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 really enjoyed doing lots of art and craft for Hallowe’en in our classroom. We made some masks using feathers, glittery paper and Hallowe’en shapes. Can you guess who’s hiding behind them? We also made some chocolate apples covered in hundreds and thousands. It was great fun! The finished product… We also made Frankensteins with…
It has been a busy few weeks in the senior classroom. We have been doing lots of work on the topic of Hallowe’en. In English we wrote essays on Magical Spells and Scary Nights. In art we made sparkling fireworks from kitchen rolls and splatter painted a colourful background. In Gaeilge we read a story…
Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class have been busy this September! To begin with, all the children started off the year as Superheroes and Princesses! We then supported the Kilkenny Team with our Liam McCarthy Cups! During the month, we learned the letter “s” so we made our own “Scarecrow Paper Bags” In Irish and…
Autumn is here again and the boys and girls in the senior room have taken inspiration from the beautiful autumn trees around our school in Castlecomer for their art. First we painted a blue and green background, then our tree. Next we used wooden blocks and cotton wool to print on leaves in autumn colours yellow,…
Not only did we learn about Minibeasts during May but we also learned a lot about houses. We even got to make our own 3D houses! Gavin brought in his play mat and we all got to place our houses on it! We will be advertising these houses and all their features soon when we all become…
