Talbot Senior National School

We had such a great Halloween celebration today! I will put up the scary pictures of all the great costumes when we return to school after the midterm break!

Have a great week everybody!

Our Bookworm Reading Club is going brilliantly. Our “Bookworms” read with an adult tutor and also read stories online. We always play a word game at the end and receive special bookworm prizes!
Bookworm club is facilitated by CYS and funded by Xilinx – THANK YOU!

In the Parents Flower Arranging Course, this week they made scary Halloween Wreaths and lovely Halloween candle lamps!

Well done to 4th and 6th classes who are doing Paired Reading!

Again thanks to parents for coming in to read with your child!

The parents’ flower arranging class was very busy this morning creating fabulous Egg Trees!

Today, Wednesday, Class Munster (Mr Stuart’s 3^rd Class) investigated just how old are most teachers’ cars. Are they all new? All old? How old? Before you find out, what do you think?

Well, first the class went into the teachers’ car park (not just teachers—also SNAs, visitors, and Nano Nagle staff) and looked at the registration plates. They tallied how many cars were bought in each year (90s, 00, 01, 02, … 10, 11). Then they checked their data before making a bar chart. What did they find out?

1. There were 54 cars in all.
2. 19 cars were 5 years old or newer; 35 were over 5 years old.
3. 12 cars were over 10 years old.
4. Half the cars were bought in 2004 or before, half after 2004.
5. The years that most cars were bought in were 2003 (6) and 2007 (9).
6. Only two cars were bought this year.

Last year in October another 3^rd class did this investigation. There were 57 cars last year. Are more teachers ‘Walking on Wednesdays’ (W.O.W.)?

Paired Reading started in 4th and 6th class yesterday! 

Wow look at the lovely flower arrangements the parents made yesterday!

Our Flower Arranging Course for parents has been a huge success so far. It takes place on a Thursday from 9.15am to 11.15am.  In this picture you can see that they have made little lavender bags to be hung inside a wardrobe to keep clothes smelling lovely!