Here is a photo of all the entries that were collected for Climate Action Week. Children at every level drew pictures and wrote about what measures they are putting in place to reduce our carbon footprint.The standard of entries was so high at every level.The children highlighted all the ways they
On October the 5th, 6th class started the Marathon Kids programme. Over the next 8 weeks the girls and boys will cover the entire distance of a marathon. Classes throughout the school are doing the daily mile on a each day also. This week the 6th classes hope to cover a distance of 2400m. We are loo
Room 17 continuing to use active learning in maths. This week they have been learning all about multiplying by 8. In order to make it fun, keep it interesting and aid understanding, they played multiplication games.
3rd class are learning Maths through games. Once a week, they get to play and put all their maths knowledge into practice. They love these games proving that maths can be great fun !
February 18th 2019.Dear Parents and Guardians,Given the huge interest generated in school and in homes by the “One School One Book” project over the past three years, we have decided to continue with the project in fourth, fifth and sixth classes after the midterm break. One School One Book is a com
Some members of Ms. Murray’s and Ms. O’Brien’s classes have been participating in a debating club these last few weeks. The club, run by Ms. Ní Fheargail, has been meeting at lunchtimes in the library . The members have completes activities to develop their debating skills. The improvement in these
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We are delighted to announce we have received a Discover Primary Science and Maths Plaque of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Excellence for the year 2016/2017.As part of our new STEM initiative this year each class in the school were involved in a variety of hands-on, specially sel
Infants visit their buddies classroom in June Junior Infants have just begun BUDDY READING . We have used buddy reading in Junior Infants for the last number of years and we love it! Each child is paired with an older buddy from 5th class who comes down to their classroom and listens to them read a
Given the huge interest generated in school and in homes by the “One School One Book” Project over the past two years, we have decided to continue with the project in third, fourth, fifth and sixth classes after the midterm break.One School One Book is a community reading project based on the succes
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have introduced Maths support in the Junior Classes using the Ready Steady Maths , Numicon and Mata sa Ranga Programs whilst the support in the Senior Classes is mainly in problem solving.The videos on this page were taken in Senior Infants and show the children
Fountas and Pinnell 1996 The ultimate goal of Guided Reading is to help children learn how to use independent reading strategies effectively.” We now have guided reading running all year in every class from Senior Infants to 4th. A teacher works with 4-8 students in each groupLeveled/banded readers