Albert Nolan visited in June to teach the pupils about recognising bees, and their importance in pollination. We examined our school garden and planted lavender and some bright flowers. Lavender smells lovely and bees like brightly-coloured flowers. We also looked at dandelions, buttercups and clover in our football field.
We walked around the school looking for bees. However all we found was a big wasp. It was quite angry when Albert caught it in a net, and then carefully transferred it to a viewing jar. After we looked at it, Albert released it again.
Albert asked us to leave some grass uncut for bees and other insects. There are lots of types of bees in Ireland. Albert’s visit was very enjoyable.
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The presentation of a cheque to Mr. Matt Kenny, representing the Tipperary Branch of the St. Vincent de Paul, with pupils from St. Joseph’s Primary, Tipperary Town who had been carol singing Down Town in Tipperary earlier that day, Thursday 21st of December.
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St. Joseph’s School Choir was formed in 1998 and, in the current school year, has approx. 100 students from classes 3rd to 6th with 3rd being the newcomers this September. The Choir rehearses every Tuesday from 1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
St. Joseph’s School Choir performs for the school community regularly and at many local events including the turning on of the Christmas Lights in Tipperary Town, Carol Singing downtown in aid of the St. Vincent de Paul and by invitation to other local events.
The School Choirs at St. Josephs have made many CDs over recent years to include 2 Christmas CDs and 2 Springtime CDs and indeed were featured on the Lyric FM Christmas CD in 2012 with the RTE Concert Orchestra.
This is the Choir’s 7th time entering the ‘Lyric FM Choirs for Christmas Competition’ and we were thrilled and delighted to be runners up in our section in Dec. 2011 and winners in 2014.
On Dec 22nd, we heard the news that we won best primary school choir in the Lyric FM Choir for Christmas Competition!
We never thought we’d win and we were so excited when the results were announced !
Over 77 choirs entered the competition this year!
Our Choir Teacher is Ms. Helen Colbert.
We hope you enjoy our song for this year; it’s called Sparklejollytwinklejingly from the Musical ELF.
Click here to listen to our song.
Song Details:
Title: Sparklejollytwinklejingly
Lyrics: Chad Beguelin
Music: Mathew Skhar
Arr. Andy Beck
Accompaniment: Backing track
Choir Director: Helen Colbert
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The voice of the pupils, that’s what the Student Council can be described as. Pupils from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes are the representatives of all the classes. Principal Ms. Tobin and the Student Council meet regularly to talk about goings-on in the school and future developments they might engage in. We also organise fund raisers for the school and charities e.g. cake sale for the Laura Lynn foundation. We take suggestions from the whole school and try to make them happen.
Best of luck to our Under 11 and Under 13 teams, both of which have qualified for the football County Finals in the next week. Details re times etc to follow.
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Thank you to everyone who supported the Team Hope Shoe Box Appeal today. All your donations were very gratefully received by the volunteers who collected the boxes.
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