We love Art and Craft in our school!The six strands in the Primary School Visual Arts Curriculum are Drawing, Paint & Colour, Print, Clay, Construction and Fabric & Fibre.As you walk through the corridors and classrooms, you will see lovely art displays.We enjoy entering art competitions such as the Texaco Art Competition and also Doodle 4 Google.We also encourage local craftspeople to come in and share their expertise with the children at various times of the year.
As always, the children engaged in lots of Halloween activities in the lead up to our Halloween Holidays! We made some spooky spider web patterns in Art In Gaeilge, the children learned some new vocabulary relating to Oíche Shamhna. The children made their own Positivity Potions in SPHE by drawing and writing in activities and…
During the past two months, the Senior Classroom have been busy working hard in all subject areas. In Art, we designed our own names into various shapes and designs. Some of us even made some unusual creatures out of them. Can you spot any of our names? We learned about the Irish legend “Clann Lir”…
We have been really busy throughout October in the Junior Room. We started learning through Play using the Aistear Framework. Our topic was ‘The Vet.’ In English Junior Infants are busy learning their sounds and Seniors are learning reading words. We learned all about length in Maths. In Visual Art we created colourful Autumn trees,…
We are delighted to be back in the Junior Room after the Summer Break. We welcomed 6 new Junior Infants to our class this year. 🙂 We have been busy learning about different topics, in Maths Junior Infants learned colours, collecting items of colour from around the room. In SESE we learned about ourselves as…
We’ve had lots to keep us busy during the Summer Term in the Junior Room! We went on our school tour to Activate in Waterford. Our butterflies each hatched from their chrysalis and we released them in the school grounds. We learned all about the seaside and water. We discovered what it was like to…
