Archive for 2020

Mercy Primary School Admissions Notice for the 2021-2022 School Year

Mercy Primary School ANNUAL ADMISSION NOTICE In respect of admissions to the 2021/2022 school year             Admission Policy and Application Form A copy of the school’s Admission Policy and the Application Form for Admission for the 2021-2022 school year is available as follows: – To download at: www.mercypimaryschool.ie On request: By emailing camcor@mercyprimaryschool.ie or writing […]

Autumn in Second Class 🍁🍂

We have been very busy these past few weeks in Second Class, learning about Autumn, the changes that occur at this time, the life cycles of trees, going on a tree hunt in our local parks, illustrating our Family Trees, and creating 3D versions in Art!!

Aistear in Infants.

Infants have had great fun learning through play in Aistear. Our themes for September  were School and Autumn.                                 

Junior Infants 2020

Junior Infants planted a daffodil bulb each.

Infants sow Spring Bulbs

Junior and Senior Infants visited our school garden. They planted bulbs and will watch them grow and flower.              

Shadow Puppet Show

  In first class this week we have been reading Them Gruffalo’S Child’. In the book we see how a mouses shadow made him appear bigger…”The Big Bad Mouse”. We explored shadows today playing shadow tag, and creating shapes. We also put on a shadow puppet show to retell the story. We had so much fun […]

Spreading Glitter Germs

In first class we’ve noticed how much hand washing and sanitising we do every day. Even though our hands LOOK clean. So we did an experiment. The glitter represented the germs and we used soap so that it would stick to our hands. The girls could see how quickly and easily germs spread if we […]

Autumnal walk

Fifth class went for a relaxing walk in the park last week to take a break from all the hard work we have been doing in class. On our walk we noticed the subtle changes in nature as autumn arrives, we later depicted these changes in our artwork. 🍁 🍂

Fun in the Sun ☀️

 We have been very lucky this week with the sunshine and have been having great fun in the Junior yard, very kindly painted by Mrs Murray! ☀️❤️💙

I Am…

We have been working on describing our personalities and qualities in first class, and what makes us unique. Each girl chose 3-4 words that they felt best described them. You can see the wonderful, positive words they chose in our display 🥰

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