There was a great buzz around the school as our little witches, zombies, ninjas and dinosaurs arrived this morning! There was an incredible variety of amazing costumes. We hope everyone had a great first half term this year and wish you all and your families a...
Due to the miserable weather, we were a day late planting our kindly gifted Hazel tree. The Senior Infants were very excited to plant the Hazel tree to mark National Tree Day on October 5th. The day is sponsored by SPAR for a third year and this year’s theme is: “Nuts...
European School Sports Day (ESSD) saw schools across Europe take one day to celebrate sport and physical activity on Friday 29th September 2023. The initiative aims to promote physical activity on an international level and involve as many children and young people,...
Senior Infants have been learning all about Spring and spring showers. We decided to recycle some of our plastic bottles including our pancake mix bottles to create rain gauges. A rain gauge helps us measure how much rain falls over a certain time. The children love...
The Aistear theme in Ms. Brogan's Junior Infants this week is "People Who Help Us". We explored the doctor's surgery, a construction site and had a team of town planners trying to sort out traffic congestion around the village!! ...
Our Aistear theme this month in Junior Infants room 2 is .... Winter! Ice (real!) painting, snowflakes from beads and pipe cleaners (symmetry and pattern work), fine motor skill development as we cut and construct penguins and a lot of interesting oral work at our...
The story of The Little Red Hen was the theme of our Aistear stations this week. We re-told the story in our own words using story stones. We 'made' bread using flour and water, helped the Red Hen plant the seeds in a board game and crafted lovely broomstick for...
Road safety awareness week is fast approaching and Junior Infants are practicing the Safe Cross Code at the zebra crossing at school. Slow down everyone and watch out for pedestrians please!
Some of of our new letters over the last 2 weeks were p...c...and k. We had lots of fun painting pretty pink pigs, mapping a route for the 3 little pigs and even creating some houses for them . In our science lesson we used baby marshmallows and cocktail sticks and...