5th class

It’s the time of year again to celebrate Halloween. We had a lovely day on Thursday 25th on our dress up day, we were very inventive with our costumes this year! After all of our hard work this ...

We had a brilliant time during Maths week in Fifth class – we solved Maths crosswords, worked extra hard with our fractions, played lots of games of Around the World (well done to our winners!) ...

Everyone at The Good Shepherd National School were busy over the past few weeks fundraising for the school as part of our annual Sponsored Walk. Every child in the school participated in the walk toda ...

After our work with our tin whistles we decided to investigate the science behind sound; what is sound, how is it created and how does it travel? We made our own string telephones to investigate the m ...

The children in fifth class have been practicing the tin whistle for a couple of weeks now. They are progressing steadily as they work on holding the tin whistle correctly, getting a sound from their ...

The children in fifth class have being working hard during their visual arts lessons. We have looked at some interesting artists such as Georges Seurat (who used a technique called pointillism in whic ...

The children in fifth class completed a course of study on The Celts and we learned about their homes, clothing, food and drink, their gods and examples of Celtic craftsmanship. The children completed ...

As we begin our sixth week back after the summer holidays, we look back on some of the work we have completed in the classroom this month. The children have been working extremely hard during their ma ...