Last week, Michael, one of our parents, visited our classroom to talk to us about his work with Coillte. Michael spoke about the role of Coillte in creating a sustainable future for all while managing the state forests on behalf of the Irish people. He also told us about the trees grown in Ireland (including…

We really work very hard during our English lessons and are making great progress with our skills in literacy. We love the lengthy discussions based on texts we are reading, and our work in other areas of the curriculum and, recently, we particularly enjoyed collaboratively discussing statements about our relationships with others and with the…

Oibrímid go dian dícheallach i rang Gaeilge. An mhí seo, bhíomar ag obair ar an dtéama, ‘Ag Siopadóireacht’ agus rinneamar a lán gníomhaíochtaí, m.sh. léitheoireacht agus scríbhneoireacht, chun an téama a iniúchadh. Rinneamar dráma freisin agus chuamar go dtí an margadh agus cheannaíomar a lán rudaí ag na stallaí éagsula. Chuamar ar an roth mór…

Morning is Maths time in the senior room and we are always very busy exploring the different areas of the Maths curriculum. Recently, we have worked on fractions, 3D shape, decimals, mental maths and number operations. We have also gone outdoors to conduct a Maths trail and we did lots of measuring of the various…

Our latest project required us to research a county in Ireland. We were allowed work individually, in pairs or in groups. We collected lots of information on our chosen county including its physical features, history, main towns, festivals, famous people, gaeltacht regions, industries, nickname, most popular sport, etc. After compiling all our information on slides,…

This month, we continued with the presentation of our animal projects and we listened to some amazing presentations on a great variety of animals, including lambs, dogs, zebra, snakes, invertebrates, frogs, monkeys, bears, rabbits, black panther, horses and sheep. We love project work with individual projects a great way of encouraging independent learning.

Presently, we are attending Ballina Swimming Pool for swimming lessons. We are really enjoying these lessons and already we have learned some new swimming skills or perfected previously-learned skills.

This term, we are working on learning to play the tin whistle. Already, we have explored the stave and we are using our newly-acquired knowledge on reading music to play lots of simple (and not so simple) tunes. Geraldine, our SNA, has also entertained us with a few tunes from her vast repertoire and we…

Christmas is ‘Play Time’ and, this year, in the senior room, we really enjoyed all the preparation and eventual performance of our Christmas Play. The playscene, acting, songs and dancing were all simply excellent and, very much, appreciated by our enthusiastic audience. To add an extra little bit of fun to our Christmas play, we…

We love trying out new things in the senior room and, this Christmas, we thoroughly enjoyed our Christmas cake decorating experience with Orla. Orla supplied each one of us with a mini-Christmas cake and some icing. After rolling out some white icing to place over the cake, we used leftover bits of icing and coloured…