Virtual Sports Day Results and Photographs
A big well done to all the children and their families who participated in virtual sports day on Friday and the preparation activities beforehand. It was great to see you all keeping active while at home. Your hard work earned our school 3rd place in the national leader board! Our school leader board finished up with 6th class in 1st place, 1st class in 2nd Continue Reading
Encouraging a love of stories :YouTube video
Now more than ever it is important to encourage children to keep reading during the summer before the return to school in September. Reading is not meant to be a chore, it can be great fun and enjoyable. This video should give some advice to you.
6th class Farewell video
Today we say Goodbye to our wonderful 6th class students. The majority of them have been here since Junior infants although some came and went along the way. We hope to say goodbye face to face on the 21st of August at a graduation ceremony but in the meantime have a great summer and best of luck in secondary school. Note: You might need to Continue Reading
Class of 2020 Graduation Ceremony
Class of 2020- Graduation Ceremony Date: Friday 21st of August Location: Our Lady of Lourdes NS Time: 7:00pm Graduation will be different and better this year as 6th class have missed out on so much this year ,so we wanted to make it special. You will get to wear their robes and have their photograph taken with hat. Some children will be doing readings and Continue Reading
School garden
Ms Merrys garden is blooming at the moment as she is minding some of our Garden Clubs plants. At this time of the year we would be so busy harvesting our peas beans, strawberries, blueberries carrots, salad leaves, courgette etc but unfortunately we have had to let some of those plants go and I minded what I could from home. We would normally be cooking Continue Reading
Graduation Preparation
Despite all the restrictions we in OLOL are determined to give our Class of 2020 the best send off possible as they leave us to go to secondary school. On the 30th of June, their official last day of primary school we will send out a video for the class with pictures from their journey in OLOL. To do this we need to gatehr photos of Continue Reading
4th Class STEM
Last week 4th class enjoyed some great STEM activities. We completed some design and make activities, wrote summaries, and looked into some jobs that involve STEM. We all really enjoyed our STEM days! I was so impressed with the children’s design and make activities! Here are a few of them below 🙂 Here is an animal enclosure made by Riley Lewis made a boat that Continue Reading
Sports Day: High Jump
This week’s Virtual Sports day event to practise is the high jump. Have a look at Mr Minogue’s video explaining how to do it and try it out yourself. Don’t forget to track it on the Healthy Kidz app to earn points for you and your class. 1st class are catching up on 6th class at the top of the leaderboard so keep up the Continue Reading