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NETNS Book Fair 2012

February 28, 2012 By
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The Annual Celtic Travelling Book Fair will be arriving at the N.E.T.N.S. library on Wednesday March 7th. As always the Book Fair will have a fantastic selection of books for children of all ages and any money spent at the Book Fair automatically earns commission from sales which allows the school to buy books for the school library. The children will get time during the school day to visit the Book Fair and purchase books if they wish. If you would like to visit the Book Fair with your … [Read more...]

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Arts and Crafts in Junior Infants!

February 24, 2012 By
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Today in Arts and Crafts the children were very creative using paper straws to construct a masterpiece! They had lots of fun and were great at using their imagination to create some beautiful pieces.... Take a look at the photos below of the children at work! … [Read more...]

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Siofra’s super new design for NETNS.ie!

February 24, 2012 By
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The response to the first NETNS website header competition has been absolutely fantastic,  we received lots of wonderful entries and it was a very tough job deciding which was the winning entry! We'd like to say a big thank you to all the children who took part,  we are already looking forward to your entries for the next header competition! Siofra Munnelly's (1st class) design has been chosen as the winning entry.  Her design reflects the changing character of the spring weather … [Read more...]

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Board games in Junior Infants!

February 10, 2012 By
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We have had another great week of fun and learning in Junior Infants this week!   In Phonics we started a brand new set of sounds. We learned the “z” and “w” sounds. We also learned some cool jingles to help us remember our sounds. We love to sing them at school together!   In S.P.H.E., worked on making choices and showing how we are all different! We made our own individual handprints to show things that we like. First we traced our handprint onto a piece of paper. … [Read more...]

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NETNS Website competition. Get your design on the NETNS website!

February 9, 2012 By
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The NETNS website has a fantastic picture at the top of every page called the ‘header’. This picture helps people know what our school is like and where it is.     We've decided to hold a monthly competition to re-design our header image.  Each month there will be a different theme for the design.  You can use any materials to make your picture, but your image must fill the blank template that you can download here.   You can choose to include the words … [Read more...]

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Board Games Day-Friday10th February

February 8, 2012 By

Did you know.....Board games are one of the most common and popular games in almost every culture in the world. We, The Student Council decided at our last meeting to have a Board Games Day in our school this Friday ,10th February. We are encouraging everybody to bring in board games such as snakes and ladders, scrabble, chess, monopoly or any other games you have at home to play with your class. Playing board games requires lots of attention to details, remembering specific information, … [Read more...]

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Bhí sneachta ag titim i seomraí na Naíonáin Bheaga!!

February 3, 2012 By

Hi everyone!! What a busy week we've had!! Check out some of the great things we got up to this week!! In Gaeilge this week we have been learning about the weather and sneachta (snow)!! We learned lots of new words such as "fear sneachta", "liathróidí sneachta", "an ghrian", "uachtar reoite", fear an phoist", "lámhainní, "scairf", "hata", "Robín", and "ag scátáil"!!! We also played a listening game on the whiteboard to practise our words. It was so much fun! In Phonics, there are … [Read more...]

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Siobhán’s Room

February 3, 2012 By

We have been doing some wonderful fun activities in Siobhán’s room this week. Students from both Junior Infant classes learned the poem ‘Roly Poly.’ Today, after lots of preparing we went to the recording studio to record the rhyme! You can listen to them below! Rowan, Tom, Emhin and Cillian were first to try it out. On the second recording you can hear Eleanor, Taylor, Daniel and Alexandar. It was great fun. We hope to visit and do more recording soon! Also this week groups … [Read more...]

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Reminder: Early finishes next week

January 27, 2012 By

School will finish at 1.55pm on Tuesday and Wednesday (31st January & 1st February) next week to facilitate some of the progress meetings which are taking place. Infant classes will finish at the normal time of 1.10pm. The After School Facility will operate until 1.55pm and school buses will depart at 1.55pm. … [Read more...]

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Is Taephota Mise!

January 27, 2012 By

In Gaeilge this week we've been learning all about food! Some of the things we were looking at were arán, im, calóga, ubh, úll, banana, ispíní, cáis, sú oráiste, cáca, bainne agus iasc! We also learnt a song "Is Taephota Mise!". Here are the words to the song! "Is taephota mise, ramhar is beag, Seo é mo chluas, is seo é mo ghob. Éist le mo ghlór is na cupáin ag teacht, Ardaigh mé is doirt mé amach!" Have a fantastic weekend! See you all Monday!   … [Read more...]

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