Europe Day 2016
June 7th, 2016Ms. Fitzgerald opened our Europe Day Assembly by welcoming our guest Pat Breen TD. We extended the welcome by starting the European Handshake which included the entire school community present that day. The European Handshake was to acknowledge the solidarity and diversity that exists between us as EU citizens. The handshake symbolised the day that then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman extended the hand of friendship to old enemy Germany, to put war behind them and to forge a peaceful continent.
After the European Handshake each class performed songs, poems and facts for the school and our guests.
We then had a word from Pat Breen who told us about his travels around the EU and stories of other meeting other school children. He also spoke about how lucky we are to be part of Europe Union and how there has been peace since the signing of the Treaty of Paris after World War II.
Two children from each class remained behind in the hall to show the class projects on the European country which they had studied to Pat Breen. All projects were on display in the hall. Pat Breen also viewed Scratch Projects on Croatia, Italy, Road Safety Rules set in the EU, European Flags and even a personalised welcome from Luna the Eurobot!
Mobile Farm Visit 2016
June 7th, 2016Agri Aware’s mobile farm came to visit our school. A farmer called Eoin told us all about farm animals and how they live. We learned that pigs are actually very clean animals and that they only roll around in muck when they want to cool down. When a hen lays an egg and there is a chick in the egg, the hen won’t come off the egg until it hatches. Geese can be quite vicious to humans so you should take extra care when near them. There are many different breeds of each farm animal. We met a saddleback pig, a texel sheep, a rhode island red hen and a freisin calf. We got to rub a baby chicken and some of us were even brave enough to give it a little kiss!! Volunteers for this challenge were as rare as hens teeth!!
