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Friendship Week 2015

3Friendship2015Friendship Week 2015 – All Aboard The Friend Ship

This year the whole school worked together to create a Friend Ship based on Noah’s Ark.  Thanks to our new art teacher Clodagh for helping us to paint the Friendship and thanks to Jackie for the design.

On Friday we had a Friendship Week assembly and sang songs, told kind stories and read some poems. Shane told us about some of the kind things we said about each other:

“We all coloured an animal and then added a friendly comment underneath – Oscar is extremely polite; Jack is creative and makes up magical creatures; Cameron is good at focusing; Sophie is a kind girl and is interesting to listen to.”

 We chose James Taylor’s song You’ve got a Friend to sing at our Friendship Week Assembly this year.  The chorus goes like this:

You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am

I’ll come running to see you again

Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall,

All you’ve got to do is call,

And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, you’ve got a friend

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Whole School Evaluation 2011

Whole School Evaluation In 2011 the Department of Education & Skills Science carried out a comprehensive inspection of St. Declan’s Special School under the following

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Reading

Our Approach to Reading In St. Declan’s we have moved away from the more traditional ‘reader and workbook’ approach. After a comprehensive review of the

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Maths Week 2014

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MATHS WEEK 2014

The 9th annual Maths Week Ireland, with over 250,000 children participating from all over Ireland, was held from October 11th to 19th 2014. 

The highlight of our week was a day of maths, with each class sharing fun puzzles and maths games.  We all enjoyed the bingo game, the tangrams and the Jelly Bean Challenge (who ate all the jelly babies?) We also introduced MangaHigh which is an online website of maths challenges, games and activities.  The Numero card game proved a big hit with the senior classes and we’ll soon be getting that league going between the classes.  Each child has there own log in number and password for MangaHigh so take a look at www.mangahigh.com

For lots more interesting maths ideas click on this link www.mathsweek.ie

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Aquarium

 Benny, Barney, Lemon, Patrick, Sky and Jack join Ms. Feighery’s class!

Aquarium1The Marine Institute as a part of their ‘Explorers Aquarium in The Classroom’ program set up a small tank in Ms Feighery’s classroom. The students were given the job of taking care of the tank and the fish. They made daily observations about the marine life in the tank.

An Explorers saltwater aquarium with native species was provided by Explorers.ie with education resources to carry out project work. explorers.ie

Ms.Feighery’s class have named all the sea creatures and are making observations each day.

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Principal’s Message

Principal’s Message As Principal of St. Declan’s, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our school website. We thank you for taking the time

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