Sixth Class Blog
Confirmation 2018
On Saturday, 14th April, 21 girls from our school and 21 boys from St Mary’s Boys School, Ferrybank made their Confirmation. It was new Bishop Dermot Farrell’s first Confirmation and what a fantastic bunch of young people he got to celebrate this first for him. As you entered the church on Saturday, it was plain to be seen how much preparation both Sixth Classes had put in. Looking around you could see their beautiful artwork, their doves and their frames. You could see the Project that they completed on their taken Saint. What was most impressive however, was their participation in their ceremony. Every response was clear and confident. The readers were great, the gift bearers were great and each and every child confidently presented themselves to the Bishop to be anointed. They were a credit to their parents, family, friends and their schools.
The girls and boys had practiced hard all the previous, making several trips up to the church to ensure a seamless ceremony for all. Thank you to Fr. Crotty and Fr. Dempsey for all their help. Special thanks to Mrs. Fenton who made the trip up with us on Friday to display all the posters and artwork with hep from girls from 6th and 4th Class.
Sixth Class Authors and Illustrators
The Sixth Class girls’s latest project was to write and illustrate their own children’s bedtime story. The girls presented their book to the class last Friday and received a lot of thumbs up from the visiting 2nd Class!!! The stories were imaginative and very colourful. Some have been providing some lunchtime entertainment for the Junior Classes and have been going down a treat. Well Done Girls!!
Here is just a small example of fully illustrated bedtime story books we now have in our classroom.
Friendship Week
This week is intercultural/friendship week in the school. Ms 0’Reilly asked the girls to write poems about friendship. The response was wonderful and Mihaela, Ana Paula and Vicky wrote poems in their native language as well as English. Well Done Girls!!
Friendship
Friends are funny, sweeter than honey!
Always full of glee, which makes me happy to see!
Many are different in lots of ways but you’ll get that always.
Some friends move away but the best ones stay!!
by Leah Breen
Friendship
(Spanish)
La amistad es tan fuerte
que ni siquiera una bomaba
la puede destruir
La amistad es como una montana
que ube y que baja
(English)
Friendship is so strong
that not even a bomb
can destroy it.
Friendship is like a mountain
that goes up and down.
by Ana Paula Molina
World Book Day!!
World Book Day was due to be on Thursday March 1st, however, the “Beast from the East” got in our way. We decided to celebrate it today. Girls dressed up as a character from a book. The girls in 6th Class presented their favourite book to the class, all very interesting and really enticing us to read all featured books. The girls are now turning their hand at re-illustrating the cover of their favourite book. Tomorrow, each girl will present their own piece of work to the class. For the past few weeks, they have being working at home on writing and illustrating their own bedtime storybook. We cannot wait to see the results. Stay tuned!!
Sixth Class Retreat Day
On Tuesday 6th March, the girl from 6th class attended their Retreat Day in the Parish Hall. It is an important part for preparation for Confirmation but also, its a chance for the girls to be together to have a meditative and enjoyable day as group in their final year of primary school. The Retreat was facilitated by the Net Ministries who are a young group and they really put together a wonderful schedule for the girls for the day. 6th class would like to thank Sean, Courtney, Rakina, Marie and Patrick who were the Net Ministries team. Thank you to Miss O Reilly who brought up some lovely soup to the girls, it was a real treat!! Thank you to the Sacred Heart of Mary Sisters for the use of their beautiful oratory for our Mass as part of our retreat. Thank you very much to Father Dempsey for organizing this event for us and celebrating Mass with us.
This was really a day for the Sixth Class girls and when asked to reflect on their day, here are examples of what they wrote.
“On March 6th 2018, we had a retreat day in the Parish Hall. We were in small groups.Lorraine, Ruth, Hayley and Mihaela were in mine. Our leader was Marie. We played fun games that had symbolic meaning,for example, the game square mazes showed us that if you make a mistake in life you can get a second chance. We also dramatized the sacraments, ours was Communion with the theme of Disney Princesses. The leaders dramatized a Confession where the person confessing lied, while doing her penance she felt bad. We meditated and the leaders prayed with us . After that we went the Sacred Heart of Mary sisters and Father Dempsey said Mass.”
Roisin
” Our Retreat Day was held in the Parish Hall on the 6th of March 2018. The retreat was run by the Waterford Net team from Net Ministries. The Net members were Sean, Courtney, Marie, Patrick and Rakina. When we got there we played a group game, then split into our small groups. I was in Sean’s small group. We were talking about our Confirmation. We played more games. We made up dramas about Sacraments. In my small group, we dramatized Confession with a Star Wars theme. We watched Rakina and Patrick doing a drama about taking action. Patrick played his guitar and we watched another drama about lying in Confession. Next we did a meditation and prayed. We went to mass in the Sacred Heart of Mary’s Sisters chapel. Fr. Dempsey led the Mass. Our day was lovely and I learned a lot about our upcoming Confirmation!”
Annabelle
World Book Day
I hope all the girls in 6th Class are keeping safe and warm today.Make sure that when the big snowstorm hits that everyone is inside and stays there until it is safe.
Today is World Book Day and I know you were all looking forward to dressing up as your favourite character today. Why not still do so and take a picture?
www.worldbookday.com has a videos to watch and if you look for the imagination channel it has interviews with lots of authors with advice for all you budding writers.
Use the time today to create a bookmark for your favourite book.You could use ribbon and beads to create a lovely tassel for it.
Watching the blizzard out of a window of your lovely warm house could inspire a great paragraph for a story.See what you can come up with.
When everyone is stuck indoors they need entertainment.Why not make a treasure hunt? Write some four lined,rhyming clues for areas around the house for your family to work out and have a treat at the end!!
Be helpful today,help with the preparations for this afternoon and be kind to each other.
Stay Safe Girls!!
Snow Day!
Good Counsel GNS is closed for the snow today. I know the Sixth Class girls love to be busy and when they are all finished enjoying the snow outside, here are suggestions for some activities to continue the fun inside.
- Do a sketch or animation for the “Beast from the East” . What do you imagine this beast to look like? How is it taking over Ireland?!!!
- Keep a log/diary on this weather event.On the news, “Beast from the East” is being compared to a weather event that occurred in 1982. How would you account your experience of this event for someone in 36 years time?!Listen to news reports to get your information.
- Write a poem about the snow. For example, what can you do in the snow? The movement of the snow etc etc
- Play Games!! and I don’t mean computer games. Play board games like scrabble or pictionary. Play charades, cards, make snowballs from socks and have a snowball fight. The possibilities are endless.Use your imagination!
- Bake! A nice activity to do together at home today. Remember, we are doing Weight in Maths this week, so you are to take charge of the weighing scales and measure out those ingredients.
- Reminder! Your project to write and illustrate a children’s bedtime story is due on the 9th of March, why not take this time to work on it and read it to your family!
- Read – catch up on reading time. Snuggle up with a book and relax.
The main thing is to Stay Safe girls.
See you soon girls,
Mrs Foley
