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Windgap 5th and 6th class girls came second in the National Primary Planet video competition. The results of this were announced yesterday with WIndgap National school coming second to Gortskehy, Co. Mayo.  The theme of the competition was to produce an advertisement for the Primary Planet magazine.  Written, directed, produced and acted by the Windgap girls of 5th and 6th class 2013.

See the primary planet link here: 
http://www.theprimaryplanet.ie/pptv/you(r)-tube/

And the Youtube link here:  
tube/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnjNFI_H5Ps

On Thursday 7th of February 3rd,4th,5th and 6th classes went to The Hub for Peace Proms practice. It was also the day of the mart so The Hub was packed. 
Sharon Dunne who organises Peace Proms introduced herself and called Gearóid Grant, one of Ireland's best conductors, onto the platform. Gearóid went through all the songs with us. Some songs had a few changes to them. There was a choreographer as well. Her name was Rosie. She went through the dance moves to three of the songs with us. the We all got a dvd to practice the choreography at home. 
Gearóid said we knew our dance moves very well, but he said we had to work hard on the song words. We have to remember to sing and dance at the same time. On 2nd March, Peace Proms day, the orchestra will be there in The Hub. There will be 120 musicians altogether. In the choir there will be a few hundred children singing their hearts out. We are really looking forward to it.

Jamie Lomax (6th class) and Aisling Lynch (6th class).


Grandparents’ Day was celebrated on the 31st of January in Windgap hall. It was to celebrate what great grandparents we have and they were invited to come down to the parish hall for our servce.  

The Failte Team welcomed our guests to the service, asked them to sign the special guest book, recommended good seats for people and had a little chat with them. Our Failte Team were Jack, Robert, Leah and Aisling. It was as packed as the All Ireland final.  

We sang songs during the service. Our first song was ‘We sing a song to Brigid’ to celebrate St Brigid’s Day on Friday. Then we sang 'May we love you' while the infants handed up their writing or colouring to Sean and Oscar to put it in our sacred space. Our last song was called ‘For just a little while’ because the lyrics were really suitable and people said the singing was as sweet as birds singing.                                   
There were a lot of readings and poems and I know some grandparents started blushing when they recognised themselves in the poems. We had readings from 3rd and 4th class. Mrs Lowry welcomed parents and grandparents to Grandparents’ Day. Mrs O'Shea told us how important the bond between children and their grandparents is. Patrick and Kyle O'Callaghan’s grandad spoke about what his faith means to him.  

The turnout for grandparents day was a success. There was a lot of chit chat going on. People gave praise to the people who did readings or read poems and said they did brilliantly and told the teachers how it was so cleverly coordinated and that they had a great day.                                                

The food down in the hall was lovely. The buns looked really nice and everyone got a bun and a biscuit and a lovely hot cup of tea. It looked like everyone was enjoying themselves.                                                                     

Leah Murray (5th Class) & Karen Phelan (6th Class)

A lot is going on in our school this week. From Juniors to 6th we are all very busy!! Darren Walsh, a former pupil from our school, is here on two weeks' work experience. Darren is studying religion and business in college. The whole school is preparing for Grandparents' Day next Wednesday, January 30th. It will be held in the Community Hall with some singing and tea for our grandparents. We are busy writing poems and stories about them. 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes are busy having quizzes to pick teams for the Credit Union quiz. We are all having fun practising for Peace Proms too. This week we learned the dance moves to three of the songs that we will be singing in The Hub on 2nd March. Midterm break is coming quicker than we think! Hope you all have a good week!

Windgap School Grandparents day is on Wednesday the 30th of January at 1:30pm in the community hall in Windgap.

"All Welcome "!

This week we have a former pupil, Jaime Phelan, at our school on work experience from St Brigid's School in Callan. 
On Monday we had no electricity or heating because we had a burst pipe but the nurse came and did eye and hearing tests. On Tuesday the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes went to The Watershed on their first swimming lesson of the year. They were very well behaved.
On Wednesday, the Infants and Sonas went on a winter nature walk and brought their magnifying glasses.They brought back lots of examples of nature. Also on Wednesday, we had a substitute teacher, Ms Doyle, because our teacher was doing office work.
This month's edition of The Primary Planet magazine arrived. It has lots of national and international news. We found out that the Credit Union quiz will be held on February 4th. We have to be on our best behaviour if we want to be picked to represent Windgap NS at the quiz.

This week we are back to school and really excited but disappointed about the homework.
We did a project on The Butlers of Ormond and we were presenting them to the whole class.
We are really getting stuck into practising for peace proms.The show is in 6 weeks in the Hub Kilkenny. 1st, 2nd,3rd and 4th are starting swimming lessons next week in the Watershed and are really excited. We really want to know when all the school sports are starting because we are dying to get outside again.The nurse is coming next Monday for hearing and sight tests.We are all very scared.