This is the story of our LONG debating journey. It all started out with the trials for the debating team. The end results were Rory as Captain,Matthew as 2nd Speaker and Stephanie as 3rd Speaker. Alicia, Aaron and Leanne were chosen as three subs for the team. 

Our first debate was against Móin Ruadh.  The motion was "Social media is making us anti-social."  We were all really nervous as it was our first debate but we did great!

The next debate was in Mullinavat. We were so delighted to win and were gaining confidence in our debating.

Now lets skip on to our Semi-Final which was against The Model School, Kilkenny.  The motion was "Charity Begins At Home." It was a close debate but luckily we came out on top! Next step the final!

6th Class are very busy with their new enterprise "Zakee". They are selling hand designed t-shirts in the school on the 28th March, so come along!
There will be a cake sale and other novelties on the day also. For more information on this look on the tab 'School Zone/JEP' on this site.
Here are photos of the fun we are having along the way!

6th Class took part in a regional debating competition.
There were many debates in the classroom and finally a group of six children were chosen to represent us. 

Our team was Aoife Farrell, Caithlin Simpson, Kyle Dreeling, Tiffanie Fitzgerald, Eddie Gittens and Zoe Fenlon.
Their first debate was against Paulstown where they were opposing the motion "Homework is a waste of time".
It was an excellent debate with the whole class attending it in Paulstown school. Both teams were excellent and the adjudicators had a difficult job making their decision.  Paulstown won in the end.
Well done to all involved and we wish Paulstown success.

 
One   Friday, 6th class went on a nature walk with Ms Phelan and Bridget. It was a
lovely cool day. We walked through the village, passed Rock Field to Clover
Lane. The reason why we did this is that we were studying hedgerows. We took
clipboards and work sheets with us. The work sheets had pictures of leafs and if
we saw them we would tick them off. We all had lots of fun trying to find all
the leaves that we learned about. Some of the leaves that we found were Alder,
Ash, Hazel and lots more. When we found all the leaves we returned back to the
school. We loved learning about hedgerows.