Project Day! March 2019
5th class present their Great Britain Projects to their parents and buddies.
class blogs
Paired Reading in Literacy
Paired Reading James’ third class have been travelling across to the secondary school to participate in Paired Reading along with the transition year students in Donabate Community College. They have been reading through novels such as the Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle and Charlotte’s Web by E.B White. It was really enjoyable and both groups … Read more
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral visit
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is in Dublin and it has all sorts of interesting stuff in it like paper leaves, bells and a weird ancient door. The black bell was given by the French as a gift for letting the French use the Cathedral. The paper leaves look pretty but there is a deeper meaning within: … Read more
Engineering Week
Buddies practice their building skills for Engineering Week!
Buddies With Fifth Class
Ger’s Fifth Class organsied a Tóraíocht Taisce for our class. It was great fun being outside and all over the school. We had to try solve some tricky clues to find out information. It was great to spend some time with our buddies and we even managed to teach them cúpla focal ourselves.
Engineer’s Week
Engineer’s Week ran from Monday 4th March until Friday 8th. Senior Infants were very busy looking at the different types of bridges that can be built and trying to make a structure stable enough for a toy car to safely pass over it. We looked at long beam bridges, arch bridges and truss bridges. It … Read more
World Book Day 2019 Thursday 7th March 2019 The children from Sinéad’s class really enjoy reading. In our classroom we use adapted books to help engage the children so that they can really interact with the story they are reading. For World Book Day 2019 we thought we would share some of the adapted books … Read more
Happy Engineer’s Week!
This week we are exploring the work of an engineer. We decided to kick off Engineer’s Week with designing and making our own paper airplanes. We talked about airplanes and how we think they fly. We learned that: Airplanes fly because they are able to generate a force called Lift which normally moves the airplane upward. Lift is generated by the forward … Read more
