The Easter Bunny Spring Comes

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The Easter bunnys feet go hop, hop, hop. Flowers peep through the soil, Tobar An
The Easter bunnys ears go flop, flop, flop. Buds begin to grow,
Ma ith
The Easter bunny is hopping on his way,
Which is a great sign of Easter Day!!
Birds start to sing on the trees,
We hope we get no snow, Linn Ts
Daddy can cut the grass,
By Sophie Callaghan 4th Class
I can go out to play, Issue 16/17 2
Fionn can drift on his bike,
We can jump on the trampoline all day Inside this Issue
Patty HURRAY!!! Camn Tobar
I have a little bunny. Spring, Spring is finally here. First Confession
th th
Hes quite funny. This year 5 and 6 class are Day which will take place on Fri-
By ine ONeill, 2nd Class Swimming
His ears as soft as silk,, taking part in the Junior Entre- day the 7th April 2017 in Tobar
His coat as white as milk, preneur Programme (JEP for An Linn from 1.30 to 3.00PM. Parking Etiquette
Hes quite lazy and sometimes crazy, short). There are five groups,
He cannot talk only twitch his nose, If you want a hurl please con- Active Schools
the marketing team, the finance
But I can tell when hes happy tact us on 057-8731767.
And oh did I mention his name is Patty. team, the storytelling team, the Anti-Bullying
sales team and the design and When the balls in the sky, in Week
By Joanne Conroy, 5th Class. the month of July, its Comn
production team.
Tobar. When the clash of the Grandparents Day
Our product is Comn Tobar, a
ash hits the Colt G.A.A thats Chess Tourna-
personalised hurl. It has a pic-
amore ment
Riddles ture in the bs, a message on
the middle handle and the logo By Sarah O Connor, World Book Day
1. A doctor and a boy walked down the road. The boy was the doctors son but the doc- th
on the top. Comn Tobar costs 5 Class
tor was not his dad. Who was the doctor? 15.00. We have an introducto- Poetry
By Grinne Keane, 4th Class. ry price of 12.00 and if you buy Riddles
2 or more hurls you would get an
additional discount. Competition

2. What has been around for millions of years but is only a month old? We will be having a Showcase
By Fionn Hanley, 3rd Class.

3. What is hard to find, easy to lose and better than gold?

Book Fair
By Christopher Phelan, 4th Class. From the 1st8th of March Tobar an Linn had a Book Fair. Everyone from infants up to 6th
1. His Mother. 2. The Moon 3. A Friend. went to the Book Fair in the Seomra Teacht le Chile to buy or browse books. The books were
separated into different age groups. There was the 3+ group for children Starting Off. Then
there was the 7+ group, Ready to Read and finally the 9+ group, Go for It.

The books were priced at a great price from 3.60 to 12.90 with exclusives from your fa-
Easter Competition
vourite youtuber, to your favourite author and even your favourite movie! The Book Fair also
To enter our Easter Competition simply find the answers to the questions below included stationery such as posters, maze pens, wand pens, awesome rubbers, pointers and fi-
in this edition of the Nasc. Write your answers on a piece of pa- nally a bag to put purchases in. I think its fair to say that the pointers sold out fast!!!
per, with your name and class and give them to your class teacher Tobar an Linn sold books to the sum of 1755 which means 1053 worth of free books for
by Friday 7th April. Good Luck! our school!!! We are very thankful for all the pupils who purchased books and stationery and
1. How much was raised for Tobar an Linn from the Book Fair? many thanks to the parents as well. Most of all a huge thanks to Ms N Leathlobhair for organ-
ising the Book Fair and Mrs Campion and Orla who helped out too.
2. Name one person on the Active Schools Team.
Go raibh mle maith agaibh.
3. When was Grandparents Day?
By Catherine Butler, 5th class
 Swimming Anti-Bullying Week
Our First Confession
Tobar an Linns latest activity for Active On the 27th of March Anti-Bullying week began verbal, emotional, physical and cyberbullying.
On Thursday March 30th 2017, second Schools is swimming! Some people do not ex- in Tobar An Linn. We talked about how bullying may affect the
class made their First Confession. Mrs actly enjoy the sport, others adore it. Person- On Monday a meeting was held for the parents person being bullied.
Moore brought us to the church twice ally, I enjoy the sport . So here is a list of on different types of bullying, how to avoid it Finally there were notice boards with infor-
during the week to help us prepare. things I enjoy about swimming and what we and how to deal with it. mation on them such as what to do if you are
Our First Confession was a very special did in our swimming lessons. or were being bullied. I think Anti-Bullying
Every morning an assembly was held and a
night for us. We sang the song Im Sor- 1. We did exercises, such as backs strokes or short play was performed. Each play had a dif- Week was effective and had a positive impact
ry at the beginning of the service and we butterflies. ferent type of bullying situation that we, the on all the students of Tobar An Linn.
liked doing this together. pupils, had to solve. Classes also learned about Remember bullying is hurtful,
2. For pupils in the larger pool, there was div-
Fr. Kelly blessed us when it was over and ing which sounds really fun! the different types of bullying that you will deliberate and repetitive.
we all felt very happy after making our probably face sometime in your life. We
3. For the final part of the list, I loved free By Cian Wullich, 6th class
First Confession. learned about MANY types of bullying such as
time! (Or Play time) where we could swim
By Matthew O Sullivan, 2nd class. around the pool or play games, we could feel
free to do anything as long as we behaved!
One of my favourite Active Schools activities Grandparents Day
is swimming so I hope next year swimming will
Parking Etiquette carry on! On the 1st of February, it was Grandparents died.
After the midterm break Tobar an Linn Day. We invited Grandparents into school for
By Eabha Donovan, 3rd Class. I had to go out to the car with my Granny and
decided to introduce a new parking eti- a special service. I showed my Grandparents
Grandad to get flowers for my teacher, Mrs
quette. The school introduced this system our class pet caterpillar Sticky Steve. I also
Moore. She was inspired with the lovely spring
to improve safety for pupils after some showed them my work.
flowers and she put them on our sacred space
near accidents at home time. Operation Transformation Walk My other Grandparents are in heaven which is in our classroom. I was delighted with that.
With the new system children who go home Every Friday morning, at the start of the really sad for my daddy. We sang a song for all
I love my Grandparents! And they love me too.
by bus exit through the front of the term, the children from 1st to 6th Class in the Grandparents who were there. We sang
school, while the children going home by Tobar an Linn brought in wellies or old the song in the Seomra Teacht le Chile. My Grandparents are very special to me.
car are escorted by their teacher to the shoes for the Operation Transformation Mr Crean, the principa,l said we would be By May Phelan, 2nd Class
stile and let go ONLY if their parent/ Walk. All of the children, some teachers thinking most about Grandparents who have
guardian is there to collect them. Finally and some parents when down to the farm
children who are walking home exit through for the walk. We walked down to the farm
the stile and walk home. and on through the lane for 20 minutes.
We had lots of fun and hopefully we do it The Chess Tournament World Book Day
The new system is a lot safer now and we
again next year.
would like to thank everyone for their co- During this term the pupils of 5th and 6th For World Book Day I dressed up as a
operation. Active Schools Team class competed in a chess tournament. We kitten. The kitten is my favourite char-
th played against each other and then our acter from the story The Frightened
By Oisn Hanley, 5 Class This year in Tobar An Linn we have a new
finalists went to the Rock N.S. for a compe- Kitten Her name is Biscuit. I wore a
Active Schools Team. On the team we have black top, grey leggings and my cat ears,
tition. The players who represented Tobar
Tommy Hearns , Lucy Brennan , Liam a cat tail and my face was covered in
an Linn were Amy Bergin, Caoimhe Moyni-
Conroy , Matthew OSullivan , Claire Tier- face paint. My friends dressed up as
han, Oisn Hanley and Ronna Hennessy.
ney , Beth Phelan , Anna-May Hogan. The well. I brought my book to school and I
They were accompanied by Mr Crean. They
teachers are Mrs Griffin and Mrs Campion used my book token at the Book Fair. I
went to the Rock to play against other
and the parent is Catherine Keane. Hope- enjoyed dressing up.
schools. Sadly they did not get through but
fully we will get another Active Schools
on the bright side there is always next
flag.
time.
By Liam Conroy, 4th By Beth Phelan, Senior
By Ronna Hennessy, 6th Class. Infants
Class