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School Closure Fun Activities 2020
As you can see from all these amazing photographs the boys and girls from Third and Fourth Class have been very busy doing lots of fun activities during the school closures. Well done Third and Fourth Class!
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Hello Third and Fourth Class - Monday, 8th June 2020
Just a quick message to say hello to all the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class. I cannot believe that it has been so long since I have seen you all!! I know you have been all very busy doing your school work so well done and I am so proud of each and every one of you! It has been great getting to talk to most of you during our zoom calls every week and hearing about everything ye have been up to. You have all been very busy indeed and it is great to hear that you are all outside enjoying this lovely weather. I have also been getting lots of updates from you parents over emails in how you are getting on and all the fun activities you have been doing at home. I love seeing at all the photographs!
This week is an exciting week. If we were in school we would have been having our Sport's Day on Friday, 12th June 2020. We are still having our Sport's Day but with a difference this year! Our Kilbride National School Sport's Day at Home! I know a lot of you have been very busy practising and preparing for Friday. It is going to be so much fun!!
I'll chat to Third Class this Wednesday and then I'll chat to Fourth Class next Wednesday. In the mean time enjoy the lovely weather and stay safe!
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Maths Riddles
Something fun for all the family to help you with! See how many you can figure out! Remember it only a bit of fun! **I’ll email the answers to you all on Friday and you can see how you did!!**
School Closure Work 8th - 12th June 2020
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Dingbats
Something fun for all the family to help you with! See how many you can figure out! You have to look at the pictures and try and figure out what the pictures mean! Remember it only a bit of fun! **I’ll email the answers to you all on Friday and you can see how you did!!**
Eg: Picture Number 1 – Seven Seas
School Closure Work – 2nd - 5th June 2020
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School Closure Work – 25th - 29th May 2020
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School Closure Work – 18th - 22nd May 2020
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School Closure Work – 11th - 15th May 2020
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School Closure Work – 5th - 8th May 2020
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Active School Week is here.. but with a twist! For one year only, please welcome... Active Home Week!
If you are brave enough, have a look at our school website and Facebook pages to see what's involved! Send any photos of the activities or challenges you engage with to your class teacher and we can upload to our Active Home Week page!
Have fun and get active!
Check out the Active Schools Week tan on this website for lots of ideas...
This is the main link where you can get lots of ideas on what to do at home for Active Home Week!! https://activeschoolflag.ie/index.php/active-home-week-2020/
Another great website is “Healthy Ireland”. On this site you will find ways to eat healthy, be active and wellbeing advice; https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/healthy-ireland/
Have fun and get active!
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Website Links to keep you active during Active Home Week
School Closure Work - 27th April to 1st May 2020
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Third and Fourth Class – Maths Challenge (27th April – 1st May 2020)
Here is the Maths Challenge Problem Solving Cards for this week (27th April 2020 – 1st May 2020). The children will need these again next week if the schools are to remain closed.
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Recommendations for Supporting Children with Anxiety
I know this can be a very worrying time for some children. Here is some excellent advice, ideas and resources to use with children who are suffering from anxiety during these school closures..
National Drop Everything and Read Challenge
The children in Third and Fourth Class all do DEAR Time at some stage during their school day.. 📚 📖
A National Drop Everything and Read Challenge has been arranged for tomorrow, Friday the 24th April 2020 at 12pm for 20 minutes… why not choose your favourite book, magazine, newspaper, audio book etc…. and take part in this challenge! 📚📖📚📖 Click below on the link to register!! Enjoy your DEAR Time 😊📚📖
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Happy Birthday
We have had two birthdays in Third and Fourth Class since the schools closed back on the 12th March 2020. Happy Birthday to Sean and Pearce who have celebrated their birthdays during the school closures. Everyone in Kilbride National School wish you a very happy birthday and we hope you both had a super day!
School Closures 2020
The boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class have been keeping very busy during these school closures. Here are some pictures that have been sent to me to show what they have been getting up to while they are at home. Children in Third and Fourth Class have been busy doing their school work, cooking, learning to tie their show laces, doing bubble experiments, working on their laptops, learning how to play chess and lots lots more! Keep up the great work Third and Fourth Class!
World Earth Day 2020 - Wednesday, 22nd April 2020
World Earth Day 2020 takes place today, Wednesday the 22nd April 2020. Some ideas you could do at home to celebrate this day would be to design a poster to encourage people to look after our Planet Earth, go on a scavenger hunt, explore the nature right in your back garden, do a bit of gardening and look at ways that we can recycle ♻️ 🌏
https://www.twinkl.ie/ also have lots of fun activities for the children; PowerPoint presentations, comprehensions, information sheets, mindfulness colouring, recipes, art and resource packs on lots of different topics etc…..
The official website for World Earth Day 2020 is https://www.earthday.org
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Well Being and Mental Health Journal for Children
Here is another fun activity book for you to go at home. There are lots of fun activities to complete as well as a lot of opportunities to talk together at home about how you are felling during this time. It is very important to look after our well being during this time at home as a whole family.
https://www.otb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/At-Home-with-Weaving-Well-being-A-Mental-Health-Journal-for-Kids.pdf?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign
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The Great Isolation Activity Book
If you are finding that you have your school work all done and you want something extra to do, this booklet is full of lots of fun and creative activities. Why not open it to get some ideas of what you can do while you are at home!
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School Closure Work - 20th to 24th April 2020
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Welcome Back to Virtual School
Welcome back to all the children in Third and Fourth Class! I was hoping we would be back in the classroom at this stage but it is sadly not the case. I hope you all had a lovely Easter holidays. I have emailed you through your work for this week. It is also available on this page, our class page, and the homework page if you cannot find it in your emails. I have also put up lots of fun activities on the school website and on Facebook for everyone to look at if you are bored at home! If your parents need to contact me they can do so on mrsscrosby@hotmail.com if you have any queries regarding your work. I really hope I see you all soon. Enjoy your week and above all stay safe and keep washing those hands!
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School Closures 2020
I just wanted to come on and say "Hello" to all the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class. I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well. I hope that I will see you all very soon, hopefully when the Easter holidays are over! I know Mrs. Murphy has emailed you all the work for this week. I have also put it up on our class section of the website if you need it! I hope you are all doing a little bit every day and are getting outside for some exercise and fun! Getting outside is very important for your health and well being. I have also set up an email (mrsscrosby@hotmail.com) should the parents need to get in contact with me regarding questions and queries about the work that I have set for Third and Fourth Class or if they wish to request more work. I have already seen some great photographs and videos of the wonderful things you are doing at home (learning to tie your shoelaces and cooking). Keep up the great work!! I would also like to say a HUGE "Happy Birthday" to any of my Third and Fourth Class who have birthdays during these school closures. I hope you have a lovely day celebrating with your family. Finally, have you entered our school Easter Competition? I wonder can you guess which baby is me!!!
So remember; stay safe, keep washing those hands, keep a safe distance from all the people who do not live in your house and above all do something fun every day!
Missing you all and hope to see you all very soon!
Mrs. Crosby
School Closure Work - Monday, 30th March - 3rd April 2020
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School Closure Work - Friday, 13th March - 27th March 2020
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Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 7th February 2020
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Sean M
Handwriting Award: Lucy and Cian
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Alex
Planet Protector Award: Michele
Friendship Award: William
Typist of the Week: Aoife and Ellie - Mai
Bird Feeders
Third and Fourth Class have been working very hard this week at making bird feeders. The weather is very cold outside and we thought it would be a good idea to make some bird feeders to feed the hungry birds! We wrote the steps into our science copy and drew a picture of the end result. The children then worked in groups and we made four different bird feeders. When the bird feeders were made we then filled them with peanuts or bird seed before bringing them out to hang around the school area. They really enjoyed the activity, as you can see from the photographs!
We also learned some interesting facts in our lesson today:
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Third and Fourth Classes finished bird feeders are out around the school for the hungry birds ahead of the cold weekend ahead. Well done again to all the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class for their hard work. The birds are going to be very happy!
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Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 31st January 2020
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Sofia
Handwriting Award: Christopher
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Sean H
Planet Protector Award: Ellie - Mai
Friendship Award: Sean O' S
Principal Awards
Well done to all the children who have won awards this year so far! A special mention has to go to the children who have won Mrs. Murphy's special Principal's Award this year. The children who have won this award this year so far are: Daragh, Senan, Scott, Elsie, Kate, Sofia, Ryan, Lenny and Cian. Congratulations to all these boys and girls! Well Done.
Primary Language Curriculum
The children have been working very hard in Third and Fourth Class since returning after the Christmas holidays. We have been doing a lot of work in all curricular areas. We have been really engaging with the new Primary Language Curriculum. We do "Word of the Day" and "Focal an Lae" every day. We have a "Word Bank" and a "Stór Focal" where we add new and interesting words to it. We have been busy learning the Aimsir Chaite and the Aimsir Láithreach. We have learnt lots of new "Frásaí" in Gaeilge. We have translated our class rules, months of the year, seasons, the RUCSAC Rule and WILF and WALT into Gaeilge. The children also focus on different comprehension strategies and writing genres during the month. And finally, the children were very busy writing an Irish story this week titled "Ag teacht ar scoil ar maidin". We are very busy here in Third and Fourth Class. Well done to all the boys and girls who are working very hard and keep up the great work!
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Primary Language Curriculum
As you are all aware we are implementing the new Primary Language Curriculum in the areas of English and Gaeilge with all the children from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. Click on the link below to access the Information Leaflet for Parents and to find out further information about the new Primary Language Curriculum.
https://www.ncca.ie/…/40…/info-sheet-for-parents-English.pdf
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Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 24th January 2020
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Senan
Handwriting Award: Hannah
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: William
Planet Protector Award: Kate
Friendship Award: Charlie
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Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 17th January 2020
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Hannah
Handwriting Award: Jennifer
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Charlie
Planet Protector Award: Daragh
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Welcome Back
Welcome back to everyone in Third and Fourth Class. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and had some well earned rest. We have a very busy term ahead! I know you are all going to work very hard during this term ahead.
Stable Manners
Well done to all the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class for their production of the play "Stable Manners". You all did a great job on the night and the show was a huge hit with the audience. Mrs. Crosby is so proud of you all and well done again!
Blue Star History Projects
The children in Third and Fourth Class are working very hard in groups researching and doing projects about famous Europeans as part of the Blue Star Programme. The famous people and the groups are as follows:
Aoife, Ryan, Elsie and Senan
Alex, Michael, Kate and Cian
Michele, Daragh, Charlie and Seán
Werner, Hugo, Jennifer and Caolán
Pearce, Lauren, Lucy, Scott and Hannah
Sam, Ellie – Mai, Luke and William
Lenny, Donal, Sofia and Christopher
Sean, Hannah – Mai, Sean and Joe
Hurling Training - Tuesday, 12th November 2019
The children are really enjoying their training in hurling and camoige every Tuesday with Michelle.
Science Day - Tuesday, 12th November 2019
The children had a great day today at the Science Day. They did a great job at demonstrating all their science experiments. Well done to all the Third and Fourth Class boys and girls!
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Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Ellie - Mai
Handwriting Award: Sam
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Cian
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Halloween Fancy Dress
The children in Third and Fourth Class put in a lot of effort this year into all their costumes! Don't they all look so scary!! I hope that everyone has a very enjoyable and safe Halloween and I will see you all in November! Happy Halloween to everybody from Mrs. Crosby!
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Outdoor Classroom
The children in Third and Fourth Class enjoyed doing their SPHE lessons out in our Outdoor Classroom this week!
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Student Council Representatives from Third and Fourth Class
Congratulations to Daragh and Sam who were voted by their classmates to represent Third and Fourth Class on the Student Council. Well done boys!
Cups for Cancer - Tuesday, 1st October 2019
Third and Fourth Class made a great effort to get all their pink clothing and accessories out today to show their support for Cups for Cancer. Well done Third and Fourth Class!
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Hurling and Camoige Skills - Monday, 30th September 2019
The children in Third and Fourth Class really enjoyed learning hurling and camoige skills today. They learned how to throw and catch the sliotar as well as hitting the sliotar with the hurley along the ground. They are already looking forward to next week. Well done to all the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class for taking part and giving it a try!
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Busy Week here in Third and Fourth Class - Thursday, 26th September 2019
Third and Fourth Class have had a very busy week so far! We have been busy working on our European projects at home on a Tuesday night. We had Gaelic football training this week. The boys went off on Tuesday to play against Moynalty and they won! Today we celebrated National Fitness Day by doing extra exercises inside and outside the classroom. We also celebrated European Day of Languages today - we found out the languages spoken in the countries that we are doing our projects on, we talked in class about the different languages and the children did a wordsearch then on different ways we can say hello in different languages! Very busy indeed! We have also been doing work in all our other subjects. And, we still have tests, swimming and voting in the Student Presidential Election to look forward to tomorrow. Phew!!
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Green Day - Friday, 20th September 2019
Third and Fourth Class, as well as the rest of the children in Kilbride NS, got to dress all in green today to show their support to the Irish Rugby team playing in the Rugby World Cup in Japan. The children also enjoyed watching the Opening Ceremony today. From all the children in Third and Fourth Class and Mrs. Crosby we wish the Irish Rugby team the best of luck in the competition! COYBIG!
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Rugby World Cup Sweepstake – Third and Fourth Class
Each child has chosen their country out of a hat and the winner of the sweepstake, in the Rugby World Final, will win a homework pass! Good luck to all the children in Third and Fourth Class.
| Name | Country |
| Christopher | Russia |
| Hannah | Namibia |
| Ellie – Mai | Wales |
| Michael | Canada |
| William | Japan |
| Hugo | Australia |
| Ryan | Argentina |
| Senan | Italy |
| Cian | England |
| Daragh | France |
| Sean H | USA |
| Lenny | Samoa |
| Sean M | South Africa |
| Jennifer | Ireland |
| Joe | Scotland |
| Scott | New Zealand |
| Luke | Uruguay |
| Werner | Fiji |
| Caolan | Georgia |
| Sam | Tonga |
| Lauren | England |
| Lucy | Canada |
| Alex | Ireland |
| Donal | Argentina |
| Charlie | Australia |
| Pearce | Georgia |
| Aoife | South Africa |
| Kate | Tonga |
| Michele | France |
| Sofia | Japan |
| Elsie | USA |
| Hannah – May | Uruguay |
| Sean O’ S | Russia |
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Third and Fourth Class News - Friday, 13th September 2019
Third and Fourth Class have been working very hard this week for Mrs. Crosby. We were all journalists this week and we published our own newspaper articles on the opening of Kilbride National School’s Outdoor Classroom. We have also been very busy learning all about Mé Féin and the Aimsir Chaite in Gaeilge. We have been putting a lot of work into learning our tables this week as well as place value and rounding in Maths. We also learned a little about the history of rugby and the history of the Rugby World Cup in preparation for this year’s World Cup starting next Friday in Japan. And that is just a tiny taster on all the hard work which has taken place in our classroom this week!! As well as the above some of the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class took part in the Gaelic Football competition which started this week. The children also received their European country, which they will be responsible for, for the duration of the Blue Star Programme. The children are all so excited to start their projects based on their European country! And finally, the children all enjoyed their first swimming lesson of this school year which took place today. Well done this week to all the boys and girls in Third and a Fourth Class. Keep up the great work! Mrs. Crosby is so proud of you all!![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1568372548308{background-color: #1e73be !important;}"]
Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 13th September 2019
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Lucy
Handwriting Award: Elsie
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Hannah
Planet Protector Award: Lauren
Friendship Award: Daragh
Blue Star Programme – Projects
| Name | Country |
| Christopher | Albania |
| Hannah | Austria |
| Ellie – Mai | Belgium |
| Michael | Bulgaria |
| William | Croatia |
| Hugo | Cyprus |
| Ryan | Denmark |
| Senan | Estonia |
| Cian | Finland |
| Daragh | Sweden |
| Sean H | Germany |
| Lenny | Greece |
| Sean M | Hungary |
| Jennifer | Ireland |
| Joe | France |
| Scott | Latvia |
| Luke | Lithuania |
| Werner | Luxembourg |
| Caolan | Malta |
| Sam | Netherlands |
| Lauren | Norway |
| Lucy | Poland |
| Alex | Portugal |
| Donal | Romania |
| Charlie | Russia |
| Pearce | Slovakia |
| Aoife | Slovenia |
| Kate | Spain |
| Michele | Italy |
| Sofia | Switzerland |
| Elsie | Turkey |
| Hannah – May | Ukraine |
| Sean O’ S | United Kingdom |
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Third and Fourth Class Prize Winners – Friday, 6th September 2019
Well done to Third and Fourth Class for all their hard work this week. Congratulations to my winners of the classroom awards this week!
Star of the Week: Michele
Handwriting Award: Ryan
Gaeilgóir ns Seactaine: Scott
Planet Protector Award: Sofia
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Welcome Back
First full week back at school complete! The children have all settled back and are getting used to the routine of the school day once again. I would like to welcome back all the children in Third and Fourth Class this year. They have all worked really hard this week! Well done Third and Fourth Class. We have a very exciting year ahead of us with lots of work and lots of fun activities planned! We are especially looking forward to the football and the swimming which are starting next week. This year the children in Third and Fourth Class will also take part in the Blue Star Programme, where they will be learning all about the European Union. Finally, we will also be doing a lot of activities around the upcoming Rugby World Cup! And that is just in September!! Keep up the great work Third and Fourth Class.
