Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Sarah Webb

Sarah Web has been in touch to say how much she enjoyed visiting our school.
Her website is www.askamygreen.com if they want to check it out. Her email is sarah@askamygreen.com .

Book Week Prizegiving










On Friday all the children dressed up as characters from their favourite books. Prizes were given at Junior and Senior Assembly for the best costumes, book marks, book reviews, make a model inspired by a book etc. A great time was had by all

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Book Week 2012

Here are some highlights of our book week so far.




The renowned author Oisin Mc Gann visited our school and discussed one of his novels "Small Giants" with some 6th class children.



He also gave 3 dynamic and highly entertaining workshops in 4th class and in the two 3rd class classrooms. On the next day world famous author Sarah Webb wowed 5th and 6th class with stories of her life, how she started writing , advice for children who would like to become authors and anecdotes about famous children's authors that she has met. She signed books for the children and gave away lots of signed book marks.







Mr Sheehy ran a wonderful book fair giving children the opportunity to browse through exciting attractive books and the chance to purchase their favourites