Junior Room “Little Red Riding Hood”
Here the Junior Room perform their short musical version of Little Red Riding Hood. Also here you’ll see the pupils in their Halloween ‘crowns’!
Senior Room History Project & Art
Senior Room History Project
The 4th, 5th and 6th classes have just completed group projects on The Romans. The projects were accompanied by some very fine models of the Coloseum and Roman swords. The pupils used modelling clay and wood for their models.
Art Work
Samples of some art work carried out in the Senior Room during school year 2013/14.
Jam Making
Mr Donnelly recently made some yummy jam along with the help of all his class. They all picked some lovely blackberries and brought them in along with a jar each to bring the jam home. Mr Donnelly was well equipped with a fabulous pink apron and gloves to match. It’s the nicest jam we have tasted in ages!
The Great Outdoors!
Just some snaps of the wonderful weather we had.
Some of us were involved in gardening and others just enjoying that sunshine…….
Watch out some of us are looking at bugs!
In June 2014, each class had a special session with Dale Treadwell (Heritage in Schools Scheme) of RTE2 fame. Dale brought along his friend Harry Hedgehog for us to see. The Senior Room sowed wild flower seeds in our prepared patch of garden under Dale’s guidance. In these pics you’ll see how those wildflowers blossomed and became a haven for our caterpillar and bee friends by the time we got back to school in September.
Farewell 6th Class 2014
We bade farewell to our 6th class friends at the end of June. We saw them off in style with an evening reception attended by all. There was music, singing, dancing, poetry, food and PowerPoint presentations from 5th class. We wish them every success along the way and will always be glad to welcome them back.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
The pupils of the Senior Room recently staged a very creditable adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio and Tybalt put on a great display of sword fighting, but true to the play they both perished! The adaptation, written in old English really put it up to the pupils – but they were word-perfect and the quality of acting was superb. Well done boys and girls. Shakespeare is probably somewhere saying “so smile the heavens” on this very convincing performance – we doubt it not!
A large crowd of parents, grandparents and friends joined us on the night. After some tea and refreshments on this beautiful June evening, it was all into the Senior Room for our 6th Class Farewell, which included songs and poetry and ended on a very fine and witty PowerPoint presentation by 5th class for the 6th class.
We wish our 6th class every good wish and blessing as they leave us for their new secondary schools. You have been wonderful contributors here over the years and we shall all miss you. Bon Chance!
History Day at Dunsany NS
Living History Day @ Dunsany N.S., 29 May 2014
For our Living History Day pupils and teachers dressed in old- style clothing. We also had some interesting historical characters – Martin Luther King, Al Capone, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Sinatra, Marie Antoinette, the Great Geisha and a 1920’s charlston girl.
Everyone went to great lengths to ‘get the look’. We were most impressed by you all. A ‘huge thank’ you and ‘well done’ to all the mums, dads and pupils for all your efforts. The pupils looked so authentic. The day was topped off by an interesting display by Kilmessan man Richard Farrelly, chairperson of Navan Historical Society. Richard brought along his vast collection of artefacts and fielded questions from the pupils for nigh on two hours! Thank you to Richard for giving the pupils the opportunity to see and touch items from our past.
Remember what Richard told us….
“The worst handwriting is better than the best memory.”
In other words, get writing! Keep records! Ask questions of your parents, grandparents and great grandparents and write down what you learn. Who knows maybe the pupils of Dunsany NS in 2114 will be reading your records and handling your artefacts!
History Field Trip
The Senior Room took themselves off to Dublin recently on one of their History Field Trips. The day began at Trinity College Library where we viewed the Book of Kells. It’s a great exhibit, well worth the visit. Did you know that there was a ‘purposeful’ mistake made on each page – to show that we are not perfect! We made friends with a couple of retired school teachers from Kentucky at the exhibit. We convinced them to include a trip to the Hill of Tara in their itinerary.
On to the Science Gallery at Trinity then. They’re running a Failure Exhibition at the moment. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett. We actually have that quote in our classroom! We learned that from failure comes success.
After a quick lunch, we took a gallop around St. Stephen’s Green, where the pigeons took a liking to our Lorcan! Onwards then to the National Museum on Kildare Street. Mary Jane our guide, gave us a great talk and her undivided attention for over an hour. She took us right from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, onto the Celtic Iron Age and finished off with a very informative talk on the Bog Bodies. We took ourselves off to the Viking Exhibition, The Egyptians & Christianity in Ireland then. We saw the Tara Brooch, the Ardagh Chalice & Derrynaflan Chalice. We really had a most interesting visit.
An ice-cream finished off the evening nicely! A great day was had by all. Watch out for our written recollections on what we saw on our History Field Trip – coming soon!
Confirmation 2014
Sixth Class made their Confirmation on 2nd of March 2014 in Kilmessan Church, along with their neighbours and friends from sixth class in Kilmessan N.S. The ceremony celebrated by the Bishop of Meath, Bishop Michael Smith was concelebrated by our PP Fr Toner.The choir comprised 3rd-5th classes from both schools. It was a lovely ceremony in which the pupils partook ably and reverently.
Congratulations to all our sixth class pupils.
Congratulations Morgan
Morgan Byrne (6th class) was chosen to represent our school at the National Football League Exhibition Match between Meath & Galway on 2 February 2014. Congratulations Morgan on this great opportunity. We hope you really enjoyed this experience amongst the ‘chosen few’ from Meath.
Morgan is pictured here on the right with members of the composite team.
