We’ve had a very busy and fun filled winter term in Senior Infants! We learned about the season of winter and did lots of winter based art work. We learned a lot about 2D and 3D shapes and formed different colour patterns. We love to keep active and have been practising our throwing and catching…
Senior Infants have had wonderful start to their year in Senior Infants. We have settled back into school life in St. Matthew’s and have learned lots of new and exciting things this half term! We have learned a lot about Autumn including the different colours, animals and words associated with it. We made autumnal trees…
Well done to all of the boys and girls in Junior Infants- You are all Super Stars!! What a year it’s been! Well done to all of the Junior Infants on a fantastic first year in St. Matthew’s! Each and every one of them has developed in their own way since the start of the…
We started hurling earlier this year with Shauna, and had lots of fun learning the drills! We learned the importance of wearing a helmet and how to hold the hurley correctly! We learned how to keep our eye on the sliotar and how made a great effort with hitting it!
We have many interests and love to keep busy! Have a look at some of the activities we have been up to inside and outside of our homes over the last few weeks! We have been gardening, painting, planting seeds, baking, making castles, learning card games and doing artwork! …
We have been very creative and imaginative throughout Junior Infants and have always enjoyed construction and junk art in class! We also enjoy doing experiments. So STEAM Day was lots of fun this term! We enjoyed doing various experiments and made some ice pops! We built super tall towers! Have a look at some of…
We are Super Active in Junior Infants! Junior Infants were fantastic at taking part in Active Week and Sport’s Day. The children did lots of activities at home and practised their sporting skills. They practised throwing and catching, they took part in potato and spoon races and many other types of challenges with their families!…
We have been learning lots about minibeasts this term. We listened to stories like ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’, and we did some lovely art activities based on butterflies and caterpillars. We talked learned about the ‘Lifecycle of a Butterfly’! We compared minibeasts and looked at ones that have wings and ones that don’t have any wings….
We have been learning a lot about our themes this term! We learn about our themes through play which makes them fun! We learned all about our school in September. In October and November we looked at different ‘Homes’ and ‘People in Our Community’. This month we were very excited as our theme was Christmas….
STEM week was a really fun week! We did experiments in Science and made lava lamps! On our technology day, 6th class helped us with using beebots- we instructed the beebots to go to different colours, shapes and letters. We were great engineers during STEM week! We designed and built bridges and towers using building…