Talbot Senior National School

30 children from 5th class have been chosen to take part in a Dragon’s Den event in Xilinx. Last  Monday, 5 volunteer from Xilinx came out to meet with the 30 children. They split into 5 groups. Each group came up with an idea or invention. They had to decide on the name of their product, where they would sell it, who would buy it, where they would advertise it and how much they would sell it for. On the 6th of November, the children will meet their volunteers up in Xilinx in Citywest. They will spend more time practising their presentation for the Dragons! They will then present their ideas to the Dragons in a hope of receiving investment (not real money!) Thank you to Junior Achievement for organising this event!

We had a great morning eating Cheerios for Childline!

We raised €470.00 for Childline!

Well done everybody!

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In 3rd class, we are using the JUMP Method for adding and subtracting. Here is a video for parents explaining how it is done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9haFFL-AMs

Mr Gilmartin’s 6th Class have just started reading “The Hobbit” written by  J.R.R Tolkien. The film will be released in Ireland in December!

Check out these new books coming to your classroom. Some have been send to each year group – 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th

The Parents Association are organising the Cheerios Childline Breakfast morning on Wednesday the 17th of October!

To take part, all you have to do is bring in a bowl, a spoon and €2. We will supply the Cheerios and milk!

Mr. Ruddy, Ms. Wynne and Ms. Byrne were invited up to Xilinx last week to receive generous funding from Xilinx for our school. We are very grateful for this money. This money will be spent on I.T. in the school, Drama, Literacy and much more.

Thank You Xilinx!