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.
October has been a busy month in the senior classroom. We have been busy working on the themes of autumn and Hallowe’en. In English we wrote stories with a spooky theme for Hallowe’en. The boys and girls came up with some terrific and terrifying stories! In science class we learned about materials and recycling,…
A very happy Hallowe’en to everyone from 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! Over the past few weeks we have been quite busy learning about Hallowe’en in various subjects, including History, SPHE and Gaeilge. The children made spooky spiders spinning their webs using various materials. Did you know a spider has 8 eyes but despite this,…
Over the past number of weeks, the children in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the beautiful season of Autumn. As well as completing lots of Art activities in school, we also went on a nature walk to the Discovery Park. We identified many species of trees and berries and were constantly on…
September has been a busy and enjoyable month in the senior room. We have been learning lots of new and interesting things in all subjects. In art we used oil pastels to colour our names, covered them in black paint and then etched interesting designs and patterns on them! We also created these colourful Celtic…
A New School Year has started again and the Junior Classroom have started off the year as “Superheroes!” Can you recognise them in their Superhero City below? Our Junior Infants have settled in well to life at big school! All the Senior Infants have taken on the role of classroom leaders very well too!! We…
