Archived : 21 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Spring is in the air!
Our TY students have been busy since March 1st looking after seven chicken eggs and preparing them for hatching in the next day or two! Estimated hatching is from Tuesday 21st (evening) to Wednesday 22nd (morning), and our TY students have been candling, rotating and yes counting their chickens before they've hatched This is a first for our TY programme, and has caused great egg-citement (!) throughout our school community. Today, some of our TY students prepared the incubator for hatching of the eggs, and will now listen for cheeping from within the eggs, that will indicate their imminent arrival. Year groups will get the opportunity to name our chickens and they will be transferred to a brooder with a heat pad, once they are deemed healthy, so will be on display for students and staff. Our TY programme is linked with Nore Valley Farm Park and our chickens will return to the farm before the Easter holidays, and reared to supply eggs.
Below is a link to our showcase of educational videos for the Incubator Project. The showcase contains kids talk, secondary school or adults talkand Q&A of the most commonly asked questions.
Password is Easter23IP
Stay tuned for further updates of cracking news
Archived : 16 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Archived : 16 May 2023, 12:00 AM
1st and 2nd year students were treated to a masterclass in Irish dancing today. This very enjoyable performance by the Morrissey School of Irish Dance (Kildare Irish Figure Dancing) inspired the students, and even some teachers, to get stuck into some Céilí dancing themselves!
Cuireadh taispeántas damhsa ar siúl don Chéad and do Dara Bliain inniu chun Seachtain na Gaeilge a cheiliúradh. Chonaiceamar damhsóirí den chéad scoth agus spreag sé na daltaí chun céilí beag a dhéanamh iad féin. ️
Archived : 16 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Archived : 14 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Our Lenten Project supporting Newbridge Parish Share Food continues right up to our Easter Holidays.
We encourage students to bring in one non-perishable food item for people in need and place it in the containers outside Ms. Allen's office.
Many thanks to those who have already contributed.
Archived : 14 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Here are a selection of the Photography Club's pictures for February. Always capturing the everyday beauty around them.
Archived : 10 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Dear parents/guardians,
At the beginning of this school year, we were kindly given an area at RystonSports and Social Club for our students to create a small garden. As spring has started, it is the perfect time to start planting. Our Green Prefects and TY students will be participating in this activity. This garden will allow students to create a link with the community they live and attend school in.
We are asking parents/guardians to sponsor if possible and/or to donate flowers, shrubs, seeds and any gardening tools such as shovels, spades, hand trowels, buckets, gloves, rakes and wheelbarrows etc. Any donations will be greatly appreciated as we depend on this to grow a beautiful garden for the school and wider community. Donations can be brought to the school preferably by the 27th of March as the students are eager to get gardening!
Some suggestions for equipment and flowers/shrubs are below:
Gardening Equipment
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Shovels
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Spades
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Hoe
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Forks
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Secateurs
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Hand Trowels
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Hand Fork
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Pruners
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Shearers
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Garden kneeler
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Rake
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Dibbers
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Wheelbarrow
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Shears/Clippers
Flowers/Shrubs
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Silver birch - Betula pendula
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Guelder rose - Viburnumopulus
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Holly - Ilex aquifolium
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Honeysuckle - Lonicera periclymenum
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Cotoneaster spp.
Archived : 10 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Holy Family students Ava Tidd, Jade Murray and Emma Byrne have been invited to perform on the 'Move It' Main stage in London this weekend with KNC Performing Arts Company. 'Move It' is the largest dance event in the world and will see 25,000 dancers come together to compete for the coveted prizes. Well done girls and the best of luck!
Archived : 08 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Students from the 5th and 6th Physics classes attended an Engineers week event in Pfizer to celebrate International Women’s day. The students listened to inspirational talks from Pfizer staff working in the Engineering Department and got to experience the latest technologies such as Virtual Reality, AI inspection devices as well as displays from the laboratory departments. Hopefully some of our students were inspired to follow a career in STEM.
Archived : 04 May 2023, 12:00 AM
Our Creative Engagement wall mural with artist and past pupil Gráinne Bath-Enright is almost complete. Well done to the 5th year students who gave their free time after school to paint. The corridor looks beautiful! Looking forward to seeing the completed mural very soon.
