A Visit from the Postman

In Junior Infants we are learning all about the post office. Ellie’s dad Sean is a postman and he came in to speak to Junior and Senior Infants. We learned all about his job- how the post in sorted and how it is delivered. We got to see the scanner that he uses when delivering […]

Healthy Eating in 3rd Class

Another very informative day in 3rd class for Healthy Eating Week..is it a fruit is it a vegetable?? We are really learning so much about what we should be eating and more importantly what we should not be eating…those food labels are tricky to get our heads around but we now know the those words […]

Food Art Challenge in Junior/Seniors

As part of Healthy Eating week, we have been eating a lot more fruit and vegetables and today we took the “Food Art” challenge and turned our fruit and veg into edible pieces of art.  We made fish, a funny face, some palm trees, some turtles and a “Mr Potato Head” using mushrooms, butternut squash, […]

Abbey Theatre Visit

The Abbey Theatre preformed for our senior classes on Monday. The one person play was about a young girl called Mollser who grew up in the Dublin tenements. The show called Me Mollser gave us a wonderful insight into Mollser’s rights as a child in 1916. We gave Sarah a standing ovation. Read more about […]

Munch, Crunch and Sip in second class.

We are reading Marco Moves In during our munch, crunch and sip time. It’s written by Gerry Boland and it’s about the relationship between a little boy and a grizzly bear that has escaped from the zoo!

Emer’s Class Measuring Up

Emer’s class measuring out the amount of sugar contained in a variety of juices and soft drinks for our new school display.

Munch Crunch Sip

Tasting yummy fruits and veg during munch crunch and sip time in 3rd class

Doctors, nurses and surgeons in the making…..

We’ve been learning all about “The Hospital”.  We read “Harry goes to Hospital” and “Amanda’s Surgery Adventure”.  We were very excited to meet Nurse Sara and Nurse Timmea who visited to tell us all about their work.  We worked hard in our own hospital in Aistear, bandaging legs and arms, taking x-rays, and performing our […]