Anne Frank's Secret Annexe Construction Project

The girls in 5th Class spent the month of November constructing Anne Frank's Secret Annexe. The projects were completed at home with the help of parents. We learned all about Anne Frank and World War 2 in class. The girls did great work.

Van Gogh Art!

5th Class learned a new poem this month called 'Van Gogh's Yellow Chair' by Mark Roper. This poem was a stimulus to our art lesson last week. The children recreated their own yellow chair painting. This chair had to be in a place of happiness and rest. The paintings were created using chalk pastels. This week we continued our Van Gogh theme by recreated his famous painting 'Wheatfields' using paint.

Let's get the Yellow Flag for Ravenswell!

We are delighted to announce that Ravenswell is one of 15 schools in Ireland taking part in the Yellow Flag Programme 2014-2015.

 

What is the Yellow Flag Programme?

The Yellow Flag is a year long programme that celebrates diversity and different cultures.

Over the year we will be working through the 8 Steps of the programme to further develop our welcoming and diverse school. 

 

The 8 Steps of the programme are:

 

 

1. Intercultural and Anti-Racism Training for Staff and Management
   2. Going beyond the School’s Walls: Engaging with the Community
   3. Establishing a Diversity Committee
   4. Conducting an Intercultural Review
   5. Formulating an Action Plan for a Diverse School
   6. Monitoring and Evaluation and Information Dissemination-
   7. Curriculum work-
   8. Production of a Diversity Code and Anti Racist Policy for the school

We are currently on Step 4-The Intercultural Review. Children from 2nd-6th as well as every parent in the school received a questionnaire- thank you for completing these! :)

Keep an eye on the class blogs as well as the Yellow Flag Noticeboard (outside Room 5) for the results of the questionnaires. These will help us in our next step- creating an action plan for a diverse school.

It is sure to be an exciting year as we work towards achieving our Yellow Flag- there will fun events and opportunities for parents to get involved as we celebrate our multicultural school.

October's Full Attendance Certificates

Congratulations to all the 5th Class children who had full attendance in the month of October.
Well done Kayleigh, Abbie, Rachel, Charlize, Julia, Niamh, Megan C., Megan B., Tanya, Vasile, Michalina, Clodagh and Lucia. Excellent Work!

Gardening Time!

Fifth Class cleaned up their school garden box this week. They weeded the box and they planted horse chestnuts in pots. Hopefully we will see some growth in our pots soon!

The European Union!

Fifth Class are learning all about the European Union this month. They used the school tablets to look up information on all 27 countries in the EU.

Halloween

6th Class students had great fun dressing up for Halloween. Every child brought in €2 in aid of Temple Street Hospital. An exciting day just before mid-term was had by all!

Halloween Dress Up Day!

The day before the Halloween break everybody came into school dressed-up. Even the teachers got involved. 5th Class were brilliantly dressed up. Well done girls!

Bowling Day Out!!

Bray Bowl invited 2nd to 6th Class down to the bowling alley before Halloween. It was a great day out and we got pizza as a treat afterwards.

Maori Masks!

5th Class created Maori Masks in October. They learned all about New Zealand and the Maori Culture. It took a few days to make the masks. The steps are shown in the pictures below. Well done girls!

Eye on Idioms!

Fifth Class learned all about idioms last week. They designed their favourite. Look at their great work.

September's Full Attendance Winners!

Well done to Clodagh, Shauna, Michalina, Rachel, Megan B., Charlize, Julia, Megan C. and Vasile in 5th Class who had full attendance in the month of September. Keep it up!

5th Class are learning all about New Zealand!

5th Class are learning all about New Zealand this month. They got started on their own projects this week using the school tablets. Here are some pictures of the children at work!

Roots of Empathy!

This year 5th and 6th are involved in Roots of Empathy. They will meet the babies next week for the first time. They had a pre-visit lesson with Ciara and Mary this week to introduce them to the programme. They are all very excited about meeting their new tiny teacher!

Some paintings by 5th Class!

The girls cut out a section of a magazine and glued it down on their paper. They were creative and continued the rest of the painting using their imaginations. Here are some examples...

I spy with my little EYE!

Fifth Class created some fantastic art this week. They studied the artist Rene Magritte who became famous for her witty and thought-provoking images. The children recreated some of her art using a CD for the template of the eye and creating an image inside the eye. Here is some examples of their work.

Fifth Class are learning some Irish songs this month!

There are two songs this month. The song above is Amhrán na gCupán or The Cup Song.


The song below is the Abba hit Mamma Mia. The girls are having great fun learning them.

Fifth Class Maths and Geography Class Activity

5th Class learned all about Ireland and car registrations this month in Geography. The class were grouped up into teams and they had to go record the car registrations in the school car park. The results were laid out on a bar chart and the numbers were used to add and subtract in our Maths copies. Look at the results!

5th Class had a visitor!

Earlier this month Ms.Healy dropped in with one of the 'chicks' from last year. Although as you can see it was no longer a small chick but a much bigger hen. She brought it in in a container and the class got to see how quickly their chicks had grown up. We were all in shock! It was a great surprise!

Fifth Class are amazing artists!

September has been a very artistic month in Ms.Breen's fifth class. All the girls have shown great talent and created some great work. They created a Scream Blow Art picture using blow painting, some self-portraits and last week created their own tessellation pictures using fish templates. Keep up the great work girls!:)

Teachers vs Students Basketball Match 2014

Well done to the 5th and 6th class who competed against the teachers in this year's basketball match. The final score was teachers 28, students 18.