The boys and girls in Mr Davis 2nd Class C have started trying Hurling. We learned about the different parts of the Hurl: The Bas, The Toe, The Heel and The Handle. We had great fun learning to balancing beanbags on the end of the hurl and trying to move from one side of the yard [...]
3rd Class A had great fun on our school trip to Rockfield House. We travelled back in time and got to see what life was like for the people who served in the house back in the 1800's. Then we changed our names and our clothes and pretended to be Lords and Ladies inside the Mansion [...]
The children in 3rd class A were very disappointed that we could not go on our Witch Walk after raising so much sponsorship money. As a fun alternative we decided to make use of the new basketball hoops in the hall and have a shoot-a-thon instead!! Mr Davis challenged the class to work together and score [...]
The boys and girls in Mr Davis class had great fun on the 3rd class trip to the National Indoor Arena. They were channelling their inner Olympians as they took part in Dodgeball, Basketball. Handball, Gymnastics and even running the track that Rashidat Adeleke trains on. Take a look at some of the pictures below! [...]
The boys and girls in Mr Davis' class have been working very hard on their SESE projects. We studied Ancient Egypt and had great fun learning about the Pharaohs and their pyramids. We even tried writing our name in hieroglyphics. Some of the children researched what Egypt was like today and looked at the different plants [...]
Mr Davis' class has been very busy studying print in Art. During the Autumn we looked at wallpaper designs created by the artist William Morris, which feature different print designs of flowers and plants. We attempted to create our own print, inspired by Morris, using the Autumn leaves that had fallen from the trees. We experimented [...]
On Friday, Mr Davis's 5th class A and Ms. O' Mahoney's 5th class C celebrated completion of the Friends for Life programme. Each child received a certificate and we enjoyed the good weather by having an extended golden time playing ball games out on yard. During Friends for Life the children learned about how to remain [...]
The boys and girls in 5th Class A have been very busy working with clay. First, we examined how famous sculptors have used clay in the past and then we experimented with the properties of clay as we planned our individual art pieces. Before we started making our sculptures we drew a plan and labelled what [...]
Mr Davis' 5th Class have been very busy in art exploring fabric and fibre. We first began by looking at the art of weaving which we learned is the process of making fabric or cloth by arranging yarns at right angles to one another. We practised this by weaving various colours of crepe paper through card [...]
The boys and girls in Mr Davis' class have been working hard and learning about the Aboriginal people who came to Australia over 50,000 years ago. We studied their culture and their lifestyle and the changes that came when the Europeans arrived to colonise the land. The class read Dream Time stories and even tried to [...]