Senior Drama-First Confession

The tale is narrated by Jackie, a seven-year-old boy who must make his first confession before receiving his first Communion. A precocious boy, Jackie is distressed because his paternal grandmother has moved from the country to live with his family. He is disgusted by the woman’s love of porter beer, her inclination to eat potatoes with her hands, and her favoring his sister, Nora, with an allowance denied him. The boy feels that his sister and grandmother side against him and make his life unbearable. He has been prepared for the sacraments of penance and communion by another elderly woman, Ryan, who impresses on the children the gravity of the rituals by emphasizing the perils of damnation. As Jackie tersely remarks, “Hell had the first place in her heart.” She tempts the children with a half-crown if one of them will hold a finger in a flame for five minutes, and she relates a terrifying story of a man who has made a bad confession. The man comes to a priest late at night demanding that he be allowed to confess immediately; as the priest dresses, day dawns, the man disappears, and the only evidence of his presence is a pair of palm prints burned into the priest’s bedstead. Jackie fears that he has broken all the commandments and is forced to go to confession with Nora. Inside the confessional, he plants himself on the armrest and tumbles out of the booth when trying to talk with the priest. An outraged Nora begins beating him, but...

Please come to our Christmas Concert Tuesday at 7pm to learn more....

 Frank O'Connor [pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan] was born and educated in Cork where he became a librarian. In 1918 he joined the IRA and fought in the War of Independence. He opposed the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty and fought in the Civil War before being arrested and imprisoned by the Free State at Gormanstown in 1922. After his release in 1924 O'Connor taught Irish in schools in Sligo, Wicklow and Cork.
His first collection of short stories 'Guests of the Nation' (1931) brought him immediate critical acclaim. Throughout the 1920's and 1930's O'Connor sat on the Board of Directors of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and frequently lectured abroad while continuing to write and publish many volumes of short stories. His reputation grew world wide and he is now acknowledged as one of the 20th century's greatest short story writers.

                                                         Here we are in action !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah Concert 2013 5th and 6th Classes

Here are 5th & 6th Class in St. Thomas' NS, Peterswell who travelled to Citywest, Dublin recently to take part in the Hallelujah Concert .The Hallelujah Choir Festival consists of 12,000 children singing together over 4 days, alongside some amazing artists.

Oral History Collection...2013

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We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parishioners who have volunteered to take part in our efforts to preserve Oral History in our Parish.If you want to take part please contact the school.

Mile Buíochas !!!!!!!!!!!!

Recount Writing for 70th Reunion Book

We are writing articles for the forthcoming book to celebrate our 70th Anniversary.So far we have written various articles on
My First Day at School
ABC of School Activities
Interviews

If you would like to contribute please post or E Mail to stthomasns.ias@eircom.net
Thank you...

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe...

Mrs O'Donnell is reading us "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" at the moment.She keeps us on our toes 

by asking lots of questions at the end of the session..Most of us are listening!!!!!!!!

Can you name these these Pupils?????????????

Jersey Day 2013

Project on Townlands..

5th and 6th Class 2013/2014

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6th

Our Lady’s May Altar

We  honour Our Lady in a special way by erecting a May altar.

May is a special time in the church calendar when Catholics honour Mary, the mother of Jesus.  The month of May is a time to look forward to better weather and enjoy the flowers and plants which are starting to bloom.  This is a good time to create a small altar at home, to pay tribute to Mary.We will erect a small altar in honour of Our Lady.

April 2013 Class Novel

Lara (Licensed Assult and Rescue Animal), or GM451 by her code name, is the world's first official spy dog. She is a mongrel about the size of a labrador, white with black splodges on her fur, and most distinctively, one ear up and one ear down.

She is unusually intelligent and has exceded beond the usual dog-like stuff like sniffing out drugs. She is a karate black-belt, knows many languages, can use a computer and is also pretty good at the Playstation. She is an agent of the Secret Service and so has to keep her special abilities secret.

During a mission, Lara caught a villain named Mr. Big, however the police let him escape. Lara was seperated from her handlers as the evil man chased her into a wood and tried to shoot her with a gun. However, Lara escaped and, following her orders from Professor Cortex, leader of part of the Secret Service and in ways a mad scientist, she intentionally was caught by the RSPCA to get adopted by a family and await her rescue.

The family that chooses her are the Cook family. There is Mr. and Mrs. Cook, and the three children. The oldest is Ben, then Sophie, and the youngest is four-year-old Ollie. Soon Lara's abilities are known to the kids, as she doesn't know how a normal family dog should act. As part of her orders, she also can't become too attached to her new family as she is to be taken away again. Unfortunately, Mr. Big is also intent on tracking down the "blacted mutt", but not for a good reason – he wants that Spy Dog to be dead.Our Class really enjoyed this dynamic book.

Class Novel 2013

Our  Class Novel this year is Faraway Home By Marilyn Taylor.

Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after their uncle is sent to Dachau, Karl and Rosa's parents decide to send the children out of the country on a Kindertransport, one of the many ships carrying refugee children away from Nazi danger.Isolated and homesick, Karl ends up in Millisle, a run-down farm in Ards in Northern Ireland, which has become a Jewish refugee centre, while Rosa is fostered by a local family.Hard work on the farm keeps Karl occupied, although he still waits desperately for any news from home. Then he makes friends with locals Peewee and Wee Billy, and also with the girls from neutral Dublin who come to help on the farm, especially Judy. But Northern Ireland is in the war too, with rationing and air-raid warnings, and, in April 1941 the bombs of the Belfast Blitz bring the reality of war right to their doorstep.And for Karl and Rosa and the other refugees there is the constant fear that they may never see their parents again.

Based on a true story -- there was a refugee farm at Millisle and among its occupants was a young boy called Karl.

What are Primary Colours???

Red, yellow, and blue are primary colours. They are the three pigment colours that cannot be made by mixing any other colours. These three colours are mixed to create all other colours and can be combined with white or black to create tints (lighter tones) and shades (darker hues) of these colours.