There were wizards, warlocks, princesses, ghosts and even a Columbian miner to be seen during the Fancy Dress Parade in Tiermohan recently! Here are some of the pictures.

All classes dressed up for Hallowe'en and here are some of the photos we took. Unffortunately, the camera failed to take some of the pictures.

Cappagh school team (Tiermohan and Newtown NS)began their league with a victory today over Rathcoffey. Despite the windy conditions, Cappagh boys scored 4-7 to 0-5 in the first half. Rathcoffey came back in the second half, scoring 2-5 from play. Cappagh broke through the Rathcoffey defence a couple of times and scored another 1-4. Cappagh finished as victors, with the final scoreline 5-11 to 2-10. Thanks to Liam McDonnell for coaching the team.

We began planting lettuce, carrots and spinnach seeds last week. These will be kept indoors until it is mild enough to move outdoors.We have already planted potatoes and strawberry plants the previous week.

Last week marked Tree Week and Ms Curley organised the delivery of some ash plants to the school. The photos show some of the children planting the trees.

The girls won the Bsketball Blitz on Tuesday March 2nd last. They played some very close games in the lead-in to the final. They met Clogherincoe in the final and won! Well done to the girls, their coach, Ms Curley and their drivers/supporters. Thanks also to Mr Joe O' Connor for organising the blitz.

Congratulations to CG who won a farm safety slogan competition recently. C was presented with her certificate and prize in Kildare Education Centre. Her slogan was " When children are on the farm, supervision does no harm" and it was accompanied by a wonderfully detailed picture.

Some Maths sites to check out

1. world maths day:
http://www.worldmathsday.com/2010/Default.aspx?


2. Title: Crack the Magic Code
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/codes/
Suitable for a special group of high ability children
Description: Site with Magician Theme requiring the pupils to find a magic code. Suitable for high ability pupils would involve a number of hours work.


3. Title: Till Challenge (Flash required) Good fun, though it uses sterling
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/shop_counter/index.htm
Description: Try and serve as many customers as possible in the time given. The customer gives in money and you must give the correct change. There are 4 levels of difficulty and 3 levels of speed.


4. Title: Rainforest Maths (Flash Required) Great programme: user name: rfm6684 and password coat12
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
Description: A variety of interactive games in number, algebra, measurement, space, chance, data and money. Easy to use and lots of games to choose from. Flash required, available to download from the site.

5. Title: Solve the Da Vinci Code Excellent site. Could be used as class challenge or as individual challange
http://www.teachnet.ie/jroberts/2006/index.htm
Description: This site is aimed at the more able pupils in sixth class. It offers exciting challenges in the form of patterns and puzzles. This site will take a couple of lessons to complete.

6. Title: Transformation Golf (Flash Required) Excellent site, great fun
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/transform/golftrans.html
Description: This golfing activity lets you play one hole or nine! You must rotate, reflect or translate the golf ball. Have fun!


7. Title: Logic Problems Clever site, best used as class problem solving exercise.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/logic-puzzles-index.html
Description: This site contains 29 logical problems (with solutions). These problems will offer a great challenge to the children in your class who enjoy spending time thinking and reasoning about a problem.

8. Title: Interactive Time Zones (Flash Required) Good for teaching understanding time zones.
http://www.timeticker.com/
Description: Use this map of the world to locate any country and the time zone it is in. It will also pronounce any country or city listed.


9. Title: Who wants to be a Mathonaire? (Flash Required) Great fun, suits 5th, 6th classes
http://www.echalk.co.uk/Maths/PrimaryNationalStrategy_Yr6/DfES-MathsActivitiesforyear6/mathonaire.html
Description: Following the format of 'Who wants to be a Millionaire', pupils test their knowledge! The questions cover most strands of the curriculum. There are 5 levels, with all levels posing a difficult challenge.


10. Title: Mission Magnetite Good for class, teaching interchange between fractions, decimals, images
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/percent/
Description: Game where students compete against the clock to match percentages, fractions and images to prevent a rocket from being launched

Also try
11. www.coolmath.com Maths games, tower defence …..good for boys esp
12. www.mathplayground.com a little confusing
13. www.mathsisfun.com This has some excellent games

Our first snowdrop was photographed today, Jan 22nd 2010. Pic taken and blog entry by KL