Science is taught as part of SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) and is integrated with geography and history. We enjoy doing experiments with the children and sometimes we participate in science workshops such as the “Discover Science” programme in the Discovery Park in Castlecomer.
It has been a busy few weeks in the run up to Easter with Junior and Senior Infants. We learned all about the hairdressers in play. Here we are role playing in the Wandesforde Hair Salon, making items from play doh and junk art and building our own mini salons in small world. Ms Power…
Junior & Senior Infants learned lots about the season of Spring this month. In play we discovered all about Spring weather, baby animals which are born and plants and flowers that grow. We also created our own Spring Garden in our classroom with daffodils, snowdrops, primroses and hyacinths. In Art we made St Patrick’s Day…
February has flown in the Middle Room! We have been very busy learning lots of new things and now you can have a look at all our work! To mark the start of February, we read about St. Brigid and her life as a Christian. We coloured in pictures of her cloak….. Chinese new Year…
Our play topic in February was ‘The Jungle.’ We had great fun making jungles in the sand, creating jungle animals and explorers equipment in junk art and play doh. We also went on a jungle trek around our class spotting various jungle creatures. Finally we played in our water station with jungle animals which live…
Welcome back after the Christmas break from all in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We had a great break and wrote about what we got up to in the first week back! We drew lovely pictures and coloured them in with our silky pastels! We wrote new year’s resolutions in English and designed party hats…
