October in Junior Infants

Junior Infants had such a busy month this month. We read the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and learned how to sequence the story. Adrian brought in some caterpillars from the school garden. They are in their cocoons now and we are waiting patiently for butterflies to emerge. We were also learning all about […]

Maths Week in Junior Infants

This week was Maths Week and the Junior Infants had a great time doing lots of different maths activities. We were sorting, making patterns and making pictures using 2D shapes. On Wednesday we had great fun with Bubbles the clown, and learned all about 3D shapes. On Thursday we went on a shape hunt and […]

Bubbly Maths

Maths Week Day 3: On Wednesday we had a maths workshop called Bubble Maths. Our instructor used loads of fun hands-on materials to explain some maths and science concepts. We learned about topics like cubed metres and DNA to name but a few!

Autumn in Senior Infants

            This week we are learning all about Autumn in Senior Infants. On Tuesday we went on a nature walk to Oak Park where we collected an array of Autumn leaves, conkers, acorns and much much more for our Autumn table. We read the story the Gruffalo and wrote a […]

Dr. Maths

Dr. Maths (aka Steve Humble) came all the way from Newcastle to talk to 5th & 6th class today. Steve teaches primary school teachers how to teach maths and has written lots of books about mathematics. We tested our brains with some number puzzles, learned some maths magic tricks and completed some superhero maths problems.

Maths Week in Vicky’s Class

It’s maths week! In Vicky’s class we were playing maths games on the interactive whiteboard and we were learning number songs and putting numbers 1-5 in order. We had great fun!

Green Flag and Third Class

3rd Class working hard on getting our Green Flag, learning all about the 3 R’s. We even have some great posters for Adrian’s “Green” poster competition.. You’ve a tough job on you hands Adrian, 3rd class produced great work. Well done!

Busy, busy, busy

We have been really busy over the past few weeks.  We have skipped, played board games at Golden Time, examined and discussed living and non-living things in Science, read with our 5th and 6th class reading buddies, built some amazing constructions with our new Jaggo blocks, and having read and re-read “Monkey Puzzle” we planned […]

Simon visits Sive’s Class

Sive was away today so Simon decided to teach 1st class and we had lots of fun. We went on a nature walk and looked for lots of things in nature in our hedge school, the garden and all around the yard. We each collected a sprig of rosemary, a leaf and a piece of wood chip. […]