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.
We’ve been busy in the last few weeks in the Junior Classroom. Our topic in Aistear was ‘The Building Site.’ We were busy in Construction building various buildings like houses, skyscrapers and even a church! We created a Building Site in the sand, made items related to the topic in Junk Art, planned buildings in…
The boys and girls in 4th, 5th & 6th have begun the year by looking back on all that they have achieved and done in 2022. We also discussed our hopes and wishes for the year ahead. In English, we read some of Aesop’s Fables. We then wrote our own fables which included an important…
We have had a busy few weeks in school since we returned after the Christmas break! We wrote about all the things we got up to in English! In History, we learned all about the Titanic and wrote about it. The children also drew great pictures of the ship that was once called “unsinkable”…. We…
We have made a great start to 2023 in the Junior Room. We made New Year crowns to ring in 2023. We had fun in Maths measuring the length and width of items using lollipop sticks. Junior Infants have learned the number 3 and Senior Infants have been looking at number 8. Junior Infants also…
It is hard to believe that Christmas is here! We have had such a busy few weeks in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! November and December have been filled with lots of fun activities and learning… In English, we read a poem called “Walk into my Parlour” and discussed nouns, adjectives and verbs which we…
