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.
It has been a busy month in 4th, 5th and 6th class. We have been working hard in all subject areas. Here is some of our work on display. In art we painted St. Patrick’s Day shamrocks using different items to create texture. We used thinks like toothbrushes, glue spreaders, finger stampers and lollipop sticks….
The Easter celebrations started early in the middle room this year! We have been busy writing eggciting (!) stories for a start! They are on our classroom wall, where everyone can read them… We had an in-class “Design an Easter Egg Competition”. The results were very impressive as you can see from the lovely display…
We have been very busy over the past number of weeks in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class. In Religious Education, we read in detail, the story of Noah’s Ark and completed a giant wall display of the story. Each child in the class painted some of the picture! For St. Patrick’s Day, the children made…
On Friday, 15th March, the Junior Classroom along with the rest of the the school, dressed in green for the start of the St. Patrick’s Weekend Celebrations! The children made and modelled their own leprechaun masks made out of paper plates! As well as this, the children had great fun decorating their own cupcakes…
As part of the Visual Arts Curriculum, the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class have been working in groups to create a construction of their choice using rubbish! Without any help at all, the results were very impressive and are on display in the school corridor for all to see. The children in 1st…
