Senior Language

Today the fantastic Garda Band visited GSNS! They brought along a very special visitor! 🎅🏽 We all sang songs together and the teachers got up to perform the annual “Heads,Shoulders,Knees & Toes” s ...

Today we had our Christmas Fair in the school. There were toys, books, cakes and lots of activities on offer. The class had lots of fun and made some great purchases. All money raised today goes towar ...

We have been revising and learning all about 2D and 3D shapes in Maths. We had great fun making our own pictures using 2D shapes. We also constructed 3D models using matchsticks and play-doh!   ...

We had lots of fun painting our Halloween Pumpkins. First, we looked up ideas on the iPad for inspiration. We could choose whatever character we wanted. We then painted the pumpkins and allowed them t ...

Today the children in the senior language class carried out an experiment using water, vegetable oil, food colouring and fizzing tablets. Check out the process below. They can continue to enjoy their ...

We had an exciting end to our week last week with DLD Awareness Day on Thursday and our sponsored walk on Friday. The children brightened up the school in their purple and yellow outfits to celebrate ...

Today we had great fun decorating cupcakes and turning them into Halloween monsters! We used a buttercream icing and added some green food colouring! We had marshmallow eyes and some Halloween sprinkl ...

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Today we carried out an experiment to demonstrate centrifugal force or the force of gravity that keeps water in a bucket as we swing it quickly over our heads. We learned that if we didn’t swing our a ...

We had a fantastic tour of Rathfarnham Castle, learning all about the history of the castle and the Loftus family who lived there. The children got to explore the rooms in the Castle and were even ann ...

Our Community Garda Niall Russell brought the Garda Dog Unit in to visit the boys and girls in Good Shepherd. We met Toby the black Labrador and Drake the German Shepherd. We learned how they are both ...

We are a very artist bunch in Senior Language! We have been busy decorating our new classroom with some of our lovely artwork. We created self portraits in the style of Polaroid photographs. We also m ...

Every Friday we do a “Show and Tell” session in class. The children can bring in something from home and talk about it. It gives the pupils the opportunity to chat to one another and ask questions. It ...

Every Wednesday we do dance with Laura and a yoga session with our instructor Sue. In dance, we are learning lots of new moves whilst getting fit! After dancing our socks off with Laura, Sue helps us ...

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We have had a great first month settling into school…a new school for some of our pupils. We have been enjoying getting to know one another and our new teachers, Ms. O’Brien & Ms. Lernihan. Ms. Fo ...