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 ever we’ve been busy in December in the Junior Room! Our Play topic was the North Pole. We learned about animals, houses and nature there. In Gaeilge we had fun playing Biongó with our partners! In Art we made Christmas Trees by weaving wool through paper plates we painted. We painted Polar Bears as…
The Senior Room were busy during December, we learned about the season of Advent and made Advent Promises. We also made a Jesse Tree telling the story of the Bible up until Jesus was born. In Art we created Winter Trees covered in snow as well as a Nativity Scene. We also painted 3D style…
As ever we have been busy bees in the Junior Room, learning lots of new things and completing colourful work! In Play we learned all about The Fire Station. We discussed fire safety in SPHE and learned how to call the fire brigade if we ever need to. In SESE we learned about music from…
In preparation for Halloween, the Senior Classroom engaged in lots of seasonal activities! Heritage Expert, Orla Bates, visited in October and engaged the children in a Monoprint Workshop on Moths! Didn’t they do a magnificent job making their monoprint moths! In English, the children created their own Halloween Wordsearch for a member of their class…
This year, we came back to school to see lots of new board games in our classroom. A BIG THANK YOU to the Board of Management for purchasing these. We look forward to having fun together and learning new games 🙂 Since the school term commenced, the children in the Senior Classroom have been working…
