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Our Homes Trail
We had such fun on ‘Our homes trail’. Junior infants helped Senior Infants, and Senior Infants helped Junior Infants. What a great day!!!
Senior Infants visit ‘Our Church’
Today we visited our local St. Brendan’s Parish Church. We were so privileged to have Fr. David to show us around. To him we owe a BIG go raibh mile, mile maith agat! What a great trip!
We love to dance in Senior Infants!
Senior Infants are busy, busy, busy learning new dances! We learned three new dances. Skip to my lou, The bird flew into the wood, and The Cuckoo dance. We love to dance!
Community Games Art Competition
Second class entered the Community Games Art Competition. They produced some excellent entries. Huge congratulations to Kayleigh Corrigan, Leanne Carroll, Aoife Carroll, Hannah Riley and Megan Ward – our lucky medal winners.
St. Valentine’s Day in Second Class
Second class listened to the story of St. Valentine and afterwards created some fabulous Art work. The children learned about Mosaics and looked at a slide show showing lots of examples. Afterwards the girls created their own mosaics for St. Valentine’s Day. The children in […]
Term 3 – News from First Class. April 2013
First Class girls created colourful pictures of a very exciting garden full of minibeasts and a variety of flowers. They used a combination of paint, felt, sequins,coloured paper, buttons etc. The girls are learning all about minibeasts and examining some creatures closely. We are planning to go on a minibeast hunt to Camcor Park . […]
Wednesday Walkers!
Wednesday Walkers Finally some fine weather has arrived, join us every Wednesday morning for a 30-40 minute walk around Birr. Leaving from the car park near the playground at 9.30, the walks are suitable for all, so come along and enjoy a sociable walk at your own pace!
Easter Art Activities in First ClassMarch 2013
In first Class the girls did lots of interesting art work for Easter including Faberge eggs, pop-up cards and painted eggs. They also learned the Easter Story and what happens during Easter Week.
Easter Newsletter.
March has been an incredibly busy month with many fun and exciting activities going on. On Friday 1st March, 6th class went for a very interesting and informative talk in the library as part of National Engineers Week. On Monday 4th March, 5th and 6th classes started Tag Rugby with coach David Farrelly. We […]