Talbot Senior National School

This week 31 boys and girls from the school participated in the FAI Primary school 5 asides in the SDFL Headquarters.

Our girls entered 2 teams. The first team was Auguste, Nicole Macken, Robyn Power – 2 goals, Lauren Mc Bride, Camila Khan, Andrea Thorpe, Elle Rose O’ Reilly and Ciara Delmar.

Our other team made it all the way to the final winning 4-2, 6-1 and 5-1 to win their group. Unfortunately in the final after a very exciting 1-1 draw with an excellent St Peters Apostle Girls team, we lost on penalties. The team was Aaliyah Yusuf in goal who saved 4 penalties in the final, Rachel Tache – 1 goal, Kayla Gaffney – 1 goal, Adelle Boylan -4 goals, Bolu Hammed – 3 goals, Renee Byrne – 1 goal and top scorer in the tournament Millie Davey Kelly who got 6 goals.

Scoil Talbot also entered 2 boys teams to play in the tournament.  Our first team were narrowly defeated 3-1 and 2-0 before an exciting 3-3 draw. The team was Cullen Lambert, Toheeb Kasali, Luke O’Reilly – 2 goals, Jude Lambert – 1 goal, Oskar Michonski, Afolarin Yusuff, Edmond Quinn – 1 goal and Ryan Farrell.

Our other team finished 2^nd in their group just missing out on the semi-finals. The boys had 2 great results-winning 4-1 and 3-2 but unfortunately losing to the winners of our group 4-3 after the boys had battled back from 3-0 down to 3-3. The team was Darragh Davey Kelly, Soheib Ameur, Callum Forte – 4 goals, Ryan Lee, Dylan Daly, Craig Tuohy – 1 goal, Jamie Brannigan and Andrew Keogh top scorer with 5 goals.

Well done to all 31 children involved this week and remember to keep training, practicing and keep active.

All Winners from each of the classes that took part in our annual Scríobh Leabhar competition, went on a trip to Dublin West Education Centre on Wednesday.

We had a wonderful time at the Awards which were presented by none other than Bláithnaid Ni Chóifigh.

Congratulations to all our Scríobh Leabhar winners!

Yesterday our class created Easter Eggs using strip of fabric! It was lots of fun!

Happy Birthday to our oldest and youngest staff members today, March 30th. Mr. Malone and Mr. Ruddy celebrated their birthdays with a cake in school today! You can guess their ages in the comments!!!

Agatha Parrot and the Zombie Bird

I liked this book because it is very funny. It’s about this girl called Agatha and her best friends Bianca, Martha, Ivy and Ellie. A visitor arrives to their school with a zombie bird and puts on a show.

I recommend this book for 3rd, 4th,5th and 6th class and would give it a rating of 8 out of 10.

Ellie Byrne

The Rock Boy

This is a fascinating story line about a boy that gets washed up at Thomas Bay in Malta. He can’t or won’t speak. You won’t want to leave this book down!

I would recommend it for 5th and 6th class.

Jake Kavanagh

Cake Test

This book is about a boy named Fredrick and the lazy nanny loses him.It is a  great book and it even has a cake recipe! I would give this book a rating of 10 out of 10.

Tracey Phan

Mrs Wobble the Waitress

This book is about a woman called Mrs Wobble. She was a waitress. Everybody liked her but the one thing they didn’t like was that she wobbled. She even dropped jelly on her managers head.

I would recommend this book for 3rd class and would give it a rating of 9 out of 10.

Katie Bonner

Ms Ní Dhúill organised lots of fun events for Seachtain na Gaeilge: céili mór, class-room prizes and an art competition. All winning entries are on view in the school foyer.

Themes for this competition were Irish heroes and Irish sayings. 

We created some acrostic poems about St. Patrick. Please read and enjoy the top 4 from our class:

St. Patrick by Rayhana Ameur

Shamrocks everywhere,

Today is the day.

Put your Irish dancing shoes on,

A lot of fun we’ll have.

Things to wear – green, orange & white.

Ribbons on hair.

Ireland flags in the air!

Céilí  – we have to learn,

Kids having great times!

St Patrick – by Jessy Huynh

Saint Patrick is famous,

The saint who isn’t scared of snakes.

Patrick got taken as a slave,

And escaped.

Then scared the snakes of Ireland.

Rescued Ireland from snakes.

Ireland is safe now!

Celebrate and clap,

Kind and happy lad- Patrick.

St. Patrick by Coleen Imperial

St. Patrick our hero,

The hero we care for.

People all in green,

All the sheep he cared for.

The snakes are all gone.

Ready for celebration.

It’s all set in Ireland,

Come on it’s on the 17^th of March,

Keep this in your mind we’re about to celebrate.

St. Patrick – Katelyn McKiernan

Saint Patrick’s Day is on its way,

Till Saturday that is the day.

Pirates were on his way for him,

And he had to stay away.

Today he wanted to get away,

Really wanting God to help him this day.

Ireland was a country he might have liked,

Colourful and green he liked his way,

Kindness and goodness he spreads all day.

The pupils in 5th class are currently undertaking a program of work called “Find Your Inspiration”. The aim of the program is to get the children thinking about what they would like to do in the future, as regards subjects in secondary school, going on to third level education, and ultimately what job they would like to work at in the future. The children attended the launch of the program in Maynooth University on 26th January. We are very fortunate to have so many third level options in our surrounding area – Maynooth University, IT Tallaght, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin City University (DCU), and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) to name but a few. 

Leave a comment and let us know what you would like to do in the future. Keep up the good work!!!

A big THANK YOU to all the children and families that supported our Book Fair. This year we sold €2690 worth of books, which means we will get back €1614 in free books for our school library.

Congratulations to our winners of the book review competition. They were Tracey Phan and Dorothy Adeoti (3rd class), Anastazja Dyl (4th class), Magdalena Gizdon (5th class) and Lily May Thunder (6th class). 

We can’t wait to get new books into our library and hope you enjoy them also. Happy reading!