Dia daoibh (Dee-ya yee uv)
We had a lovely week celebrating the Irish language and culture .The Irish language is certainly alive and well here in Our Lady of Lourdes ns.
We had some lovely performances at assembly and you can see them below .6th class expertly forecasted the weather for us, 1st class showed their fierceness by doing the Haka Gaelach, 2nd class made us very feel patriotic by singing "Irelands call", 3,Rd gave very dramatic performances of some lovely poems about a leprechaun and a pencil,4th class sang a song about emigration, Irish people leaving Ireland across the waves (Trasna na dtonnta), 5th class performed the Rathlin Bog and also a round of An Dreolin. The infants did brilliant poems about a lovely yellow teddy and if your happy and you know it as Gaeilge.
Some children also impressed us by performing a traditional Irish dance, Na Baliigh Luimnigh
Lá Féile Padraig daoibh.
What an incredible week of football for our school! Both the boys' and girls' teams competed in their blitz tournaments, showing amazing teamwork, determination, and skill.
We are so proud to share that both teams made it through the group stages and into the finals, playing their hearts out and doing absolutely fantastic! 🎉
Their hard work, sportsmanship, and team spirit were on full display, and every player should feel really proud of how well they did. They represented the school brilliantly and gave it their all right to the very end.
And this is just the beginning — more competitions are coming up in a few weeks, and we can't wait to see these amazing teams back in action!
Well done, everyone! 👏⚽
Seachtain na Gaeilge takes place next week.
We will celebrate our Irish culture by speaking our native language, explore Irish music and songs. Some classes will practice Irish dancing and we will have lots of craic agus Spraoi on Lá Glas. We will have our annual ceolchoirm on Friday where the children will all perform a song or poem they have learned.
Parents are welcome to come to the junior assembly on Friday where we will have some space set out for you. We can't do at senior assembly unfortunately but videos of performances will be up online.
There is a page on this website for Gaeilge and there are video and audio clips of some basic Irish phrases that you could learn and show your child that you can learn Gaeilge too ☘️🇮🇪
Well done everyone 🙌
It's about the aftermath of Humpty Dumpty falling from the Wall. He overcomes his fears and overcomes obstacles which is a great theme to explore with all ages. The book has wonderful illustrations which we will explore and we are looking forward to some great discussions with the children.
We had a lovely assembly on Friday celebrating the Art of storytelling. Our classes were learning myth/legends from Irish,Greek and Norse mythology. The children showed us the different ways to tell a story and it was great to see such variety in the performances.
We have a storyteller,Aideen McBride, visiting Tuesday, some classes are visiting the library, 6th will read with infant classes, we will have a literacy quiz and also an assembly on Friday where children will do some storytelling of their own .
We hope everyone will enjoy exploring myths and legends and we look forward to hearing and seeing their stories come to life at Assembly.
Senior infants were absolutely delighted to be announced as winners of the Christmas Door Competition in December. The class won a day to trip out to Spraoi in January and thoroughly enjoyed their visit! The pictures below capture all the fun and excitement of the day!
The children sang Christmas songs depicting the story of the Nativity, while 1st class did a freeze frame of the nativity scene.
It reminded us all of the true meaning of Christmas and why we celebrate it.
