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"The essence of education lies in drawing out
the very best that is in you." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If everyone started off the day singing,
just think how happy they'd be." - Lauren Myracle

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin

"Education is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

"Educating the mind without educating
the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look,
but don't tell you what to see." - Alexandra K. Trenfor

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood." - Fred Rogers

"Reading gives us some place to go when
we have to stay where we are." - Mason Cooley

"Every student can learn, just not on the
same day, or the same way." - George Evans

Library Week Ireland!

December 10, 2022

Library Week Ireland takes place from Sunday 4th December 2022 – Saturday 10th December 2022. Check out http://libraryirelandweek.ie/ for more details.

Christmas Holidays!

December 21, 2022

The school will close for the Christmas Holidays on Wednesday 21st December 2022 at 12pm. Merry Christmas everyone and enjoy the break!

Back to School!

January 5, 2023

School reopens on Thursday 5th January 2023 at 08.50am. Welcome back everyone!

Recent Tweets

RT @MsOlsonsClass We’ve been learning about 3D shapes in #JuniorInfants! We made a cube and a pyramid using cocktail sticks and playdough! #Maths @followstannes @PDSTPrimarySTEM pic.twitter.com/aFbq…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Last week in #Aistear we had great fun visiting the supermarket! We also enjoying going to the shops in small world, sequencing the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ and we started our Christmas art! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/xRWo…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Here are our lovely leaf prints we did in #Aistear! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/sb19…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Christmas has arrived in #JuniorInfants! We made elves, lovely stained glass nativity scenes, angels and handprint robins! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/wlbm…

RT @MsOlsonsClass We love Christmas in #JuniorInfants! Here are our Christmas wreaths! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/5FIU…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Our November blog is out now available to read here 👉 blog.stannesshankill… 🙌 @followstannes

RT @mselmesclass Thank you Tanya for coming in to make these lovely bookmarks with the class😊📚📚@followstannes pic.twitter.com/PVzv…

RT @MsOlsonsClass We had such fun doing our play! pic.twitter.com/lldN…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Finally we had a ball at our wrap party!! Sweets galore, Christmas tunes and complete with cake as I was promptly told yesterday “It’s not a party without cake!” 🍰🍬🍫😂 pic.twitter.com/2OCd…

RT @MsOlsonsClass We even had some well wishes from our elf and the main man himself! 🎅🏻 pic.twitter.com/Ye01…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Here are The Shepherds and The Wisemen along with some pictures from our Dress Rehearsal yesterday! pic.twitter.com/DitE…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Well done to all of the children today in their performance of ‘Our First Nativity’. They were absolutely fantastic - we’re very proud of them! Here are Mary; Joseph; The Innkeeper; The Angels; The Stars and The Sheep, Cow and Donkey! @followstannes 💖👏🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻⭐️🎁☃️ pic.twitter.com/TOnc…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 When you work with amazing people, anything is possible! Thank you to everyone who made this happen! Happy Friday wishes @followstannes @Deva_OConnor pic.twitter.com/UeFN…

RT @hinds_mcquiston 7 days to go til ‘A Wriggly Nativity’! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/UDkv…

All three Junior Infant Classes wowed us on stage this week....starting to feel alot like Christmas 🎄 pic.twitter.com/UdLq…

Singing for the lovely people in Shankill Day Centre earlier this week... pic.twitter.com/ROI1…

1st and 2nd Class Assembly today was full of Christmas cheer! pic.twitter.com/TP2w…

RT @aivalikli_ms ‘Our First Nativity’ @followstannes pic.twitter.com/6ChD…

RT @aivalikli_ms ‘Our First Nativity’ part 2, we enjoyed a little party after all our hard work over the last few weeks @followstannes pic.twitter.com/2fdh…

RT @rangmsmaguire It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Senior Infants @followstannes pic.twitter.com/ANRZ…

RT @mselmesclass We are getting into the Christmas spirit by painting Robins on a Winter Tree❄❄ @followstannes pic.twitter.com/66RB…

RT @MsOlsonsClass A big Happy Birthday to J today! We hope you had a lovely day! 🎉🎈🥳🎂🎁 pic.twitter.com/EMWK…

RT @hinds_mcquiston Busy little elves this week making decorations for our classroom 🎄@followstannes pic.twitter.com/IW54…

Looking forward to seeing them! twitter.com/MsOCrowl…

RT @mselmesclass We had great fun making Lava Lamps😊@followstannes twitter.com/i/web/st… pic.twitter.com/wDew…

We came home with both trophies on offer at last Friday's Football Blitz! Thanks to all that made it happen. pic.twitter.com/Hh5q…

See tomorrow's Friday Update for more details... pic.twitter.com/zxM6…

RT @hinds_mcquiston So great to be back dancing again today - thanks Catherine! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/Q6ae…

RT @mselmesclass The children did a great job drawing in the cubism style inspired by Picasso and also did some marbling😊@followstannes pic.twitter.com/7KQp…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 An enormous "Thank you" to all our pupils and staff who took part in the Shankill GAA inter-school blitz yesterday. Thank you also to everyone who organised the event and made it such a memorable day for all. @followstannes @ShankillGaa pic.twitter.com/UDg9…

RT @mselmesclass More fab projects from the children😊 2 amazing ones on Denmark and other great ones on The Stone Age and Ancient Greece. @followstannes pic.twitter.com/13VO…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Two new blogs out now! Check them out here 👉 blog.stannesshankill… @followstannes

RT @MsOlsonsClass We have been learning about length in #Maths and we’ve been doing some fun length challenges - we had a timed competition to see who could make the longest playdough snake! 🐍 Then we ordered and compared them! pic.twitter.com/E9wr…

RT @rangmsmaguire We had a super fun walk to the post office today to post some special letters. @followstannes pic.twitter.com/x0Nc…

RT @MsOCrowleys1st We’ve had lots of fun this week for science week! We learned all about X-rays and how our bones work! Here are our skeletons we made using scrap paper! 🩻 🦴💀♥️ @followstannes pic.twitter.com/9oyz…

RT @MsOCrowleys1st We went on a shape hunt this week around the school! We came up with fantastic ideas of where our shapes could we hiding! 🟠🔺🟩🧮 @followstannes pic.twitter.com/52LP…

RT @MsOCrowleys1st We’ve been working very hard as scientists this week and have had some fun brain breaks! ♥️ @followstannes pic.twitter.com/yeOx…

RT @hinds_mcquiston Getting to grips with the lines for our Christmas play with our fantastic Reading Buddies, thank you to Mr Hackett’s 6th class 😀🎭@followstannes pic.twitter.com/woJm…

RT @hinds_mcquiston Blue skies and sunshine for our walk to the Post Office today @followstannes pic.twitter.com/Z0Iq…

RT @hinds_mcquiston Mission accomplished! Watch this space! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/pVwS…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 For Science Week, we are planting daffodil bulbs to brighten up our flowerbeds in the junior yard. Great team work! @followstannes @rangmsmaguire pic.twitter.com/LEou…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 Working with Senior Infants to plant daffodil bulbs during Science Week @rangmsmaguire @followstannes pic.twitter.com/69OV…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 Working with our friends in Ms Rigby's class to plant some daffodils during Science Week @msrigbysclass @followstannes pic.twitter.com/6WNT…

RT @Rang4Seomra14 What a super bunch of people to work with during Science Week, and looking forward to watching our daffodil bulbs grow ...... @followstannes @rangmsmaguire @msrigbysclass pic.twitter.com/j19d…

RT @mselmesclass More fantastic projects on Tajikistan, San Marino, The Maldives and Ancient Greece @followstannes pic.twitter.com/Snc7…

RT @msmcmanus11 We are soooo excited for our Christmas play, we had to send our invitations out as soon as possible! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/MNUN…

RT @MsOCrowleys1st Library time today! 📚📖👓 @followstannes pic.twitter.com/tqUh…

RT @msmcmanus11 With the World Cup coming up and some very skilful footballers in the class, we decided to have our own football match ⚽️🏆 Ms McCreedy’s team won, and were VERY excited about it 🎉😂 @followstannes pic.twitter.com/ymjx…

RT @msmcmanus11 @followstannes pic.twitter.com/AzMX…

RT @MsOCrowleys1st So excited for our blitz!! Let’s go St. Anne’s! ♥️♥️♥️ @ShankillGaa @followstannes pic.twitter.com/4Oct…

RT @aivalikli_ms Dough making yesterday in Junior Infants @followstannes pic.twitter.com/zvbJ…

RT @aivalikli_ms Once our dough proved, we rolled the dough and added our toppings. Very happy Infants today @followstannes pic.twitter.com/uTSr…

RT @MsOlsonsClass We’ve had a very busy two weeks in #JuniorInfants! Last week we loved playing in the pizzeria as chefs, waiters and customers! We made paper plates pizzas, pizzas with playdough and created a pizza restaurant with stickle bricks - it had a very long queue! @followstannes 🍕 🍕 pic.twitter.com/tfCK…

RT @MsOlsonsClass This week in #Aistear we enjoyed another week at the pizzeria! We also loved investigating and exploring our autumn tuff tray. Once we had finished we created lovely leaf rubbing pictures. We coloured a pizza according to shape and we sequenced how to make a pizza! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/dhg7…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Gymnastics fun with Deirdre on Tuesday! @followstannes pic.twitter.com/0KsJ…

RT @MsOlsonsClass A big thank you to Ms. Woods for showing us how to make pizza dough yesterday! We had so much fun - what a treat! #ScienceWeek2022 @followstannes @ScienceWeek pic.twitter.com/086s…

RT @MsOlsonsClass Here are our pizzas- we think they look good enough to eat! 🍕😋 We also made these cute clay hedgehogs! 🦔 @followstannes pic.twitter.com/zrP9…

RT @aivalikli_ms In Aistear we are continuing our visit to the pizzeria. We are having a lot of fun working on role plays in the pizzeria, rolling and weighing dough, cutting and sticking our pizza recipe and finally colouring our pizza topping shapes @followstannes pic.twitter.com/U8XH…

RT @aivalikli_ms We are doing fantastic work on our sounds. Here we are identifying the initial sound in CVC words on our IPADS last week @followstannes pic.twitter.com/rtgz…

RT @mselmesclass Some more amazing project work by the children and presented to the class on The Titanic, North and South Korea, Ukraine and Ancient Greece @followstannes pic.twitter.com/nhSC…

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