Our Spelling Bee brought plenty of excitement as class battles took place on Monday, 17th February! Each class had already narrowed down their top two spellers, who then faced off against their counterparts in thrilling head-to-head rounds.
Third class kicked things off, spelling words like corridor, plumber, cylinder, oxygen, eclipse, and horizon, with Ferdinand emerging as the winner. Fourth class had three representatives per group and impressed us with words such as naughty, discourage, oasis, official, and ordinary, before Maya claimed victory. In fifth class, tough words like perimeter, intercept, persuade, and ambitious were tackled, with Finn standing strong as the champion. Finally, sixth class battled through challenging words like apprehensive, reluctant, melancholy, and immaculate, before Paulina took the crown.
Each winner received a book voucher for Moycullen Bookshop, and all class battle participants were rewarded with a well-earned homework pass. A huge thank you to Benas, our Bee Master, who did a fantastic job keeping competitors at ease, pronouncing words clearly, and providing definitions and sentences when needed.We hope to make this an annual event so all our spelling bees can prepare in advance! Best of luck to Benas as he represents our school once again in the Eason Spelling Bee—last year’s All-Ireland second-place finish was an incredible achievement. The €3,000 worth of books he won have now been labelled and added to our library, much to the delight of our eager readers!
Mrs E Walsh
3rd class finalists4th class finalists5th class finalists6th class finalists
This month, our book club dived into Laura Delaney’s Deadliest Day by Ann Carroll. We followed Laura’s adventure as she wins a school competition and gets to be a teacher for the day—what could possibly go wrong? We had great fun discussing her school antics with her friend Joe and teacher Mrs. Pim, and even created character outlines to bring the story to life.
We also kicked off our Junior Juries with The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be reading and hearing from the authors and illustrators of the shortlisted titles for the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. Each book will be scored, and our votes will contribute to the final awards in June!
To celebrate spring, some of our members have also written reviews on animal-themed books—keep an eye out for their work in the next issue of Moycullen Matters! Exciting reading ahead—stay tuned for more updates! 📚✨
4th Class Mr Conneely were very lucky to be invited to tour the new Lidl store on Wed 26th Feb before it opens officially to the public tomorrow! We got the royal tour by the Sales Operation Manager, Neil McLoughlin
Scoil Mhuire’s student council have three areas that we work on.
We are the student voice –
Here are the things that you told us you wanted and so we have asked the school for them.
Mark out the boundary line clearly between 3rd /4thand 5th/6th class yards.
Basketball hoop for 5th/6th class yard.
Buddy benches in all yards.
Use the pitches more often.
No ball zones in yards and things to play with in no ball zones.
We will keep you updated on progress through student assemblies, our student council notice board and our page here.
2. We are Leaders –
As part of our leadership role we are currently organising friendship day to be held on Friday the 14th of February. We are busy creating posters and organising a list of games and ideas to celebrate our friendships on friendship day. Watch out for our posters around the school which will tell you about these activities. Your teacher will decide which ones to do on friendship day.
3. We are part of our community –
We would like to hear some ideas from you about projects you think would be good to work on in our community. Please talk to the student council member in your classroom and let us know of any ideas that you have so that we can start to get involved in our amazing community.
Lunchtime Book Club – December Fun! December was a month full of creativity in our Lunchtime Book Club! The children used Book Creator to make their own digital stories based on two wonderful books: ‘Little robin red vest’ by Jan Fearnley and ‘I follow the fox’ by Rob Biddulph. They added the pictures and recorded themselves reading the pages. Classes were able to watch these stories on the interactive whiteboards, but here are the links for anyone who would like to watch at home:
Little Robin Red Vest Story https://read.bookcreator.com/WkSyey72uEVZ3oUvdM0CCkFVzQb2/sgrG2UbMReuCyt5-BMtsPA
I Follow the Fox Story https://read.bookcreator.com/WkSyey72uEVZ3oUvdM0CCkFVzQb2/Oi-gN3kVROmrLDaKjQdbnQ
The club also created a digital story trail for the Ukrainian folk tale ‘The mitten ’ by Jan Brett. The infant classes had a great time following the story around the school and discovering all the animals that crawled into the mitten. Check out the happy faces above as they discovered each page, scanned the QR code and heard our bookclub members reading to them!
To wrap up the month, the children made special bookmarks for the new books they were hoping to receive for Christmas! It was a wonderful way to finish the year with creativity and fun.
Into 2025 with an audiobook
We’ve started 2025 with something a bit different for January’s Book Club! This month, we’re enjoying Neil Gaiman’s ‘Fortunately, the milk…’ as an audiobook, while also playing games inspired by tall tales and imagination. The children have been sharing their favourite book recommendations with one another, and in our first meeting we had a fun, giant Kahoot quiz on children’s classics. Congratulations to the three sixth-class boys who were the ultimate winners! It’s shaping up to be a fun and book-filled year ahead! Happy Reading, E. Walsh
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