Happy Christmas Everyone!

Our Lady's N.S. would like to wish all our students and their families a happy Christmas. Don't eat too much turkey!

Class of the Month - November

A very excited Junior Room were the deserved winners of Class of the Month for November. Mrs Egan attributed their victory to their good behaviour in the line, their improvement in waiting for their turn to speak and how well they played with each other in the yard. Well done Junior and Senior Infants.

Mark Ivors - A Visit from an Engineer

On Monday, December 7th, Fifth and Sixth Class received a visit from local man Mark Ivors. Mark spoke to the students about his career as an engineer. He showed them a PowerPoint about the role of the engineer and the different types of engineering that there are. He spoke about the importance of Maths and Science in engineering. He then spent time answering questions from the class. We would like to thank Mark for taking the time to visit us. We enjoyed his visit very much.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Treat Time for Parents – Cookery Demonstration Thursday, 10th December – 10:00am

Treat Time for Parents – Floral Demonstration Tuesday, 15th December – 10:00am

Christmas Non-Uniform Day Friday, 18th December

Children’s Christmas Mass Monday, 21st December

Bumper Christmas Raffle Monday, 21st December

Christmas Holidays Tuesday, 22nd December – 12:00pm

Return to School Wednesday, 6th January

Fund Raising Whist Drive Monday, 11th January – Community Hall, Ballingarry

Fund Raising Bag Pack Friday, 26th and Saturday 27th February – Dunnes Stores (Thurles)

Presentation of the Irish Flag

On Friday, 20th November all of the school gathered in the library because Sergeant Kennedy and Private Flynn were visiting Our Lady's. The two soldiers came to present us with a copy of the 1916 Proclamation and the Irish flag. Isabelle and Thomas received the gifts and Kealy read the fourth paragraph from the Proclamation.
Sergeant Kennedy told us that all of the schools in Ireland will raise the flag at 12pm on March 15th.
Sergeant Kennedy spoke for 12 minutes. When he asked questions we answered them all correctly so we don't have homework on Monday. At the end we all stood up and sang Amhrán na bhFiann. Then we got to ask the two soldiers some questions.
- by Orla Ivors, Fifth Class

Presentation Secondary School Open Day

Our Sixth Class students had a wonderful day on Friday as guests of Mrs Cahill at the Presentation Secondary School. The eleven boys and girls got a little taster of life in Secondary school as they got to take part in French, Art, PE, Woodwork and Home Economics activities. They were hugely impressed with the beautiful new facilities at our local Secondary school and no doubt are looking forward to September and the next big step in their educational journey.

Science Week

November 8th -15th is Science Week and Third and Fourth Class have been very busy. We were learning all about friction and experimenting to see which surfaces caused the most amount of friction and slowed down our race car.  We also experimented with air pressure and made a balloon rocket.
On Thursday we took part in a table quiz.  There were 8 rounds with 6 questions each.  We had great fun answering all the questions and learned lots of new information too.  Well done to the winning team pictured below.

Here are some new facts that we learned during Science Week:
A geologist is a person who studies all about rocks.A female elephant is called a cow.
Bronze is made from copper and tin.Rabbits are born blind.A filament is a wire found inside a light bulb.Here is a link to our balloon rocket experiment - https://sciencebob.com/make-a-balloon-rocket/