We have lovely bright classrooms and we regularly display the children’s work for parents and visitors to look at. As you can see from the blog posts, we are a busy school, learning lots of new and exciting things every day.
On Friday, 27th May, Junior & Senior Infants as well as 1st & 2nd Class went on their annual school tour to Rathwood in Tullow, Co. Carlow. On arrival at Rathwood in Tullow, we climbed aboard the forest train and were brought through Rath Forest. On our way, we saw deer, ponies, geese and ducks. We all…
Junior & Senior Infants have been busy learning about Minibeasts in SESE. The story of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” was a big hit with the children so they made their own booklet of the story as well as their own “very hungry caterpillars” out of egg cartons!! As the children were learning about caterpillars, they were also taught about the lifecycle of…
On Wednesday, 25th May, Junior & Senior Infants worked very hard as traffic surveyors in Castlecomer to support work covered in class on the topic of Transport. The children were given either a form of transport or a colour which they had to keep watch for in the traffic that passed by the school gates from 9:40-10am…
We love to do art in our classroom and over the past few weeks we have completed activities with clay, paint and collage. Have a look at our lovely work… We made funny creatures with funny faces… We made nature pictures using natural materials from our world… We learned about primary and secondary colours and…
In 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class, we read a story called “The Story of the Willow Pattern” by Allan Drummond. It is a story of a rich girl called Koong-Shee who lived in China and fell in love with a poor boy called Chang. Her father was not very happy so they ran away. Do…
