News School Year 2019-2020 – St. Catherine's Senior Girls School

Well-Being and Mindfulness Week!

We had a brilliant time doing European activities online using the Seesaw app.
Check out our work!

STEM Week
#GirlsinStem
#STEM

**Amazing piece of work!**
**The Mansion House Dublin by sisters in our school.**

**We really enjoyed making boats for STEM Week.**

**We are enjoying the Great Bake Off element of STEM Week.**

A huge congratulations to the winners in our Biodiversity Photo Competition.
There will be prizes on the way to you!!!
Thank you to all the entries – AMAZING WORK!

**We are thrilled to have received the word that we have achieved our 6th Green Flag for Biodiversity and Food!**

Happy Biodiversity Week!
The students have been busy sending in amazing photos from our local area.

**Brilliant Birdfeeder by Ms. Higgins’ Class**

**Amazing Environment Art by Ms. O’Connor’s Class**

**Beautiful work by Ms. O’Connor’s Class**

We are thrilled to see some of our students’ work featured in the Home Stories Book.

Please click below to see.

http://www.emuink.ie/index_flip.php?bid=222#/0

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**Kenya Projects by Ms. Haverty’s Class**

**Happy Bee Day from Ms. Burke’s Class**

**Happy Europe Day**

**We had hoped to have a celebration as part of the Blue Star Programme for this but a virtual celebration was the best we could do.**

Update on Tessa

Wonderful news from Miss Waters about her little daughter Tessa. Tessa has been receiving treatment for cancer for over a year, and her latest scans show that all the cancer is gone. This is just amazing news and we are all so delighted. Tessa will go to the USA shortly to begin some further treatment. Thank you to everyone who helped fundraise for Tessa. We will keep all the family in our prayers.

Watch our lovely video of Front line artwork and our virtual choir are just amazing!

Check out what students have been getting up to at home using the SeeSaw App!

The girls are busy baking at home and we love to see the pictures coming in.

Have a look at what we have been getting up to this year!

Rinneamar Toraíochtaí Taisce i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Ms. Shovlin’s 5th Class and both 6th Classes attended the RDS Science Blast recently with projects about volcanoes, acid rain and tooth decay.

Preparation has started for the E.S.B. Science Blast. Ms. Shovlin’s 5th Class and both 6th Classes will be bringing projects.

**Classes really enjoyed a visit from Dale Treadwell recently.**
**We talked about bees, bugs and much more.**

**Well done to our January Students of the Month.**

We celebrated Safer Internet Day in our school recently and held a school wide art competition. Each class group was assigned a different ZEEKO rule and invited to draw an awareness poster based on this.
Well done to all the participants and winners!

**3rd class presented their Early Christian Ireland projects to 5th class recently.**

Help us share our message about saving energy at night.
We have reached the Regional Finals in the One Good Idea Competition with our idea!

Leah and Katelyn from 5th Class are representing the school in the next round of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland ‘One Good Idea’ Competition with their entry on the importance of fully switching off appliances and switches at night-time.

We had great fun organising and taking part in the Christmas Raffle.

Our Christmas Concert

**The Green Schools Committee will be looking for your old batteries for recycling in the New Year.**
**Committee members will go around classes in the New Year to remind everyone.**

**Thank you to our wonderful parents who put together this lovely**
**Christmas Living Room Scene.**

**4th Class visited the Jeannie Johnston Ship recently.**

**Well done to all of the winners of the Student of the Month for November.**

Many classes enjoyed a trip to The Moving Crib recently.

We were delighted to welcome Sam Maguire to our school recently.
Up the Dubs!

**Classes have been doing some lovely work as part of Science Week including going to the Botanic Gardens, making bird feeders, insect hotels and denim planters.**

**We were thrilled to attend the launch of the Blue Star Programme in Government Buildings recently. We met An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister Helen McEntee and Minister Joe McHugh.**

**Our first Pumpkin Decorating Competition in collaboration with the Green Schools Committee was a huge success.**

**Classes really enjoyed using the IZAK 9 Maths Cubes as part of Maths Week.**

U10 Scottish Champion in Irish Dancing.
Well Done!

**Ms. Stapleton’s Class made potato cakes using our own potatoes which we grew in the garden.**

**As part of ‘Friendship Week’ we held an assembly in the hall and sang ‘At Your Side’ by The Corrs.**
**Classes played Friendship games and did lovely art.**

**We are delighted to be using iPads as part of our learning this year.**

On Friday, 13th of September 5th Class did a big clean-up outside and our school.

**Some of our 5th Class students went to the Open Day in Cabra Community College recently.**
**They had a tour around the school and did some fun painting.**

**5th Class kick the year off with a clean-up!**

We are thrilled to be featured in The Irish Times following on from a visit from the American Chamber of Commerce and BNY Mellon with their very cool robot VGO.

https://www.irishtimes.com/special-reports/ireland-us-business/big-strides-for-women-in-stem-1.3916670#.XSIl-LS3t80.mailto