Well ladies, how are we all?

I went for a run this morning in the Phoenix Park again and luckily enough I can still give our lovely president Michael D Higgins a wave every day, because Áras an Úachtaráin is just inside a 2km distance from my house. Have your parents shown you the 2km distance from your house yet? There's a great website created by an Irish person that will help you figure out where you can go- https://2kmfromhome.com/ Who knows... you might need that website for one of the challenges that I have coming up!

So I tried the food art challenge and it wasn't very good- but look I tried my best! I tried to make a clown face out of my lunch bagel.... I probably should have used some lettuce for hair, and I should have given him some ears too! Oh well! I've received loads of amazing entries so far- I'm going to pick my favourites tonight so you still have a few hours to get your entries in!

I've lots of work to do here this morning because the lovely Ms Hickey from the Boys' School dropped the school post over to my house yesterday. She had to fling it in the door to me and I had to fling a bunch of keys over to her- it was really funny- even my neighbours were laughing at us!

Right girls, I've got to go and answer all the lovely comments from yesterday!
Slán,
​Ms Greene

Monday 30th March 2020

A message from Our Lady of Victories Church, Ballymun Road:
 
Greetings to you all from the Chaplaincy Team in Our Lady of Victories. We miss you all very much. Every day we pray for you and we hope that you are all keeping well. These are strange times for us all. We can be a bit frightened at times, but we must always have hope. We look forward to the day when we can go out and play with our friends, when we hug our grandparents, when we can go back to school. It is not easy at the moment but remember all this will pass. And once again we will be able to do the things that we planned to do and enjoy doing.
 
In the meantime, stay safe, watch out for one another and remember it’s the little things that we can do for each other that makes a big difference. Don’t forget to pray each day for all the people who are looking after us so well. Some of them are your parents, aunts and uncles. We look forward to seeing you and welcoming you back.
 
Take care, God bless.
 
Fr. Frank & Jo  ​

Good morning girls!!!

I had a lovely long video recorded for you all that just wouldn't upload on Friday- the file was too big! Here's a quick message just so you don't forget what I look like- although I'm not looking like my usual self these days- but I did put a bit of make-up on for you all!!!!

I hope you all managed to get out for some fresh air over the weekend. I had a great time on Friday night chatting to all my best friends on a video chat and on Saturday I played bingo online with some of the teachers from our school and the boys school! It was great fun!

I'm really busy today doing lots of jobs for the school online, but it's getting a bit chilly now so I'm going to pop off for a cup of tea. Don't forget to leave comments for your teacher- they are absolutely loving reading them and responding to them!

Slán,
Ms Greene

Ok girls, here's my challenge for this weekend! Ms Haughton found it online and I think it's brilliant! There is one important rule....you have to eat the food you use! We are all trying to be careful with money at the moment and under no circumstances are you allowed to waste food. So what do you have to do.......? 

Well Dr Coy's are running a competition on their Instagram page (you can ask your parents to show you) where you have to create art with your food- I've put some of their examples below. I'm going to try it at the weekend and I'll post a picture on Monday!

Send me a photo of your 'Food Art' to [email protected] or your parents can upload it to Twitter and tag the school account @GirlsOlv. Don't forget to ask your parents to enter the competition on Dr Coy's instagram as well, if they have an account.

Good luck girls and have fun!! I'll be picking some winners on Tuesday!

Good morning girls!

I hope you are all keeping well. I have a video message ready to go- it's just taking a loooooong time for it to upload! I might have been talking too much! So I wanted to show you some of the wonderful entries I got for my Outdoor Treasure Hunt Challenge. It was very hard to choose from all the entries but here are the winners! Well done girls! When we are back in school I will have prizes waiting for you in the office!

​Thursday 26th March 2020
Good morning girls,

Well I had a bit of a disaster here yesterday- I couldn't access our website for hours and hours and I thought we were in big trouble! I was wondering how on earth I was going to get messages to you and set you more challenges. But we think it's nearly fixed- it's not 100% yet, but keep your fingers and toes crossed for us!

So I saw ALL your teachers yesterday!! We had a staff meeting via the ZOOM app. It was great to see everybody, and they are all keeping well. They miss you as much as I do! We are meeting again this morning to finalise a few things for you and we'll have a message ready for you and your parents later today.

I'll put up a video message for you in the morning! It will give me an excuse to put on some make up for the first time in two weeks! Work hard ladies and don't forget to get some fresh air.
Slán,
​Ms Greene