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Congratulations to our senior debating team for reaching the final of the Dublin round of the Concern Primary Schools Debating Competition.  After a successful run of online debates, the final was held in person at Dublin West Education Centre.  Star of the Sea performed strongly against a talented team from St. Colmcille’s SNS.  After a nail-bitingly close encounter, the boys were gracious in defeat and wished St. Colmcille’s well as they progressed to represent Dublin.  Everyone in the school is so proud of the boys and their mentor, Mr Meenan for progressing further in this great competition than any Star team in the past.  Debating is an important element of our school’s approach to oral language, SPHE and anti-bullying.  Debating promotes critical thinking and collaboration.  Practising debating builds confidence and models the art of respectful disagreement.  All of the competitive debates our senior team participated in this year were broadcast in all senior classrooms, setting a positive example for future debaters.

Ms Kavanagh’s Third Class did a fantastic job of hosting a crew from RTE as they filmed a report about the work of Community Gardaí.  The boys are all fans of the News2Day programme and they were delighted to take part.  A few days after the report was made, we had the opportunity to watch it during a whole school assembly.  All of the boys who took part were simply excellent!  We thank Garda Anthony Kelly and all in Irishtown Garda Station for giving our boys this enjoyable insight into how TV reports are made!

We were delighted to welcome guest speakers from the school and local community to Star of the Sea.  Our guests spoke to the boys about their lives and career journeys in the fields of business, public service, the professions and sport.  It was a wonderful way for our boys to celebrate International Women’s Day and we thank the Parents Association for their assistance in making this event possible.

We celebrated Literacy Week in February.  Every class took part in fun reading and literacy activities such as book swaps, paired reading, library trips, DEAR time, literature quizzes and book reviews.  We hosted a book fair in the school hall and dressed up for World Book Day!  As always, we extend a huge thanks to the Parents Association for staffing the Book Fair and our school’s own lending library.  We are very grateful to our teachers and parents for creating a fun environment each year during Literacy Week.

We celbrated Science Week in Star of the Sea again this year.  We enjoyed carrying out fair tests and interesting experiments.  Our Sixth Class team represented our school with pride at the RDS Science Blast.  Our project was titled ‘How long can you go without blinking?’ and they presented this to all visitors and judges at the fair.

Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge á cheiliúradh againn ar fud na scoile i mbliana. Rinneamar iarracht bhreise cluichí a imirt, ceachtanna a fhoghlaim agus spraoi a bheith againn trí Ghaeilge.  Bhí comórtas againn sa scoil (Comórtas na Doirí) féachaint cén rang a d’fhéadfadh an doras a dhéanamh an ceann is Gaelaí!  Chríochnaíomar an tseachtain le ceolchoirm agus thugamar cuireadh do thuismitheoirí. Rinneamar ár dteanga agus ár gcultúr a cheiliúradh!