Irish is taught to all classes. We encourage the children and teachers to speak Irish in an informal way throughout the school day. We are promotiing the use of Irish with Seachtain na Gaeilge and we sent out some phrases for all parents to use with their child to develop their oral competency in the language.
The shortest month of the year has flown by and once again the senior pupils have been busy completing work in lots of different areas. In History we learned all about different explorers including Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan & Vasco De Gama. We also mapped their various journeys around the world! We studied 3D shapes…
January certainly has been full of fun and different activities in the Senior Room. In Art we made frosty winter branches from tin foil and parchment paper We also experimented drawing different types of lines and created these colourful patterns. Weather was a theme we studied in Geography, Gaeilge and Art. We made these thunderstorm scenes…
The New Year has well and truly begun by now and it has been a topic the children have enjoyed this January. In support of it, the children made their own New Year’s Hat for all the celebrations! In History, the children enjoyed drawing pictures to give the class a snapshot of their Winter Break!…
December certainly has been busy with lots of activities completed by the senior pupils this month. At the beginning of the month we baked delicious brownies. In English we read all about polar bears and wrote up some facts that we learned. In Gaeilge we were focused on the topic ‘An Nollaig.’ We learned 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…
