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ZOOM ASSEMBLIES WITH OUR SCHOOL: We have started Friday Zoom Assemblies with the whole school. It is lovely to see what each bubble are working on that week! Keep up the great work and attitudes in all classes!

19/10/2020

STEM: OUR ANT COLONY. Our ants have settled in well and they have begun digging down into the sand making chambers. We are observing them weekly and sketching any changes that occur in the colony.

19/10/2020

GAEILGE: MÉ FÉIN AGUS MO CHLANN: read the fantastic work about myself and my family. Ar fheabhas!

7/10/2020

GRAMMAR: Capital letters- We have been scanning our text and picking out all the capital letters we can find.

7/10/2020

LITERACY: Acrostic poetry writing: We have written acrostic poems in 5th and 6th focusing on imagery, descriptive language and onomatopoeia. Read our spooky poems.....IF YOU DARE!!!!!!!!

6/10/2020

STEM: ANT COLONY: We will be learning about the lifecycle of the ant and observing our own ant colony in class. We have identified the queen ant, workers, larvae and eggs so far! Tune in for further updates on how our ant colony are settling in next week

2/10/2020

Geography: The Parts of a River. We learned new vocabulary during our geography lesson such as delta, meandering, source, tributary and silt.

30/9/2020

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR PARENTS: Websites providing interactive online school books

28/9/2020

Online copies of school books used by children can be accessed by parents at these websites.

CJfallon.ie: Busy At Maths programme

Gillexplore.ie: Over the Moon English programme

Edcolearning.ie: Bua na Cainte Irish interactive resources

MATHS: We are learning how to calculate area and perimeter this month!

28/9/2020

WRITING GENRES: The first writing genre we are learning about this year is "RECOUNT"

24/9/2020

Tin whistle has started this September! Our junior classes really enjoyed their first tin-whistle class. Thank you to Fr. Fergal for offering the church for music to allow for good ventilation and social distancing!

23/9/2020

Chess: We have started chess in our pods to develop critical thinking, reasoning and problem-solving.

23/9/2020

LEAF IDENTIFICATION: STEM: Science: 5TH AND 6TH CLASS

22/9/2020

CRITICAL LITERACY: We discussed and analysed the "Quote of the Week" in our pods. We then gave feedback to the rest of the bubble! Fantastic group work by all! 5th and 6th class

18/9/2020

Geography: Flags of the World matching game in our pods. A few of our 6th class are very shy of the camera!!!

18/9/2020

Welcome to our new Junior Infants for 2020/ 2021. We are delighted to see so many smiling faces running into school each morning! Everyone is admiring our new school mural and enjoying the climbing frames. Keep up the great work with Ms. Cawley!

11/9/2020

Basketball in Junior and Senior Infants

10/9/2020

Table Tennis Tournament has started this September!

10/9/2020

SESE: WATER CYCLE 3D MODELS. We created 3D models of The Water Cycle in the senior classes and included our new vocabulary words- evaporation, condensation, precipitation and accumulation. We also watched an educational video on our whiteboard

7/9/2020

Orienteering strand in P.E: 5TH AND 6TH CLASS. We really enjoyed our orienteering activity and remembered to stick with our pods!

7/9/2020

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