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Sixth Class are busy preparing for their graduation. Watch this space for some videos of their rehearsals. They have composed their own songs…

Graduation is at 1:30 next Tuesday in the school hall. Parents, grandparents, aunts uncles all very welcome!

Forty children from our school participated in the Cumann na MBunscoil Sports day on Wednesday 7th June.

Many children got through the heats and we also managed to bring home trophies and medals. There was excellent participation by all who represented the school and it was a most enjoyable day.

Watch the video of the army band entertaining the school today. It was a great treat for everyone to hear such an array of instruments being played so well. Our new stage was put to great use as the children could see all the instruments clearly.
A special thanks to Miss Fitzpatrick for organising this special treat.

Army Band with pupils from roundwoodns on Vimeo.

Today the whole school had a most enjoyable concert with the army band from Rathmines.
Watch the video of the brass instruments being explained to the pupils.

Brass instruments from roundwoodns on Vimeo.

Last week 5th and 6th class went to the Dáil. After a tour of the Dáil and Seanad we enjoyed our lunch on the grounds of Trinity College. Hopefully some of these 67 pupils will be students there some day. Thanks to the Lotto fund for this trip.

Ger and Barbara Murphy were in the school during the week cooking with some of the classes. The smells were delicious!

The Mountain Rescue team were in visiting on Tuesday. They told us all about their work helping people who get lost or injured walking in the mountains. Amanda Halligan completed a 50 MILE run recently and raised 800 euro for the Mountain  Rescue. She presented them with the cheque at the demonstration.

Today we were learning a new dance for ‘Bookweek’. Come along on Friday to see our performance.o

Today we had a visit from Signal Master Darren Carrie and Sergeant Brendan Clarke.

They presented us with the national flag and a copy of the proclamation.

The proclamation was read out by Eve Leacy and Signal Master Darren Carrie. We have to now write our own proclamation.

Billy Meagher told us all about his great, great, great, great grandfather William Francis Meagher who designed and came up with the idea for the Tricolour flag.

He told us of how he was in France and saw their flag and realised we needed a flag for Ireland, this happened in the mid 1,800’s and it wasn’t until after the Republic was established that this flag was again used as our national flag.

Great work at break time today!