Breakfast Buddies - Hug Your Book Event

Here is some news from our HSCL, Mrs C. Kenny

Breakfast Buddies – Hug Your Book Event

Date: 15.05.2024

Location: The Dolmen Hotel, Carlow.

On Wednesday the 15 the Family Learning, KCETB marked our first event

which brought groups from Kilkenny and Carlow together to celebrate a

‘Hug Your Book’ themed Breakfast Buddies morning.

The date of 15.05.24 was chosen as it also marks International Day of the

Family. Buses were arranged for Hug Your Book course participants and

their ‘Breakfast Buddies’ on the day.

Groups travelled from 8 schools throughout Carlow and Kilkenny and we

were delighted to welcome 44 parents & guardians along with their Home

School coordinators to join the fun!

The morning was facilitated by Hug Your Book creator Lana McCarthy.

Each participant received a beautiful new book to take home along with a

resource pack and gifts.

We chose ‘You’re Called What?’ by Kes Gray, which had lots of fun

learning opportunities. During the morning, we looked at different reading,

writing, and talking activities that encourage and support children in their

learning.

Teachers and parents attend the event, at the Dolmen Hotel. Mrs Kenny and one parent attended the Breakfast Buddies event.

Active Week in May

From 13th to 17th May, we enjoyed ACTIVE WEEK, as part of our Active School initiative, led by Ms McGrath.

On Monday, classes had fun with scoops/ rackets and balls

Tuesday saw basketball skills and drills on show.

On Wednesday the focus was on GAA skills, and skipping

Thursday was a fine day, and the whole school took off for a walk to the Discovery Park playground!

On Friday, gymnastics teacher Lisa Coogan led all classes in tumbles, balances and tricks.

Here are some photos of the walk to the Discovery Park, below.

Challenge to Change Seminar at Lyrath Hotel

For the past few months, pupils have been learning about how diverse our school population is.

We have learned that there are pupils in our school who have connections with Poland, Philippines, India, Ukraine, Syria, Canada, France, Lithuania, Spain and England.

Pupils from 2nd to 6th class worked on projects/ profiles of these countries, studying maps, flags, culture and games.

We then focused on playground games from these countries.

This was fun, and it meant that Ms McGrath's class demonstrated games they had learned, with Mrs Keogh/ Ms Treacy's class, and vice versa!

Similarly, girls from Mrs Kenny's class swapped games with Ms Sharkey's class.

We were lucky that the weather was fine and we could play our games outside.

Pupils from ALL classes wrote or drew about their favourite games.

We made some artwork based on the national flowers from each of the countries we studied.

Mrs C. Kenny's cookery class made some delicious, traditional Syrian dishes.

On the day of the seminar at the Lyrath Convention Centre, ten representatives from 2nd - 6th class spoke about our project with other schools.

All schools taking part in the project were presentation schools. Some schools were primary and some were secondary.

Check out our photos from the project, below.