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Click here Family Note No 18 25th Mar 2010[1]

In drama, we pretended to live in the Kingdom of Queen Caroline. She wore a tiara and she was very spoilt. She didn’t want to tidy her bedroom and she threw out her magic clock. We had to get the clock back because it changes one season to the next and we want Spring to arrive. The clock, it transpired, had fallen into the hands of the nasty Dragon, who lived way across the Kingdom. We decided what to bring on our journey to the Dragon and we set off across mountains, rivers and fire while chanting ‘WE ARE BRAVE, WE ARE CLEVER, PROBLEMS DON’T DEFEAT US EVER.’ We confronted the Dragon who had a long tail, spines on his back and wore glasses. Despite the fact that he breathed fire he turned out to be a very kind Dragon. We decorated his den and, in return, he gave us back the magic clock. We convinced Queen Caroline to be nice to the Dragon and when she turned the magic clock to thirteen (for it is magic after all!) Spring came to the Kingdom. We placed pictures of woolly lambs and sheep eating in green fields all over the Kingdom. Take a look at the photos below to see the magic WE created.

Click here - CAL 2010

Staff Meeting on Friday, 12th March. All pupils home at 12 noon.

As part of the Energy and Forces strand of the Science curriculum, Michael O’Leary, local electrician, explains to sixth class pupils,the parts and functions of smoke alarms, emergency lighting, heat detectors and street lights.

Thursday the 4th of March was World Book Day. Boys and Girls from 5th class came down to read some library books with Senior Infants. Our class really enjoyed listening to all the stories. We also had a colouring competition. We coloured one of our favourite characters – The Gruffalo.