This term, we have enjoyed lots of variety in our PE programme. We have worked on athletics including running, hurdles, relay and the javelin. We have also played lots of different playground games with catching games, particularly helping to build up our acceleration and fitness levels. In the games strand, we were delighted to be…

This term, we have had lots of fun musical sessions. We thoroughly enjoyed singing the rounds, ‘Codail a Stóirín go Sámh‘ and ‘Gaineamh Bán‘, and the popular Irish song, ‘Trasna na dTonnta‘, in addition to exploring Irish traditional music. With the spooky season upon us, we got very lively while singing the songs, Dark Disco,…

Le déanaí, mar is gnách, bhíomar an-ghnóthach ag obair sa rang Gaeilge. Bhíomar ag obair ar na téamaí ‘Mé Féin’ agus ‘Sa Bhaile’ agus rinneamar an-chuid drámaíochta chun ár nGaeilge a chleachtadh – Bhí tinneas fiacaile ar Oisín agus bhí ar Mhamaí é a thabhairt go dtí an fiaclóir. D’éirigh go maith leis ag an…

We all looked ‘spooktacular’ for Halloween Dress-up Day and we had lots of fun partying and playing games!

Our classroom is always a hive of activity during Maths time and this term, we have worked on lots of different topics within the Maths curriculum, including place value, number operations, angles, 2D shape, decimals, estimation skills, using the calculator, etc. We have particularly enjoyed working on data as we conducted our own traffic surveys…

We enjoy progressing our literacy skills in the senior classroom. This term, we have worked on various comprehension skills, including predicting, visualising, connecting, synthesising, inferring, summarising, finding the main idea, scanning, etc. We have also enjoyed reading the class novels, i.e. The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog/Giggler Treatment (3rd and 4th class) and My Teacher…

For Maths Week, we participated in a Dream Space Live online workshop. During the workshop, we explored why Maths matters in our daily lives, exciting careers which are based on Maths (e.g. game developers, architects, environmental scientists, data, analysts, etc.) and logical thinking. We learned that logical thinking is the process of identifying a problem,…

Recently, we participated in a drumming workshop with Barra during which we discovered different ways of making sounds while learning lots about the elements of music, including rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, dynamics and tempo. We also worked on recalling, answering and inventing rhythmic patterns using body percussion and drums. We really loved our drumming workshop…

As part of the ‘Primary Colours Programme’, we headed to the Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo where we viewed ‘Terra/Mara‘, a two-person exhibition by Kathryn Maguire and Karen Webster. We simply loved viewing the varied artwork by both artists with Karen’s work including oil, beeswax and mixed media on wooden panel, cyanotypes on paper, clay…

Drama always gets us excited and we really enjoyed using drama, to explore the SPHE topic, ‘My Friends and other People‘. Our explorations included lots of drama techniques, e.g. freeze frames, conscience alley, thought tracking, brainstorming, improvisations, mime, small group playmaking, following a script, etc. We, particularly, enjoyed collaboratively creating an object using the number…