St. Joseph's National School

Welcome to the Second Class web page. If you want to try our new online maths activities, just follow the link below and log on with the username and password given to you by your teacher. Good luck!

Maths games

Miss McEvoy's Class

Second class are preparing for Granny and Grandad's Day. Before the big day Mrs Malone visited Miss Mc Evoy's class in room 14 to tell us all about school when she was a young girl. She told us all about the different things she learned. She showed us how children learned their tables, spellings and how they did their reading. Children had to stand a lot and the teachers had sticks to hit children who were not working or listening!

She also showed us the games she played when she was younger, she brought in small balls and marbles to show us the games. We got a chance to play with the marbles.

Mrs Malone showed us how the boys and girls used to write in Irish. We practised this too! She showed us the ink and pen that boys and girls used too.

Ms. Brady's Class

We have been working very hard in room 12 since September.

Here is picture of us in our Hallowe'en costumes:


In Geography we did some work on homes and shelter. We used art straws to design some houses also. Here are the houses we created:







Before Christmas we were doing lots of work on the Robin. We read some facts about the Robin and discovered some interesting things. We then worked together with Ms. Brady to write a report about the bird. Here is the report we wrote.

Report - The Robin

The Robin is a bird associated with Winter and Christmas - time. This bird is very different from other birds because it has a red breast. It has brown and white feathers also.

The robin can eat food from plants and animals. During Winter people can leave out food on the bird tables for the Robin. They love to eat nuts, seeds and pieces of bread.

The male and female robin work together to make a home for their family. The male robin gathers the materials to make the nest, he brings these materials to the female robin then the female robin makes the nest. Sometimes she uses her body to shape the nest.

Robins like to have their own space, when the male robin sings he is telling other robins where his area is and warning them to stay away.

Unlike the Swallow, the Robin doesn't need to migrate to a warmer country every year. They can gather enough food during the cold months like Autumn and Winter.

It is important that we leave out food for the Robin so they can survive. We think everyone should bring their left- over pieces of bread or nuts to a bird table they have at home or to the school bird table.

In art we painted robins and created a lovely display of robins sitting on a tree and some of the robins are eating from a bird table. In English we wrote acrostics about the Robin, you can see some of our acrostics on the pictures.

Here are the pictures of our display:






In Science we have been doing some experiments to explore mixing. We mixed water with different items like sugar, flour, food colouring, coffee and salt. We predicted what would happen and discussed our results.

Look at our mixtures:










We then mixed water with oil. It was very interesting, we found out that the water and oil didn't mix. The oil stayed on top of the water. Can you guess why this happened?

Here is a picture of the result:

Mr. Fahy's Class

Mrs. Byrne's retirement.
November was a big month for our school as we said goodbye to Mrs. Byrne. We made her a book of advice and filmed a Lip Dub celebration of our school. Lots and lots of songs were sang at a retirement ceremony. There were plenty of surprises during her last week and it was a really exciting time to be in St Joseph's.

New year.
The second term of our last year in St. Joseph's is underway. We have a lot of work to do. In literacy, we are continuing to work on our comprehension skills. Maths games are played each week and this is helping us to do sums quickly in our heads and without using our fingers.

We also recorded several of the songs we sing in Irish. Some of the songs we sang for Mrs. Byrne were recorded too. All of these songs can be heard by clicking on the link below.

Podcast

Ms. Buckley's class

Ms. Buckley's class have been very busy. They have done some lovely writing about friendship week [you can read all about it below and see photos in the events section!]. They have also been blogging. Just click on the link below to read their entries.

Blog

Friendship Week

Ms Buckley's class really enjoyed friendship week. They demonstrated yard games at little lunch every day and played friendship games in class.

Here are comments from Ms Buckley's pupils:


Victoria Leszczyska : We are all friends in our class and we share all the time. During friendship week we were nice to every student in the school and to the teachers. It reminded us how important friendship is.

Kieran McDonagh : Friends are nice.

Ruth Egan : Friends are nice and cool and friendly. We had a friendship week where we played games.

Jennifer Pedro: Friends always play together. We played 'Mother may I?' We always share in class.

Alex Heffernan: Friends always take turns. Friends are nice. During friendship week I played with my friends. We played 'Catch'. It was fun. We played on the monkey bars.

Mia McCann-Ledwith: We can play gently with Ruth. Holly is nice. During friendship week we played 'Tunnel Race'. Teacher lets us do gymnastics with our friends. Mrs Byrne is leaving us now. Jennifer shares her sweets with everyone. When we are working in school we always go outside to play with our friends. All the teachers are very nice. On fridays, in school, we play games. It is called 'playtime' and we are a good class.

Robin Leavy: We made a circle of friends. We played friendly games in a circle. The games we played are called 'Mother may I?' and 'Flush the Toilet'.

Amy Bracken: Being a friend is good because if you have no friends you'll be lonely for the rest of your life. I'm glad I have friends. Being friends with people is good. I met two new friends this year. Friends are good to have. If anyone is lonely, I like to help them be my friend. I'm glad that my friends like me. I like my friends too.

Holly Cunningham: We played lots of friendship games. We made new friends. We had fun during friendship week. We wrote friendship poems. We shared.

Emma Leavy: Friends are kind. We play fun games with our friends. We played 'How do you do?' I played with my friends. I like my friends. My friends are nice. We put out the friendship stop. Clodagh is my friend.

Kian Dunne Duffy: Friends play nice games together. During friendship week we sang friendship songs. We played 'Mother may I?' We drew pictures of our friends. I drew lots of my friends. Friendship week is good. Friends are good. Diarmuid is my friend. I have lots of friends. Friends are kind. Ben, Kieran and Alex are good friends. Friendship week is cool. We played games for friendship week where we took turns. We shared with our friends.

Jade Duane: St Josephs is the best school. I like to play with my friends. Friends are fun. During friendship week we played games and had fun.

Diarmuid Egan: During 'Friendship Week' we played games out in the yard. We were kind and friendly. We were nice to each other. We played all together. We played the tunnel game. We did nice things for our friends. It's good to play games with your friends.

Ben McConville: St Josephs is fun. We had friendship week where we played friendship games. We have a soccer area where we play with our friends. When we played friendship games in the yard we got a sticker. We do art in school with our friends. My best friend is Diarmuid. I have lots of other friends. We are nice to one another. Friendship week is the best time in St Joseph's. We played 'Tunnel Races' and 'Mother may I?' St Josephs is the best school.

Ashish Matthew: Jamie and I play cool games. We play 'Heroes' and every day we make up a new hero. Sometimes we play 'Mummies' instead. During friendship week we played 'tunnel races' and 'How do you do?' We drew people. We had a competition and David won.

Clodagh Spollen: Friends are fun and friends are cool.
They are the thing you want in school.

David Walsh: Friendship is good. We can work together. We have friends. St Josephs is cool. We can have friends in school. Friendship games are really good.

Jamie Raleigh: In St Josephs School we are all friends. We help others. It's good to be friends. Friends are helpful. We can be friends with everybody.

Miss McEvoy's class

Here we are in our classroom. We are in 2nd class. We are in room 14. There are 20 children in our class. Our teacher is Miss Mc Evoy.

Each class level has a tree in St. Josephs. The 2nd class tree is the twisted hazel tree. We went to visit it this week. We saw the twisted branches and leaves and we found some hazelnuts too!

We are celebrating Friendship Week in 2nd Joseph's. We wrote some poems about friends. We also made books about ourselves and read them with our friends.

Friends are helpful, friendly and fair
Riding bikes with your best friend
I like my friends
Everyone should have a friend
Never let them down
Don't hit your friends
Smile when you see your friends!

Written by Miss Mc Evoy's class. (Room 14)


We are helpful, friendly and fair.
We take turns and always share.
Written By Ava O' Brien Room 14

Friends are good and kind
Real friends don't be mean
I like playing with my friends
Everyday me and my friend shout Hooray!
Never let friends down
Don't be mean to your friends
Sometimes when friends are sick we make them feel better.
Written By Abbi Byrne Room 14

Friends are nice, we play together
Ride my bike with my friend nicely
I play with my friend everyday
Every one enjoys the sunshine
Never let friends down
Drive on your bike everyday
Save energy for the friends play group.

Written by Cian Wynne Room 14

Friends are playful
Running everywhere
If your friend is sad cheer them up and make them giggle
Everyday playing at lunch break
Never run away from your friends
Don't say no to your friends
Smile when your friend is in the yard

Written by Niamh Hand Room 14