We were delighted to receive our communication board from ‘Finding Charlie’s Voice’ this week. Thank you to all involved in this wonderful resource and to Rony for hanging it up in our room. We are so excited to begin using it in Blossom and Bloom 😀
Tomorrow is World Ocean Day 2021. We are asking all of the pupils to think blue and identify ways we can protect our ocean. Did you know that every second breath we take comes from the ocean? The sea and its inhabitants provide food, shelter and livelihood for people all around the world. Not to [...]
IMG_3548 We were so delighted when Mr Burns came to visit us today in our classroom. We were so thankful for all the treats too. 🍬 We also had a surprise treat for him - a performance of a poem we wrote in honour of him called ‘Ode to Mr Burns’. Have a look at [...]
We are celebrating Marine Week this week. Today we learned all about sharks and we even learned how to draw one!
This week, Green-Schools Ireland is launching the first ever Marine Week. It will be the Green- Schools first ever week long celebration of the sea. Each day, new activities will be uploaded to the Green-Schools Marine Week web page. There will be interactive talks, art, well being activities, educational videos and science experiments on a [...]
Our Rang V pupils had a most enjoyable lesson today, when they learned all about our Earth's renewable and non-renewable resources. During this lesson, their teacher, Mr. Thynne showed them what compost is and how it is created. Our pupils learned all about the positive, environmental and commercial benefits of compost. Finally, they had great [...]
This week in 2nd Class we were very busy learning all about Spring. We wrote some lovely acrostic poems. We also enjoyed reading ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth where he writes about ‘a host of golden daffodils’, just like the ones we made using paint, crayons and egg cartons. Here we are hard at work. Hope [...]
Everyone was delighted to be back at school today. Our pictures here tell the story of the excitement!
Ireland Reads Day on Thursday, the 25th of February is almost here! The aim is to get everyone to pledge to ‘squeeze in a read’ on the 25th of February, Ireland Reads Day – whether that’s reading a book, a newspaper, a comic – whatever works. Please visit www.irelandreads.ie, or watch the video at: (English) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrdqudzgQds (Irish) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soodm9jWmD8 [...]
We had a special visitor in our classroom when we came to school today. An elf was sitting up on top of the whiteboard. The pupils have named him 'Elfie'. Elfie is a kind and well behaved elf. It will be great fun to have him in our room until the Christmas holidays.
