Our Self Portraits by Ashton
A self portrait is a portrait of yourself. We drew these on the 1st of September. Our two new Junior Infants are called Aoibhinn and Shay. Ashton
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Fred The Party Professor – Isabella Walsh
Last week we had a visit from Fred The Party Professor. He juggled knives and swords, it was cool! Fred also juggled hula hoops. Fred asked Michael to go up and look through a window, on the other side there was a costume so it looked like Michael was dressed up. Fred got junior and […]
Continue ReadingBallinglen Arts Centre – Jamie McHale
Last Wednesday we went to Ballycastle to the Arts Centre. We were greeted and brought to do some drawing. It was a three part drawing. One person drew the head of a creature, one person drew the body and one person drew the legs. After that we had our lunch. Later we got to do […]
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Last Friday we had a visit from the circus. There was a funny clown, he kept blowing the trumpet. We saw a boy who could juggle swords. There was a girl doing hula hooping, she could do it with lots of hoops. The boy was balancing on a plank of wood which was on a […]
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Mount Palmer National School Our Self-Evaluation Report and Improvement Plan December 2018 1. Introduction This document records the findings of this self-evaluation and our current improvement plan, including targets and the actions we will implement to meet the targets. 1.1 The focus of the evaluation A school self-evaluation of teaching and learning in handwriting was […]
Continue ReadingThe Famine Exhibition – Sam Ward
Last Thursday we were at the famine exhibition in Ballina. We went in and we were invited to watch a fifteen minute movie all about the famine. After that we had went around the room answering questions on a sheet that Mr. McGregor gave us. We learned how many people died of starvation. There was […]
Continue ReadingChristmas Show – Emma O’Boyle
Our Christmas show was held on the 21st of December in Kilfian Church. There were two plays. The junior room play was called ‘The Sleepy Shepherd’. It was about a shepherd who was really sleepy, he was too sleepy to look after his sheep. He woke up properly when he saw an angel. She told […]
Continue ReadingHalloween Disco – Patrick Moyles
We had a Halloween Disco in the school hall. It was on during the holidays. Some of the parents organised it for us. Everyone dressed in costumes. I dressed up as a skeleton. There were ghosts, devils, the Incredible Hulk and a ninja. At the disco we played games, we got sweets and we danced. […]
Continue ReadingTeam Hope Shoe Box Appeal – Emma O’Boyle
In October a lady called Eamhair came to school to tell us about the Team Hope Christmas Shoe box appeal. We learned that some poor people have no homes and maybe no parents. At Christmas they would not be getting any presents. Team Hope give each poor child a shoe box with toys and other […]
Continue ReadingOur School Garden – Ashton Moyles
Last year we planted potatoes and other vegetables in our school garden. They grew really well. Last week we dug them up. Tommy Walshe helped us. We dug up carrots, potatoes and onions. We got a lot of potatoes. Some were big, some were small. We washed the potatoes, we peeled them and then we […]
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