Talbot Senior National School

Talbot Senior is closed on 28th October and will reopen on Monday 7th November. We hope you enjoy your mid-term break. South Dublin County Council is organizing many  fun events to celebrate Halloween. Check out their infographic at http://www.sdcc.ie/sites/default/files/publications//halloween-infographic-2016.pdf

See all the amazing costumes on our Halloween Fancy Dress Page,

http://scoiltalbot.scoilnet.ie/blog/halloween-fancy-dress-2016/

This year’s Halloween Dress Up takes place on Thursday 27th October as we are closed for staff training on Friday for Primary Language Curriculum. Please come to school in full school uniform as usual. Dress up for 3rds and 4ths will take place at 11:30 and 5th and 6ths at 1:30.

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment has launched a new Primary Language Curriculum. This curriculum applies in all school contexts—English-medium schools, Gaeltacht schools, Irish-medium schools and special schools.

015, a training framework has been designed to help teachers implement the new curriculum.

As part of this training framework, the school will be closed on Friday 28th October 2016 to facilitate Staff Training. 

Last Thursday morning the whole school celebrated our two new flags: Active School and Digital School of Distinction, in a flag raising ceremony.

Healthy Lifestyle fortnight in Talbot Senior was great fun. The children enjoyed healthy fruit kebabs and healthy fruit smoothies. Ms Skelly’s class made soup for a whole class for 2.31 euro, have a look at their shopping list. They also did an interesting project on actual sugar content of common foods. The poster competition winners “What a Healthy Lifestyle Means to Me” will be announced at our November assembly. Have a sneak preview of one of our creative entries. Our new running track and improved field surface are well on their way to completion.

Our 5th class were recently brought for a tour along the Grand Canal by Sandra Scully as part of the canal awareness programme.  We learnt about the history of the canal, Omer’s lock house, the canal’s importance as a mode of transport in the past and  the animals, birds and fish found near and in the Grand Canal.

Dublin 1-15 to Mayo 1-14

Dublin retain the Sam Maguire for the first time since 1977 with a 1-15 to 1-14 replay win over Mayo.

Well done to the Dublin team and their manager Jim Gavin and of course hard luck to Mayo. Thanks to both teams for the amazing entertainment.

In Talbot Senior we think it’s very important to be healthy, so during Healthy Lifestyle Fortnight we encourage everyone to do something to make their lives healthier — so keep active and eat healthily.

Talbot’s Healthy Lifestyle Poster Competition: Create a poster showing what a healthy lifestyle means to you.

Closing date is Friday 21st October. Winners will receive prizes at our November assembly.