Dear pupils and parents, It has been a bit of an unknown journey since March 12th but this chapter is almost finished with the summer holidays just around the corner. I would like to thank the pupils for all their hard work throughout the year. They have been a credit to you and I'm sure [...]
Dear parents, We have enjoyed the support of the Ennis Bookshop throughout the years. In Ennis we are very fortunate to have such a wonderful bookshop on our doorstep that supports the local community. During the school year the Ennis Bookshop provides suggested new reading materials for each of the classes and runs competitions for [...]
Since October 2019 the pupils in fourth class have been set STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics) challenges ranging from crossing an imaginary river with paper boats, to building the highest book tower to support a weight, investigating sound, building their own tin phones and becoming shoe makers for a few days to list [...]
Just a few photographs to show the children busy with their spider webs in Visual Art before the Halloween. The children were set the task of ensuring no two web windows could be the same colour i.e. none of the 'web boxes' could match in colour to the one next to it.
In autumn the children enjoyed engaging in Visual Arts. Drawing trees, using the colours of brown, orange, yellow and green the children had to paint an autumn themed drawing. Another challenging art lesson was the use of the interactive white board to display an animal or animals associated with autumn i.e. hedgehog & red squirrel. [...]
During the months of September and October fourth class benefited greatly from yoga sessions with Eimear McCarthy. The classes were very relaxing and all the pupils enjoyed participating. The various yoga positions were displayed and practiced by all. After Tuesday breaks the children would relax on their mats and follow the yoga positions as taught [...]
In Visual Arts we have been busy reflecting the story of the Children of Lir which we covered in Hisory. In the story the children of Lir were turned into swans and had to wait over 900 years for the spell to be broken. We decided to use an image of a swan in a [...]
