Looking at our Hedgerows

 

 

 

    

 

1st, 2nd and 3rd class took a different animal or tree and looked into how they make up our hedgerows. We discovered how importnant every single one of them is to our environment.All the children were put into groups and they picked a topic. They gathered information and pictures,they made their topics with clay. Then they made a presentation in Mrs Dignams classroom.

Halloween

Some scary characters in the school yard

Karl Buckley, winner of the Best Homemade Costume award. Karl dressed as a Samuri.

Junior Monsters

Punk Rocker

Halloween poetry

Devil Bride, Zombie and Zombie School Girl read their Halloween poems.

More Halloween Poetry.

REd Devil!

A Motley Crew

Goodbye Kieran, Aidan and Áine.
This week our good friends Kieran (4th class), Aidan (1st class) and  Áine (junior infants) McVey are completing their last few days in St Michael's National School. They are leaving Sneem and moving to Scotland. We all wish you the very best in your new home, new school and new town. We hope that you make lots of friends who care about you as much as we do.
We will miss you all very much.
Lots of love

All the teachers and pupils of St Michael's National School, Sneem

Photography Competition

The Green Flag committee are holding a photography competition between 1st-6th classes. The Junior and Senior Infants are doing a drawing competition. As the school is trying to get their 5th Green Flag the competitions are all about biodiversity. The closing date for the competition is the 2nd of December.The committee hopes that everyone will enter and that there are some good drawings and some good and interesting photos.
by Karl Buckley and Kaitlyn Fenton-White

Healthy Eating

4th, 5th and 6th class are promoting healthy eating.

We made our own homemade pasta sauce to go with the organic pasta that Mrs. Dignam bought. We pulled the carrots from our own vegtable garden. The meal was very cheap at €11.50. That meant it only cost 50c per child!! I'd say that is the cheapest meal ever.

Everyone in 4th, 5th and 6th class has invented a new day "Fruity Tuseday". On "Fruity Tuseday" everyone is encoraged to bring a piece of fruit or vegtable to school. It is good to see everyone having a munch on some fruit or vegtables. Some childeren bring fruit and vegtables to school every day which is even better.

By Kaitlyn Fenton-White 

The boys stir the pot

 TASTY!ingredients

Adding basil to the sauce      Dylan looks after the pasta

  

Stacey's Tomato Pasta Sauce

Makes 6 portions
Ingredinents
4 garlic cloves
1 big onion
A handful of basil
2 tins of tomatos
1 carrot (grated)

Method

1. Cut onion into small pieces.
2. Grate the carrot.
3. Cut the garlic into pieces.
4. Put onion and garlic into warm pan to cook for ten minutes.
5. The add the tinned tomatoes.
6. Chop the basil and add it to the pan.
7. Bring the mixture to the boil. Then turn down the heat and leave to cook for ten more minutes.
8. When cooked, blend the sauce using a hand blend blender.
9. Pour the sauce over your pasta.
10. Enjoy!! J

 By Kaitlyn Fenton-White

Ping Pong Final

On Tuesday 25-10-2011 4th, 5th and 6th class held the Ping Pong Word Cup final between Italy (James O Leary) and Namibia (Dylan Van Daele). Both boys were from 5th class. It was a brilliant match between the two boys. It wasn't a very close match but it was one of the best I've seen. Italy won the match 21-12. The prize was a voucher for Sports World. I think Namibia will be back for the title next year J. Here are a few pictures from the prize giving.

James receives his prize and congratulations from Ms Dignam.

World Cup winner James with second place finalist Dylan.

Stacey Rigter was awarded a special prize for Most Improved Player. she is pictured here with winner James O Leary.

By Kaitlyn Fenton-White

Ping Pong Tournement

In our school 4th 5th and 6th class are having a Rugby World Cup ping pong tournement this is where each child gets a name of a team in the Rugby World Cup and plays for that country. The tournement started on September the 9th and is going to end on the 23rd of October. There are 4 pools in the tournement. The countries are:

Dylan Van Dale - Namibia                                             Conor O Brien - Gorgia
Dylan Sugrue -USA                                                        Michael O Sullivan - Japan
Niamh De Jong - Australia                                             Kieren Mac Vay - Scotland
Rachel Muphy - Ireland                                                  Tadgh O Sullivan - Japan
Nora Murphy - Samoa                                                    Tim Muphy - Romania
Sadie Knightly - Canada                                                 James O Leary -Italy
Kieren Galivan - France                                                 Karl Bukley - France
Kaitlin Fenton-White - Argentina                                    Elenor O Brien - Russia
Sean o Conor - Tonga                                                     Liam Brean - Wales
Stacy Rigter - Fiji                                                           David Murphy - New Zeland
Dion Burk - England                                                       Caoime Bergin - South Africa

In pool A there is: New Zeland, Tonga, Canada, France and Japan. In pool B there is: Scotland, Romania, Argentina, England and Gorgia. In pool C there is: Australia, Italy, Ireland, USA, and Russia. In pool D there is: Figi, Namibia, South Africa, Wales and Samoa. Best of luck to all the countries!!

By Caoime Bergin.

Cheerios Breakfast morning

On Friday 7 Octber we had a Childline Cheerios Breakfast in school. We were raising money for childline.We raised €130 .The whole school rasied the money. We had breakfast together in the PE room in our school. We had lots of food like bread , fruit salad, scones and smoothies and of cource cheerios! Everyone paid €2.00 each to enter. It took a lot of organising. Fourth class made posters. Fifth and sixth made leaflets to advertise it. We all made the breakfast . We helped the junior and senior infants with their breakfast . We were busy but it was great fun. We would like to thank everyone who made something and fourth and fifth and sixth and the teachers who helped.

By Nora May Murphy

Constructing Cheerio buildings

Smiling for the Camera

What a Breakfast Feast

The Juniors enjoy having breakfast at school

Tom Crean

We 4th ,5th and 6th, are going to see Michal Smith in Kenmare library on the 19 of October. Micheal Smith is the aurhorof Ice Man. Ice man is about Tom Crean and his adventures in the Antarctic. Micheal Smith will speak about his books. We will ask him questions about Tom Crean. I will tell him I am  related to Tom's wife and Tom Crean and my great grand dad where best friends. 
By Sadie Knightly

Green Flag Committee

This year for the Green Flag committee there are only 4 in 6th class so 5th class were allowed to apply for the Green Flag committee. Dylan Van Daele did not want to apply for anything! The rest of 5th applyed for jobs.
                           The new Green Flag committee is: Dion Burke 6th class president/chairperson, David Murphy 6th class treasurer, Stacey Rigter 6th class secretary with Elenor O Brien 5th class, Tadgh O Sullivan 6th class class liason officer with Kieran Galvin, Liam Breen 5th class jobs officer, Sean O Connor 5th class public relations officer(pro) and  Karl Buckley and Kaitlyn Fenton-White 5th class blogger.
By Kaitlyn Fenton-White and Karl Buckley.

 MS READATHON
 By Kieran Mc Vey

The MS Readathon is back. It is starting on the 10th of October to the 10th of November. We normally do it for MS Ireland but this year we are doing it for The Brendan Rigter Foundation. The Readathon is in Sneem Natinoal school. 1st to 6th are reading books to raise money. 4th 5th and 6th are aiming to read 25,000 pages. If we achieve our goal we will have a party and have no home work and we will be able to dress up as our favourite book characters for the party. Let's hope we raise a lot of money for The Brendan Rigter Foundation.

Tom Crean

4th, 5th and 6th class are reading a book about Tom Crean. The book is called Tom Crean:Ice Man.

About Tom Crean

Tom Crean was born in Anascaul in 1877. Tom's parents were poor farmers.It was a hard life and when crops failed many people died.One day Tom was working in the potato field he accidentally let the cows in and they ate the potatoes.Tom's father was furious.He and Tom had a huge fight and Tom swore he would run away. Tom got his chance when one day a British Navy Officer came to the area.Tom asked the Officer if he could join the Navy.The Officer said yes.You were not allowed to join the Navy unless you were over 16 but Tom (who was only 15) lied about his age.So he joined the Navy.

The Discovery

After a few years working on the H.M.S Ringarooma (British Navy ship).Tom's life changed when they were docked in New Zealand. A ship called Discovery ported in the harbour. Captain Robert Scott (Discovery's Captain) said he had one man short for his expedition to the Antartic so Tom bravely joined. On this journey Tom Crean nevre managed to get to the South Pole. Tom was an exellent crew mamber he was tough, strong and reliable.

The Terra Nova

After a few years of no Antartica Tom got bored. He was delighted when Captain Scott invited Tom to join him on the ship Terra Nova for a race to the South Pole.

Britain vs Norway

It was going to be the British led by Robert Scott vs the Norweigians led by Roald Amundson. Half way through the race Robert Scott had to choose 4 men to continue and 3 to head back to base camp. Tom was not chosen! On the way to base camp L.t Evans (navigator) who was also sent back caught scurvy which is a bad disease. So Tom set out on his own to get to base camp. It was a 56km march through blizzards to base camp and he did it in 18 hours! Bill and L.t Evans survived.Tom was later awarded the Albert medal by King George V.

By Karl Buckley

Welcome Back!
We all arrived back to school on the 29th of August. There was great excitement to see how our garden had thrived over the Summer. After a brief time weeding (many hands make light work!) we took stock of our bounty. There were onions, turnips, strawberries, lettuce and lots of herbs. We tasted mint, rosemary, chives and our favourite...fennel. The beautiful flowers gave lots of colour to the garden. Sweetpeas and poppies and the bigggest sunflowers we have ever seen were out in all their glory. Unfortunately one of our new apple trees died over the Summer which was a real disappointment and we will have to replace it as soon as we can raise some money to buy a new one. We were surprised that there were apples found on the other apple tree as it is very young. This was a great surprise.
We picked our veg and added to our compost bin by feeding it the weeds. Poor old Garraí O Dóir, our scarecrow, fell over while we were away but we stood him up again to watch over our carrots while we wait for them to mature.
With the garden looking so good we couldn't resist spending lots of time there and we did lots of sketching of our plants and vegetables. We also sat outside one afternoon and painted what we saw in the garden.
Next on the gardeners' calender is seed collecting and planting garlic and beans.
Lets hope we have another busy and successful year in the garden