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!