We are currently working on the display areas in our GP Room. Ms Walsh’s Room completed a display for our School Ethos board in the GP Room for December. 1st and 2nd Class are hard at working learning about Advent. They created this beautiful display in the hall. Each week the children will add a flame to another candle on the display.
We are delighted to announce that our school website has been awarded the prestigious Scoilnet Star Site Award for December. The award recognises school who embrace the web as a communication tool. Well done to the students and staff for all their work in re-vamping our school website this year. We aim to make the school website user-friendly and up to date with events in our school and community. We are very proud of ourselves. Here’s what the judging panel had to say about our website:
“Congratulations to Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa of Two Mile Borris, Co. Tipperary for winning Scoilnet’s Star Site award!
Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa’s website has simple design with excellent use of colour and a clean layout. The homepage contains a picture of the school building along with eight navigation tabs across the top of the page. There is also a welcome message from the school’s principal along with a links to other parts of the site and to useful websites on the right hand side of the page. We are delighted to see that Scoilnet has been included in the useful links section!
The site is contains a Latest News section which displays up to date information and events and happenings in the school in a blog style format. The posts are organised chronologically so users can scroll back through previous entries to find what they are looking for. The website also contains information on school staff and has a dedicated section on school policies. There is also an extensive section on the history of the school as well as a section for the Parent’s Association.
The school make excellent use of Google forms. Parents can fill in the digital form for absences of children and visitors to the site can also fill out a form when contacting the school. Each class in Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa has they own section via the navigation panel on the right hand side of the homepage which provides information on activities such as the MS Readathon, visits to the library and football blitzes.
Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa’s website is well maintained, kept up to date and is easy to navigate. The site reflects the hard work and dedication of the staff, pupils and parents and the welcoming and inclusive atmosphere within the school. Well done on winning Scoilnet’s Star Site award!”
Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa was a spooky place today as the children dressed up for Halloween.
Congratulations to our Maths Competition Winners! As part of Maths Week, each class was asked to participate in a Maths through Art competition. Our winners were announced at Assembly this afternoon. Congratulations to Ronan, Kieran, Ava, Sarah, Cian and Faye. Well done to all the boys and girls for their fantastic entries – it was a tough decision to choose a winner in each category.
The MS Readathon is ongoing in the school and we would ask parents to remind their children to take home some extra books for the Mid term break. Our aim is to raise some money for people living with Multiple Sclerosis in Ireland and also that the children would read as many books as possible at home. The MS Readathon will continue until 12th November. Best of luck!!
The children were exploring the colour wheel last week. They created orange, green and purple by mixing different colours. They also read ‘Sky Colour’. This story encouraged the children to create his or her own ‘Sky Colour’.
1st and 2nd Class have started reading Esio Trot as their class novel. They are enjoying listening to the story and making lots of predictions. They are also adding adjectives to our display to describe the main characters.
