Form 2 Girls' Artwork

Inspired by the books they are reading Form 2 girls made this beautiful collage. 

Thinking ahead to the mid-term break and St. Valentines day Form 2 girls made beautiful love bird cards. Great work girls!

Get Behind Magic Flute, The Musical

Magic Flute, the Musical will run from Wednesday the 6th to Friday the 8th March 2013 in The Civic Theatre in Tallaght. Expect a musically enchanting extravaganza set in a circus with princes, maidens (awaiting rescue), ninjas (see below), dragons, unscrupulous bankers and the evil Queen of the Night herself  accompanied by choruses and orchestras of Alexandra College and JSS.
A production like this, involving 120 students, requires more funding than can be raised through ticket sales.We raised most of the money via passionate in-house fundraising but are just short of our venue and technical costs. And so we turn to you..... Please sponsor our school production by clicking this Fundit link

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Papagena and Papageno Rehearse

The Ninjas Practice their Martial Arts moves

Form 2 Girls Read Charlie & Chocolate Factory

Colourful Candy

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

What's not to love about Roald Dahl's tale of children set loose in candyland? First class girls enjoyed reading the book so much that they produced great artwork in response.

Scenes from the Book

Willy Wonka Candy (sadly inedible Plasticine!)

1st year Girls Hockey

1st year girls have done remarkably well in all their games especially considering the team includes several girls who never played hockey before this season!! Their skill and scores have improved throughout the season. Enjoy some images from a match played on Saturday, 12th Jan with Notre Dame. JSS won! they won their next match comprehensively also. Thank you to Han's mom for the pictures.

The Warm up

Practice passing skills

Game On!!

Aprés Match Analysis

Fifth Class Boys Study Water Cycle

6th Class Boys Work

Aboriginal Art

Drawing to Scale in Maths

Mathematics; Drawing to Scale

TY Learn Archery

TY pupils enjoyed a wide variety of PE activities this year including; beach bootcamp, Kenpo karate and archery. Here are a few images of their Archery lessons.

Watch out Katniss!

Getting started

On Targat!

Fifth & Sixth Class Girls Perspective Drawings

Anonymous 5th Class Perspective Drawing!

Nina Howden's Perspective Art

6th Class Perspective

Sixth Class drawing with Precipitation

Sunrise Perspective

Streetscape

Active School Flag

John Scottus is in the process of becoming an Active Flag school as an area of active living, healthy lifestyle and physical well being. The award recognises schools that strive to achieve a physical educated and physically active school community. Linda Broaders is spearheading this process which is pretty much “business as usual” for JSS excellent Sports and PE department
Criteria Include:
1 Provision of the correct PE timetable provision as per DES Guidelines
2 Inform and invite the whole school community in participate in the ASF process
3 Commit to a process of self-evaluation and review current provision across 15 areas
4 Plan and implement improvements that will enhance PE and physical activity provision for all students

Watch this space as we endeavour to achieve Active School Flag status over the next few months.

Can you have too much Bass?