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Harry Greensmyth

5th March 20185th March 2018 Staff

The staff of Herbertstown National School would like to extend their sympathies to the family of Harry Greensmyth who passed away last night.

Harry gave tremendous service to Gaelic Games in the school in the past through coaching and assisting in the fielding of teams in Cumann na mBunscol competitions. Harry was also the point of contact for the school in reporting results to the local papers. More recently, Harry helped the school complete a record of participation by the school in south & county competitions in Gaelic Games going back to the 1970s. An array of resources and journals were consulted to create this extensive record and Harry was very generous with his time in facilitating this research.

Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís.

Third/Fourth Relive Old National School Tradition

9th February 20189th March 2018 Staff

Following a study of the history of Irish national schools, the pupils of third and fourth class enjoyed some hot chocolate and bread in a similar way to pupils of Irish classrooms in the past.

Community Games Winners

8th February 20188th February 2018 Staff

Congratulations to our winners in the Community Games recently.

Community Games Art Winners

Community Games U14 Handwriting Winners

Community Games U12 Handwriting winners

These pupils now go forward to the next round on Saturday February 24th in Cappamore Community Centre at 10am.

Star Awards – January

1st February 20181st February 2018 Staff

Congratulations to our Star Award winners for January!

One pupil from each classroom was selected by their class teacher and the award winners were presented with certificates at today’s assembly. They were also given a night off homework for their efforts!

SESE Studies in Second/Third

31st January 201831st January 2018 Staff

The pupils in Miss O’ Dwyer’s room have been busy learning about different history, geography and science topics. The pupils have worked hard writing reports on ‘The Antarctic’ and ‘Mount Everest’. They also created lovely art displays about the Antarctic and the Bronze Age.

David Slays Goliath in Ms O’Dwyer’s Classroom!

31st January 201831st January 2018 Staff

Pupils in 2nd and 3rd class had great fun re-creating scenes from the story of ‘David and Goliath’.

Credit Union Quiz

30th January 201830th January 2018 Staff

The Credit Union Quiz took place on the 29th of January. Our school entered four team: two U11 and two U13. At the quiz competition was very tight with our U11 teams placing fourth and sixth. The competition was very tight between our U13s as there was one point separating them in the final score. Both teams did well as one was in a three way tie for second and the other ending up third. There were 11 U11 teams competing and 26 U13 teams.

Overall, all our teams performed really well.

6th Class

LEGO Robotics

29th January 201830th January 2018 Staff

On the 9^th of January Mrs.Heelan told us that she was going to enter us into an Analogue Devices, Learn-it LEGO robotics class .There were only 30 available spaces through out the whole of Limerick and the lines opened at 10 o’clock with a first come, first served system so we had to be quick. We were one of the lucky schools to successfully apply.

On the 25^th of January two people called Fergal and Marvee came to our school to show us how to build and program robots which were made of LEGO. At the start Mrs.Heelan put us all into groups of 3.Then we were set to build our robots with a manual on the computer screen. When we were all done building our robots Fergal showed us how to program our robots to go forwards and backwards. the he set us a series of challenges. Then he showed us how to turn and rotate the robot. After that he put down a maze mat and we had to program our robots to go around the maze mat. It was quite difficult!! Team 9 got the furthest on the maze and then we had to say goodbye and dismantle our robots. Now it was time for Fergal to announce the winner which was … team 7! (Jack,Ella and Eva ) with an extra edition of Ava O’Connell. We had a great day

Ella O’Toole

Jack Gleeson

Ava O’Connell

Eva Murnane

Pedal to the Peak Launch

28th January 201821st February 2018 Staff

Thanks to everyone who supported the launch for our Pedal to the Peak fundraising event on Sunday! For more information on the event, photos, social media, how you can help and much much more, click on the Pedal to the Peak link www.herbertstownns.ie/pedaltothepeak

Launch photos

Photos courtesy of Pat Moloney. For more photos, please visit the Pedal to the Peak Facebook page.

Water Forum

26th January 201830th January 2018 Staff

On Friday 19th January the Green Schools Committee went to the Woodlands Hotel in Adare for a Water Forum, where the Committee members represented Herbertstown NS as a model school to other schools present, in order to show them how to go about achieving the Water Flag.