English is taught to all children from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. Oral language, reading and writing are all encouraged and promoted throughout the school. The child’s reading and writing experience in school can contribute greatly to their cognitive, emotional and imaginative development. The children love to write stories, complete projects and post their blogs on the school website.
We have been a busy class during the month of November! In English, we wrote wonderful Winter acrostic poems and decorated our pages with wintery drawings! We are also looking at character descriptions and after listening to words to describe Ben, Sam and Gus, we drew pictures of these three people. The children did a…
During November, the Junior Classroom have enjoyed learning all about the weather in SESE. We have been busy recording the daily weather on our weather chart! We also made some beautiful rainbows to brighten up our classroom this Winter, using rolled up coloured crepe paper and cotton wool! In SPHE, the children have been learning about “Feelings” They…
October has once again been a busy month! We started off the month making Floppy Scarecrows in small groups, in response to a poem called “The Floppy Floppy Scarecrow” in English! In SPHE, the children have been learning all about themselves. They made their own identity card with their own photograph, handprint and fingerprint! In the SESE subject areas, the…
September and October have been full of fun and activities in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class. The Summer holidays are a distant memory for us all now and we have certainly settled back in to our new classes! 2nd and 3rd Class children wrote about their Summer in English, while the 1st Class pupils drew a “snapshot” of their…
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…
