Geography is taught to all classes. We use the Interactive Whiteboards, computers and software when teaching geography. We are very lucky to be situated 5 minutes from the Discovery Park in Castlecomer where we often go on nature walks.
We have been quite busy in the past month in the Senior Room. In geography and science we looked in detail at different rocks and how they were formed. We examined examples of different rocks, many thanks to the girls who brought in limestone, granite, marble, sandstone etc. It was great to see all these…
February and March have been very busy months with lots of celebrations to prepare for as well as all our usual hard work in curricular areas! At the start of the month, the children decorated their own St. Brigid’s Day Cross in response to work covered in both Religion and History. In History, the children…
Another month has come and gone and the pupils in the senior room have been busy! In art we made St Patrick’s Day shamrocks and painted them using different items to create various textures. We also made Easter chicks and rabbits from clay. For Mother’s Day we sewed the word ‘Mum’ and framed them for…
As always there has been lots happening in our room since we came back in January. Below are some of the activities and work we have completed. We looked back at our favourite moments from 2015 and wrote some New Years Resolutions for 2016. 4th class were working on the topic of ‘chance’ in maths…
Happy New Year to you all from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We have been learning about lots of new and exciting things since we came back after the Christmas break! To develop the children’s literacy skills, they all wrote reports about their holidays! We also enjoyed reading the book “The Magic Faraway Tree” by…
