Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Excitement is building in the Junior room this December with some beautiful artwork being created by the children. 

Autumn Activities in Redwood

In September the children gathered signs of Autumn from all around their school and homes to create a very colourful Autumn Table. Later in the month they made some delicious apple stew.

Super Valu Lets GROW 

The children in the Junior Room took advantage of the beautiful April sunshine and got lots of seeds sown, thanks to the Super Valu Lets GROW initiative.

Fine Motor Activities

The children in the Junior Room are given every opportunity to develop their fine motor skills. This year we have been busy with playdoh, cutting, Geoclicks, threading, peg boards, stickers and much more. There are many benefits to engaging in fine motor activities. These include the development of talking, writing and drawing skills, improvement of physical awareness and independence, creativity & self esteem are boosted. 

Aistear in Action

We had a busy first term in the Junior Room, focusing on one theme per month; Myself and my Family, The Witches Restaurant, The Opticians and The Toy Workshop.

Learning through play helps the children to build and extend their knowledge in a way that makes sense to them. Our stations include Lego, Construction, Role Play, Free Writing, Art & Small World.

Lighting up Rudolph

Rudolph's nose had stopped shining...no problem to our engineers who designed an electrical circuit to get him up and running again

Wildflower Girl

The older classes are reading the novel 'Wildflower Girl' and as the book is based in the USA we learned all about the US in Geography and History and created beautiful artwork city skylines and Native American headdresses. We learned about electrical circuits in Science after discussing the bright lights of Times Square, New York. The only way we could find out more was if we went there on a visit.

Pupils from Senior room get creative on Autumn nature walk

Big Friendly Giant - Some of our pupils' Artwork

Junior room (and friends!) nature walk and Butterfly art

Nature walk in our beautiful Redwood

Making apple pie

Making Blackberry Jam

Our Norman soliders ready for battle with Strongbow 🏹

Our St. Patrick's Day Art

Linking squares
Assist in learning place value

Spike Milligan poetry

London Spring, 1941 by Eiluned Lewis

 The first two lines of the poem says 'If I could paint I'd show you something I saw today'
The children in the senior room created their own visual responses to the poem.

Winter scenes from the Junior room

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The workings of a nappy....

Christmas Art 2017

Senior room science - Bridge Construction

Pottery classes with Fin's Pottery

Construction with K'nex 

Aistear - Learning through play

Theme: The estate agents - The children used their imaginations to build farms, barns, offices, homes and towns! All from recycled materials!! They really love Junk Art!!

Mother's Day Cards!
​We love our mammies...

Sewing our masterpieces in the senior room

Junior Room Spring Art

Senior room - Making their own bobble hats!!

Our Work in Prezi: We have started learning to present our work using Prezi. This is a newer more dynamic version of PowerPoint. We were learning about native Irish animals and put the information we researched into a Prezi presentation.
Colette presented her work on foxes and Emily presented on hares. 
[The Prezi account is in Ms Hogan's name!]

Junior Room Autumn Art 

Our Hand prints!!

Senior room - 'collage of myself '

Aboriginal Art

Marbling Art

Printing Art