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 we have been working very hard in the Senior Room during the month of March. We’ve completed lots of work in different areas. In English we finished reading our novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Marita Conlon-McKenna. We really enjoyed it as it was based during The Great Famine, a topic we also…
We have certainly had a very busy month in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we dressed up in green and also made snakes and lucky leprechauns! In English, we read the poem “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth. We decorated the poem with these beautiful Spring flowers! In Geography, 1st & 2nd…
During February, the Junior Classroom have been learning all about light and colour. We first looked through a prism to see that white light is made up of many colours. Can you see the rainbow colours? The children then made their own Colour Wheels and had fun spinning them on their pencils to blend the colours back…
February has certainly been a very busy month for all the pupils in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! We started this month off by doing lots of research into the “Winter Olympics”, which happen every 4 years. This year the games were held in Russia. We all did a bit of research and learned about…
Although a short month February has been a busy time for 4th, 5th and 6th class. In art we painted our silhouettes, can you guess who’s who?! We also painted cold colours such as blue and purple to create a sky and then cut out a white winter tree to create these…
