The last few weeks have felt very festive in Senior Infants. We chatted about winter did some winter activities. In Aistear we looked at ‘Christmas at the Post Office’ and ‘Santa’s Workshop’. We were postmen and postwomen sorting and delivering Christmas cards and parcels one week, while being elves busily working in Santa’s workshop the…
Junior Infants had great fun learning all about our senses. In particular they enjoyed the taste test. We tried 4 different foods and tried to decide which was sweet, sour, salty and bitter. We tasted a lemon, dark chocolate, jellies and popcorn!
What a busy and fun-filled First Term it’s been in Senior Infants! We learned about the seasons and did lots of art work. We learned a lot about 2D and 3D shapes and formed different colour patterns. We really enjoyed being engineers and mathematicians during STEM week. We enjoyed doing science experiments and having fun…
Junior Infants had great fun this morning making hot chocolate that Buddy the Elf for us! It was a great surprise and it tasted delicious!
This term, one of the most interesting things we did was JEP. JEP stands for Junior Entrepreneur Program. It was really enjoyable, we also learnt a lot about business. First, we came up with our ideas and had a vote, the top five stayed in and we split into groups. We spent a few weeks…
This term in art we did perspective drawing. Perspective is a task in art which you can use in many situations in our drawing skills. For an example, say you wanted to join an apple drawing competition you would have to draw the apple realistically and would probably draw highlights and shadows. In our perspective…
First Class have had a great first term in school! They have learned a lot of new and exciting things. We have been busy creating lots of artwork during this term. We really enjoyed learning about the artists Vincent Van Gogh and Marc Chagall. We created our own versions of ‘The Starry Night’ and houses….
3rd class received a visit from a heritage in schools expert. Francesca is an expert in Irish archaeology and gave us a wonderful presentation focusing on the Vikings. She brought in some incredible artefacts too which we all got to look at and handle. Francesca also told us how a lot of the words we…
Last week, Third Class participated in a special Christmas baking zoom. During the workshop, we made Christmas puddings, Reindeer, Snowmen and Christmas wreaths. It was lots of fun but challenging at the same time!
6th Class recorded our annual Christmas play for our school community this month. It was a very different type of Christmas play because of all the Covid regulations but we still had a great time. Our play was called A Christmas Peter Pan. In it, Peter Pan went to the North Pole to see Santa,…