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Reading Week
Created : 26 Oct 2017, 10:46 AM
Archived : 26 Dec 2017, 12:00 AM
Literacy
Mr Grimes' class enjoying Hats off to Reading Day!
Reading Week
Created : 23 Oct 2017, 11:35 AM
Archived : 23 Dec 2017, 12:00 AM
Literacy
All week we are celebrating reading here at OLS. The theme for this year is JUST READ! Our 'One School, One Book' is the wonderful ‘The Weight of Water’ by Sarah Crossan. We will all read this together as a whole school for the week anytime we get a chance, so be sure to have your book in your bag at all times! Sarah Crossan will be visiting the school in November to talk to us about her books and writing, she will also do a book signing so hang on to your book if you enjoy it and would like to meet her. Thursday morning has been set aside for a more whole-school approach to Reading Week. The theme for Thursday is Hats Off to Reading! Staff and students are invited to wear a hat on the day and a prize for best hat will be awarded. So, get your thinking caps on over the next few days. There will be plenty of DROP EVERYTHING AND READ sessions all week, as well as book quizzes, reading aloud , and competitions. JUNIOR Competition: Design a bookmark to promote reading in OLS – the winner will have their bookmark professionally printed for all students of OLS SENIOR Competition: Design a poster promoting the benefits of reading - winning poster is printed and put up around the school building for this academic year. Happy Reading!
Monthly Book Review Competition and Sarah Crossan books
Created : 15 Nov 2017, 4:58 PM
Archived : 20 Dec 2017, 10:58 AM
Literacy
The winner of October's Book Review Competition is Sarah Moore in P1! Sarah has won a €10 book token. This months book review competition is all about Sarah Crossan so this months winner will get to have their photo taken with Sarah when she visits us next Wednesday, as well as the usual €10 book token! Sarah will be with us on Wednesday afternoon, and after her talk she will do a book signing so don't forget to bring you book. If you would like to buy any of her other novels to have it signed on the day, you can collect them from the library once they have been paid for on EasyPayments through the school website. For more information visit the library website ourladyslibrary.wordpress.com
November Knitathon
Created : 10 Nov 2017, 12:48 PM
Archived : 20 Dec 2017, 10:58 AM
Knitting hats and scarves for the homeless. All students and staff are invited to join in. Bring your wool and needles to the GPA on Fridays at lunchtime. Learner knitters are more than welcome! Put a smile on someone's face this Christmas
Poem of the Week
Created : 05 Dec 2017, 4:22 PM
Archived : 11 Dec 2017, 12:00 AM
Literacy
Dreams Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967 Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
OLS reusable water bottles
Created : 16 Nov 2017, 11:55 AM
Archived : 06 Dec 2017, 3:40 PM
Extra Curricular
Official OLS reusable water bottles. Orders taken from Thursday 16th to 23rd November. Price: €3.50 Highly durable and dishwasher safe. BPA free. Bottles will be in white and pink and feature the school crest on the main body. This initiative is part of C3’s CSPE Action Project which is linked to the concept of Stewardship - taking care of our planet for the next generation. The aim is to encourage everyone to Reduce and Reuse and to provide an alternative to disposable bottles. All support is much appreciated! Bottles must be paid for in advance.
Poem of the Week
Created : 17 Nov 2017, 9:43 AM
Archived : 06 Dec 2017, 3:40 PM
Literacy
the lesson of the moth i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense plenty of it he answered but at times we get tired of using it we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty our attitude toward life is come easy go easy we are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself
Poem of the Week
Created : 20 Nov 2017, 4:20 PM
Archived : 06 Dec 2017, 3:39 PM
Literacy
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
Sarah Crossan books
Created : 21 Nov 2017, 1:57 PM
Archived : 06 Dec 2017, 3:39 PM
Literacy
All Sarah Crossan books will be on sale again tomorrow at lunchtime before the book signing. Please pay on Easypayments in advance or bring in the exact amount. Price list below.
Information letter for all parents
Created : 07 Nov 2017, 1:02 PM
Archived : 05 Dec 2017, 12:00 AM
Academic
November info letter, please see below

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