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Here’s to a great 2023 in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 15th February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Visual Arts
We have had a busy few weeks in school since we returned after the Christmas break! We wrote about all the things we got up to in English!
In History, we learned all about the Titanic and wrote about it. The children also drew great pictures of the ship that was once called “unsinkable”….
We learned all about Chinese New Year. 2023 is “The Year of the Rabbit”.
We made Chinese New Year Dragons….
In Music, the children were given a challenge to make a musical instrument from recyclable items. They did such a wonderful job and we had great fun listening to them and seeing how they work!
We also listened and responded to “The Typewriter” by Leroy Anderson…
In English, we read “The Twits” by Road Dahl and completed book reports. We discussed our favourite characters and the setting and plot…The children really enjoyed this!
In Religious Education, we learned about the life and work of St. Brigid and wrote acrostic poems and created her cloak by weaving paper….
In Art, we designed “Racing Rockets”…
We learned about St. Valentine and created cards and hearts for our loved ones…
We drew pictures and wrote about things in our life that we 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!
We hope you enjoy the midterm break and well done to all the boys and girls on a great start to 2023!
Date posted: 15th February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Visual Arts
Happy New Year from Junior & Senior Infants!
Date posted: 15th February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts
We have made a great start to 2023 in the Junior Room. We made New Year crowns to ring in 2023.
We had fun in Maths measuring the length and width of items using lollipop sticks.
Junior Infants have learned the number 3 and Senior Infants have been looking at number 8.
Junior Infants also learned about 3D shapes that can roll and ones that don’t. We sorted them accordingly.
Our theme in Music was Teddy Bears and as well as singing songs we listened to the song The Teddy Bear’s Picnic and drew pictures of it.
Our Play themes were The Post Office and The Hairdresser.
In SESE we learned about different sports played in the Olympics as well as how important it is to do exercise to keep healthy.
We learned about famous Irish Olympians, Katie Taylor and Gary and Paul O’Donovan, then we designed Olympic Medals for different sports.
In SPHE we read stories and discussed being kind and good friends to each other. We drew pictures of us being a good friend.
Finally it was St Brigid’s Day on February 1st and we learned all about this Irish Saint and the work she did. We used felt to create colourful cloaks for St Brigid.
Date posted: 15th February 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts
Happy Christmas Everybody!
Date posted: 22nd December 2022
Category Blog, Christmas, Drama, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
It is hard to believe that Christmas is here! We have had such a busy few weeks in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! November and December have been filled with lots of fun activities and learning…
In English, we read a poem called “Walk into my Parlour” and discussed nouns, adjectives and verbs which we are learning about at the moment…
In Visual Arts, we created “Snakes in the Grass” using circular pieces of paper..
In Gaeilge and English, we looked at the topic of Winter/An Geimhreadh and learned vocabulary based on this theme…
We wrote acrostic poems….
We made beautiful snow scenes…
As soon as December approached, we learned about Advent and how it is a time for preparation…
Ms McGrath did some mindful painting with the whole class…The Dancing Santas turned out so well!
The children made some lovely decorations for their Christmas trees!
On 15th December, the children performed the Nativity play “Hosanna Rock!” for all the parents and members of the school community. They did such a wonderful job and we were very proud of all their efforts!
We also had a visit from Santa, who took time out of his busy schedule! We sang “Jingle Bells!” and each got a selection box…
We enjoyed some Christmas baking with Mrs. Dooley…Thank you Mrs. Dooley for these fabulous treats…
We made some lovely Christmas cards for our friends and family…
We read a poem called “The Christmas Party” by Adeline White and drew pictures to represent the various things mentioned in the poem…
We had a Christmas Jumper day on Friday, 16th December…Don’t the boys and girls look so festive?!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the boys and girls in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class!
Date posted: 22nd December 2022
Category Blog, Christmas, Drama, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Seasons Greetings from the Seniors!
Date posted: 21st December 2022
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Local Visits, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
The Senior Room were busy during December, we learned about the season of Advent and made Advent Promises. We also made a Jesse Tree telling the story of the Bible up until Jesus was born.
In Art we created Winter Trees covered in snow as well as a Nativity Scene. We also painted 3D style Christmas Stars!
In English we read the poem “Winter” by William Shakespeare and answered questions on it after a lively class discussion about the language and rhyming pattern. Pupils also wrote about Elves at Christmas!
We learned about the different communities we are part of and wrote some information about these different communities that we all belong to.
We continue to learn GAA each week and are working on various skills for football at the moment.
Finally we performed our play Hosanna Rock for families and our school community on the 19th and went to the cinema as a Christmas treat.
Happy Christmas to all and see you in the New Year.
Date posted: 21st December 2022
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Local Visits, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
A Busy November in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 25th November 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts
As ever we have been busy bees in the Junior Room, learning lots of new things and completing colourful work! In Play we learned all about The Fire Station.
We discussed fire safety in SPHE and learned how to call the fire brigade if we ever need to.
In SESE we learned about music from around the world, tin whistles from Ireland, bagpipes from Scotland, castanets from Spain, djembe drums from Africa and didgeridoos from Australia. We listened and identified each instrument playing. We also learned all about the composer Mozart and listened to some of his music too!
We also heard the legend of The Giant’s Causeway in History and drew our favourite part of the story.
In English we are learning more sounds in Junior Infants, we learned the letter sound ‘l’ last week.
In Maths Junior Infants learned all about items which were heavy and light.
Our topic in Gaeilge was ‘Bia’ and we know lots of different foods in Irish now, we drew food in our own Bosca Lón (lunchbox) in Art to go with the theme.
We have also learned the letter ‘u’ recently and to go with this we created colourful umbrellas and rain showers in Art.
Finally we continue to learn new skills in GAA each week, we’ve been doing football skills for the last few weeks.
Date posted: 25th November 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts