Patrick Bridgeman, Kellie Tighe, Chloe Monahan and Josh Kamtoh with former Dublin footballer and Celebrity Bainisteoir, Ciarán Whelan, at the launch of the Allianz  sponsorship of Cumann na mBunscol in Croke Park recently.

Read this onomatopoeia poem written by Ella O’Toole in Mr. O Reilly’s 5th class. Onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they denote e.g. cuckoo, meow, honk,  or boom My Day By Ella O’Toole

In Irish news the children’s referendum was held on Saturday November 10th. 57.4% of the population voted yes and 42.6% voted no. In total 1,066,239 votes were taken, which is 33.5% of the population. Now children will have a voice in Ireland. Donegal manager Jim Mc Guinness joins Celtic as a performance consultant but Donegal… Read More: World News »

The Shoe box Appeal in our school is a very popular event . The boys and girls in our school are very generous. This year we collected 111 shoeboxes full of gifts for little boys and girls who are very poor. Ms. Nolan helps arrange the shoeboxes every year.  She works very hard every year… Read More: Shoebox Appeal »

Halloween By A.J. Kiely On Wednesday it was Halloween. it was fantastic. I dressed up as a dead pirate. My brother Fionn dressed up as an assassin/ninja. My big brother Jordan dressed up as a zombie. My sister dressed up as the ring character. We started at 5 and ended at 7. We went with… Read More: How was your Halloween? »

Technology is important in Holy Trinity. Recently every classroom got a computer so that children now have somewhere to research for projects and get their questions answered! Here is a movie on what our school is doing to try get the Green Flag.

Not only are most of 4th class busy doing up their projects on their families but they have also been learning about Dublin city, the capital of Ireland. Check out this great mini movie on Dublin that is on You Tube. We really do live in an amazing city! ‘Truly Madly Deeply Dublin’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFeByHu_jE

Today is the 29th of February. This is a special date as it only comes around every 4 years when there is a leap year. The next time we will have a leap year will be in 2016. In Ireland the tradition on the 29th of February is that women can propose to men.

Great excitement today as news2day came in and filmed in Mr. O Neill’s class today. They were talking about a new book for schools which teaches children about the Olympics and they also talked to the children and Mr. O Neill. Click the picture above to get a link to the clip.