Intercultural May
It's that time of year again when we celebrate the wonderful cultural diversity of our school community. The children are all hard at work researching and exploring countries and cultures around the world. So we are all very excited to invite you along to see their work on Thursday 24th May!
National Scoot to School day 14/03/18
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This week is scoot to school week. National SOW Day (Scoot on Wednesdays) will be held on Wednesday 14th March. By participating in National Scoot to School Week / SOW Day you will be showing your support for a greener, healthier environment.
Please scoot to school this Wednesday and we may be in with a chance to win scooter parking for our school. |
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Seachtain na Gaeilge
A chairde! Parents, Guardians and friends!
This week we will be celebrating Irish language and culture as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. We will be busy learning Irish songs and dances, playing games through Irish, reading and writing stories, listening to Irish music and promoting the Irish language throughout the school.
We would like to invite you to join in the fun next Friday 16th March.
We would be delighted if anyone would like to contribute baked goods for our Irish Breakfast morning. Some ideas of Irish foods include:
This week we will be celebrating Irish language and culture as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. We will be busy learning Irish songs and dances, playing games through Irish, reading and writing stories, listening to Irish music and promoting the Irish language throughout the school.
We would like to invite you to join in the fun next Friday 16th March.
- Join us between 8:30 and 9a.m. for an Irish breakfast in the school hall. Some of our students will be serving Irish tea, scones, brown bread and other baked goods for parents to enjoy! They will be helping parents to learn some Irish phrases so that you can have chat ‘as Gaeilge’ while you sip your tea!
- Classes will be performing some Irish songs, poems and dances for parents in the hall between 9 and 10a.m.
We would be delighted if anyone would like to contribute baked goods for our Irish Breakfast morning. Some ideas of Irish foods include:
- Soda bread or brown bread
- Scones
- Barmbrack or fruit bread
- Potato cakes
- Oat cakes
- Apple cake
- Spreads: blackberry jam, apple jelly or Irish butter
Defibrillator presented to the school
Our Student Council representatives proudly present Róisin with a defibrillator for the school. This is now accessible in the front lobby.
Thanks to the dedicated work of our Student Council and fundraising support from parents, families and friends, this purchase was made possible.
Book Week 2018
Book week was cut a bit short this week due to Storm Emma but we still managed to get in a pretty good book review. Well done to all of the class for writing the book review.
Imaginosity 27/02/18
We had a super day at Imaginosity Children's Museum today. We learned about bridges., the strength of certain 3D shapes and why they are better to be used in bridges, we also made some of these shapes ourselves. We had a lot of fun playing in the exciting play areas. We were all very tired on the bus back to school.
Science Fair Project - Snow Day
Our Science Fair is on Friday 9th 2018.
This is a parent & child home based project.
Our emergency closure due to the weather is a great opportunity to make good progress with your project.
For tips on presentation and timeline please go to:
http://www.powerstownet.com/petns-science-fair-9th-march-2018/?month=jan&yr=2018
For some Science Fair Project ideas go to:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/list
https://www.education.com/science-fair/
https://babbledabbledo.com/20-science-fair-projects/
This is a parent & child home based project.
Our emergency closure due to the weather is a great opportunity to make good progress with your project.
For tips on presentation and timeline please go to:
http://www.powerstownet.com/petns-science-fair-9th-march-2018/?month=jan&yr=2018
For some Science Fair Project ideas go to:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/list
https://www.education.com/science-fair/
https://babbledabbledo.com/20-science-fair-projects/
Aistear - Doctors Surgery
The theme of Aistear this month in the Ash Class is Marvellous Me and the doctors surgery. The children have learned done some excellent work in caring for patients, they even managed to bandage up Gary the support teacher. They have played some interesting games, making funny faces before the clock ran out matching the face to the card picked out. They washed and cared for our "babies". Made some funky skeletons and created some lovely get well soon cards. We are really enjoying working in the doctors surgery and are practicing taking notes when someone calls on the phone. It's safe to say if ever Diarmaid gets sick he'll be OK based on the learning over the past few weeks.
P.E.T.N.S. Science Fair
Projects are completed at home and are presented to school on Thursday 8th of March for our Science Fair on Friday March 9th.
For all information please follow the link below
http://www.powerstownet.com/petns-science-fair-9th-march-2018/
For all information please follow the link below
http://www.powerstownet.com/petns-science-fair-9th-march-2018/
Strangest Place I've Read a Book Competition.
Here at PETNS, we love reading! As part of our preparations to celebrate World Book Week, children are invited to share a photo of themselves reading a book in the strangest place they can think of!
Photos can be given directly to class teachers or emailed to elaine@powerstownet.com.
We can't wait to see your creative photos!
(Winners will be announced on 2nd March)
Photos can be given directly to class teachers or emailed to elaine@powerstownet.com.
We can't wait to see your creative photos!
(Winners will be announced on 2nd March)
Attendance and Punctuality
Full attendance and punctuality are really important to ensure children are excelling in all areas of school life. Please click on the links below to find out more about attendance and punctuality.
http://www.powerstownet.com/punctuality-is-important/
http://www.powerstownet.com/school-attendance-what-every-parent-needs-to-know/
http://www.powerstownet.com/punctuality-is-important/
http://www.powerstownet.com/school-attendance-what-every-parent-needs-to-know/
Talent Show - 09/02/2018
January - Exploring outer Space
For the past few weeks Ash class have been learning all about Outer space. We've listened to lots of stories about space missions and have acted out our own mission. In Aistear we are exploring our solar system through lots of different play areas. Check out some of the photos below...
Heritage Week. 23/01/2018
We celebrated history and our heritage in Powerstown ET this week. In Ash Class we talked about how important it is to know where you come from. We explored the museum set up in the school, and had a lot of fun trying to guess the teachers from their baby photos.
Winter Performance 15/12/2017
Aistear - Weather Station
This month in Aistear we are learning all about weather. We have a weather station set up in the role play area of the classroom and are learning about how weather is recorded and predicted. We use computers and a big map of Ireland to show what the weather is like today and what we think it could be like tomorrow. In the creative art area we are leaning about the clothes we wear for different types of weather, we have made some lovely hats and mittens for associated with Winter clothes. We have had a lot of fun playing with the water area and are learning about cold weather. We are also learning about what we do when the weather is hot in our sand area. Finally we have had loads of fun in our small world and messy play areas and are learning all about animals that live in cold weather. Check out some of the pictures below...
Winter Fair Friday 08/12/17
Winter Wonderland Art Exhibition
The PTA and the pupils of Powerstown ETNS are delighted to announce that our 2nd School Art Exhibition is now on display in our school hall!
The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Winter Wonderland’. The artwork is now beautifully finished, professionally framed and catalogued for display in the school. As well as a great artistic event we are using the exhibition as a fundraiser to help to reduce the cost of swimming lessons for all the families in the school.
The pictures are great value at only €10 each. Framed print copies of the originals, which would make a lovely present, will be available to order during the Winter Fair this Friday 8th December.
We look forward to seeing everyone there but if you can’t make it & would like to have your child’s picture, send the money in before exhibition day and we will arrange delivery.
Art is an area that every child enjoys and the exhibition will be a big social event in the life of the school this year, so please come along, (support our fundraiser) and admire the work of all our talented children!
The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Winter Wonderland’. The artwork is now beautifully finished, professionally framed and catalogued for display in the school. As well as a great artistic event we are using the exhibition as a fundraiser to help to reduce the cost of swimming lessons for all the families in the school.
The pictures are great value at only €10 each. Framed print copies of the originals, which would make a lovely present, will be available to order during the Winter Fair this Friday 8th December.
We look forward to seeing everyone there but if you can’t make it & would like to have your child’s picture, send the money in before exhibition day and we will arrange delivery.
Art is an area that every child enjoys and the exhibition will be a big social event in the life of the school this year, so please come along, (support our fundraiser) and admire the work of all our talented children!
It's Shopping Time
This month in the Ash Class we are learning all about shopping and food. We have a lovely supermarket and a cafe set up in our classroom with loads of food and any item you would find in Tesco. We have shopping baskets, trolleys and we have loads of fun making shopping lists, collecting the items, bringing them to the checkout and paying for them with what looks like real Euro!! We are practicing how we conduct ourselves in a shop by saying please and thank you and we always have loads of fun.
We are also practicing our fine motor skills by making pizza from playdough, our favourite topping is usually pepperoni but we sometimes go for something a little different.
In our creative station we have been painting and working with fabric and fibre to great some cool looking shopping bags with the P.E.T.N.S. label. They are displayed in the hall for everyone to see and we think they look excellent.
Finally we are building some shops using lego, the shops have ranged from sweet shops, to toy shops and there was even a butchers thrown in there!
We have learned so much vocabulary associated with shopping and have come up with very interesting combinaitons of food to be served in our cafe.
We are also practicing our fine motor skills by making pizza from playdough, our favourite topping is usually pepperoni but we sometimes go for something a little different.
In our creative station we have been painting and working with fabric and fibre to great some cool looking shopping bags with the P.E.T.N.S. label. They are displayed in the hall for everyone to see and we think they look excellent.
Finally we are building some shops using lego, the shops have ranged from sweet shops, to toy shops and there was even a butchers thrown in there!
We have learned so much vocabulary associated with shopping and have come up with very interesting combinaitons of food to be served in our cafe.
Teddy Bear's Picnic
The student council are delighted to announce their next school event this Thursday, November 23rd. We are hosting a 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' in our school hall. Boys and girls are invited to bring in a small teddy and a small treat to bring to our hall in the afternoon. Our event is a fundraiser is to help Educate Together and all they do to help new and developing schools. We hope pupils can support us by donating €1 for this special activity.
Raffle
Parents of Powerstown we need your help! Could you help us out approaching local businesses for prizes for our school raffle? All our proceeds from the raffle will go towards funding out swimming lessons next year. If you think you'd be interested, you can contact Cróna, Anita or Róisín in the room for a school letter of request. We'd really appreciate your help as we need all prizes by December 4th!
Science Week.
We had a great week in Ash class for Science week. We made crystals, rockets, had fun with pushing and pulling by playing tug of war, made coloured volcanoes, did some blow painting, investigated items that float and sink, discovered the uses for magnets and even had a look at air and vacuums. Many thanks to the parents that came in to for our "Science for Fun" day. Have a look at some of our photos here, they are really intesting.
Drumming Around the World
Ash Class participated in a Music workshop entitled "Drumming Around the World". We learned a lot about rtyhm and keeping the beat. We played Bodhráns, Drums, and shakers. We even had a dance, and kept the beat going for a long time!
Here are some pictures:
Here are some pictures:
R.S.E. Month in P.E.T.N.S.
Dear Parents & Guardians,
As per school policy and the legal requirements of the Irish curriculum, your child will be learning about a number of R.S.E. related topics in the next couple of weeks. I have included the pages that your child will be discussing in class below. The topics include, self identity, family units, people who help keep us safe, new life, physical growth and making choices. If you wish to discuss any of these topics in more detail prior to the lessons I will be teaching, please let me know.
Regards,
Diarmaid
As per school policy and the legal requirements of the Irish curriculum, your child will be learning about a number of R.S.E. related topics in the next couple of weeks. I have included the pages that your child will be discussing in class below. The topics include, self identity, family units, people who help keep us safe, new life, physical growth and making choices. If you wish to discuss any of these topics in more detail prior to the lessons I will be teaching, please let me know.
Regards,
Diarmaid
Aistear. Houses and Homes - contd.
Ash Class have continued with the houses and homes theme for the month of October. We built some outstanding houses from different types of blocks, we made hedgehogs from playdough, we made rangoli patterns using chalk on black sugar paper, we painted our dream house and had some great fun in small world and role play pretending to do different household tasks.
Powerstown ETNS Bake Sale!
Cake Sale this Friday, October 27th!
The Student Council are delighted to announce our annual mid-term cake sale in Powerstown ETNS.
We need our families to help us raise money for a school defibrillator. We kindly ask our parents, grandparents or carers to help us out by donating some baked goods!
Boys and girls can then bring a small amount of money to buy something nice on Friday. Ready, Set, BAKE!
The Student Council are delighted to announce our annual mid-term cake sale in Powerstown ETNS.
We need our families to help us raise money for a school defibrillator. We kindly ask our parents, grandparents or carers to help us out by donating some baked goods!
Boys and girls can then bring a small amount of money to buy something nice on Friday. Ready, Set, BAKE!
Music - Tempo
This week in music we learned all about the tempo of music. How music gets faster and slower as the melody progresses. We listened and responded to the music of Bjork - It's Oh so Quiet. We responded to the music using dance.
Aistear - Houses and Homes.
We are learning all about houses and homes in Aistear this week. We work together with the Chestnut class for Aistear and we are really having fun meeting new friends and getting to play in the classroom.
There is a home corner set up in our classroom with a kitchen with all the utensils and food you would see in a life size kitchen, a sitting room with two sofa's, and even some babies that we have to look after.
We got to make some really cool new jigsaws which were all based on houses and homes, one was even on the Three Little Pigs, the story that we had been telling teacher all week.
We got to make homes out of all kinds of materials, our favourite was making tree houses. We could build any type of home we wanted, as we learned that people live in all types of homes across the world, we even got to see mut huts and igloos. We learned about recycling and had a lot of fun building our houses out of cardboard and other recycleable materials.
We also got to build houses out of bricks, from the Three Little Pigs we know that this is the best material to use to build a house.
Finally, we loved playing with the toy houses and pretending to be the figures in the house. We learned all about the rooms that can be in a house and that all homes are different. Our favourite was the big house and we loved making the ladder to get into the bunk beds. Check out some of our pictures below...
There is a home corner set up in our classroom with a kitchen with all the utensils and food you would see in a life size kitchen, a sitting room with two sofa's, and even some babies that we have to look after.
We got to make some really cool new jigsaws which were all based on houses and homes, one was even on the Three Little Pigs, the story that we had been telling teacher all week.
We got to make homes out of all kinds of materials, our favourite was making tree houses. We could build any type of home we wanted, as we learned that people live in all types of homes across the world, we even got to see mut huts and igloos. We learned about recycling and had a lot of fun building our houses out of cardboard and other recycleable materials.
We also got to build houses out of bricks, from the Three Little Pigs we know that this is the best material to use to build a house.
Finally, we loved playing with the toy houses and pretending to be the figures in the house. We learned all about the rooms that can be in a house and that all homes are different. Our favourite was the big house and we loved making the ladder to get into the bunk beds. Check out some of our pictures below...
Fire Safety Week
We had a very exciting visit from the Dublin Fire Brigade this week for Fire Safety Week. We learned all about smoke alarms, what to do if a fire breaks out in the house and what the emergency number is.
Our favourite part was when we got to see the fire engine.
We got into the fire engine and the firemen even let us use the hose.
Check out some of the pictures below...
Our favourite part was when we got to see the fire engine.
We got into the fire engine and the firemen even let us use the hose.
Check out some of the pictures below...
PJs Day
We had great fun on PJ day. It made playing during golden time all the more comfortable because we did it in our PJs
Recycle week results
Congratulations to us! The Ash class won 10 extra minutes Golden time for best attempts at recycled Robots.
Well done Ash Class!!!
Well done Ash Class!!!
Recycle Week
For recycle week Ash class have been tasked with making robots/monsters out of recycled materials. We all had so much fun making the designs, the resulting robots are pretty spectacular. We would also like to say a huge thank you to Ann Marie and the Beech class that came to the classroom and assisted us in making the robots. Stay tuned to see the final designs and find out who wins the competition for the best recycled robot.
Sorting and Matching
The Ash Class worked really well in Maths lessons this week. The children learned all about sorting and matching items based on different criteria. Sorting based on colour and type was our favourite.
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PJ Day 29th September |
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P.J. Day!
The Student Council are launching their first school event. Wear your pyjamas to school and contribute €2 to fund-raise for a school defibrillator. Friday, September 29th |
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Junior Infants Peace Day Performance
Junior Infants performed their Peace Day performance for the school and an audience of parents on Thursday Morning 21st September. You'll agree that the children performed and looked fantastic.
Peace Day Performance.
We would like to invite all families to attend our celebration of Peace Day 2017 with a performance in the Assembly Hall at 9am on Thursday 21st September. Classes have been preparing songs and poems and are looking forward to performing for you on Thursday. See you there!
P.E. in Ash Class
This week in Ash Class we participated in some fun P.E. games. We are learning how to interact with each other and we even created some of our own games. This week we focused on movement and practiced moving around the school hall in different ways. We all love acting like Monkeys and Elephants. We are also practicing our throwing and catching using bean bags.
First week in Ash Class
Ash class had a great first week in Junior infants. We read books and played with lego, jigsaws and lots of other cool new toys. We got to know our new friends names and we sang some lovely nursery rhymes. We love when teacher reads books to us and we are very good at remembering what happened.
Lunch time in Ash Class
This week we learned all about healthy eating and what we should have in our lunch boxes. We are very good at sitting at our desks and eating all by ourselves. Sometimes we need help opening things but we always remember to have good manners when asking for help and always say 'thank you' when someone helps us.
Our Class is Incredible!!!
We all know how good our class can be! We are getting better every day. Even if we don't know the answer to a question now, we know we will know it soon. That's the power of the word "Yet"
