Lismackin School Blog

Mid-Tipp u 14 final

2008-06-10T09:32:00.004Z

Clonakenny are into the mid- Tipp final. We are playing Kickhams. This match is a replay as when we played them in Templetuohy we drew. That match went ahead last Monday the 2^nd of June and the final score was 3.4 Clonakenny to 2.7 Kichams. We are looking forward to meeting our rivals again tomorrow in Clonmore at 7pm. Hopefully luck will fall on our side and we will come out as u 14 mid champions.

Lismackin Celebrate Third Green Flag

2008-06-06T10:40:00.006Z

A special ceremony to celebrate Lismackin National School receiving their third green flag was held on Tuesday, 27th. May 2008.

The flag was raised by local councillor and past pupil of the school, Michael Smith, assisted by the two youngest pupils of the school. Fr. Noel Kennedy PP, Noel Coonan T.D and Mrs Nancy Lynch, retired teacher, were among the guests on the day.

The school choir, conducted by our principal, Mrs Ryan and accompanied by our music teacher, Mr. Joe O'Brien, entertained the school community with a beautiful rendition of Speed your Journey, Ring of Fire, and Any Dream will Do.

Ms Emma Boland co-ordinator of the Green Schools and her enthusiastic Green Schools committee explained to the gathering how the school had achieved their third green flag award. Representatives from classes- infants to sixth, elaborated on the various projects carried out to highlight awareness of our need to conserve water usage and quality. A demonstration by 5th. and 6th. class showed vividly how thoughtless actions pollute our rivers. These projects can be viewed on the school web site http://lismackin.ie

A cheque was presented to the school by representatives from the Parents Council who had raised €1500 through the production of a very popular school calendar earlier in the year. This will be put towards the installation of an IWB i Seomra Rang a haon agus a dó. The Chairperson acknowledged the support of the parents council
Parents, children and guests enjoyed refreshments afterwards, and then children took part in school sports activities and played on the bouncing castles provided for the day.

A Great Day was had by all !

Thanks to everyone who made the event so successful and pleasurable.

The County Semi-Final Match

2008-06-06T09:30:00.004Z

Following up from the previous post we only drew our match against Rahealty-Kickham so we had to replay it . We won the replay by 2.5 to 8 points. we were now in the Tipp County semi-final against Portroe. Unfortunately we lost by a point even though we scored a goal in the last few minutes of the match. Well done to Portroe who went on to win the County Final.

Clonakeny Final

2008-05-21T09:44:00.002Z

To-night is D-day for us! We are in the Mid Tipperary Section C under 12 football final. It will be played in the Ragg . I hope we win.

Shanie.

Match Result

2008-05-16T13:51:00.003Z

I was in goal today.We were playing a side called Leugh.We had a very sporting game even though the score favoured us at 5 goals and 7 points to no score . Our backs were superb .We tookevery chance we got. We are playing Mount Bruis next Friday in the County Quater final.The team is looking forward to the game. We hope to be victorious as we take one more step towards the final. On with the practice lads.

Cool!

2008-05-16T13:47:00.003Z

This Wednesday we were told that the NCTE wanted to highlight our school blog on their website. It was about cyberbulling and internet safety. We were surprised and very happy.

Match Day

2008-05-16T10:05:00.003Z

The match is on today. We are playing Leugh at 11.30 . It is a decisive match. We have the home advantage . The team is real nervous. We are hoping to live up to the standard we set in the last game .

Resizing for the web

2008-05-15T11:37:00.006Z

I learnt how to resize my art work today so that I can post it on our blog. I used the magnifying glass and clicked on my picture until it said the ratio was 1:1. Then I chose 50% and clicked on resize and this scaled my poster down to half its size This is my poster on Internet Safety

Brian

Final Word on Internet Safety

2008-05-07T13:43:00.006Z

These are our Smart Rules to remain safe. Click Here to visit the Smart Safety Web site

Are u a Cyberbully?

2008-05-07T13:07:00.006Z

Cyberbullying is when you are bullied online through email. blog, bebo IMs. We made a chart to show how cyberbullying is the same and also different from bullying

Bullying online isn't just sending bad e-mails or sending spam. Signing onto someone elses homepage and gathering information is also bullying. Posting pictures of your friends that they don't want anyone to see is also bullying. If you want to see if yor a bully log onto http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/tweens/are_you_a_cyberbully.html and take their quiz.

Cyberbullying

2008-05-01T21:33:00.003Z

This is our poster to show what you can do if you are been bullied online.

Dos and Donts on the web

2008-04-29T17:19:00.010Z

Our Learning Plan

2008-04-29T17:19:00.009Z

This is our plan for day two of our visit to www.webwise .ie This is a website where you will get lots of advice on safe surfing. Take a look!

Safety rules

2008-04-29T17:19:00.001Z

Our Internet Safety Posters

2008-04-21T13:01:00.007Z

These are some of the posters we made based on the golden rules for internet safety.Hope you like them!

Safety Online

2008-04-18T10:37:00.003Z

It's Friday thank God!!No homework!!
Over the past two weeks we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe online. The first lesson we learned was not to give out personal information. We were givin a sheet and we had to fill out our information on it such as name, age, address etc...When we were finished our teacher took us outside and stuck it on the front gate of our school. She told us by giving out our information on the internet it is just like putting our information on a sheet and leaving it there for everbody to see.
Our second lesson was looking up things on the internet. When you type down something on google or any other search station you will get lots of links. We were told always read the information under each link to make sure it is suitable or it matches what we are looking for. Do u know on your search station you can click preferences and then chose strict access to make sure only apporiate things come up.
We watched a video of two characters called Fionn and Niamh explaining to us about usernames and chatting on line.It got really annoying as each thing took a long time to load. At the end of the lesson the girls and the boys made two groups and each group had five minutes to create a story line for the drama about chatting online.My group used a box and pretended it was a computer and there was a group at one side laughing and giggling and one girl at the other side believing that she had won a prize and was to meet a courier to collect her prize at the roundabout.We used a round table for the roundabout then we bundled her into our van (couch) and the teacher said it was very clever and we had great fun.
Will write more if I find the time and maybe post some some of our posters next weeek.Cya then.

By Jenny-Ellie

Internet Safety Week

2008-04-17T15:02:00.002Z

This week we are learning about how to stay safe online. We will post some hints and tips soon.

The Snowdrop

2008-02-12T14:25:00.001Z

This is a poem about snowdrops

The Snowdrop

"Where are the snowdrops?" said the sun
"Dead," said the frost,
"Buried and lost
Everyone."
"A foolish answer," said the sun
"They did not die,
Asleep they lie
Everyone
And I will awake them
I, the sun, into the light
All clad in white
Everyone."

I think this poem was written by Pádraic Pearse an Irish patriot who fought in the 1916 Rising.

Our First Snowdrop

2008-02-11T11:37:00.002Z

Today is the 11th of Fedruary, another Monday morning. The weather is fine, the sun is still trying to find its way through the clouds. We have just come in from sos which was fun. We were playing soccer on the pitch. When we were coming in we were happy to see our first snowdrop had popped up. I have taken a picture for you to see.

The Humming Bird Moth

2007-11-17T14:10:00.000Z

Line Drawing

2007-11-17T13:57:00.000Z

What's a Wiki?

2007-08-25T20:08:00.000Z

Click on the video from technorati.com and all will be explained in easy to understand steps.

Remember to Recycle to protect our planet.

2007-08-18T14:50:00.000Z

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2007-07-28T21:52:00.000Z

2007-06-01T20:58:00.000Z

In her blog KO compiled a list of wildlife the crew of Seal had encountered on their trip of a lifetime
Penguins
Gentoo and Gentoo penguin chicks, Adelie penguins and Adelie penguin chicks, Chinstrap and Magellanic penguins;
Seals
Crabeater , Leopard , Fur and one Weddell seal;
Petrels
Wilson's Storm petrels, Giant petrels, Pintada petrels, and Blue petrels.
Whales
Antarctic Minke whales, Humpback whales;

Bottlenose dolphins;
Blue-Eyed shags;
White sheathbills;
Dominican gulls;
Magellanic Cormorant rock colonies;
Common snipes; (flightless)
Steamer ducks; Black-Browed albatrosses,
albatross;
Broad-Billed prions;
Arctic and Antarctic terns;
Subantarctic skuas, South Polar skuas; Chilean skuas; and on the South American mainland they encountered cats and kittens, dogs, horses and llamas.
Wow!!

2007-05-19T20:23:00.001Z

February 22nd 2007

Fish Island

The Seal passed between huge icebergs to reach Flounder Island inlet in Fish Island Bay. They took the dingby across across to Mackerel Island to visit an Adelie penguin rookery. When they landed at Mackerel Island, two fur seals tried to get rid of them

They climbed up a huge ice cap on top of the island for what they described as " breathtaking views of Trout, Plaice, Salmon and Perch Islands in Fish Island Bay. The bay was littered with icebergs and sea ice.

2007-05-19T18:40:00.000Z

19th February

The friends are anchored on Hovgaard Island 65 S , 64 W. It was on this island that that the ozone layer was first identified and bought to world attention
They spotted some Adelie penquins , a family of skuas, fur seals and turns

Bad weather coming.

2007-02-27T13:45:00.000Z

14 th February.
Ciara, Ko, Simon and Stu keep a blog and the class read these blogs most days. Hamish and Kate have two children who travel everywhere with them. They are only six and four but they have travelled 25,ooo miles . Like us they love Harry Potter books. They go to school only if they are on land but when they are at sea their parents teach them. Hamish has been to Antarctica many times.

The friends met up with Kate and Hamish at Puerto Williams -a port at the bottom of South America and sailed across Drake Passage . This is the sea between S. America and Antarctia. They landed in a place called Whale Harbour at Deception island . This is one of the South Shetland Islands. It has an active volcano and has a black sandy beach. It was once a whaling station but is now an historic site .

2007-02-13T14:02:00.000Z

12th February 2007

Welcome to the GeoBlog of fifth class. For the next few weeks we will be writing about the journey of a boat called SEAL . It is on its way to the Antarctica as we write. We are following its journey on the www.antarctica2007 website.

Did you know that Antarctica is the fifth largest continent. 98% of the hugh landmass is covered in ice. It is at the bottom of the earth. In the winter the sun never rises and in summer it never goes down. It is the coldest and windiest continent. Lots of people visit Antarctica as tourists.

Lismackin School Blog

2007-02-05T21:52:00.000Z

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