Playing Kahoot and Learning About the Olympics!

Kahoot is an online quiz everyone can play. We played a game on our iPads. All the questions were about the Olympics. It was very exciting to play against each other. You needed speed and knowledge to succeed. Here are some photos from First Class. 

Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair Basketball

Here's a video we made about wheelchair basketball. A big thanks to everyone who took part.

Jason Smyth Paralympian

The following is a Prezi we prepared about Jason Smyth an Irish Paralympian. We presented this at the Transnational meeting in Tomelloso. 

Jason Smyth  - An Irish Paralympic Champion

Jason Smyth is the reigning Paralympic 100m and 200m championHe comes from Co Derry in the North of Ireland (shown in green).Jason competes in the T13 Disability Section as he is legally blind. Jason won a gold medal in Rio, when he finished the 100 metre sprint final in 10.64 seconds
Jason Smyth made history in 2010 when he became the first Paralympian to compete in the European Championships. He qualified for the semi-final when he finished fourth in his heat in a time of 10.63 seconds. He narrowly missed out on a place in the final. He is 29 years old, and currently has 5 Paralympic Gold Medals to his name. Jason was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease when he was eight, a genetic condition where cells in the retina die at a rate that destroys central vision. Tyson Gay, one of the three fastestever sprinters in the world, ranksJason Smyth as one of the five most impressive technical sprinters he has ever seen.Jason is married, and has a baby daughter called Evie

Skype Call to Finland

On the 15th of December we called our friends in Finland from Room 10. This is our fifth class and they are ten and eleven years old. We spoke for forty minutes. We discussed Christmas traditions and Christmas food. We also showed them our school uniform. They don't wear them in Finland. We learnt that in Finland children like to ice-skate and ski. The temperature was minus 5 degrees Celsius outside in Finland and they showed us the car park with a snow bank in the background. This morning in Ireland it was 10 degrees. We sang some Christmas songs together and we said some poems.

This year we had great fun making Christmas cards to send to all our Erasmus+ partners. We visited the post office and sent them off to Europe. We were delighted to receive cards as well and we decorated our classroom with them. Thank you to everyone for sending them!

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Visit to Tomelloso, Spain

We are currently in the beautiful town of Tomelloso in Spain. We visited the city of Toledo yesterday. We have had a lovely welcome from all of the people at the school. The hospitality has been wonderful. We are staying at the Hotel Paloma, which is close to the school. We are looking forward to playing some sports with the students this afternoon.

Mobility Walk 2016

As part of our getting healthy and fit theme a  walk was organised for everyone at school during September. Everyone took part and before we started off .the local newspaper took a photograph of the whole school. 

We are very lucky to have a walking route very near us which we were able to use on the day. 

The walk was organised by Ms Mc Elligott in association with Kerry County Council's Mobility Week initiative.