This Spring
we produced our first school newsletter. The editors were a group of sixth
class pupils. Our editors collected articles from many of the classes,
decided on layout and then had to decide on the articles which would be
included. After much hard work the newsletter was completed. The
editors then had to photocopy and distribute the finished product to all the
children in the school.
Their hard work received much praise and you can catch up with all the school
news in the newsletter below.
Portlaw N.S.
Spring 2002
Our website address http://homepage.eircom.net/~portlawns
Read about all the latest school news from the articles written by the pupils
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The Green School Committee By Julie O Hara & Dervla Walsh The Green School committee started four years ago. We started the committee because we wanted to promote Environmental. Awareness. This year we started the committee in November and have had
a meeting every two weeks. There is a suggestion box outside the office
and if any body has any suggestion about how to improve the school
environment we ask them to write it down and put it into the box. We are
trying to cut down on paper and extra wrapping on sweets, chocolate, etc.
The committee are putting a lot of effort into keeping the school in
proper condition litter wise. The committee consists of the following: The chairperson is Carrie Walsh and the secretary is Ruth Howley.
Waste - Our Problem Every year we produce over 20 million tonnes of household waste. A
quarter of this is garden rubbish. |
Bread
Bread, bread, I like that, By Richard Coe The process of composting occurs naturally. Successful composting largely depends on the correct balancing of ‘Green’ and ‘Brown’ materials. ‘Greens’ are those, which are soft in compostion, e.g. grass clippings and vegetables. ‘Browns’ are dry, fibrous materials such as paper and woody prunings.Improving Our Community We are again participating in the Irish Independent "Building for the Future" project. This year the name of the project is "Improving Our Community".
Last year we received a video camera and this year we hope to get a digital camera. Mrs. Hally’s class are responsible for collecting the tokens. |
Book Fair The School Book Fair was held from the 4th of February to the 8th of February. It brought great enjoyment and satisfaction to the students of Portlaw N.S. There was a wide variety of Junior and Senior books, from comics to classics from pictures to features and the Harry Potter collection was most popular among the students of Portlaw N.S. The Book Fair raised over €2090. All in all we think the book fair was a great success. By Jason Cahill , Stephanie Cowman , Sean O’Neill & Darren Clarke INTO / EBS Handwriting Competition It`s that time of year again when we are all very busy practising for the Handwriting Competition. We take part every year. It’s good fun and we all try to write more neatly and carefully. There are some good prizes to be won as it is sponsored by INTO/EBS.There are five sections in the competition The winners from the Waterford area then go through to the National Competition. We’ve had many winners through the years and we even had a National Winner in 1998- Grace Howley. Page 1 |
The
current solution is to dump most of it in landfill sites, but this can
result in water pollution and the build up of dangerous gases such as
methane. Composting organic waste creates valuable material for the garden
and home, saves peatlands and saves money
too. 
Last
year we were county winners with our project "A sense of
Community". If parents have any ideas or are willing to support the
project in anyway, please let us know.Page 2
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[if we’ve forgotten your name on our list please let us know] Feana Walsh Derek Larkin Zoe O Donoghue. Megan Walsh. Saoirse Power. Jimmy O Donoghue. Kate Hennebry. Niall Fitzgerald. Nadine Cullen. Dervla Walsh. Shane Fitzgerald. Stephanie Cowman This year we hope we’ll have more winners, so ink those pens, sharpen those pencils and get cracking! You might even get your picture in the paper as well!!!
Portlaw Credit Union Quiz In October last the Mental Health Quiz was held in WIT. A team from Portlaw were first runners –up and won a lovely trophy. This year on January 18th the Credit Union Quiz was held in Portlaw school. The questions were supposed to be easy, moderate and difficult, but a lot of people thought that the easy questions were quite difficult. The winners received plaques and vouchers for Alfie Hales Sport Shop and the runners – up also received vouchers . The next round of the Credit Union Quiz will be held in Clonmel at the end of February so best of luck to the two winning teams who will be taking part!
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The people in the four teams are
as follows: Under 13 winners Dean Murphy Dervla Walsh Ruth Howley Patrick Kearns Under 13 runners up Ruth Kelleher Shane Fitzgerald Sarah Louise Butler Triona Cullinane Under 11 winners Under 11 runners up
School News Last year Portlaw NS raised enough money to send a goat to Africa. Kate Hennebry won the raffle last year and named the goat Clodagh. This year there’s another raffle.1st prize is a Samba Soccer Kit, 2nd prize is a leather football, 3rd prize is another leather football 4th prize an Easter- egg. First class are having a hurling blitz in their class for the next
three P.E. days. |
called it Rainbow Balloon. Now her painting has been sent off to Switzerland for another competiton Aisling Kelly won a poetry competition run by Environmental Awareness held in the Park Hotel. Martina was in hospital and we all wished her the best of luck and we hope she gets better soon. Fifth Class raised €50.79 for Trocaire. This €50.79 will be used for clean water, wells, food, medicine and education. Hopefully that will save some people’s lives. We are doing a concert at the end the year hopefully we will have another donation. Welcome to Chelsie Hill who moved to Portlaw from England and is in Senior Infants Healthy school lunches Our school has been selected to participate in a healthy lunch programme, which is run by the South-Eastern Health Board. It has been suggested that students bring a healthy lunch on Monday to Thursday and confine treats to Friday. We would ask parents kindly to try and give their children a good healthy lunch. My Dog Monty My dog Monty By Rachael Kelly.
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