Derrinacahara N.S  

Everyone looking great in support of Cork for the Munster Football Final. Thanks to Miss O’Sullivan, Cork’s biggest fan, for facilitating it. It’s such a pity her jersey was in the wash for the day! There was a little family clash between Cork and Tipperary too! Disappointed that Cork were beaten but delighted for Tipperary to win on such an historic day, wearing jerseys to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

I think it is fair to say Science Week was a real hit in Derrinacahara this year! There were lots of investigations, plenty mess but most importantly loads of fun! 😀✨

 

Great fun inside and outside our classrooms during Maths Week, October 2020! 💯➕➖✖➗

 

A spooktacular day of Halloween fun at Derrinacahara N.S. A huge thank you to the Parents Association for providing the sweets and treats.

 

A small treat for being so good to follow our new safety procedures and for finally being back in school.

Congratulations to 3rd class who received their First Holy Communion in St. James Church on the 20th of September.

 

 

Hi everyone!

This is a padlet of resources on transitions from preschool to primary school with some tips and suggestions for the coming year.

https://padlet.com/lilacsars/u1mmvkzfeqrjpc2z

Hi everyone! 

I hope you are all keeping well and enjoying your summer holidays. The following are the lists of what you will need for the coming school year. We are looking forward to seeing you all. 

 

5^th & 6^th  classes

The children will need the following for September:-

• 5 x120 page Copies
• 2 X Maths A4 boxed copies Maths (children need a special boxed Maths A4 copy, available in school if you have trouble sourcing it locally)
• Hard backed notebook

Please label the copies as follows:-

• English
• Gaeilge
• History
• Geography & Science
• Spare copy

Please cover each copy.

The children also need

• Pencil case
• 2 pencils
• Colours – no markers please
• 2 biros red+ blue
• Geometry Set containing a good compass and full face protractor
• Ruler
• Rubber (white rubbers are the best)
• Topper
• An A4 display folder (80 pockets)
• An A4 display folder for religion (40 pockets)
• Pritt stick for Art
• A “D” Tin whistle- these can be purchased in school for €8
• Calculator
• Thesaurus
• English Dictionary
• Irish Dictionary

Please make sure that all of your child’s belongings including the items in their pencil case and their uniform jumper etc. are clearly labelled. There will be no sharing of belongings allowed this year so please ensure that your child is aware of this. Really looking forward to seeing you all in September, have a great summer!

 

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2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and ASD Class 2020

The children will need the following for September:-

7 x88 page Copies

Please label the copies as follows:-

• English
• Gaeilge
• Maths (a normal lined copy- they do not need a special boxed Maths copy)
• SESE
• Creative Writing
• Spare copy
• Spelling test

Please cover each copy.

The children also need

• Pencil case
• 2 pencils
• 2 biros red+ blue
• Ruler (longer rulers 30cm are best)
• Rubber (white rubbers are the best)
• Topper
• An A4 display folder (40 pockets)
• An A4 display folder for religion (20 pockets)
• Art portfolio folder to be kept in school
• Pritt stick
• Colouring pencils or crayons
• A “D” Tin whistle- these can be purchased in school for €8

Please make sure that all of your child’s belongings including the items in their pencil case and their uniform jumper etc. are clearly labelled. There will be no sharing of belongings allowed this year so please ensure that your child is aware of this. Really looking forward to seeing you all in September, have a great summer!

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First Class September 2020

Your child will need the following items for the coming school year, 2020/2021

• 2A4Display folders
• 1 Plastic Button folder
• 2 blue Ormond Project (Blue copy, Space and Lines)copies covered with (plastic copy covers)
• 4 lined copies 88 page copies covered with (plastic copy covers)
• 2 junior sum copy book 10mm squares green Ormond copies copies covered with (plastic copy covers)
• Pencil Case
• Topper
• Ruler
• Rubber
• 2 Pencils
• 1 Glue Prit-stick
• Colours, (Crayola Twistables if possible) no markers. Make sure you label all items in your pencil case.
• Always have a spare copy in your bag.

Please ensure all your child’s belongings (including all items in the pencil case) are labelled clearly as well as your child’s school jumper, coat, lunchbox, bottle etc. to prevent loss of property. There will be no sharing of belongings this year. Please ensure your child’s lunchbox and lunch items as well as drinks bottle are easy to open and close.

Enjoy the Summer, See you in September!

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Senior Infants September 2020

Your child will need the following items for the coming school year, 2020/2021

• A good sized school bag that will fit all of your books
• 2A4Display folders
• 1 Plastic Button folder
• 2blue Ormond Project copies(Blue copy, Space and Lines)
• 4lined copies 88 page cover all copies (plastic copy covers)
• 1 Junior Sum copy 10mm squaresgreen cover all copies (plastic copy covers)
• 1 Word Box
• Pencil Case
• Topper
• Ruler
• Rubber
• 2 Pencils (hand hugger pencils)
• 1 Glue Prit-stick
• Colours, (Crayola Twistables if possible)

Please ensure all your child’s belongings (including all items in the pencil case) are labelled clearly as well as your child’s school jumper, coat, lunchbox, bottle etc. to prevent loss of property. There will be no sharing of belongings allowed this year. Please ensure your child’s lunchbox and lunch items as well as drinks bottle are easy to open and close.

Enjoy the Summer, See you in September!

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Junior Infants September 2020

Your child will need the following items for the coming school year, 2020/2021

• A good sized school bag
• 2 A4Display folders
• 1 Plastic Button folder
• 2 Ormond Project copies (Blue copy, Space and Lines)cover all copies (plastic copy covers)
• 2 lined copies 88 pagecover all copies (plastic copy covers)
• 1 Word Box (small lunch box)
• Pencil Case
• Topper
• Ruler
• Rubber
• 2 Pencils – (hand hugger pencils)
• 1 Glue Prit-stick
• Colours, (Crayola Twistables if possible)
• All School books will be provided by the class teacher in September on the first day of term.

Please ensure all your child’s belongings (including all items in the pencil case) are labelled clearly as well as your child’s school jumper, coat, lunchbox, bottle etc. to prevent loss of property. There will be no sharing of belongings allowed this year. Please ensure your child’s lunchbox and lunch items as well as drinks bottle are easy to open and close.

Enjoy the summer. See you in September!

Batt O’Keeffe, former Minister for Education, presents Donal Hurley with a painting of Derrinacahara N.S. on the occasion of his recent retirement as Chairman of the Board of Management after 34 years service!

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Active School Week

Children enjoying the great outdoors, getting lots of fresh air whilst keeping fit and active. Looking forward to seeing lots more photos.

Engineers Week in Derrinacahara

What fun we had learning about all the different types of engineers around the world, what they do and the contributions they have made to our world. We were also civil engineers for a day and created some fantastic bridges. Congratulations to the winning team, who created a fabulous structure, that could even hold up weights. Possibly the greatest spaghetti bridge ever created 🙂

Maths Outside!

Hard to beat taking the classroom outdoors! Well done to 2nd, 3rd and 4th class on their fabulous team spirit and hard work in their recent maths trails.

FAI 5 a side soccer

West Cork Final of FAI 5 a side soccer against Ballinacarriga N.S. What a game! Two evenly matched teams! Unfortunately for us Ballinacarriga managed to slip just 1 goal past us and so now go through to the County section. Congratulations and well done to both teams. Sport at its best. Our boys from Derrinacahara were just wonderful and we are so, so proud of them. Steven was heroic in goal, Shane and James defended so well and Ryan and Conor gave it everything they could up the middle with our subs Kevin and Luca giving their best. In all we scored 22 goals and only conceded 5. Definitely a day for the record books 👍

Yummy, yummy, Pancakes!!

Spring is back! Yippee! Stephanie and our Junior Classes harvested the last of our spuds!

2nd, 3rd and 4th class hard at work!

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Celebrating Grandparents Day at Derrinacahara N.S.

What a wonderful day we had today at Derrinacahara N.S. where we celebrated Grandparents Day. The highlight of the day was Mary McCarthy, Tommy’s Great Grandmother, who travelled from Ballinaspittle to be with us. Thank you so much to all the Grannies and Grandads for calling to see us. You hold such a special place in your grandchildren’s lives and they love you dearly.

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Derrinacahara N.S. also paid tribute to Margaret Murphy who has been Treasurer of our Board since 1999. Margaret has given sterling service to our Board and will be greatly missed. Míle buíochas do Dhónal agus Mháiréad. Táimid go léir fíor bhuíoch daoibh.

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Munster Champions! 🎉🏆👍

Well done to Áine, Theresa, Jamie Lee and Sarah. Fabulous dancers! Great performers!  ♥️

Indoor Hurling at Ballinacarriga

We had a couple of great games. The boys fought bravely, scored a few fantastic goals but a place in the final eluded us😊 Well done, boys 👍

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The most welcome visitor of the year! Thank you Santa for visiting Derrinacahara N.S. ♥️

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Derrinacahara Choir love their visit to Dunmanway Community Hospital. The staff and patients always give us such a warm welcome and we enjoy singing and playing for them. Thank you so much for the lovely treats 🤗

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Fr. Collins made a very welcome visit to Derrinacahara N.S. today to congratulate James Kearney, Rang a Trí, on winning our local  Togher Church’s colouring competition. Well done James and all the children who entered.

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Massive ‘Thank You’ to Rose, Séamus & all our friends at ‘Tar Isteach’, Dunmanway for their very generous donation. Derrinacahara N.S. has benefitted hugely every year over the past 10 years from Tar Isteach. We are so grateful 🤗 This year we took the children to the Panto ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ at The Everyman Theatre. What a fabulous day we had! The children were so well behaved. They are a credit to their families and their school. We are so proud of them. Please support Tar Isteach in return. Thank you 🤶🏻👍

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Wonderful response to our appeal for Cork Penny dinners. Thank you so much to everybody who brought in items to fill our boxes. Such a worthy cause😊

 

Science Week

November 10th – 17th this year is Science week. Well done to Jack, Adam and Tim from 4th class who attended an event in UCC for science week this weekend. They have written a piece of their wonderful experience. Fantastic lads!

‘   We went to UCC for Science Week on Sunday, November 10th. First we had a look around and we saw a brain coral, that was from the ocean. It was very cool. After that, we went in to a maths room and played lots of games. 

At 1.00 we went in to a LEGO room and we made a LEGO land yacht with two sails. Then, at the end of it all we got somebody to blow and electric fan and our yacht made a distance of 4 1/2 metres! 

After the LEGO. we went to the family room. We had a look around but one thing caught our eye…… a simulator. Unfortunately there was a long line so we made Mom stay and we had a look around. Then we saw a wave machine made of duck tape, sticks and jelly babies. It you moved one stick, the whole thing moved!

We then made a card and coloured it in. We also attached a light bulb to the card. We used copper tape to help make the light bulb turn on. 

When it was our turn for the simulator we were excited. When we got in to the simulator there was a robot who gave us discs and when we put the discs in to the machine it gave us lots of different things.

Next, we went to a room with a digestive system, like a bouncy castle. We went in through the mouth and came out the bottom! It was really fun! We got cool gift bags at the end. 

 

By Jack, Tim and Adam

PS. We also got to go to McDonalds afterwards!  ‘

Parish Leagues

Well done to all of our students who took part in the hurling parish league with Sam Maguires recently. Thanks to Mícheál for bringing in the cup, he captained the winning team. We are very proud of you all.  Maith sibh!

Autumn Trail

Out and about for SESE, great to get out a hunt for autumnal items in groups. Taking the classroom outside, working together and making learning fun.

Halloween 2019

We had some seriously spooky characters in school today, we’re not sure where our regular students went. A well deserved day of treats and games. 🙂

Kinrath House

A fine, fresh morning for a fabulous walk to Kinrath house. A huge thank you to Áine Brosnan who accompanied us on our trip to a local heritage site and who taught us so much. An informative, active and enjoyable morning was had by all.

Sports Day

A big thank you to the 4th years from MICC. who came and organised lots of fun activities for all our classes. The pupils really enjoyed it and we wish you all the very best of luck with the rest of your fundraising. Maith sibh!

Futsal

A new venture for all of us in Derrinacahara to take part in the FAI futsal tournament held in Dunmanway. A great way to test fitness and to perfect our soccer skills with this fun and fast game. A great opportunity to meet our friends from our neighbouring schools too, of course!

Orienteering at Inchydoney!

We were so excited to be able to take Ranganna 4, 5 agus a 6 to Inchydoney Beach for this year’s orienteering. We began in the western car park and explored both beaches on either side of Inchydoney Island Lodge. Some of our groups were back in 20 minutes!! – a testament to their determination and fitness. Well done! 

Welcome Autumn! 

Wonderful display by Junior & Senior Infants along with Rang a hAon. Is maith liom an ghráinneog ❤️

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I love this photo of Ava and her Nana. I’ll always remember how kind Micheál and Kitty were to me when I came to Derrinacahara in 1999. It’s always lovely to welcome the next generation.

What a wonderful week we’ve had in Derrinacahara! Thank you so much to Catherine White and her staff who were so kind and generous to our younger children who performed their Christmas play for the residents and Day Care Centre at Dunmanway Hospital along with their teacher Carol O’Driscoll.

Off to the cinema to see The Grinch! A treat for 63 marvellous children who, without doubt, are simply the best! 

Then who should arrive to say ‘Hello’ only the man himself Santa Claus! Santa enthralled the children and they watched eagerly as he departed on his journey back to the North Pole.

A huge Thank You to Dolores for all the goodies for Timmy’s party. We had the best day x🤗 and to you all for your very thoughtful gifts, treats and wonderful letters and cards of thanks. We genuinely appreciate them all xx