Gardiner Street Primary School

October 13th, 2010 We celebrated the 180th Anniversary of the opening of our school and we opened our new building - The Aikenhead Wing.

Welcome to our website.    On behalf of the children, teachers, Special Needs Assistants, ancillary staff, parents, friends and the Board of Management, I am delighted to greet you. 

Gardiner Street School is a Catholic school in the tradition of the Religious Sisters of Charity.    In the words of our Mission Statement “We commit ourselves to making our school a safe and enjoyable place of education.    We are open to the challenges of the future,  encouraging effective co-operation between pupils, parents, staff, management and the local community”.

My wish is that you will enjoy reading about our  life in our school.  

Sincerely 

Eileen O’ Doherty
Principal

Chinese New Year

We have been learning about Chinese New Year.  The Chinese celebrate for 15 days.  They clean their houses to get rid of bad luck.  The children get special envelopes with lucky money inside!  It is the year of the dragon this year.  On the last day of the festival they light lanterns to celebrate the sun coming in the Spring.

Fourth Class have been learning about Australia all month. We have discovered that there are many similarities between Australia and Ireland but there are a lot of differences too. We decided to celebrate Australia Day by having a traditional Australian child’s lunch. We ate Vegemite sandwiches and chocolate crackles.

Our opinions were very divided on Vegemite. Some loved it while others thought it rather disgusting!

We were much more impressed with the chocolate crackles. In fact they’re just like a treat that we love here in Ireland. Do you recognise them?

Pop on over to Fourth Class and read our reports on animals from Australia. They’re so different to Irish animals and our reports are very interesting.

6th Class at the launch of One Book, One Community

 This year’s ‘One Book, One Community’ Project was launched on Thursday January 19th in O’Connell’s Secondary School. It was attended by 6th Class, Ms. O’Doherty, teachers and parents. The book chosen this year is ‘Taking Sides’ by Brian Gallagher. The project is organised by the Home School Community Liaison Teachers.