Thank you to Kilbeggan Library for loaning us these beautiful story sacks! The Colour Monster Farmer Duck The Smartest Giant in Town

Our Green Schools' Noticeboard

We welcomed Aidan from S.E.A.I. to our school. Aidan taught us about energy around us and how energy is used everywhere in our world! We are working on our Global Citizenship - Energy Flag

Thank you so much to Athlone Education Centre for giving us the opportunity to participate in the wonderful BLAST programme. Our school was paired with Helen, who specialises in drama, dance and film. She worked with us for four days to introduce the pupils to the world of film making. The children learned all about the different shots that film directors use. In small groups, they prepared a story board of their film and then set about becoming actors, directors and camera people! The pupils produced three very different movies - 'Bob, the turkey and the homeless man', 'Bad Magic' and 'Christmas Attack'. We definitely have some future film directors in our midst!

Last Friday we held Family Day in our school as part of our Catholic Schools Week celebrations. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who attended. The pupils led a prayer service and sang 'This is the Day' and 'Circle of Friends', accompanied by Ms. Reid on keyboard. A huge thank you to Ms. Carey who has been teaching the children the tin whistle and practising daily for this occasion. They played 'Killeagh', 'The Dawing of the Day', 'The Kerry Polka', 'Roddy McCorley' and 'Bog Down in the Valley-O'. Finally, thank you to the parents for organising the refreshments afterwards. It was a beautiful occasion for our whole school community.

Senior Room pupils playing 'Away in a Manger'. Thank you to Ms. Carey for teaching them the tin whistle. Percussion instruments accompanying our rendition of 'The Little Drummer Boy' The cast of our Christmas show Wwll done to the pupils who received excellent attendance awards for November / December. They each received a trophy!

Air dry clay ornaments from the Junior Room Junior Room Christmas Stars Christmas lanterns from the Junior Room Rudolph by the Junior Room Oil Pastel picture of the Nativity Some Christmas prints from the Senior Room:

Thank you to Ann Marie, librarian at Kilbeggan Library, who invited us to visit on 9th December. The library has been recently refurbished so the children had an opportunity to relax in the sensory spaces, browse through some Christmas books and see all the facilities available in the library. There are always lots of free activities for children from chess to Lego to art and crafts. Here is the link if you would like to join the library: https://westmeath.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/JOIN

Thank you to Ann Marie from Crann, an organisation which promotes trees, who visited our school on Monday, 8th December. She spoke to us about the important relationship that people have with trees and we planted two trees behind the school.

Senior Room pupils with Christmas art Thank you to all the children who wore their Christmas jumpers to school on 5th December and raised 200 euro for St. Vincent De Paul, Clara!