Over the course of this term we have been writing our very own stories. We have discovered what it takes to write a beginning, middle and end of a story. We now realise how much work authors have to do in writing books for us to read. We have also been editing and redrafting each…
Just before Mid Term we had a very exciting competition called Bling your Bike/ Funky Feet. We were blown away by the creativity and all the hard work put in to each of the entries in first class. So a huge big thank you for taking part and doing great work! There were so many…
In first class we have been exploring how to use tens and units and what they mean. We have found some amazing links between our tens and units with our numbers and our environment. There are so many ways to show tens and units that we tried it just four different ways. There are many…
We have been very busy in first class learning all about the polar regions. Explorers such as Tom Crean, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and many more have been discussed. We have also loved creating polar animals from clay and painting them. Discovering all about ice and snow has been very interesting. We have been also…
On Friday 1st March, 5th and 6th class visited St Matthew’s Church. Rev Marchant spoke to us about the meaning and purpose of some of the features of the church. We were able to walk in the front doors of the church; through the newly renovated area. We were shown the lectern, baptismal font, organ…
On Friday 15th February, all children in 3rd – 6th class got the opportunity to watch the Irish Rugby team train in the Aviva Stadium. It was amazing to see so many of our favourite rugby players as they trained for their country. Alex even won 2 tickets to an Ireland game in the Summer….
Each Monday, 5th and 6th class swap teachers for a lesson! Mr McAndrew takes 6th class and teaches them music while Ms Cavanagh takes 5th class and teaches Geography. It is a nice change of classroom for each class and they get a chance to have a different teacher. This will be a sneakpeak for…
Preparations are underway for our school’s entry to Science Blast 2019. 6th class have come up with an investigation question which we will keep under-wraps for now as we are in the process of expressing the findings. Stay tuned for updates!
6th class are extremely lucky to have Mr Kavanagh ( no relation 😀 ) as their teacher over the next few weeks. Mr Kavangh has been focusing on distance, speed and time in maths. This involved 6th class going to the yard and timing activities such as running length of yard, jogging length of yard,…
6th class have spent the month of January learning all about Mexico! Throughout the month, we were given the task of completing a project on Mexico. Ms Cavanagh gave us criteria for our project and some of the topics we had to research. We all learned loads about the culture, food, history and its flag!…