In 2nd/3rd class we have been reading novels. A group of us have read ‘The Sheep-Pig’, by Dick King-Smith. This is the book on which the film ‘Babe’ was based. Anna and Jacob describe the plot of the novel: Farmer Hogget wins Babe a pig at the fair. A sheep-dog called Fly becomes Babe’s foster mother. Babe meets Ma, a ewe. Babe wants to
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I came first in the INTO handwriting competition! My name was called out and I had my photograph taken. Then my school was entered into a competition and I won a €100 euro book token for our school! We got a bag of sweets at the end, it was so much fun! By Cliodhna, 2nd Class
Our class entered the Doodle for Google competition! We had to create our own doodle with the theme I wish…! Last week our teacher received three envelopes in the post from Google! We were so excited! Inside were letters and certificates for three children in our class. Amber, Rosha and Cliodhna have reached the semi-final of the competition! After the 23rd of January their
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We created a Christmas collage based on the Poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. We used fabric for the rug, stockings, Santa Claus and Santa’s toy sack. We created the rest of our collage with card. It was great fun, we hope Santa likes them! 2nd & 3rd Class
We drew a fruit bowl from observation. Then we coloured it in using waterpencils. We looked at where the light was on the fruit and we tried to use shading techniques with the colouring pencils. We made the colour darker by adding more colour and less water.
We talked about the season of winter. We learned about the different types of weather we have in Ireland during winter. We looked at some real winter scenes and some winter paintings on the whiteboard. They were beautiful. Then we created our own winter scene and we painted it! We took some photos of them. 2nd & 3rd Class
We made this house at lunch. Half of us worked on the walls and the other half worked on the roof. We were very proud of our house! By Grace & Nicole
On Tuesday, the 4th of October, we went to the hall to do a maths treasure hunt using QR codes. We have an app on our Ipods called i-nigma. We used this app to unlock the maths questions. We had a sheet to write down the answers. We had great fun. By E.C and C.L We have spotted QR codes on a number of
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