Christmas Jokes!!!!

What did the dog breeder get when she crossed an Irish Setter with a Pointer at Christmastime?
A "pointsetter"!

What do sheep say to each other at Christmastime?
Merry Christmas to ewe!

What do sheep say to shepherds at Christmastime?
Season's Bleatings!

How do sheep say Merry Christmas in Mexico?
Fleece Navidad!

How do Chihuahua's say Merry Christmas?
Fleas Navidog!

What's the best thing to put into Christmas dinner?
Your teeth!

Why should Christmas dinner always be well done?
So you can say "Merry Crispness"!

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Mary.
Mary who?
Mary Christmas!

A definition of Christmas:
The time when everyone gets "Santa"-mental.

What’s red, white and blue at Christmas time?
A sad candy cane!

Killinaskully

There she was in our small rural school .We couldn't believe our eyes!! Why was Nurse Moloney from Killnaskully here in Peterswell? Then I thought of the answer, she was here for the show, with Cups and Crowns.The show was called "A stitch in Time"
It was situated in a clothes bank.In the show all the places, they visited were named after clothes such as "Hat Hollow,Single Sock Cave" Gracie the main character tavelled to many different clothes destinations, to find her grand Aunties adventure hat.Three women took part in this dramatic show.In front of us stood Eileen which you would be familiar as Nurse Moloney on Killnaskully.She was an excellent actress, as were all of the actresses.After the show, one of the actresses quized us on the show but we gave into temptation and asked Eileen a few questions as we are big fans of Killnaskully!!!For the final activity we got the chance to act out some of the characters in the show!It was a very enjoyable show and we look forward to their show next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Amy Caulfield and Chloe Caswell in 6th class.

Christmas Arrangements 2008

It was the turn of 5th and 6th to be demoted to the Infant Classroom.Yes, it was that time of the year again where Mrs. O'Donnell and Mrs. Forde exchanged classes for 2 hours.Mrs Forde has agrat interest in Flower arranging and passes on her wealth of experience to the Senior classes annually.Here are the results of their hard work.Thank you Mrs. Forde for being so patient with us.

Christmas Service 2008

The Annual Christmas service for the school will take place on Dec. 22nd at 7pm.It is the responsibility of the Senior classes to organise the Service this year.We are busily rehearsing Christmas Carols,hand bells ,chimes and the readings.We are requesting that all pupils arrive 10 min before in their Formal Uniform.It promises to be a good one!!!!!!!

Star Site!

Congratulations to all in 5th and 6th Class who are responsible for
updating this Blog as we were nominated as ScoilNet Star Site in
the INTO's Magazine "Intouch" for October 2008.
Here is a quote from this issue.
"A somewhat different approach to normal is taken by this small
school in Co. Galway which uses a blog to present information
about the school and its classes."
Congratulations to all in the Senior Classes!!!!!!!!

By Joseph

Cycling Champs

It was a fresh Friday morning in the month of September.The 4 lucky 6th class students were looking forward to missing tests and a day off school.They were
heading for Tuam to compete in the Galway County Council cycling compitition.We were invited to compete after some of the students of Peterswell completed a safer cycling course held in the school.We were competing against 5 other teams from Galway.When we arrived they provided us,with bikes.There were 4 on a team which meant there were 24 of us altogether.We began with an individual competition which was weaving in and out between cones. Amy, one of the 6th class pupils here in Peterswell came 1st out of all the girls.When it came to the team competition, our team came 3rd in the heat!
At the hotel we were presented with "BEST MIXED TEAM" and Amy got a trophy for fastest girl and not far behind her was Chloe in 2nd place in the girls.Our team was Amy Caulfield,Chloe Caswell,Sinead Hegarty and John Massey.We would like to thank our mentor Allan Massey and our mascot Abbey Massey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Super Session for Peterswell Hurlers

Congratulations to us all in St Thomas National School, Peterswell who were announced as the overall winners of Supermac’s training session with Ger Loughnane.
Supermac’s, in association with the Galway Senior Hurling Team and Cooper, launched an in-store competition last June for all young budding GAA teams. The prize was an intensive training session with Ger Loughnane and a selection of the Galway Hurlers plus €1000 worth of Cooper training equipment.



For John Massey,a 5th Class pupil of St Thomas NS and his class mates, their GAA dreams came true, when they were announced as the overall winners last week. Team member, John Massey wrote the winning entry, stating that “I never leave my hurl down and my dream is to one day wear the maroon and white jersey”. Mrs. Kathleen Forde, teacher and trainer at St Thomas National School could hardly contain the team's excitement before the training session, which she believes is the highlight of their summer holidays.

Ger Loughnane and a selection of the Galway Hurlers gave an intense training session explaining different techniques which finished with a friendly match (1:1). They also had the opportunity to watch the Galway Hurlers train for their forthcoming matches.
There was a phenomenal amount of entries to win this once in a lifetime opportunity and John's Class mates would like to thank him for their very enjoyable Day.