Fun Day – Raffle Prizes

Posted on May 10, 2012 by staff

St. Cecilias school are holding a Fun Day this Saturday 12th May. Come along with your friends and family for a great afternoon out, and buy yourself a cake, have your face painted, enjoy the BBQ or spend time with the Angel reader. There are lots more activities for young and old including a bonnie baby competition where there are three prizes to be won.

Bumper Raffle Prizes donated by local businesses.?Thank you so much to them. Please support.
Raffle will be held just before the end of the Fun For All Day at approximately 4.15 pm.

1. €300 Oasis Music 6 weeks
2. €100 Pixifoto Cleveragh
3. Meal for Two Radisson Hotel Sligo
4. 6 weeks membership Avena Leisure Ballisodare
5. €50 Angelina’s Grocery Shop, Quayside
6. €50 Home Décor Quayside
7. €50 Meal Voucher Canal View Keshcarrigan
8. €50 Rossanos Beauticans Wine Street, Sligo (donated by friend)
9. €50 Argos Giftcard (donated by parent)
10. €25 Salus Beauty Salon Ballisodare
11. €20 Molly Fultons Voucher
12. Restyle – Cora Ladies Salon, Tobergal Lane
13. Family Feast KFC and 10 piece bargain bucket
14. Supermacs Collossus Meal Deal * 2
15. €50 La Femme
16. €25 The Outlet
17. Neck piece, Zulu

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Saturday 12th May – Fun for all day

Posted on April 24, 2012 by staff

St Cecilia’s School are holding a fun for all day at school between 1pm and 4:30pm. Events include a cafe, cake sale, entertainment stalls, sports areas and a BBQ. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the excitement. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Special Olympics – Athletics

Posted on April 10, 2012 by staff

Students have been entered for several upcoming Special Olympic events at Sligo IT on Wednesday 9th May. We have entered assisted walking, independent walking and independent wheelchair events, with students participating at their own level. We will all be training hard over the next few weeks and hope to be as successful as we were last year.

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WOW WESTLIFE

Posted on March 29, 2012 by staff

On Tuesday the 27th March 2012 one of our students Evan got a great surprise. He is a totally committed Westlife fan. On a glorious day in Strandhill while on a community outing with teacher Kate, students spotted Kian Egan of Westlife. Kian was very kind and readily agreed to have his photograph taken with Evan. There was no problem persuading Evan to have his photo taken with Kian!!!!!

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Active School Flag Week

Posted on March 9, 2012 by staff

Active school flag week has been announced. The active school committee have decided on the week of June 5-8 to celebrate all the Physical Education activity that takes place at St Cecilia’s School. During this week there will be special activities such as jersey day and additional physical activities to encourage everyone to be more active. Any parent wishing to join the Active School Flag committee pleas contact Ben at school.

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It’s just right!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by staff

 Pink Class have been busy so far this term and learned lots about different foods. We have worked hard at our reading book ‘Oh my, Apple Pie’ and are having lots of fun smelling the different ingredients and eating chopped red apples. In Maths we learned a new song about our school bags which can be ‘heavy’ or ‘light’ and we all love it when teacher falls off her chair because her bag is too heavy! We have learned a new Folk Dance for PE and are fantastic at following the instructions and love when it gets ‘faster’. Goldilocks has also visited our room and in Science we learned about when our porridge is ‘too hot’, ‘too cold’ and ‘just right’. We even made our own fabric and fibre pizzas in Art and made real ones in cookery. The real ones tasted much nicer ;)

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Green School – Transport Day of Action

Posted on March 7, 2012 by staff

St Cecilia’s Green School Committee organised a day of action for Friday 16th March. We had a great day. The weather was lovely. In the morning some staff parked their cars and walked to school – park ‘n stride and the rest car pooled.  At 11.15 am we had a walking train around Wisdom Services. Everyone enjoyed it. In the afternoon Felix our Chairperson organised Travel Art and students from every class participated. Then we had Assembly and Pink Class gave a dramatic presentation on how to safely cross the road. It was really good. We had three gardaí present to give certificates of participation to every child in the school. Some lucky students got to sit in the patrol car and turn on the siren and flashing lights. It was a great day.

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Green School – Travel

Posted on February 13, 2012 by staff

The staff and pupils of St Cecilia’s School have applied for their fourth green flag award. The theme for this topic is travel.

As you visit St Cecilia’s School you will see three green flags blowing proudly in the wind. These flags were awarded by An Taisce for our efforts in recycling, reducing our energy consumption and conserving water.

Since we started our travel theme, we have new members on our Green School Committee, Ben, Jenny and Steven.

  • We have carried out an environmental review.
  • We are using our travel action plan.
  • We are doing curriculum work around travel.
  • We have had an assembly to choose our travel green code and to learn how to cross the road safely.

Some positive steps we have taken under our travel theme:
93% of students come to school by bus or walking.
Each month staff car pool or cycle or park ‘n stride.
We have held WOF days (Walk on Fridays).
We have held a COW days (Cycle on Wednesday).
10 staff members own and use a bicycle, 6 of these bicycles have been bought in the last year.
2 classes have used public transport for going on community outings.
Pupils have done art work on travel.
Junior Green School Committee have worked in groups, making books about different forms of travel.
Students have used he interactive whiteboard to look at fun ways to travel ie walking, running, cycling, bus, boat, balloon aeroplane and gliding.
Class posters have been produced to help promote sustainable travel.
Two Travel Action Days have been held.
Assemblies have been conducted on the Safe Cross Code.
Walking trains have been carried out around the school.

 

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Special Olympics – Aquatics

Posted on February 9, 2012 by staff

On Wednesday 8th February, Gareth and Shane took part in a Special Olympics aquatics event at the Sports Complex.  Both were entered into the 10m assisted swim and in a very competitive field were successful in achieving a participation ribbon each.  Congratulations to both and with a little more paractice and direct swimming there could be a medal involved next year.

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If you go down to the woods today….

Posted on February 9, 2012 by staff

Our Communication and Language lesson has an added ingredient recently when Green Class went on a sensory picnic.  We went to Hazelwood to read our class poem about Goldilocks and the 3 bears.  We enjoyed listening to the story in a different environment and trying the different types of porridge, just as Goldilocks did in the story.  Gareth particularly enjoyed the hot porridge on a cold morning in January, while Garbhan could not get enough of the cold porridge.  So if you go down to the woods today you will believe your eyes when you see Green Class enjoying another sensory picnic.

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Mobile Phone Collection

Posted on February 3, 2012 by staff

St. Cecilia’s School are collecting old mobile phones in order to exchange for up to date ICT equipment such as laptops and ipads. Have a look in the back of your drawer or in the wardrobe and send in all your old mobile phones to help us reach our target. Thank you

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We need your help.

Posted on January 19, 2012 by staff

We have organised two big fundraising ventures – 22, 23rd and 24th March bag packing in Tescos Sligo. We will shortly ask you to volunteer your time to help with this.

Our Fun Day will take place on Saturday 12th May – More about this soon.

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Incredible Years

Posted on January 19, 2012 by staff

Our principal Éilis went on a course for the First Term. She learned all about Incredible Years. She has taught us some new ideas at Assemblies. “Give Me Five”  helps us to learn to focus on the teacher – Ears open, mouth closed, Eyes on teacher, Hands in lap, Feet on floor/wheelchair!! All the staff are practising “catching us being good” which is easy because we are good most of the time.  We have also met Wally and Steve drew lovely pictures of Wally working hard and putting up his hand. They are all on the Incredible Years Noticeboard.

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Green Cross Code

Posted on December 14, 2011 by staff

We have been working on how to cross the road in Green Class with the help of our class lollipop lady, whom we helped to paint. We all went to Sligo after studying stop, look and listen to put our work into practice. Gareth and Sean practiced pressing the button at the pedestrian crossing and waiting for the red man to change to green before safely crossing the road, while Conor, Linda and Garbhán had their attention drawn to the process and practically participated with the help of the staff. We all enjoyed practising our LÁMH signs for stop, look, listen, wait and walk and also used the whiteboard to examine different forms of transport.

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Active School Flag

Posted on November 5, 2011 by staff

St Cecilia’s School are intending to apply for the active school flag. We are in the process of completing the paperwork and registering our interest in the scheme. If you would like more information or would like to join the Active School Flag Committee please contact Ben Lewis at school or follow the following link
Active School flag

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