1st & 2nd class enjoyed gardening with Rachel today!
1st & 2nd class had a great time on their school tour to Westport Adventure Park!
Our 1st Class did some gardening!
Garda Olive and Garda Mick came to visit and the class had great fun trying on the uniform and equipment!
1st & 2nd class enjoyed some set dancing for P.E.
Christmas has arrived into 1st & 2nd!
Breda Burns, creative associate from Creative Schools Project will be working with our school over the next two years. Today, Breda helped our class to make badges that they had designed themselves. They really enjoyed expanding their creative talents!
Investigating 3D shapes!
1st & 2nd brought in lots of board games to celebrate maths week. They had lots of fun trying out all the different games!
1st & 2nd Class did a presentation in assembly all about shapes!
Our autumn trees.
The children of 1st & 2nd class had a great experience voting for a new student council using the voting booths, just like the real elections!
Our student council posters!
Monster art at assembley!
The book fair came to our school and the boys and girls enjoyed browsing all the wonderful books!
1st & 2nd had great fun looking for insects and bugs as part of their Small World programme!
Fiona Rowling from Poetry Ireland very kindly came for a visit to read some stories and play an unusual instrument!
Science week!
Some of the Christmas shoe boxes contributed by 1st and 2nd Class pupils!
Geography : In geography we were looking at our classroom and desks from different perspectives. Things look a lot different when we look down and have an aerial view!
Maths - 2D shapes : We were looking out for 2D shapes all around us in the classroom. There are shapes everywhere!
Here we are practising our throwing and catching skills, ready for basketball!
Music classes with Elaine have begun in our school this year. We are listening to beats and rhythms whilst using scarves and percussion instruments to demonstrate our rhythm!
There is nothing better than reading a book in the shade of a tree on a sunny day!
We had great fun learning to drum with Anthony today!
In Geography we have been learning about Africa & the countries in Africa. We all chose an African country, found out some facts about the country and produced these wonderful projects. Well done to all!
We were so excited to receive letters from our Penpals in Straide NS. We are busy writing letters back to them!
We had a fantastic time with Storyteller Helena who shared some great stories and gave us lots of tips on how to tell a good story. We loved it!
Celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge :
St Patrick's Day Parade!
We were so excited about our special visitors to the school today. The lambs were so cute and cuddly. Thanks to Pat Lally and of course to Michael and Callum for arranging this special visit!
Six Bricks engineering task.
Working together to build the tallest tower that could stand independently. We had great fun!!
We went on an Autumn leaf hunt. We ticked off the leaves we found.
We asked our parents and grandparents about card games they played. We learnt how to play some of them. So much fun!
Maths is fun! We have been learning about numbers by playing dice games.
We have been learning all about our locality. We love our abbey, our school, our pitch and our playground!
