St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge

Every year we enjoy a fortnight in school where we celebrate all things Irish! We call it Seachtain na Gaeilge. We make an effort to speak as Gaeilge (in Irish) and have a number of special events taking place. Have a look at what we did in Room 2.

 We made St. Patrick's Day headbands in the lead up to the Special Day. We coloured in Shamrocks and cut them out. The shamrocks were then stapled to a band of paper. Teacher had to measure around our heads to make sure they fit. Don't they look fantastic!

On Friday we wore green. We had a special dance in the hall called a Ceili. During PE we learned an Irish dance. We performed the dance on the hall in front of the whole school. We were fantastic!

We watched the other classes perform too. We had a great day!

Earlier in the day we found a picture. It fell out of teacher's Leabhar Rolla. We didn't know where it came from. We had a think and realised that the Leprechauns must have put it there! They sent us on a treasure hunt around the classroom.

We needed some special magic to open the box. We used a magic Irish wand and our Irish phrase, Oscail é más é do thoil é, (open it, please) to finally unlock the box. Inside the box we found the leprechaun's gold coins!

We took part in an art competition. The competition was based on a seanfhocal (an Irish proverb). The proverb is "Giorraíonn beirt bóthar." This means that two people shorten the road i.e. two is company. Here are some of our drawings.

And here is our winner! Well done Sophie!

We learned about Irish instruments. We listened to Irish music and played instruments to the beat. Then we put down the instrument and did some 1,2,3s!