We celebrated our annual International Day on 16th March 2017. The highlights were recorded by RTE’s ‘News2Day’ programme – have a look below!
.@news2dayRTE went to a Dublin school that is holding an international day to celebrate the 30 different nationalities in the school pic.twitter.com/mlp2K7YWlQ
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 16, 2017
Our day started with a special samba performance by our 1st and 2nd Class children who have been working with Masamba Samba School over the last few weeks and learning to play together beautifully!
What a super performance! #InternationalDay @masamba pic.twitter.com/7bfdF9FEc2
— St. Mary's Primary (@stmarysdorsetst) March 16, 2017
Next up, were our after-school ‘Sean-Nós’ Irish dance club, also from 1st and 2nd Class who performed a traditional brush dance.
Our dance club showed us their brush dance next! Well done and thanks Ms Sheridan! pic.twitter.com/9PpnkqTvVJ
— St. Mary's Primary (@stmarysdorsetst) March 16, 2017
All around our hall, there were projects created by teams of children, displaying information about each of the countries represented in our school community. The children worked in cross-age teams, from 3rd to 6th Class to research the information for their projects. You can see each project below:
We also unveiled our family learning project, coordinated by Sile, our Home-School Liaison teacher. The intercultural project invited parents and families to create a fabric piece depicting information about their home country. These individual pieces were then brought together to create one tapestry. It is beautiful!
Later in the afternoon, all families were invited to attend our family Céilí Mór. We held the Céilí outside and the children partnered with their parents and carers and showed them the steps. We had great fun!
Our day finished with our annual International Food event, with families bringing dishes from their home countries to share with one another. A wonderful way to end a fantastic day. Thank you to all the families who contributed and came to support the children. Well done everyone!
