European Languages Day

European Languages Day was a brilliant success!  It started with a super fashion show with children dressed in national costumes of France, Spain, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, Turkey and more. After that we had a cooking demonstration from Colin who made “Pain Perdu” (French Toast) and Chris taught us the names of the ingredients in French. […]

Blown Away By Bubbles!

We were bubbling with excitement this week as we blew lots and lots of bubbles! We read a science book about bubbles called “Pop” and then we made our own bubbles with wands and bubble mixture. If you blow a bubble really slowly, you can see how the air makes the soap on the wand […]

Listening and Responding

This week in Ciara’s class we were doing some listening and responding. Everyone relaxed with their head down while some classical music was playing and then we drew the pictures that came into our heads as we listened. We discovered that everyone saw something different when the music was playing; fairies, flowers, wizards, robots, houses, […]

Friday, European Day of Languages – Dress up

Mini fashion show for the children. The children are encouraged to dress up on Friday in European style costumes/clothes!  Use your imagination..Flamenco dresses…French beret 🙂 A bientot!

European Day of Languages 24th of September in Carlow Educate Together

Vamos a celebrar el Día Europeo de Idiomas! On célébra la Journée Europénne de Langages! Beidh muid ag ceiluradh ‘European Day of Languages’! We are celebrating European Day of Languages in Carlow Educate Together on the 24th of September from 11am to 11.30am. If you wish to participate please let us know. You are welcome to […]

Jolly Phonics Talk

Samantha gave a talk to Junior Infant parents about our Jolly Phonics programme.  For those of you who missed the talk or have any questions about the methods we use in this programme or even ways that you can help your child in the programme, please feel free to see Samantha after school anytime.

Andy Warhol Art

In 2nd and 3rd class, we have been spending a lot of time getting to know each other and talking about ourselves. For Art this week we had a look at the work of Andy Warhol. We thought his work was very ”unusual”, ”colourful” and ”fun”. We swapped around photos of ourselves and coloured on […]