St. Kevin's National School

This is our class bulletin board. We will be posting news and articles on this page over the course of the school year. Check back soon for updates!

We started off sixth class reading ‘Witches’ by the wonderful author Roald Dahl. This led to us celebrating Roald Dahl Day on Friday The 13^th. On Roald Dahl day we created lots of Funky art. We designed our own cover for our favourite Roald Dahl book and created disgusting marvellous medicines, with ingredients like dogs bones and dragons eyes being added to the potions. We ended the day watching an international interview with Roald Dahl’s daughter.

Dylan

The Buddy Assembly took place on the 26^th of September. Sixth class introduced a huge class of mischievous little Junior Infants to the rest of the school. We spent the week interviewing and getting to know our buddies. We drew pictures and played with the new members of St. Kevin’s. On the day of the assembly we stood before the rest of the school in the hall and read our piece about each buddy.

Katie

Ghost, Ghouls and all things cruel arrived in St. Kevin’s on the 25^th of October.  Spookathon 2013 was here.  The whole class dressed up. Some costumes were fun and some were scary. We had a great Spookathon day eating sweets, playing Hallowe’en games and performing our poem ‘Afraid of the Dark’ during the assembly.

Kim

In English we looked at a poem called ‘The Marrog’, by R.C.Scriven. The Marrog is about an alien from Mars that ‘is sitting at the back of the classroom and NOBODY knows.’ We all enjoyed this poem and had great fun pretending the Marrog came to St.Kevin’s. So be careful that he’s not sitting at the back of your classroom watching you work and messing with you when you’re supposed to be listening.

Katie

 The Marrog 

 My desk’s at the back of the class

And nobody knows but nobody knows

I’m a Marrog, from Mars

With a body of brass

And seventeen fingers and toes.

Wouldn’t they shriek if they knew

I’ve three eyes in the back of my head

And my hair is bright purple,

My nose is deep blue

And my teeth are half- yellow and half-red.

My five arms are silver and spiked

With knives on them shaped that spears.

I could go right back now if I liked——

And return in a million light years.

I could gobble them all

For I am seven foot tall

And I’m breathing green flames from my ears.

Wouldn’t they yell if they knew,

If they guessed a Marrog was here?

Ha ha they haven’t a clue –

Or they would tremble in fear!

“Look, look, a Marrog”

They’d all scream – and smack

The blackboard would fall and the ceiling would crack

A teacher would faint, I suppose.

But I would grin to myself, sitting right at the back

And nobody, nobody knows .

 R. C. Scriven

Science Week was a great success. We had a lot of fun bringing classes into sixth class and showing them some experiments. As each class came in they went to different stations; mirror writing, rocket launch, balancing, floating and sinking, fingerprinting and the lung blower. Einstein would have been proud of us.

Dylan 

On the 13^th of November we had a cake sale. The Parents’ Committee organised it and sixth class helped. We were the best sellers ever. As each class arrived we took it in turn to sell the cakes. We sold a lot and we ATE a lot. The cakes were yummy. We loved selling but the best part of the day was DEFINITELY eating them.  One direction cupcakes were MA FAV!!!!

Kim

Just before Christmas we had a treasure hunt with our buddies. We had been learning about Cryptography in History so created our own codes for different people to crack. We received two chocolate Santas to hide for each team. When we cracked the codes we had to follow the clues to find the chocolate. We ate the delicious chocolate and said bye to our buddies.   

Bethany

A huge congratulations to our Sixth Class Table Quiz team, who participated in the Irish League of Credit Unions National Schools Table Quiz on Friday evening in Our Lady of Good Counsel Boys’  School.  The competition was contested closely by all teams and the questions were far from easy which made the achievements of all teams more impressive. Our thanks to Ms. Monaghan too, for all here help and support on the night. Our Sixth Class performed wonderfully well, finishing in fourth place, not more than five points behind the actual winners. Check out our commendably cerebral competitors below, who were a true credit to the collective scholars of St. Kevin’s!

We started making our valentine gifts a few days before the weekend. Teacher had shown us some amazing gifts for Valentine’s Day .We choose three wonderful presents, clay hearts, cookie mixture and a beautiful card. After we sculpted the clay we painted it with different colours. Then put the cookie mixture in a jar and decorated it. Last but not least we decorated the amazing cards. Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!

Vincent

In the torrential rain we walked to IADT to be Simon Cowell judges for the accountancy X-Factor. We were met by lovely pastries and juices on our arrival. The first year business students presented their accountancy presentations and we had to judge and mark each teams work. After the presentations we experienced college life with an amazing tour of the campus. We visited the radio and T.V. studios, the library, the canteen, the students’ area and the modelling art buildings. In the lovely sunshine we strolled back to St.Kevin’s tired but full of enthusiasm.

Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge againn i Scoil Naomh Chaoimhín. Bhí orainn go leor imeachtaí. Bhí comórtas ealaíne againn, bhí ceolchoirm againn, bhí lá glas againn agus bhí tráth na gceist againn. Bhí sé spraoi iontach. Seiceáil go léir an gníomh!

Seachtain na Gaeilge!

This week the super scholars of St. Kevin’s sprung into action for our annual Spring Clean, which is led by the great Green School Committee. All the boys and girls were committed to their cleaning on the day, and they did a smashing Spring clean of our yards, basketball courts, football pitches and gardens. At the end of the day our school looked like it had been sponged, scoured and scrubbed, and it looked super slick. So our thanks to our scholars for a superb Spring Clean!! Click on the link to see all the action!!

St. Kevin’s Spring Clean 2014!

Our biggest congratulations to our superb and scintillating scholars in Sixth Class, who recently received the sacrament of Confirmation. We are happy to say both the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit are evident in this bunch who are genial, gracious, good-hearted, generous, great, gentle and truly gifted! Our congratulations to you all guys.

The Dúshlán Challenge has come to an end. After six weeks of learning new skills and participating in lots of fun activities we received our medals and certificates, along with a surprise trip to Milano’s restaurant in Dun Laoghaire. We’d great fun with 5^th Class creating our very own pizzas. The best part was getting to eat every last crumb.

After a year of hard work it’s time for fun, in Adventure Club. We had two great weeks of rock climbing. Our first session was in Dalkey Quarry and our second session was in Dun Laoghaire. While some of us raced to the top other were terrified. We might try and climb Mount Everest next.