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A Great Start to the New Year in the Senior Room!
Date posted: 21st February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Fundraising Activities, Geography, History, Hurling, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
The boys and girls in 4th, 5th & 6th have begun the year by looking back on all that they have achieved and done in 2022. We also discussed our hopes and wishes for the year ahead.
In English, we read some of Aesop’s Fables. We then wrote our own fables which included an important moral or lesson.
We looked at the writing genre of recount writing and the children wrote some fantastic diary entries.
The class has begun reading the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. We drew predictions of what we anticipate happening in the story based on the title, front cover and blurb.
In History, we learnt about Aboriginal people of Australia. Art is very important part of Aboriginal culture. Inspired by their artwork and it’s role in storytelling, the class created their own Aboriginal Dot Paintings.
Look at how great they turned out!
In SPHE, the children explored the topic of Healthy Living. The children designed a healthy meal based on their knowledge of the food pyramid and importance of eating a balanced diet.
In SESE, the children explored the topic of Forces with Mrs. Joyce. They carried out many different experiments and investigations. The children looked at the influence of gravity and how it allows a hammer attached to a ruler by sting, to hang without falling.
They also carried out a ‘Paper Helicopter Investigation’ to discover how the shape and design of the paper helicopter affects the way it falls to the ground.
On the 1st of February, we celebrated St. Brigid’s Day.
In Religious Education, we learned about the life and work of St. Brigid. After, we designed and decorated her cloak using various pieces of fabric.
In PE, the children explored and practiced the skills needed for hurling/camogie.
The children enjoyed learning about the life and work of American artist, James Dine and created their own art in response to all they had learnt.
To celebrate St. Valentines day, we created some beautiful cards for our loved ones…
We also spoke and wrote about love…
To raise money for Heart Children Ireland, we dressed up in red for the day! Thank you to everyone for their support of this great cause!
Finally, the whole school enjoyed the Pancake Party on Tuesday, 21st of February. A massive thank you to Mrs. Dooley, Mrs. Power and the 6th class boys who prepared and served the pancakes to everyone.
Well done to all the boys and girls on a great start to 2023!
Date posted: 21st February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Fundraising Activities, Geography, History, Hurling, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
A Warm Welcome Back From the Senior Classroom
Date posted: 11th October 2020
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hurling, Irish, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
The first 6 weeks have flown by and the Senior Classroom have settled back very well to life in school with all its new practices and procedures!
In SPHE, we have been learning about Covid 19 and how we can help control its spread. We designed our own face masks in response to all that we learned
In Art, the children enjoyed creating their own Autumn Leaf Mosaics using coloured card and leaf cut outs.
We explored the theme of Autumn some more and wrote our own Autumn Sensory Poems in English!
The children enjoyed learning about the life and work of an American Street Artist called Thank You X in Art. In response to his work, they each designed their own cubes with pictures, shapes and patterns which we put together to create our own Collaborative Cube Mural
During September, we discussed the topic of Harvest in Religion and following this we drew our own Harvest Pictures to celebrate this very important time of year 🙂
We also got active in P.E. each week learning both hockey and hurling skills. We were fortunate to have GAA Coach, Brian Riain, back for 2 weeks to teach us some hurling drills 🙂
The children have been learning lots of new phrases and vocabulary in Gaeilge since returning to school. They drew their own pictures in response to some common phrases we met.
In Science, we studied the Reproductive Parts of a Flower and Plant and labelled the parts on our worksheets.
In History, we studied buildings and monuments in our local area. The children learned about the 1798 Monument just outside our school grounds which was erected to commemorate the Battle of Castlecomer, the last battle of the 1798 Rebellion
They also learned about the history of the Creamery House which dates back to 1750 and was unfortunately damaged during the 1798 Rebellion. Did you know that the Creamery House was once a Perambulator Factory where baby prams were made?!
In Art, the children expanded a small cut out scene to create their own imaginative landscapes
Finally on Friday, 9th October, the whole school participated in GOAL Jersey Day to support Goal’s work with vulnerable communities around the world.
We took out our hurls and practised our hurling skills in our jerseys!
Well done Senior Classes on a great start back to school after all our time apart 🙂
Date posted: 11th October 2020
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hurling, Irish, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
School Tour 2016!
Date posted: 2nd June 2016
Category Blog, Class Work, History, Hurling, Junior Classroom, Middle Classroom, Physical Education, School Outings, Senior Classroom, Sports
On Thursday May 26th we all enjoyed a great day out in Dublin. We went on a Viking Splash Tour around the city and on the water in the morning.
Take a look at all the fun we had!
In the afternoon we visited Croke Park. We saw the changing rooms, corporate boxes, players lounge and went up into the stands.
Finally we visited the museum and interactive games where we were able to test our skills!
Date posted: 2nd June 2016
Category Blog, Class Work, History, Hurling, Junior Classroom, Middle Classroom, Physical Education, School Outings, Senior Classroom, Sports
Well Done Boys!
Date posted: 27th May 2015
Category Blog, Hurling, Senior Classroom, Sport
Well done to two boys in 5th Class who took part in a Hurling Blitz on Monday, 25th May in the Community School in Castlecomer! They got to the final and won! Boys, we are very proud of you!Â
Date posted: 27th May 2015
Category Blog, Hurling, Senior Classroom, Sport
September in the Senior Room
Date posted: 3rd October 2014
Category Blog, English, Geography, Hurling, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
It has been a busy start to the year for the senior classes and we’ve completed lots of work in different subjects. Take a look and see what we’ve been up to!
In geography and science we studied buildings and the materials used to construct them. In art class we made these city skylines including some of the different buildings we’d looked at.
In science we also studied different plants and seed dispersal. We looked at the life cycle of plants and labelled plant and flower parts.
4th Class read the poem Autumn Time and created these beautiful storyboards showing what happens in each verse.
In art we made colourful autumn trees using yellow, orange and red paint. We printed the leaves using cotton buds!
We also celebrated Kilkenny winning the All Ireland and we were delighted to receive a visit from some of the Junior and Senior hurlers and all the silverware they won this year!!
Date posted: 3rd October 2014
Category Blog, English, Geography, Hurling, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts