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.
April has come and gone and the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class have been busy working in all subject areas! Today, on Tuesday, 26th April, we welcomed Philip and Richie, from the local Fire Brigade in to talk to the children about fire safety in the home. They presented each child with a…
This term has been jam-packed with lots of fun activities and the children have worked very hard! 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class were very lucky to have Ms. Kathy Ryan teaching them for 3 and a half weeks in February! Thank you Ms. Ryan for all your hard work with the children! In Art, the children…
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…
