Hurling.

The mini-leagues will not start on Monday as previously stated but if any boy wishes to bring Hurling gear Mr. Foley will bring them over for a session at lunch time on Monday (depending on weather).

Archbishop's food Appeal

As part of the preparation for the confirmation Fr. Martin has suggested that the boys help out in the collection for the Archbishop’s Food Appeal in the church. The boys will help with the collection before the mass (so they will need to arrive 15 minutes before the mass) they will then attend the mass and help with the collection again for a few minutes after mass.

It is great that there has been such a great amount of people offing to come along and help and that says a huge amount about the boys in the class and their families.

Below is the rota of dates and times that boys will help with the collection for the appeal.

	Sat 6pm	Sunday 9am	Sunday 10.30am	Sunday 12 noon	Sunday 6pm
Weekend 1	30th Nov Patrick Whelan Hugo Mulligan Finn Cranston Brian Barron	1st Dec Brandon Caulfield Oisín McMahon	1st Dec Oisín McMahon Oisin McGinley	1st Dec Ben Thompson Kyle Goad Jack Brophy	1st Dec Pappy Tucker Jeff McGovern Rory Boyle Flinn Storan
Weekend 2	Sat 14th Tadhg Harnett Peter Garvey Casey Whelan Ronan Shaw	Sun 15th Joshua Kuh Hogan Kyle Goad	Sun 15th Matthew McDonnell Daniel Maher Peter Garvey Aaron Lynch	Sun 15th Jimmy Crowe Ben Breslin	Sun 15th Donal O’Malley Liam Carr Adrian Capacite

 

Show and tell

Congratulations to Jeff who during the summer represented Ireland in a tennis tournament in The Netherlands. He won 5 out of his seven matches and is definitely one to watch out for in the future. Watch your back Djokovic, Murray, Nadal and Federer. Jeff is coming to get you.

Aaron was part of the U-12 Clann na nGael Fontenoy team who recently won the division 1A league title against Ballyboden St. Enda's. They were the first Gaelic football team from the club to win a county competition in the top division. The team included many past-pupils of our school and current "Star" boys.

Suyash has spent a lot of time recently completing beautiful art work. These included some great cartoon drawings of The Simpsons and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Carols for this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4Uu0OlmTg

War is Over      

So this is Christmas

And what have you done

Another year over         

And a new one just begun

And so this is Christmas

I hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young.

 

A very Merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let’s hope it’s a good one

Without any fear

 

And so this is Christmas

For weak and for strong

For rich and the poor ones

The world is so wrong

And so happy Christmas

For black and for white

For yellow and red ones

Let’s stop all the fight

 

Chorus

And so this is Christmas

And what have we done

Another year over

A new one just begun

And so happy Christmas

We hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young

 

A very Merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let’s hope it’s a good one

Without any fear

War is over, if you want it

War is over now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5RTZTFLAsA#t=19

Silent Night

 

Oiche chiuin, oiche Mic Dé

Cách ina suan dís ar aon

Dís is dilse ‘faire le spies

Naíon beag gnaoigheal ceannanntais caomh

Chriost ina codladh go séimh, Chriost ina codladh go séimh

 

  

Silent night! Holy night

All is calm, all is bright.

Round yon virgin mother and child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace.

3 Carols for this week.

Our class are revising these carols this week.

 

Joy to the World

Joy to the world, the Lord is come.

Let earth receive her king!

Let every heart prepare him room

And heav’n and nature sing

And heav’n and heav’n and nature sing.

 

Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns.

Let men their songs employ!

While fields and floods, rock, hills and plains

Repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

The First Noel

 

The First Noel, the Angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the King of Israel!

They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the East beyond them far
And to the earth it gave great light
And so it continued both day and night.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the King of Israel!

 

We Three Kings

 

We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar,

Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star

 

Chorus

Oh, oh,, star of wonder, star of night – Star of royal beauty bright

Westward leading, still proceeding – Guide us to thy perfect light.

 

Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain. Gold I bring, to crown him again

King for ever, ceasing never. Over us all to reign.

 

Chorus

                                             

School Chess Team

We are very proud of Suyash from our class and Barry, Luke and Eamon form 5th class who have been representing our school at chess for the past number of weeks. Well done boys!!!!

Peripheral Vision

Today in school as part of Science week and for our Young Scientist project we all did a little test to examine our range of peripheral vision. Next week we are going to do exercises to see if we can strengthen our peripheral vision and we will repeat the test to see if  we have improved.

Updated phones leaderboard

TEACHER	NO. OF PHONES
1.                     Ms. McCarthy	12
2.                     Ms. Mulhern	15
3.                     Ms. Lacey	15
4.                     Mr. Madden	11
5.                     Ms. Farrell	14
6.                     Ms. Conway	33
7.                     Ms. Finnerty	10
8.                     Ms. Russell	3
9.                     Mr. O’ Maonlaile	24
10.           Mr. O’ Brolleacháin	6
11.           Mr. Walsh	4
12.           Mr. Collins	36
13.           Mr. Munnelly	12
14.           Mr. Foley	29
Total:	224

Our 3 Carols for this week.

We have to revise these carols/lyrics for this week.

Don’t be too busy for Christmas

Don’t be too busy for Christmas

don’t be too busy to care

Find time to look in the manger

and see Jesus nestling there

Don’t be too busy for Christmas,

don’t be too busy to sing

Of this most wonderful story

and of our most wonderful King

 

In-between the cooking and the baking

In-between the drinking and the eating

In the middle of the merry-making

Remember the reason for this season

Chorus

In-between the washing and the cleaning

In-between the meeting and the sharing

In the middle of the celebrating,

Remember the reason for this season

Chorus

Of this most wonderful King

 

 

Little Donkey

Little donkey, little donkey, on the dusty road,

Got to keep on plodding onwards with your precious load,

Been a long time, little donkey, through the winter’s night.

Don’t give up now, little donkey Bethlehem’s in sight

 

Chorus:

Ring out those bells tonight, Bethlehem, Bethlehem.

Follow that star tonight, Bethlehem, Bethlehem.

Little donkey, little donkey, had a heavy day

Little donkey, carry Mary safely on her way

Little donkey, little donkey, journey’s end is near.

There are wise men waiting for a sign to bring them here.

Do not falter, little donkey, there’s a star ahead,

It will guide you, little donkey, to a cattle shed.

Chorus:

 

 

 

O come All Ye Faithful

                                   

O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,

O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

Come and behold him, born the king of angels.

O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him,

O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.

 

Sing choirs of angels, Sing in exultation,

Sing all ye citizens of heaven above.

Glory to god in the highest.

O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him,

O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.

 

 

 

 

Hockey Message from Kenny (Railway Union)

RAILWAY UNION HOCKEY CLUB ARE INVITING ALL 5TH AND 6TH CLASS BOYS IN STAR OF THE SEA TO COME DOWN TO THE RAILWAY ALL WEATHER ASTRO PITCH TO GIVE HOCKEY A GO EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM NOW TILL CHRISTMAS.

WHEN: NEXT 5 WEDNESDAYS FROM 3.30-4.30 (13TH, 20TH, 27TH NOVEMBER AND 4TH AND 11TH DECEMBER)

WHAT TO BRING: GUM SHIELD, SHIN PADS AND RAIN JACKET (STICKS ARE PROVIDED)

WHY: TO LEARN A NEW SPORT, WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE AT THE SPORTS YOU ALREADY PLAY. IE GROUND HURLING, AGILITY, AWARENESS ETC.

COST: N/A FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSIONS OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED PLAYERS  

COACHES: KENNY CARROLL (087 2757486, IRELAND SENIOR INTERNATIONAL)
JAKE MORTON (TASMANIA STATE PLAYER)

County Colours

Today in Art we did a lovely project where we decorated maps. We coloured each county in different patterns with their own county colours.

Below is a list of all county colours. Why not find out about your own county!

Antrim/Aontroim – Saffron and White
The Antrim colours were adopted from the famous Shauns Club and have been worn since inter-county football began except for a short period.

Armagh/Ard Mhacha – Orange and White
Up to 1926 Armagh wore the same colours as Kilkenny. In 1926 they played Dublin in the All-Ireland Junior Semi-Final and wore jerseys knit specially for them by nuns in Omeath in the colours which are used at present.

Dublin/Áth Cliath – Sky Blue and NavyDublin wore the colours of the Club Champions up to 1918 when the sky blue shade with the crest was adopted. The change to the present kit was made in 1974.

Cavan/An Cabhàn – Blue and White
Royal blue has been used by Cavan since 1910. The white trim was introduced for the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Final against Kerry, which was played in the Polo Grounds, New York.

Carlow/Ceatharlach – Green, Red and YellowUp to 1910, Carlow used the colours of the county champions. In that year a set of green jerseys with red and yellow hoops were presented to the county teams. These colours with pattern changes have been used since.

Kerry/Ciarraí – Green and GoldUp to the 1903 drawn All-Ireland Football Final, the Kerry colours were green and red but were changed to green and gold for the replay when Kerry won their first All-Ireland title. The colours have been retained since then.

Kilkenny/Cill Chainnigh- Black and AmberThe familiar black and amber jersey originated in 1910 with the presentation of new jerseys to Kilkenny by John F. Drennan. This settled a dispute that had arisen about the colours to be worn.

Kildare/Cill Dara – All WhiteThe distinctive all-white of Kildare derived from the colours of the Clane club which won the county championship in 1903.

Wicklow/Cill Mhantáin – Blue and GoldBray Emmets were Wicklow county champions at the turn of the century and wearing a green jersey won the All- Ireland club championship of 1901/2. The Wicklow inter-county team wore green until the early 1930s. Blue with a gold hoop was then used until the changeover to the present style in 1970.

Clare/An Clàr – Saffron and BlueTulla was the first club to be established and the Clare jersey reflects this connection. Originally the jersey was saffron with a blue sash, but around 1920 the present hoop replaced the sash.

Cork/Corcaigh – Red and WhiteCork played in a saffron and blue jersey, with a large C on the chest, up to 1919. These jerseys were confiscated by British authorites and the County Committee borrowed a set of red and white jerseys. These colours were then retained.

Derry/Doire – Red and WhiteRed was the traditional Derry colour. In 1947 Derry played in the National League final in a set of white jerseys with a red band. These colours or the alternative of a red jersey with a white band have been worn since.

Down/An Dún – Red and Black
A red jersey was worn by Down up to 1922. From 1923 a blue jersey with white trim was worn. In 1933 Down changed back to an all red jersey but with black collar and cuffs. Black shorts were first worn in 1962.

Donegal/Dún na nGall – Green and Gold
Donegal have always worn green and gold and until 1966 wore green with a gold hoop. After a short spell wearing the gold jersey with green shorts, they returned to the hooped version in the late 70’s and early 80’s, before re-adopting the gold jersey for the All Ireland semi final of 1992.

Fermanagh/Fear Manach – Green and White
Fermanagh originally used green and white hoops, the colours of the then County champions Teemore. Around 1934/35 a green jersey with yellow trim was used and this was later changed to white trim. Occasionally the county team wears a green jersey with red shorts.

Galway/Gaillimh – Maroon and White
In Galway as in many other counties the colours of the county champions were used originally. The changeover to the present jersey took place in 1936 and the crest was added about 1956. Maroon shorts are occasionally worn.

Westmeath/An Iarmhí – Maroon and WhiteUp to 1912 Westmeath wore a green jersey with a white hoop. This was later changed to a maroon jersey with a saffron sash. The sash was dropped in 1936 and the present jersey has been used ever since.

Laois – Blue and WhiteLaois wore a set of black and amber hoops in which they won their only All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1915. The blue jersey with a white hoop was adopted in 1932 but Lais wore an all blue jersey with white trim when wiining the Leinster football title in 2003.

Leitrim/Liatroim – Green and GoldThe Leitrim colours of green with a gold hoop date from about 1917, though white and green was sometimes worn in the 1920s. In 1927 when playing Kerry in the All Ireland Semi-Final in Tuam they wore the Dublin jerseys. In the early 1990’s Leitrim dropped their hoop and now play in green with a gold trim.

Wexford/Loch Garman – Purple and Gold
In the 1891 Hurling Final Wexford (Crossbeg) wore green and amber. In 1899 Blackwater represented the county wearing black and amber. Purple and amber was introduced in 1913. The placing of the colours has alternated over the years.

London/Londain – Green and WhiteLondon play in the Connacht championship in football and the Ulster championship in hurling.

Longford/An Longfort – Blue and GoldGreen and white hooped jerseys were used by Longford up to 1918 when a royal blue jersey with a gold sash was adopted. Around 1930 the sash disappeared but the gold trim was retained.

Louth/An Lú – Red and White
Louth have worn red and white colours since 1885. In 1957, when Louth won the All Ireland, a St Brigids Cross was presented to the team and the crest was included on the jersey in 1958.

Limerick/Luimneach – Green and WhiteLimerick wore green with a white sash when winning the 1918 All Ireland Final but in the 1921 final wore green and white hoops. The present jersey was adopted in 1924.

Mayo/Maigh Eo – Green and RedMayo's jersey had a v-neck style until the early 50's when a white collar and cuffs were added. The crest was introduced in 1961.

Meath/An Mhí – Green and GoldA green jersey with a gold sash was used by the Meath team from 1908. The sash eventually disappeared, being replaced by the all green jersey with gold trim.

Monaghan/Muineachán – Blue and WhiteIn Monaghan, up to 1913, the colours of the county champions were worn. The white jersey then had a blue band around 1920. Black and amber were used for a while in the mid-30s but in 1942 the original white with blue trim was reintroduced.

New York/Nua-Eabhrac – Blue and WhiteNew York participate in the Connacht football championship and have also taken part in the Ulster hurling championship.

Waterford/Port Láirge – White and BlueWaterford first took the royal blue of Munster with white cuffs for its county jersey. In 1938 the jersey was changed to white with royal blue trim.

Roscommon/Ros Comáin – Primrose and Blue
The Roscommon jersey was either black and amber or black and white prior to 1938. Blue with a yellow band was also used. The present colour scheme was adopted for the 1943 final.

Sligo/Sligeach – Black and White
At one time the Sligo jersey was all black. A white band was introduced around 1925. Sligo was the only county to have an all black jersey. Since 1970 the county teams have been using a white jersey with black trim and black shorts but changed to the original All black in 2001.

Tipperary/Tiobraid Árann – Blue and Gold
Up to about 1925 the Tipperary team usually wore the colours of the county champions. In 1925 the present gold hoop on a blue jersey was introduced. These colours reflected the influence of Tubberadora and other great Tipperary champions.

Tyrone/Tír Eoghain – White and RedThe present Tyrone jersey has been used since around 1927. The crest is the Red Hand of the O'Neill clan whose family seat was at Dungannon.

Offaly/Uíbh Fhailí – Green, White and Gold
The national colours were very popular with clubs and counties in the early days of the GAA. Offaly earned the right to use them in Leinster as a result of a special competition. Several variations of the colours have been worn in recent years.