May in Monageer

May has been a very busy month in Monageer National School. It began with Ms. Nolan and Ms Owen going to visit Şaşoğlu Primary School in Kayseri. They had a great time. They brought back lots of photos. The weather was warm but sometimes it rained. They told us everyone made them very welcome.

The School

Hacilar seen from the school.

Playing the saz

Whirling  Dervish show

Visiting the classrooms

Mt Erciyes

Teachers playing in the snow.

Cappadoccia

Is it a camel?

Kizilirmak River - the longest river in Turkey

Teachers from England, Poland, Spain, Turkey and Ireland

The real Whirling Dervishes

Our school is a Green School and this month we were awarded our third Green Flag. This flag was awarded for our work on Water Conservation.

Members of the Green School Committee with our new flag.

The award ceremony was in Croke Park in Dublin

The next flag will be for sustainable travel. Will we be walking to school?

This month some of our pupils took part in the Schools County Sports. Pupils from First to Sixth Classes travelled to Bree. Mairead Fortune in Sixth Class won a gold medal in the 400m sprint and Matilda Dunne Cronin won silver for the High Jump

At the sports Day in Bree



Also on the sporting field Karl and Noel Rowsome, David Mernagh and Ronan Donohoe won medals in the Wexford Junior Golf  Tournament. 


Grainne McCabe won the Wexford Camogie Skills Competition and qualified to take part in further competition in Croke Park


Pupils in Second Class made their First Holy Communion on Saturday 19th May

Third and Fourth Class took part in a hurling Blitz on Tuesday. They had great fun.

Some were tired.

Some had lots of energy

Some rest in different positions

Out for the count!

Some managed to stay on their feet.

Some thought it would be better to stand on their heads.

Tracey came into school to plant the window boxes with the Junior and Senior Infants.

One of the finished window boxes.

Fifth and Sixth Classes went to visit the Fr Murphy Centre in Boolavogue last week. This is a restored farmhouse from the 18th Century

Taking time to study.

Finally, time to play.

Friday 24th May

Friday 24th May

There have been elections of representatives of students and parents. We voted for delegates to parents.

Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar is an Andalusian writer. He has been in our school. He has been interviewed by some students of our school.

Students from Primary 5th visited the Italica's Ruins. They learned about how romans lived, how were the houses and how they had fun, playing games and watching spectacles od gladiators.

VISIT TO TURKEY(2-6 MAY 2012)

OUR PRECIOUS VISITORS WERE IN HACILAR,KAYSERİ, TURKEY IN 2-6 MAY 2012. IT WAS OUR TURN TO HOST AND SATISFY OUR VISITORS.WE WERE VERY EXCITED AND HAPPY. OUR PUPILS LOVED OUR PRECIOUS VISITORS VERY MUCH AND THEY TOOK MANY PHOTOS AND THEY TALKED TO THEM VERY MUCH.WE PREPARED LOTS OF SHOWS.WE SERVED SOME TURKISH MEALS. WE WENT TO CAPPADOCIA. WE HOPE OUR VISITORS ENJOYED THEİR VISIT.

OUR KIDERGARTEN PUPILS PREPARED WHIRLING DERVISH SHOW

OUR 6TH GRADE PUPILS PLAYED TWO OF THE STORIES OF NASREDDIN HODJA 

                                     

OUR KIDERGARTEN PUPILS WERE JANISSARY BAND OF MUSICIANS 

WE SERVED SOME OF OUR DELICIOUS MEALS

                                      

WE MUST CERTAINLY GO TO TURKISH DELIGHT SHOP:))

WE WENT TO GUPGUPOĞLU MANSION

WE WENT TO ERCIYES MOUNTAIN 

AND GOT ON THE CABLE CARS




WE WENT TO OUR MUNICIPALTY GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND HE TOLD ABOUT THE PHOTOS OF HACILAR

WE WENT TO OUR DISTRICT GOVERNOR


OUR MUNICIPALITY GOVERNOR GAVE A MEAL TO US ON KEKLİKTEPE, NEAR HACILAR


WE VISITED TRADITIONAL KAYSERİ HOUSE

WE HAD OUR DINNER IN BEŞTEPE DÖNER RESTAURANT


WE WENT TO URGUP, AVANOS, ESENTEPE PANORAMA, MONKS' VALLEY AND LOTS OF PLACES IN CAPPADOCIA.


WE HAD A BREAK IN URGUP IN A PARK.



WE VISITED AN EXHIBITON ABOUT THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANATOLIA
 
WE WENT TO WHIRLING DERVISH CEREMONY IN THE EVENING OF OUR LAST DAY

THIS IS THE WHOLE STORY OF THE VISIT TO KAYSERİ. AGAIN WE HOPE OUR VISITORS ENJOYED THEIR VISIT AND WE HOPE THEY WANT TO COME BACK AGAIN.