wrote our own versions of the poem. Click on them to read our poetry!   |
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October 2013
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