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.
Another month has come and gone and the Junior Classroom have been hard at work once again in all subject areas. It’s been a month of celebrations too with St. Patrick’s Day, Mothering Sunday and also all the Easter Preparations! We started off the month by making Easter Cards for our penpals in Finland. They…
March has come and is almost finished and it certainly has been a busy month in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! To celebrate the wonderful work that our Mums do for us every day, we made beautiful bouquets and cards to give to them on Mothering Sunday! To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, the children created…
4th, 5th and 6th class worked very hard and completed lots of work in different areas this month. We celebrated St Patrick’s Day by designing our own shamrocks and mixing lots of shades of green to paint them. It was Mother’s Day on March 15th and to say thanks to our mums for all they…
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…
Another month has come and gone and the Junior Classroom have been busy once again! At the start of the month, the children paid a visit to the Firestation in Castlecomer in support of work they have covered in Geography on “People who Help Us” The children enjoyed learning all about the equipment on the fire…
