Naoise's Story

Naoise Hopkins has a great story to add to the stories on Christmas already on our site...check it out here

Complaints to Santa

Some letters to Santa aren't always complimentary...looks like he doesn't always get it right! Hope when he reads them that he doesn't make new plans for deliveries next year or Mr. Devaney's class could miss out..read what they had to say here,

Christmas Essays

These are surely worth a read..find out what others are thinking about at Christmas, including their best Christmases ever - here

Invisible Man

Mr. Cogan's class have been working really hard on their "Invisible Man" essays - many are available on our blog here and Tomas Waldron's lengthy and excellent story is in our Budding Writers section here.

Holes Reviews

The boys in Mr. Cogan's class have been reading the book Holes by Louis Sacher. We present here their excellent reviews of this book - please take a peek!

Cody creates one scary spell!

Cody Murphy had fun creating this Halloween witches spell podcast. Hope you don't get too scared!!!

London Marathon - Report Writing

Mr Keena has been working on report writing with Mr. Devaney's class and the boys really enjoyed putting the reports together. We will be adding all of the completed reports shortly...but some boys have already completed theirs...so here they are....enjoy!

Chalk Drawings

Mr. Waldron's Class are working on chalk drawings at the moment. The first few are here - there will be many more to follow.....

Autumn Poems

Mr. Devaney's Class have been working hard on their Autumn poems. This is just one - we have added many more here

Essay Time

We would like to encourage you to check out our essays from time to time. The first great essay is from Cathal Cosgrove in Mr. Cogan's class...here..enjoy!

Great Scott - what have we here!

Mr. Scott was filling in for Mr. Waldron last week and he brought his guitar with him on Friday. The very interesting result is here.

Drunken Sailor Podcast

The boys in Mr. Devaney's were singing "Drunken Sailor" for the first time so we put a microphone in front of them and hey presto! Check it out here

Fraction Fever

We have been working hard on fractions all week using station teaching. Below are some photos of our stations with the boys determined to master the challenges set before them using counters and chain links.

Group 1- Working with the Counters.

Group 2 - Fraction Challenge with Colours

Group 3 - Mr. Waldron explains the Chain Link Challenge

Get Reading

This is a short recommended list of books suitable for fifth/sixth class age group: 

The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket: John Boyne

·        The Penderwicks (Series):  Jeanne Birdsall

·        The Underneath : Kathi Appelt

·         The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips: Michael Morpurgo

·         An Elephant in the Garden: Michael Morpurgo

·        Watership Down: Richard Adams

·         A Boy and his Bear :Harriet Graham

·        Granny: Anthony Horowitz

·        Which Witch? (and other titles): Eva Ibbotson

·         Howl’s Moving Castle (Series): Diana Wynne Jones

·        Cosmic (and other titles) :Frank Cottrell Boyce

·        Goosebumps (Series): R. L. Stine

·        The Graveyard Book: Neil Gaiman

·        Harry Potter (Series) :J. K. Rowling

·        Inkheart (Series) : Cornelia Funke

·        The Fire Thief (Series) : Terry Deary

·        The Spook’s Apprentice (Series) : Joseph Delaney

·        The Thief Lord : Cornelia Funke

·        Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Series) : Rick Riordan

·        Alex Rider (Series) : Anthony Horowitz

·        Famous Five (Series) : Enid Blyton

·        Chains:  Laurie Halse Anderson

·        The Guns of Easter:  Gerald Whelan

·        Taking Sides : Brian Gallagher