This year, with the sun beaming down, we headed outside for an Easter egg raffle. As our names were called out, we eagerly choose our favourite egg and then we happily posed for a whole-school photograph. The junior children were extra lucky as earlier in the day, they participated in an Easter egg treasure hunt…
28
Mar
Mar
We were delighted to welcome Conor, from Sligo GAA Coaching, to our school this week for a 6 week programme of Gaelic coaching. Conor presented various activities to help us to practise our athletic skills and ball-handling, kicking and catching skills and we are hoping that working with Conor will really help to progress our…
23
Mar
Mar
This spring, we have tried to make the most of the sunny weather by going outdoors and enjoying the company of our friends. Our playground is always a very popular place to be and we love showing off our acrobatic skills on the various equipment. We have also enjoyed playing with our STEM (Science, Technology,…
23
Mar
Mar
This year, to honour our wonderful ‘D’ and all the amazing people who have Down Syndrome, we ‘rocked our socks‘ to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. In our school, we embrace diversity, inclusion, and kindness and through our daily interactions with ‘D’, we are learning about the beauty of differences, the power of friendship, and…
17
Mar
Mar
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, we were encouraged to dress in green. In the morning, it was wonderful to see everyone arriving in various green attire with lots of green accessories also on show, including hats, glasses, hair bands, scarves, flags and shamrocks. Hopefully, the weather stays good and that we’ll get to wear our…
07
Mar
Mar
We decided to get into celebratory mode for ‘World Book Day’ and we dressed in our favourite book characters. There was lots of colour and variety in all the various costumes and some of us also had props to add further credibility to our character.
06
Mar
Mar
On Pancake Tuesday, we were delighted to be treated to lots and lots of pancakes. We loved trying out all the different toppings and we are so grateful to the teachers for all their work in making this day another special day in our school year.
19
Dec
Dec
This year, we were thrilled to welcome Orla, one of our parents, to our school to help us with some Christmas cake decorating. We rolled out the icing and after laying it over our cakes, we cut it into shape. Then we used left-over bits of icing and other coloured icing pieces to decorate our…
19
Dec
Dec
We really enjoyed our Christmas performances this year. Our junior play and senior play were both excellent with amazing acting and singing to entertain our very enthusiastic audience. Our finale was also pretty special as we added an extra bit of dialogue and singing to congratulate one of our parents who was celebrating a ‘big’…
12
Dec
Dec
Earlier this month, we held a Book Fair at our school. We were very excited as we waited for the trolleys to open and then we really enjoyed exploring all the books prior to deciding which books we’d like to purchase. Of course, some of us enjoyed spending our book vouchers which we had won…