Christmas in St. Bernadette's JNS.

Happy Christmas to all. Here are some Christmas images from our school.

Ireland v Poland .

Soccer - FAI International Friendly Rep. of Ireland v Poland

On Wednesday November 19th Ireland and Poland will meet for a friendly soccer match. The match will take place in our national stadium which is called Croke Park. We look forward to a good match and wish all our Polish friends the best of luck! Photo of Croke Park is by Cathal O Connell from www.imagebank.ie.

Oíche Shamhna - Halloween!

On October 31st we celebrated Oíche Shamhna or Halloween. We had a no uniform day and wore our Halloween costumes to school. This is a photo of our class with our teacher Ms. Foley.
Caitlín, Benon and Favis.

Fireworks night - Noson Tan gwyllt

Remeber, remember the 5th of November.
Ystradowen will be holding their annual fireworks night. We alll gather at the local park and watch them go off.
There will be lots of noise, colours and hot dogs. All of us in school are looking forward to it, hopefully we can post some of the pictures for you all to see.

Christmas will be here soon!

Hello, to everyone.

We have been enjoying reading everyones updates. We are glad that everyone is back in school safely.
We have been very busy and excited here in Ystradowen school and we will be getting even busier becuase we have just started rehearsing for our Christmas concert.
This year we are doing 'Tinsel and tea towels', it is hard work but lots of fun. Even the teachers have parts!
We will be on our half term holidays next week - but we will try and update the blog as soon as we get back.

Teachers' Day

Today we celebrate Teachers' Day in Poland. This is a perfect occasion for us to wish our Irish and Welsh teachers all the best this year. We hope that your students will always be nice to you, will always do their homework and never cause any problems. Happy Teachers' Day.

Mountain Running Champion

Last Wednesday (October, 8th) a mountain running champion visited our school - Irena Czuta-Pakosz. She organised running championships for the kids in our school...and to make it more challenging we invited kids from several different schools. The kids had a lot of fun. The winners were given medals and awards, but everyone could get the champion's autograph.

Boys' Day

Hello everyone in Wales and Ireland. We are back to posting things on our blog. Lots of things have been happening in our school lately. Just take a look.

Every year on September 30th we celebrate Boys' Day. Each class chooses their representative and then do their best to win in the school championships. Those boys have to prove how strong they are...and do many other strange things ;)

These are the boys who took part in the championships this year: (from the left) Marek, Szymon, Janek, Michał, Grzesiu and Denis.

Among other things, the boys had to show how good they are at doing make up. See the results :)) (Thank God no girl was hurt)

These are the winners this year - Denis (7 years old) and Janek (12 years old). Congratulations!!

GOAL Jersey Day!

Friday October 3rd was GOAL Jersey Day. In workplaces and schools all around Ireland workers and pupils wore their favourite football jersey. Each person pays a "fine" of 2 euro to GOAL - a development agency which helps projects in the Third World.

Casey.

My name is Casey. I am seven years old. I like Majorettes. I went to Jersey on my holidays. I really loved it there.

Darragh.

Hello everyone! My name is Darragh. I am seven years old. I like football, basketball and golf. I went to Dingle in Co. Kerry on my holidays. I went on a cruise around Dingle Bay and saw Fungi the famous Dingle dolphin. Check out http://www.dodingle.com/pages/fungi_dingle_dolphin.html

Welcome back!

Fáilte romhaibh ar ais arís! Welcome back to all our friends in Poland and Wales. We had a lot of rain during the summer. For the past few days we have been enjoying an Indian summer. We say goodbye to Jack, Evan and Brandon who have moved to the Senior school. Benan and Favis will continue to update the blog each Friday at computer time. They will be helped by Darragh and Casey and some other helpers.

Welcome back!

Happy Holidays!

We wish all our new friends in Poland and Wales a Happy and Safe Summer Holiday.

First Class Football Final.

We had the final of the First Class soccer tournament. The "Red Robins" played "The Crazy Crows." The Crazy Crows won. The score was 5 - 3. All the winners and runners up were presented with medals at Assembly today. Ben Smith got a medal for being "Player of the Tournament" and for good sportsmanship. We will have another tournament in the Autumn.
Benon and Brandon

Sports Day in Corkagh Park.

Last Monday we went to Corkagh Park for our Sports Day. Second Class went on a long walk. We saw swans and their cygnets. We also saw ducks and moor hens. The Rose Garden was beautiful. We had races and obstacle courses. After lunch we went to the playground.

Games

On Thursday we were visited by some people to play new games. We played games like frisbee tag. We played this by getting a frisbee and you throw it to try and touch someone, then they are out.
Emily







We played a game called balloon tag. Everyone had a balloon tied around their ankle. We had to try and pop the balloon of someone else. If you're balloon was popped you were out.
Daniel

We had so much fun playing the games and we had different races.
Jay

After school club

Every Tuesday we have an after school club from 3.30 until 4.30pm. We do a lot of different things but the class teacher decided that we were going to make up our own games. It was a lot of fun and we had some great ideas.
Courtney
We were split into three groups and we were given 3 hula hoops, 3 rugby balls, 3 coits (small hoops), cones and some plastic balls. We had to create our own games for the other children to play.
Iestyn
I was working in a group with two other children. This is our game. We put 5 cones in a row one behind the other (with spaces in between). The children had to stand behind a line and they had to use two balls to throw at the cones. If they hit the first cone it was worth 10 points, the second cone was 20 points, the third cone was 30 points and so on. The three children in the group had a turn to throw the balls. The group with the most points won the game. It was a lot of fun.
Brandon

Crucial Crew

On Wednesday, we went to Carmarthen for Crucial crew. It was about safety.
The fire rescue, police, first aid and RNLI were all there to teach us about saftey.
The road safety was pretty boring but at least I know what to do before I go out on my bike.
Aled

Police football tournament

Last friday, Ystradowen school took part in the annual Police football tournament.
It was very exciting but we lost all of our games.
Iestyn

Viking Splash Trip.

Yesterday we went on a trip around Dublin. We travelled on an amphibious vehicle called a dukw. It was 66 years old and was used by soldiers during World War 2. It can travel on land or in water. We pretended we were Vikings. We shouted at passers by. We saw lots of interesting sights as we drove through the city. We saw Dail Eireann where the government meets. At Grand Canal Basin we put on life jackets. Then the dukw splashed into the water. We toured the canal basin. We saw U2'S recording studio. Then we went back on land and the dukw took us back to our coach. In the afternoon we went to the Phoenix Park. We had a picnic lunch and played in the playground. It was a fantastic day!

Martyna, Jessica and Kirsty.

Here are Martyna, Jessica and Kirsty.

Jay

Hello, my name is Jay. I am 8 years old. I speak Welsh and English. My favourite sport is football. I am looking forward to making new friends.

Emily

Hello! My name is Emily. I live in Ystradowen. I am 9 years old. I have a 12 year old sister and a cat called Jess. My hobbies are swimming and playing on my bike. My favourite subjects are Welsh, English, art and science.

Iestyn

My name is Iestyn. I live in Ystradowen. I support Arsenal and I also support Brazil. My hobbies include playing cricket, rugby and football. I support the Ospreys in the rugby.

Aled

My name is Aled Owen. I am 10.My favourite subjects are maths and Welsh. My hobbies are football and boxing. I play for Cwmamman United. I support Arsenal and Swansea City (Who are we? Jack army!)

Hello from Ystradowen

My name is Miss Sian Jones. I am a teacher in Ystradowen school. I would like to say how excited and happy we are to be able to meet so many new friends. The children would like to introduce themselves to you all. I look forward to learning more about you all.

Sian

First Holy Communion.

Today the Second Class pupils from St. Bernadette's JNS received their First Holy Communion. It was very rainy as we entered the Church. During the ceremony the rain stopped, the clouds rolled away and the sun came out! We had a lovely day.

St. Bernadette's JNS - Some Photographs!

Today we took some photographs of our school so you can see what it is like.
This is our hall. We got a new roof last summer.

Constitution Day, Poland

Every year on May 3rd we celebrate Constitution Day in Poland. It's an important day in our country because on May 3rd, 1791 our constitutuin was formed. It's believed that it was the first European constitution. The day before May 3rd we had a special assembly at school. We sang the national anthem of Poland and then some of us presented the most important facts connected with the constitution. A very special day for us.

Ian Timms!

Yesterday we had a surprise visitor in St. Bernadette's JNS. It was Ian Timms who is an Irish Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Ian is also one of our past pupils! We were very excited to see him and to get his autograph. We are all very proud of him. Here is Ian with Ms. Boner (Our Principal) and Mr Bolger and some of the boys and girls!

Merrion Square.

We had our lunch in Merrion Square. After lunch we played in the park. It was a great day.

The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow.

This was our favourite painting. It is the largest painting in the gallery.