5th Class recently enjoyed a school tour to Go Quest and Cabinteely Park. The class was split into teams and competed against each other in a number of challenge rooms. The challenges ranged from mental challenges and physical challenges. It was a tight contest but one team were declared champions. Afterwards, we headed to Cabinteely …
5th Class have been busy working with clay in Art over the past few weeks. They have been learning about the Great Famine in History and discovering all the causes and effects of the devastating period of Irish history. To link in with this topic, Ms Gilmer gave the class a task to make either …
5th class is well and truly underway with their JEP project this year. As part of JEP we invited parent entrepreneurs and speakers to come into our classroom and inspire and answer some of our questions. Over the last few weeks, we have had Rufus’ mum Katharine, Isabelle’s dad Don, Thea’s mum Kara, Hugo’s mum …
The St. Matt’s School Choir performed at Peace Proms in the RDS on Saturday 4th February. What a wonderful experience it was, with 2500 children in the choir from all across Leinster, and over 4000 in the audience! Peace Proms is a free, cross-border choral educational project for children in primary schools in the Republic …
Fourth class put in a lot of work planning their fourth class assembly, and it certainly paid off. We all worked together on a theme and settled on the 1980s! This led to the class creating the “Yesterday News Show” the children were very excited and worked on their different parts of the assembly. We …
Senior Infants have been learning about the Fire Station. In Role Play we pretended we were driving a fire engine and going down the fire pole. In Small World, we drove the fire engines on the mat and pretended to put out fires in houses. In Junk Art we made fire engines and fire stations. We have been …
