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.
December certainly has been busy with lots of activities completed by the senior pupils this month. At the beginning of the month we baked delicious brownies. In English we read all about polar bears and wrote up some facts that we learned. In Gaeilge we were focused on the topic ‘An Nollaig.’ We learned the…
We have been a busy class during the month of November! In English, we wrote wonderful Winter acrostic poems and decorated our pages with wintery drawings! We are also looking at character descriptions and after listening to words to describe Ben, Sam and Gus, we drew pictures of these three people. The children did a…
During November, the Junior Classroom have enjoyed learning all about the weather in SESE. We have been busy recording the daily weather on our weather chart! We also made some beautiful rainbows to brighten up our classroom this Winter, using rolled up coloured crepe paper and cotton wool! In SPHE, the children have been learning about “Feelings” They…
October has flown by and the boys and girls in the senior room have been busy completing lots of work in different areas. 6th class spent some time cooking delicious potato wedges for us all. Well done boys, they were yummy! (Thanks to Mrs Dooley for all her help!) In geography and science we spent…
October has once again been a busy month! We started off the month making Floppy Scarecrows in small groups, in response to a poem called “The Floppy Floppy Scarecrow” in English! In SPHE, the children have been learning all about themselves. They made their own identity card with their own photograph, handprint and fingerprint! In the SESE subject areas, the…
