6th Class

Welcome to the class blog for 6th class. We hope that enjoy looking at some the activities, lessons and outings that we get up to in our class.

Class Information

Class Teacher : Mr. Donagh O'Mahony

Email: donagh@ballycloughns.com for class queries.

office@ballycloughns.com for administrative queries.

Our Class

Pupil Absence Form

Tour de Ballyclough Cycle

As part of our Active Schools Week, we did a cycle tour of Ballyclough. This was a near 11km cycle around Ballyclough. Thank you to our community garda who called to school prior to the cycle to talk to us about bike safety. After the cycle we were treated to some ice-cream!

School Tour

We went on our school t0ur to Oysterhaven Activity Centre. We completed various land and water activities. We had a brilliant day out!

Class Trip to Dublin

We enjoyed a brilliant end of year trip to Dublin. This included The Trinity Book of Kells Experience, shopping on Grafton Street, Lunch in McDonalds and a your of Leinster House. Some wonderful memories were made!

Trip to Lynch Camp

We had an amazing trip to Lynch Camp in Kilworth. As part of the day, we had the unique oppoertunity to see and learn about variou aspects of engineering in the army such as bridge sbuilding, clearning contaiminate water and clearing mines. We even got to meet the horse that are used by the Gardaí. A big thank you to one of our parents for organising this brilliant trip!

Leaders of 1916

As part of history we have been learning about 1916 and the Easter Rising. As part of this we complete projects based on the leaders of 1916. Have a look at our work below!

Leaders of 1916 Project_ 2024_25 .pdf

Ukulele Lessons

As a class we have started to learn how to play the ukulele. We have started by learning the different chords and we can't wait to start playing various tunes on them.

Mallow LGFA Blitz

Thank you to Mallow LGFA for inviting us to a blitz in Mallow GAA. We have two teams on the day, for the older classes and one for the younger classes. A great day out was had and the girls really enjoyed the blitz.

Irish Creative Writing

We have practicing our narrative writing in Irish. After creating drafts and editing our work, we typed up our stories on Google Docs. Have a read of some of work below.

Sean Kiely - Ag Rothaíocht Faoin Tuath

Billy Barry - Ag Rothaíocht Faoin Tuath

Lauren Buckley - Ag Rothaíocht Faoin Tuath

Cassie Crowley - Ag Rothaíocht Faoin Tuath

Izac Magner Kelly - Ag Rothaíocht Sa Pháirc

Soccer Klass Kicks

We are delighted to have Soccer Klass Kicks call to our school to complete soccer coaching lessons with the class.

It is brilliant to have such a experienced coach training the children.

Kanturk Rugby Blitz

A big thank to Kanturk RFC for inviting us once again this year to their annual tag rugby blitz. That class had a great day and really enjoyed that blitz.

FAI Soccer Blitz

Well done to both our girls and boys teams who recently took part in the FAI Soccer 5 a side blitz. Both teams played extremely well and showed great skill, teamwork and determination. Maith sibh!

World War II: Google Slides Projects

6th Class 2024/25: World War II Projects

As a class we have been learning all about World War II in history. As part of this we research various aspects of the war and created Google Slides with the information that we found.

Have a look at our projects that we created.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from 6th Class!

Conformation Class of 2025

Congratulation to our 5th & 6th Class pupils who recently made their confirmation in Kilbrin.

Concern Debating: Round Two

Hard luck to our debating team who narrowly lost out to progressing to the next round of the Concern Debating Competition. Well done to Kilmurry NS and we wish them the best of luck in the next round.

A big well done to our debating team who put in super work in preparing for the debate.

Scór Ballad Group

Well done to our 6th class girls who partook in Scór in the ballad group section. The girls did very well and got through the first round and were extremely unlucky to not progress to the county finals.

Well done girls!

World Book Day

As a school we celebrated World Book Day by doing various different activities. We paired up with pupils in 3rd & 4th Class for the activities. We shared and read some of our favourite books to each other before making some book marks.

We then did a Kahoot based on authors and books which we really enjoyed.

Secret Santa

In the run up to Christmas the class did secret santa, where each person was given a person in the class to buy presents for. There was great fun and excitement in opening the presents and trying to guess who was the person that bought presents for us.

Happy Christmas!

A Special Visitor

On the day of the Christmas Holidays we had a very special visitor to the school, Santa made a surprise visit with our Parents Association! We had great fun talking to him and we even sang a Christmas song with him. The selection boxes were an extra treat that we really enjoyed.

6th Class Goes to the Cinema

In the lead up to Christmas we went to the cinema in Mallow. We have great fun in the bus in and out as sang Christmas songs together. In the cinema we saw the film Wicked. We really enjoyed the film and a great day out was had by all.

Concern Primary Debate Team

A massive well done to out 6th class debate team who won the first round of the Concern Debating Competition. The team really worked hard over the past number of weeks getting ready for the debate and it really showed with the arguments and counterargument's that they made.

Maith sibh!

Halloween Fun

Halloween is always a day of fun and games in Scoil Eoin Naofa and this year was no different. We had great fun dressing up, partaking in our spooky walk and having a really fun assembly before relaxing for the evening by watching a Halloween film.

Happy Halloween!

Modern Day Mona Lisa & Tom Crean Art

We learnt all about the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci. We focus on his painting of the Mona Lisa. We created our own modern day versions of this painting!

We have been looking at the theme of Antarctica and learnt all about the life of Tom Crean. We created portraits of Tom Crean using charcoal.

Science Fun

In science we have been exploring about materials. As part of them we create a parachute for an egg to see which was the best material to protect the egg.

Exploring 3D Shapes

In maths we have been learning all about 3D Shapes. As part of this we created our own 3D shapes using marshmallow, glue tac and spaghetti.

Digital Learning Surveys

Our student council have been busy going around to the different classes completing surveys for our new Digital Learning Plan

Active School & Student Council Committees

Active Schools Committee 2024/25

Student Council 2024/25

Internet Safety Talk

We were delighted to welcome Dr. Maureen Griffen to our school for an internet safety talk recently, she gave us great information about been safe online.

Mé Féin

For the month of September we have been focusing on the theme of Mé Féin (myself) in Irish. We learn questions all about ourselves and wrote a piece based on ourselves. We have also been focusing on drawing in art, as part of this we created minecraft selfies verious of ourselves.

Football Training

Over the past few weeks for PE we have been focusing on improving our GAA Skills. We have been training with 4th and 5th class. We really enjoy getting to use our large school field.

Welcome to 6th Class 2024/25

Say hello to you 6th class of 2024/25, we are looking forward to keeping you update with some of the activities that we get up to.

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