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.
April has been another busy month for the pupils of 4th, 5th and 6th class. In science we looked at the earthworm and found out lots of information about it. We then made our own wormery! We made layers of sand and soil and put 4 worms in it. After a week we could see…
This April, the Junior Classroom have been learning a lot of new topics in all subject areas. In Gaeilge, the children have been “ag siopadóireacht sa siopa bia.” The children have learned how to converse in Irish when buying food in a shop. Take a look at all their practice! In Science, the children planted their…
Recently 5th and 6th class were reading various lemon based recipes in their English reader. We decided to follow the recipe to make lemon bars for our class. Here are the boys and girls measuring, mixing, grating and baking! 5th class made the pastry using flour, butter and caster sugar. 6th class…
The Easter celebrations started early in the middle room this year! We have been busy writing eggciting (!) stories for a start! They are on our classroom wall, where everyone can read them… We had an in-class “Design an Easter Egg Competition”. The results were very impressive as you can see from the lovely display…
On Friday, 15th March 2013, the school welcomed Irish author, Martina Murphy to further support literacy development in our school. Martina’s visit coincided with our “Green Day” for St. Patrick’s Weekend which made it all the more enjoyable and of course memorable for the children! During the day, the children actively engaged in storytelling and drama workshops with Martina. Martina…
