Congratulations to our competitors in the Fermoy Arts Festival Weekend. We had a lot of very happy winners in their sections: Lukas Spodniak (1st) Katie Neuling (2nd) Eniola Amosu (3rd) in poetry, Eniola Amosu (1st) and Emily Lenahan (2nd) in Art. Thank you to Mayor Olive Corcoran for organising.
The month went quickly because of all the excitement generated by Storm Darwin; fallen trees, floods and power cuts. It was a time of reading and this month we read ‘Tom Crean, the Adventures of an Irish Antarctic Hero – Ice-Man’. It is an inspiring and educational book for all ages. Crean is indeed a great hero for all Irish children. Congratulations to our competitors in the Fermoy Arts Festival Weekend. We had a lot of very happy winners in their sections: Lukas Spodniak (1st) Katie Neuling (2nd) Eniola Amosu (3rd) in poetry, Eniola Amosu (1st) and Emily Lenahan (2nd) in Art. Thank you to Mayor Olive Corcoran for organising.
The month went quickly because of all the excitement generated by Storm Darwin; fallen trees, floods and power cuts. It was a time of reading and this month we read ‘Tom Crean, the adventures of an Irish Antarctic Hero – Ice-Man’. It is an inspiring and educational book for all ages. Crean is indeed a great hero for all Irish children. Happy New Year
An Open Evening for Adair School will be held on Wednesday 12th February from 6 – 8 p.m. – please encourage any prospective school families to avail of the opportunity to come and look around the school. Recently, the children have been having super fun with their project on Labbacallee, an early Bronze Age wedge tomb about 8 k m from Fermoy in the Glanworth direction. Last term they did two performances at the tomb: The Leather Bottle and An Cat Bán. This term, they made a fantastic ‘beaker pot’ with Finn the Potter, and they also made a model of a bronze age settlement and a re-construction of the tomb as it was 4200 years ago with me. Christy Roche came to speak to the children about Labbacallee on their ‘History Day’ and the children made a presentation to their parents and guests on the radiating Labbacallee Lines, bronze age life in Ireland, and the myths and legends associated with the Hag. The children used PowerPoint, drama, storytelling, and their models to explain the various aspects. They were excellent. I enjoyed this project so much myself that I designed a website. You can browse it on Labbacallee.weebly.com. I’d love your comments. We send our best wishes to Mags who has been unwell since before Christmas and we look forward to her return in the near future. Many thanks to Siobhán Howard who has been subbing at this time. John O’Donoghue, our G.A.A.coach brought a line-up of G.A.A. heroes who have won a substantial amount of silver in the past year to school. I t was a great pleasure to meet these players and their coaches who devote so much time to Gaelic Games and to hear that these champions love playing because it helps them to make friends for life. Congratulations to the children and parents of Adair who collected the staggering sum of €1280 for MS Readathon and €350 for the survivors of the Philippine typhoon.
Best wishes to Mrs Mary Dennehy who joins Adair School as a part time shared resource teacher with Ballygiblin School. We hope she settles in well and enjoys working in the school. Bob the Ringmaster from ‘The Tallest, Smallest Circus in the World’ both entertained and taught the children the rudiments of spinning saucers, juggling and rolling sticks. Children began to practise for their Christmas performances; Cinderella and Nativity play in the Junior Room, Hansel and Gretel in the Senior Room. Come and join the December Fun at Adair Thursday 5th Dec 5 – 9 p.m. Sugar Craft Fair in the Adair Hall. Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th Christmas Performances at 10:30 in Adair School Thursday 19th – Carol Singing downtown. Congratulations to the children and parents of Adair who collected the staggering sum of €1280 for MS Readathon and €350 for the survivors of the Philippine typhoon.
Best wishes to Mrs Mary Dennehy who joins Adair School as a part time shared resource teacher with Ballygiblin School. We hope she settles in well and enjoys working in the school. Bob the clown from ’The Tallest, Smallest Circus in the World’ both entertained and taught the children the rudiments of spinning saucers, juggling and rolling sticks. Children began to practise for their Christmas performances; Cinderella and Nativity play in the Junior Room, Hansel and Gretel in the Senior Room. Come and join the December Fun at Adair Thursday 5th Dec 5 – 9 p.m. Sugar Craft Fair in the Adair Hall. Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th Christmas Performances at 10:30 in Adair School Thursday 19th – Carol Singing downtown. Children visited the Adair pedunculate oak tree in the Town Park. It has grown considerably since it was planted for the Bicentenary in 2004 and now sprouts acorns attached by long stems. They enjoyed a delicious vegetable dinner fresh from their very own school garden, and many children wondered at the amazing flavour of their own home grown produce. They also planted daffodil bulbs to honour the spring next year.
Christine Dobson arrived to school and enthused the children to begin filling their shoeboxes for children who are less fortunate. Children love to fill these boxes and the activity always heralds Christmas in the best possible way. Councillor Kierán McCarthy, an inspiring teacher motivated children to approach their history project on Labbacallee with enthusiasm, interest and focus. Mike Daley and Eric Dahill, two of our amazing local firemen demonstrated how to quench a chip pan with damp tea towels, and how to cause a tragedy by wrongly adding water to an oil fire. Witches, goblins, ghosts and masked children in pyjamas – along with a Tomas the Tank engine enjoyed the last day before mid-term. Don’t kids nowadays have a great life!! Harvest service was once again a joy to children who baked the harvest loaf with Heather Fleming and decorated the church with flowers, fruit, eggs, berries and toys. Benjamin and Jeremy, the large. fat, watchful teddy gents from the junior room even came to church to oversee proceedings. The Adair children travelled on the bus with the children from Mallow School to the Diocesan Schools Service in Bandon(this being the last time Mallow School will attend as a Church of Ireland school.) There, our rector Eileen gave the address to all the primary school children gathered from the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. It was a good service where children proudly waved their school banners, presented their collection to Christian Aid and clanged the historical school bells as the Bishop and his clergy exited. A new school year begqn on Monday 2nd September, we welcome Faye O’Mahony, Malik O’Reilly Abdelhadi, Paddy Molloy, Gabriella Nagle and Ruby Mae Clarke into Junior Infants and Fallon and Tegan Fitzgibbon into Senior Infants and 2nd class. We hope they will all be very happy in the school. Alex Gyves returns to first class and we welcome him back to the school.
September 2013 September came, and the children commemorated the passing of Seamas Heaney by blackberry picking, their “hands peppered with thorn pricks, palms sticky as Bluebeard’s” ….as they “trekked and picked until the cans were full, until the tinkling bottom had been covered with green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes”…and into school came the multitude of plastic bags carrying the precious crop. Cooking excitement later, children feasted on warm blackberry crumble doused in ice cream, a banquet of autumn bounty. Later in the month, the children travelled on a tour into the mythical past of Labbacalle and the friary, mill and castle in Glanworth. Dressed as an old hag, Katie Neuling emerged from Labbacallee to lure Seamas na mBo into the fairy palace where the fairy folk presented him with a magic leather bottle. And then, there were those four drunks from Glanworth in search of gold who were frightened out of their minds by a “cat bán” with glaring eyes and a fiery tail. The children, dressed in costume had great fun re-enacting the stories. Thank you to Maria, Bron, Anna and Su, our school chauffeurs. Harvest service was once again a joy to children who baked the harvest loaf with Heather Fleming and decorated the church with flowers, fruit, eggs, berries and toys. Benjamin and Jeremy, the large. fat, watchful teddy gents from the junior room even came to church to oversee proceedings. The Adair children travelled on the bus with the children from Mallow School to the Diocesan Schools Service in Bandon(this being the last time Mallow School will attend as a Church of Ireland school.) There, our rector Eileen gave the address to all the primary school children gathered from the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. It was a good service where children proudly waved their school banners, presented their collection to Christian Aid and clanged the historical school bells as the Bishop and his clergy exited. |
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