Our School Year 2021/2022

Maths – 12th May 2022

Today in Maths, we were revising patterns.

The children created their own patterns using a variety of resources.

The Zoo

With the introduction of our new topic, The Zoo, the children busied themselves making animals masks for the role play area.

The Garden Centre – April 2022

During the topic of the Garden Centre, we went on a mini beast hunt around the school

Playtime Concert!

During playtime, the children decided to put on a show.

They created tickets, invited people to come along, rehearsed and put on a show!

Great Entertainment!

Garden Centre – March 2022

During the month of March, our topic was the Garden Centre. During this time the children planted seeds. In these pictures, the children planted grass seeds. First decorating the cups, placing the soil and seeds on top and finally watering them. They happily took them home before the Easter Holidays.

Aistear

During Aistear the children created Spring art.

Creating cherry blossom using crepe paper and/or paint.

The children also created pictures of flowers using black sugar paper and pastels, after learning about the different parts of a flower.

World Book Day 2022

The pupils from Junior and Senior Infants dressed up as characters from their favourite books to celebrate World Book Day and the Scholastic Book Fair visiting our school.

Spring 2022

Spring has definitely sprung is our Junior and Senior Infants Classroom.

The children made lambs, chicks and daffodils to brighten up our corridor.

Well done everyone your Spring display looks fabulous!

SESE – Winter Theme

During the month of December 2021 the students in Junior and Senior infants created pieces of art based on the SESE topic of Winter.

They created:

Evergreen trees using chalk on black paper;
Designed and decorated mittens;
Dressed a bear for Winter using fabric;
Created their own advent wreaths.

Some examples of all their great works of Winter Art can be seen here.

Shape Hunt

This week (29/11/2021) we were learning about 3D shapes. We went on a shape hunt around the school, with our clip boards and tick sheets on the look out for cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders and cones.

We also investigated shapes and their properties, to discover shapes that roll and shapes that cannot roll!