The children in 1st Class brought in an item that was very special to them when they were babies. They spoke in front of the whole class and told them the reason it was so special to them and how they used it when they were a baby. They then wrote about the item they brought in. They had to describe what it looked
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We had a spooky day in second class on the last day of term with the children dressing in a variety of costumes.
1st Class went on a 2D Shape Hunt using the I pods this week. The children explored the entire school yard in the search of circles, semi-circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. When they found a shape they liked they took a picture of it and recorded what they took the picture of. Here are some of the pictures we took.
Dear Parents, Please read the following important points of information. Email addresses We are going to start using email more frequently as a method of communication to parents. Mrs. Hampson has many of your email addresses, but she will be contacting those whose addresses she does not have. If she makes contact, please provide your email contact address. School Library Thanks to parent Derek
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Third class chose to work individually and in groups to complete their recent projects. We had a vote on the topics we would explore and dinosaurs and natural disasters won. I was very impressed with the work that all the children put into their projects. On June 19th we had a very interesting day looking at all the groups present their work. A number
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Last month, first class were learning all about the famous ship disaster ‘The Titanic’. Although the story was very sad, the children found it very interesting and were very eager to find out more. The children wrote about the disaster in their own words in the form of their own mini-book, which they read today with junior and senior infants. They wrote character accounts, pretending
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Authors in Second Class The children have been busy writing stories based on a cat stuck up a tree. After editing their stories they each made a book with a front cover that included the title, author and illustrator and a back cover that showed the publisher, back page blurb, other books by these famous authors and a price. On Wednesday they read their
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Clarice Cliff was part of the ‘art deco’ artist movement. She loved to use vibrant colours; including blue, black, orange, green, red and yellow. We looked at some of her scenes and did our own paintings based on them.
On the 19th of May, Anna, Cormac, SNA Mrs.Nearn and Mrs. O’Rourke, representing our Green School Committee, went to Claremorris to receive the Biodiversity Green Flag . The Green School Committee have been working so hard over the past few years to earn this flag. They have surveyed the school about biodiversity,mapped the school grounds at the start and again in April 2015 showing new
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Our school has been learning a lot about biodiversity over the last few months. In 1st Class we decided to learn about plant growth through the growing of seeds. We learned that the three things a plant needs to grow are water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. Firstly we planted cress seeds on a wet tissue. They were placed on the windowsill where they would
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