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.
The children in 2nd and 3rd class read a book called “Brush – A Tale of 2 Foxes” over the past few weeks. It was written by Pierce Feiritear and illustrated by a 14 year-old boy called Conor O’ Brien. It’s a story about 2 young foxes, Misty and Ash, who try to help feed…
The Junior Room experimented with papier mache this November and made our own homemade maracas out of yoghurt cartons. Have a look at all the hard work we did with paper and wallpaper paste!! Here are our painted maracas in action! In Maths, we made a Class Calendar for the Junior Classroom. Each child was…
It has been a busy few weeks in the senior classroom. We have been doing lots of work on the topic of Hallowe’en. In English we wrote essays on Magical Spells and Scary Nights. In art we made sparkling fireworks from kitchen rolls and splatter painted a colourful background. In Gaeilge we read a story…
Not only did we learn about Minibeasts during May but we also learned a lot about houses. We even got to make our own 3D houses! Gavin brought in his play mat and we all got to place our houses on it! We will be advertising these houses and all their features soon when we all become…
We love to read books.We have lots of books like Mr. Men books and Little Miss books. There are really nice books in our library. Sometimes we go to the library to get more books to read. Sarah and Shauna
