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.
This October, the Junior Classroom have been as busy as ever! As it’s the last month of Autumn, the children printed their own Colourful Autumnal Trees using wooden corks to brighten up our classroom! In Science, the children learned about the planets in our Solar System and displayed the pattern of the planets on black sugar…
Hallowe’en is just around the corner and the pupils in 5th and 6th class have been doing lots of fun and creative work around this topic. In English we wrote Spooky Stories with a Hallowe’en theme. Art has been all about spiders and fireworks, here are our finished pictures. In Geography, Science and English…
September has been busy for us all settling back into school after our Summer Holidays! We welcomed 4 new pupils into Junior Infants: Anya Morris, Alish Cooney, Theo Neale & Clinton Griffith. We also welcomed back Senior Infants and First Class into the Junior Classroom 🙂 To start off the month, the children made their own…
With the Ploughing Championships coming up, minds were on all things agricultural, so in the middle room we had a general farming theme for September. In history we looked at the Sumerians in Mesopotamia and the beginnings of farming. We wove our own pieces of cloth as the Sumerians would have. Everyone really loved the weaving. As…
September has been a productive month for 5th and 6th class. Take a look and see what we’ve been learning about. In Gaeilge we designed our own unique hand print and wrote all about ourselves around it in Irish. We also wrote acrostic poems in Irish using ‘An Fómhar’ as our theme. In Geography we…
