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Senior Infants Autumn Trip to the Park

                                                                        

First Class School Tour – Turoe Pet Farm – June 2012

First Class thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Turoe Pet Farm.They got a very informative guide of the farm which has a great variety of animals including goats,sheep, pigs, ponies and ducks. Most  children were delighted with the opportunity to feed the animals. And the animals showed their appreciation by following us closely hoping for more […]

Teddy Bears Picnic ! Junior Infants brought their teddies on a picnic to Birr Castle.

 

Senior Infants Bear hunt!

                  We finally got to go on our Bear Hunt and guess what, we were successful!!!!  We found our bear but it turned out that it was a really friendly bear.  A BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG thank you to our bear for coming to see us in Birr Castle!!  Senior Infants had a brilliant tour!    

Fifth class Tour to Dublin

On Wednesday the 13th June we set off at nine o’clock on an adventure to Dublin. For some of us it was only our second time to visit our capital city. Driving into Dublin we saw lots of famous sights including The Four Courts, the Ha’penny Bridge, The Spire, Trinity College and much more. Our […]

Titanic in Fifth Class

We did lots of work on the Titanic this month. We did fabulous projects and art work, we looked at old newspapers from 1912 about the Titanic ad examined photographs of differentpassengers. We really enjoyed learing about such a wonderful event in history! .

Junior and Senior Infants go on a maths trail!

           Junior and Senior infants took part in a Maths Trail all around our Church grounds.  We had  a fabulous day.  Thanks to some of the 6th class girls for all your help!

Read us a story ! Some of the Junior Infant parents came into class and read us stories and did related activities. We all enjoyed it!

                 

June 2012. Visual arts in first class.The girls are very proud of their pottery creations.A lot of teamwork and many hands were needed to produce a large pottery planter,with all the girls’ names engraved on the outside.The girls also had lots of fun painting Summer scenes using brushes, sponges and in some cases it was hands only!

Clay Tiles

Squishing, pressing, pulling and twisting; it’s all hands on deck as we make our own clay tiles!                                           

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