Manister National School

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Welcome to Manister National School. Thank you for taking the time to visit our school website. Our school aims to provide a warm and nurturing environment for pupils to try to achieve their full potential academically, spiritually, physically, socially and emotionally. We strive to be a centre of learning and happiness for all pupils and a source of help and encouragement for all parents. We are extremely proud of our school and community and hope you enjoy your visit to our website!

School News

23/02/2020 --Gaelbhratach - Seachtain na Gaeilge

The Irish Committee have been working on the activities we will be completing during the year in order to maintain our Gaelbhratach. Seachtain na Gaeilge takes place in the month of March and we have lots of activities to partake in . We are in our 4th year of our Gaelbhratach ( Irish flag) and must continue to partake in our Irish activities in order to maintain our flag. The committee have worked hard to come up with these activities.
Please check who is on our committee on the Gaelbhratach section of this website under school activities.

.These activities were decided by the committee in the first term . They teach each class questions and answers and then ask questions in Irish after big lunch every day as pupils come back into their class rooms and have recorded some mini -lessons which can be found on the website under the Gaelbhratach tab . These activities for the month of March involve more time in the halla and less time in the classroom and we hope they will be very enjoyable.

Rang 3-6 will take part in a series of table quizes run by the committee ( during school time)
Dátaí : 5/03/2020,12/03/2020 ,19/03/2020. The quiz teams have been randomly selected by the committee who will be running the quizes with questions on the whiteboard. 2 points for correct answer in Irish , 1 point for correct answer in English.

Rang 3-6 - Céilí sa halla - Dáta - 20/03/2020

Féile Luimní - We have entered the Féile poetry competition many times in the past few years. This year Féile have arranged to support the school by allowing it to take place in our own halla. It will take place on March 6th . The pupils from 2nd - 6th have been given assigned poems which they will recite individually. The poem for Juniors, Seniors and First is chosen by the class teacher. Each class has one poem per class. If parents wish to attend Féile charge €2 on the door. It will take place during school time and the times will be agreed the week of the competition. Although work began on these poems weeks ago there is a recording of the assigned poems on the Gaelbhratach section of the website.

Last but most definitely not least the committee wish to arrange a cake sale which will take place on 13/03/2020 in the halla. They will send out information regarding this during the week. We would be grateful for your support in all of the above activities.

January 31st 2020
It was lovely to have our grandparents visit our school for Grandparent's Day.

Fr Ryan performed a short service beforehand.

Afterwards, our grandparents visited our classrooms and viewed some of our work.

Finally they went to the staff room and had tea and goodies.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit our school. This will be a special memory in our young lives and we hope that it will be a special memory for all our grandparents also.

See here for some photographs from the day.

January 24th 2020
1st and 2nd Classes have set up a bird feeding station outside their classroom window.

The birds have been "tweeting" each other like mad and we are getting lots of visitors to the station. Each day we record what different types of birds visit. So far we have seen robins, rooks, blue tits, chaffinches, goldfinches, blackbirds, great tits, blue tits and dunnocks.

Take a look here for some further photos.

Chaffinch

Dunnock

Robin

January 20th 2020
Well done to all our students who achieved 150 points on Mangahigh during the recent Maths Week. They were presented with their medals recently.

January 17th 2020
Congratulations to all those who took part in or supported our charity fundraiser in aid of Bumbleance and Cenacalo Community when carol singing before Christmas. A total of €932.00 was raised and €466.00 lodged to each charity. The Bumbleance have already sent a card saying thank you to everyone for the effort put in. Although out of season now, here is a reminder of how the money was raised.

Dec 20th 2019 - Cheque presented by Greybridge Classic Club
Greybridge Classic Club, near Meanus, recently raised funds for Manister National School with their successful Harvest Vintage Day at Meanus. Pictured are Fiachra Liston and Louise Crowley from the Club presenting the huge cheque to Peter Lavin, Principal.

Dec 19th 2019 - Carol singing
Thank you to everyone who helped with carol singing in the Crescent Shopping Centre tonight - the singers, the musicians, Tina and friends, the supporters, the parents the bucket shakers especially Ms Claus who did it with style !! And I should probably mention David Kilcoyne for stepping into a photo with eagle eyed pupils who spotted him in Butlers while we sang. Video footage to follow shortly. As soon as the amount collected has been counted I will update you . This will be divided between The Bumbleance and Cenacalo Community.

Dec 11th 2019 - School Play
The big night has finally arrived. After a hectic few weeks of rehearsals we will be performing A Christmas Rhyme (Infants and 1st Class) and Porridge (1st to 6th Classes) tonight and tomorrow night.

We will be holding a raffle and tickets will be available at the door - €5 for a strip of 5 tickets. We have a huge amount of prizes - pictured below. Thanks to all who made donations.

Dec 5th 2019 - Geoff Hunt - Irish Garden Birds
Geoff Hunt from Heritage in Schools visited us today. In 1st and 2nd Class Geoff told us all about the Top Three Irish Garden Birds - The Robin, The Blackbird and The Blue Tit. We listened to their song, learnt about their habitat, diet and coloured in drawings of them.

Nov 18th 2019 - Shoebox Appeal
Thanks to everyone who put in a tremendous effort to prepare shoeboxes for the Team Hope again this year.

Oct 25th 2019 - Halloween Horror
The school was taken over today by lots of Skeletons, Siamese Twins, Evil Clowns, Bananas, Werewolves, Zombies, Witches, Dead /Teachers/Schoolgirls/Footballers/Hurlers/Cheer-Leaders, Devils, Cowgirls, Every Marvel character under the sun - the list goes on forever. Even Mrs Brown made an appearance.

Hope you enjoy trying to recognise the "Pupil behind the Mask". For more photos see here.

Oct 25th 2019 - Traditional Halloween Games
In history this week 1st and 2nd Classes have been learning about Halloween Traditions in Ireland and decided to try out some of the games that would have been played at Halloween long ago.

Check out some of the photos here.

Friday Oct 11th 2019 - The Eagle has landed

As part of Space Week 2019, 1st and 2nd Class discussed what it would be like to live on the moon. We designed and made our own astronaut suits. These had to be able to withstand temperatures as high as 123 degrees Celsius and as low as -233 degrees Celsius. They had to be able to supply oxygen to breathe. We also had to figure out how we would cope with having very little gravity on the moon and what we would do to protect us from harmful rays from the sun as the moon has no protective atmosphere.

You can see some more moon related photos here.

October 9th 2019

Lee from Skip-Hop visited the school today and showed some of the amazing activities you can do with skipping ropes. Many of them look difficult but everyone can do them with a little practice.

Have a look here for some more videos.

Happy skipping everyone.

27th September 2019
1st and 2nd Classes enjoying their smoothies as part of European Schools Sports Day.