Halloween Fancy Dress Sponsored Walk

Our Halloween Dress up day was a great success and thankfully the rain stayed away. We had great fun scaring everyone around the town with our spooky costumes and masks. A huge thank you to all those who sent in sponsorship money.  All monies raised will go towards new Flatscreen Interactive boards. Thanks again for all your support. Check out some of our spook-tacular costumes below

Maths Week

Maths Week

15th - 19th October

This year Maths week ran from the 15th to the 19th October and was a great success. Once again all the pupils were engaged in maths activities to emphasise the fun and learning that can be enjoyed whilst doing maths. The senior classes checked the yard looking for clues on their maths trails, counting shapes and measuring windows with their clipboards in hand. Mrs Bouzzah, our Maths Coordinator went into the 2nd classes and taught them the card game 21. They really enjoyed this. The infant classes were developing their Maths skills in the hall by participating in lots of fun Maths stations. Take a look at the photos below to see what we got up to for Maths Week 2018. 

Making Patterns

Playing Card Games 

Maths Stations in the Hall 

Count the jumps

Making pairs

Target number throw

Making patterns

Making shapes

Adding

3D shapes

Maths Trails

Christmas Shoebox Appeal

Chrsitmas Shoebox Appeal

It's that time of year again where we here at SS Peter & Paul JNS get the opportunity to take part in Team Hope's annual Christmas Shoebox Appeal. Your child will receive an information leaflet regarding the items that can be placed in the shoebox and who will receive this special gift. Please fill your shoebox, wrap it, place the correct boy/girl label on it (which can be found on the leaflet) and return it to the office before Friday 26th October.

For more information visit: www.teamhope.ie

Halloween Fancy Dress Walk

Our annual Halloween Fancy Dress walk around Balbriggan town will this year take place on Thursday 25th October at 11am. We can't wait to see all the spook-tacular costumes that will be scaring the residents of Balbriggan town. 
All monies raised will go towards purchasing Interactive Flat Screen boards for the classrooms.

We are looking forward to a frightening good morning!!

Fire Safety Competition

FIRE SAFETY WEEK

Fire Safety Week ran from the 1st - 7th October. All the classes have been learning about fire safety at home and at school. We practised a fire drill in school and the boys and girls did an excellent job of lining up at the Assembly Point. Fire safety is an extremely important subject and all children (and adults) should know exactly what to do in the event of a fire in the home or at school.
Always 1: Check your smoke alarm, 2: Check your carbon monoxide alarm and 3. Have an escape plan in place.These 3 things are extremely important and could save your life!

And remember...

GET OUT, GET THE FIRE BRIGADE OUT AND STAY OUT!!!

To learn more about Fire Safety visit the following links:

Fire Safety at Home

Fire Safety at Halloween

Fire Safety Poster Competition

Mrs Heffernan ran a Fire Safety Poster Competition with the 1st and 2nd classes. They were asked to design a poster with the theme: STOP FIRE-Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives
The teachers had a very difficult job of picking one winner from each class as all the entries were fantastic. The winning posters will be sent to Dublin City Council were hopefully one of ours will be picked for their 2019 Fire Safety Calendar.

Here are the winners from the following classes...

First Class

Room 7: Rebecca Moore

Room 8: Darragh O Brien

Room 9: Laila Guinan

Room 10: Lillian Kelly

Well done to all our winners and especially to our overall 1st class winner...Laila Guinan!

2nd Class

Room 2: Sean Ryan

Room 3: Dominic Conaghan

Room 4: Jasmine McDonagh

Room 6: Lacey Rooney

A big congratulations to all our winners, especially to our overall second class winner..Sean Ryan!

Road Safety Competition

Road Safety Competition

Road Safety Week ran from the 1st to the 7th October. The Safe Cross Code was taught in all the classes and our lollipop lady, Liz, visited some of the classes to talk about crossing the road safely outside school. 

Mrs Heffernan ran a Road Safety Poster Competition with the Junior and Senior Infant classes and well done to all the winners. All winning entries will be displayed in the hall. Pop over to have a look at them.

For more information on road safety check out www.rsa.ie

Junior Infant Winners

Rm 11: Benjamin Maroszek

Rm 12: Max Mercina

Rm 13: Kemi Folaji

Rm 14: Vicky Zolnierczuk

Our overall Junior Infant winner was...Max Mercina! Well done Max!

Senior Infant Winners

Rm 5: Luka Maund

Rm 15: Luka Maciukaite

Rm 16: Caleb Jiang

Rm 17: Amy Murtagh

Our overall Senior Infant winner was...Amy Murtagh. Congratulations Amy!

Here are all the winning entries displayed on our Hall noticeboard. 

Road Safety Week

Road Safety Week

This week is Road Safety Week. Each class will be learning all about the Safe Cross Code and how to stay safe travelling to school. To learn more about road safety visit www.rsa.ie. The Junior and Senior Infant classes will compete in a Road Safety Poster Competition where an overall school winner will be chosen. We are looking forward to seeing the entries.