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.
As always we have been working hard during the month of November. We have completed lots of work in all subject areas. In English 5th and 6th class read about Polar animals and wrote up information on the different creatures they studied. They also read a story called Catty Bimbar, Pirate Cat and designed…
Another month has come and gone and once again the Junior Classroom have been hard at work! In English, we learned a lot of new letters. We made our very own Paper Plate Indians for the letter “i”. and Colourful Cupcakes for the letter “c” In History, the children learned about the Aboriginal Culture and painted Australian…
October has been a busy month in the senior classroom. We have been busy working on the themes of autumn and Hallowe’en. In English we wrote stories with a spooky theme for Hallowe’en. The boys and girls came up with some terrific and terrifying stories! In science class we learned about materials and recycling,…
A very happy Hallowe’en to everyone from 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! Over the past few weeks we have been quite busy learning about Hallowe’en in various subjects, including History, SPHE and Gaeilge. The children made spooky spiders spinning their webs using various materials. Did you know a spider has 8 eyes but despite this,…
September has been a busy and enjoyable month in the senior room. We have been learning lots of new and interesting things in all subjects. In art we used oil pastels to colour our names, covered them in black paint and then etched interesting designs and patterns on them! We also created these colourful Celtic…
