You can now view our Fís Film ‘Back in the Springtime’ from the fís film project website. It is included in the FIS Outstanding Achievement Awards 2015.
Please use or copy the link below to your browser.
http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/film-archive/2015-films/
We hope you enjoy it!
What an amazing afternoon we had in the Helix earlier when our students participated in the national finals of Fís Film 2015. As mentioned previously, we were absolutely thrilled to be shortlisted for our film ‘Back in the Springtime’ which documented the powerful story of Michael McGrath (Grandfather of Jake, Jessica, Roisín and Cian Casey) and his participation in the honour guard at the funeral of President John.F.Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery in November 1963.
Today was an occasion to say well done to all of the students from Rang 4/5 agus a Sé (It was also lovely to welcome back our past pupils Erica, Holly and Pawel who remain such a part of our school family)
who made the film such a success and the teachers who worked tirelessly in the background. We are incredibly proud of the children and the progress they made throughout the process. We are confident it was an occasion they are not likely to forget and a just reward for all their hard work.
Again a special word of thanks to Michael for his generosity, time and above all wonderful engagement with the children. We sincerely appreciate his enthusiasm and interest in our project. It was lovely to have Michael with us in The Helix and we sincerely hope he enjoyed working with the children.
Finally well done to all the schools who we shared this special day with. In particular, our friends and neighbours St.Patrick’s NS Cloonlyon who were shortlisted for their film ‘We Will Remember Them’ (The film tells the story of Patrick Tarpey who died of wounds sustained in battle in World War 1 on 10th June 1915). Again, huge congratulations to Mr.Collins and all the students on their fantastic work and also on winning their award earlier.
Thank you also to all who supported us at today’s ceremony in the Helix and also who viewed the stream online. We really appreciated the efforts you went to on our behalf and your encouragement and support!
To complete this special day we were overjoyed to receive an award for the Outstanding Achievement in Film Making for Costume for our film. We were thrilled to receive a lovely trophy and i-pad for our school!! This will come to great use!
In the coming days you will be able to watch our film from this site, we hope you all enjoy it!
Best wishes to Rang a Cúig agus a Sé who tomorrow will visit the Helix (DCU) for the National Fís Film Festival Final for their film ‘Back in the Springtime’. As we’ve mentioned previously we’re incredibly proud of the children and hope that they really have a special day to remember.
We’re delighted also to be welcoming back Erica, Holly, Pawel and Wiktoria (last year’s Sixth Class students) to join us tomorrow and celebrate with us, these students were an integral part of the production of our film last year.
If you would like to see tomorrow’s ceremony/event it will be streamed live on the Fís Film’s site below.
http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/. The streaming will begin at 12.30
Congratulations and well done to Jessica Casey of our Fourth Class who earlier this afternoon competed in the Connaught Cross Country Final’s at the Leitrim Gaels Community Grounds in Leitrim Village.
We are all so proud Jessica’s efforts and achievements throughout this Autumn and very much enjoyed watching her go from strength to strength.
Jessica finished this afternoon in a fantastic 21st place against many talented competitors. She ran a super second half to her race despite having a difficult start on a very narrow track.
Finally well done to all the boys and girls who took part and participated in ‘Cross Country’ this year. All of the students gave their very best, we are very proud of you all. Maith sibh!
Today in St. Attracta’s NS we were honoured to welcome Sgt P.J. Maloney and Cpl Desmond Padden to take possession of our flag and proclamation as part of the 2016 Flags for School Initiative. This initiative is central to the State Centenary Programme to remember 1916, to reflect on the Republic 100 years on, and to reimagine our future.
Our children gathered excitedly in the GP room with their homemade flags ready to welcome our esteemed visitors. We enjoyed a short overview of our nations place in history before Sgt Maloney and Cpl Padden explained the origins of our flag and the rules that accompany it. We heard the reasons for it’s colours and were reminded of how to respect our flag. Cpl.Padden then explained the background to our proclamation before we focused on excerpts of it with a particular focus on the children of our nation.
Finally Jake and Emily proudly accepted the Flag and Proclamation Pack on all our behalf. We finished off our ceremony with a very moving playing and singing of Amhrán Na bhFainn. All the children really enjoyed the visit of Sgt Maloney and Cpl Padden and learned so much from it.
We look forward to the upcoming celebrations in the next term.
We were delighted to learn earlier that our Fís film ‘Back in the Springtime’ was featured in this morning’s Irish Independent ‘1916 Supplement’ highlighting the programme for schools,students,teachers and parents.
It documented the background to our film, the experiences of the children and the many learning possibilities presented by Fís Film’s.
We are very proud of the children’s work and are looking forward to our trip to the Helix Theatre for the National Film Festival on November 3rd.
It’s still not too late to get a copy of the article which can be found with today’s Irish Independent!
Congratulations to Amy Mahon from our 6th Class, who on Saturday last represented the Mayo U.12 Girls Soccer Team in an Inter League Blitz in Ballymun, Dublin. Amy excelled in two of her games quickly becoming an important member of an excellent Mayo team.
Amy’s selection is a great personal achievement and also reflects the great work that is ongoing here in Charlestown in her local Charlestown Athletic Soccer club.
We wish Amy well and look forward to following her progress.
We were delighted this week to receive the fantastic news that our Fís Film Back in the Springtime has been shortlisted as a finalist for the National FÍS Film Festival in the Helix Theatre on Tuesday 3rd November.
Our film documents the powerful story of Michael McGrath (Grandfather of Jake, Jessica, Roisín and Cian Casey) and his participation in the honour guard at the funeral of President John.F.Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery in November 1963. It captures the strong links between the Kennedy family and Ireland while revisiting a time in our history where our little nation was very much on the world map with one of our own holding such a prestigious position.
The film was made in term three of our last school year. Primarily it involved our Senior Class(4th/5th and 6th) however Mr.Rushe’s 3rd/4th Class played a very supportive role participating also in scenes throughout the film. We had great fun with this project.
A special word of thanks to Michael for his generosity, time and above all wonderful engagement with the children. We sincerely appreciate his enthusiasm and interest in our project.
We will post a link in the coming weeks to our film once it has been uploaded to the Fís Film Project site http://www.fisfilmproject.ie/ from which you can view the film.
Finally we were delighted also to hear that Cloonlyon NS have also been shortlisted for their film ‘We Will Remember Them’ (The film tells the story of Patrick Tarpey who died of wounds sustained in battle in World War 1 on 10th June 1915). Huge congratulations to Mr.Collins and all the students on their fantastic work.
We are really looking forward to what promises to be a wonderful occasion!
A warm welcome back everyone for the new academic year 2015 – 2016.
We hope you all had a lovely summer break. Firstly may we extend a special welcome to all our new Junior Infant pupils and pupils throughout the school who have joined us for the first time this year. We trust you will all have a happy and long association with our school.
We would also like to welcome Ms. Shauna Quinn our new teacher in our Junior Infant Class, Ms. Jennifer Henry in our Fourth Class, Ms. Aine Heverin in our Resource / Learning Support Department and our Special Needs Assistant Ms. Anne Sweeney. We hope all our new staff members also feel very welcome here in St. Attracta’s and again are very happy with us.
Finally we ask for your patience as we update our website. We hope it will be completed in the coming week. It promises to be a brighter and more interactive to help you access all the great work that will be ongoing throughout our new school year.
Students of the Week return on Friday next. Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Maigh EO Abú!
