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A New Year begins in the Junior Room
Date posted: 26th February 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
A new year has brought lots of new fun and learning to the Junior Room. We continue to learn our sounds and tricky words in English, doing lots of activities and games around this work.
We made New Years Resolutions and designed colourful 2022 signs.
Our play topic was The Weather, we made items in Play Doh and Junk Art as well as Construction.
and blocks!
Also in play we learned all about The Zoo. We discussed the animals there, people who work there and different areas around the zoo such as aquariums and the aviary. We made animals in Play Doh and Junk Art, made a zoo in the Sand and Small World as well as Construction.
February 1st was St Brigid’s Day and we made cloaks for St Brigid in Art after learning all about her life in RE.
In Art we made colourful umbrellas and to celebrate Valentine’s Day we created Valentine’s Love Birds for our loved ones.
We also had fun creating our own windmills to see how fast the wind was blowing in Castlecomer!
In SESE we learned all about toys from now and in the past. We also drew our favourite outdoor and indoor toys.
Also in SESE we learned all about forces and found out which items we move by pushing and pulling.
Finally we learned all about Ireland and different places in Ireland focusing on the city of Dublin and landmarks there. We also looked at local landmarks and drew a local landmark, Kilkenny Castle as well as noting buildings in our local town, Castlecomer.
We also listened to Winter by Vivaldi in Music and drew some pictures of what we imagined as we listened.
In Gaeilge we listened to the story of Cochaillín Dearg and learned all about the topic of Eadaí creating our own Líne Eadaí.
Well done to all the children on their hard work in January and February!
Date posted: 26th February 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Jingle all the Way in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 24th December 2021
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Geography, History, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
The children in the Junior Room were learning lots of new things during November and December. We were busy in play learning about houses and homes and Santa’s Workshop.
In SESE we were excited to welcome Heritage Expert Frankie to our school. We had great fun examining old artifacts and learning about life long ago.
We also explored the topic of homes and sequenced the story of The Three Little Pigs.
We discussed our journey to school and recorded three places we each pass on our journeys to school each day.
As we are now in the season of Winter we learned lots of things which happen at this time of year, learning how the trees are bare, days are shorter and the weather colder. We wrote sentences and drew pictures of this time of year.
We also learned about what happens water in Winter, freezing to ice when cold. We carried out an experiment to see where ice melted fastest in our classroom.
Finally in SESE we learned all about penguins including the names of different kinds of penguins, where they live and what they eat.
In RE we learned about the season of Advent, we created our own Advent Wreath lighting a new candle each week in the countdown to Christmas. We also learned all about the story of the birth of Jesus.
Finally in Art we made houses using fabrics as well as lots of colourful art for Christmas including Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Baubles and Winter Robins.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Date posted: 24th December 2021
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Geography, History, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
A Busy Autumn in the Senior Classroom
Date posted: 30th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, Fundraising Activities, Hallowe'en, Irish, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
Our first 2 months back at school have been busy as always. The Senior classes have worked hard in all subject areas for both Ms. Wilson and their student teacher, Mrs. Meally.
Below are some photos of various activities!
At the start of September, the children engaged in Optical Illusion Activities in Art and Science and created their own Optical Illusion using their hands and the first initial of their name!
The children completed a traffic survey at our school gates and recorded their results onto Bar Graphs in Maths! On the day of the survey, silver was the most popular vehicle colour to pass through Castlecomer!
In Art, the children created their own Autumn Wreaths using leaves from our school environment.
On Friday, 8th October, the school supported Goal’s Jersey Day and we all enjoyed wearing our sports jerseys into school for the day!
In SPHE the children created their own Mandalas as a symbol of their own uniqueness and self identity. Didn’t they do a fantastic job?
Drawing a self portrait with a twist was another art activity the children engaged in!
Members of 6th Class helped plant some daffodil and tulip bulbs around our school and parish grounds.
In Religion, the children designed their own Harvest Picture for the Harvest Service in St. Mary’s Church on Sunday, 24th October.
The children designed their own Anti-Bullying Poster in response to all that they had learned on the topic of Bullying in SPHE.
To celebrate Kilkenny Day on Sunday, 10th October, the children very creatively designed their own Pangur Bán!
On Thursday, 21st October, the whole school visited the Community School and got to run or walk around the track for 2km to raise money for our school and to support Joyce in her efforts to raise money for both our school and the ICU in St. Luke’s Hospital Kilkenny.
Well done to all the children for all their hard work at training in advance of the day as well as their great performance on the running track too!
The children donned their Hallowe’en costumes on the day of their Hallowe’en holidays. Well done to you all for such creative and scary costumes!
To get into the spirit of Halowe’en, the children played a game outdoors called Hallowe’en Run
and they engaged in some collaborative art to create some very funky looking pumpkins and spooky looking bats!!
Well done to 4th, 5th & 6th Class for all your great work over the past 2 months. Thank you to Mrs. Meally for all her hard work during October in the Senior Classroom. Enjoy your well deserved Mid Term Break! 🙂
Happy Hallowe’en to everybody!!
Date posted: 30th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, Fundraising Activities, Hallowe'en, Irish, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
Halloween and Autumn Fun in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 28th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Middle Classroom, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
It is great to be back to school and the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class have been working so hard over the past 2 months in all subject areas! Have a look at some of the photos of what we have been up to! We drew pictures of our “Summer Memories” in early September…
We drew fantastic “Self-Portraits” of ourselves!
The children drew lovely patterns and pictures on their names…
To mark Roald Dahl Day on 13th September, in English, we read Roald Dahl’s “Esio Trot” and the children really enjoyed it! The children wrote and drew about their favourite part of the story!
We read a poem called “The Squirrel” and decorated the poem…
In SESE, Ms. Harper, who was teaching the boys and girls for most of September and part of October, taught the class lots about Autumn, the weather, animals, hibernation and migration. We went on a nature walk using the lovely environs of our school.
We created a beautiful Autumn display with lots of the creatures that we have learned about!
To celebrate and mark Kilkenny Day on 10th October, the children designed very “Cool Cats” for our classroom!
We also made “Hot Air Balloons”!
We created and designed “Beautiful Butterflies”….
To celebrate the wonderful Harvest, some pupils in 3rd class helped decorate the Church for the Harvest Festival….
They also helped plant spring bulbs in the Church grounds and the school grounds!
The children made “Spooky Frankensteins” that are on our classroom wall…
We made chocolate apples and of course had to dress up on the last day of school….these monsters and ghouls gave me a big fright!!
Thank you Ms. Harper for all your work over the past few weeks and well done to the boys and girls too for a great effort!
Date posted: 28th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Middle Classroom, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Autumn in the Junior Room
Date posted: 27th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We have been busy in September and October in the Junior Classroom. Check out the photos below to see what we’ve been up to!
At the beginning of September we were working on skills such as cutting and using different materials to practice making lines, shapes and letter writing.
We had fun learning different Nursery Rhymes such as Baa, Baa Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty. We practiced cutting skills and made art based on these rhymes.
In SESE we were busy learning all about ourselves, how we change as we grow up and Autumn, learning about hedgehogs, squirrels and the changes which happen in this season.
Also as part of SESE we read the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and made maps of the journey they went on in the story.
We also had fun going on an Autumn Nature Walk to the Discovery Park. We spotted leaves changing colours to orange, yellow, red and brown, conkers, red berries and helicopter seeds from Sycamore trees.
We brought our clipboards and pencils with us and ticked off the signs of Autumn we spotted on our walk.
On the way back we had time to stop off at the playground!
When we got back we created a Nature Table of Autumn items.
Senior Infants were learning all about length in Maths and made chains which were long, longer and the blue was longest. They also played games to revise their numbers from last year.
We began learning through play and the Aistear Curriculum in October and our first topic we learned about was ‘The Vet.’ We read stories like ‘Bet the Vet’ and created different things to do with vets in areas such as junk art, play doh, small world and construction.
Finally in Art we made squirrels using crepe paper to create bushy tails, we also painted colourful Autumn trees using cotton buds to paint the leaves on as dots and finally painted spooky pumpkins for Halloween!
Finally on the last day of term we had a great day dressing up for Halloween 🙂
Date posted: 27th October 2021
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts