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.
The children in the Junior Classroom have had a lot of fun making cards and door hangers for their mothers this Mother’s Day! We hope you liked their artwork as they all made an extra special effort to show their mothers just how much they are appreciated for everything they do! We used ribbon, gems and stickers…
The children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class wish all the Mothers and Grandmothers in our school a very Happy Mother’s Day! We have been busy over the past few days making presents and cookies for the Mums in our class. We made picture frames and decorated the borders with buttons. We also made a…
The Junior Classroom have once again been busy this month. In Gaeilge, the children have been learning all about “An Aimsir.” Look at their lovely drawings below showing different types of weather. In History, the children have been learning all about The Vikings who invaded Ireland on long boats from Scandinavia in the 700s. To support the work covered, the children…
4th, 5th and 6th class have been very busy since we came back in January. Below is some of the work we have completed in different subject areas. In art we have been concentrating on sewing. We have learned how to sew lots of different stitches, here are just a few samples! …
Over the past few weeks, the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class have been learning about wildlife, both in Ireland and abroad. In January, the children were divided into groups and completed a project on Arctic Animals. The groups were each given an animal to research and then had to collect information, pictures and diagrams…
