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It was a beautiful day on Friday, so the boys and girls from Ms Halford’s, Ms Howard’s and Ms McInerney’s class headed out to the playground with some jumbo chalks to have some fun in the sun! Take a look at the Junior Infants in action!  

Over the Easter holidays new playground markings were organised by our staff fundraising committee, the children were really excited to begin using the games and trails marked out all around the play spaces. These are also used to support lessons and sensory break s throughout the school day.

  Ms. Eastment’s class enjoyed creating and painting Easter baskets.  The children used a four leaf clover as the shape template for the base of the basket.  They painted colourful dots onto the shapes before filling them with chickens, paper straw and chocolate treats.  The handles were added to make bringing them home to share […]

The children had great fun coding on the iPads with Ms Kelly this week. The class got to  develop code for a minecraft game. Everyone had tremendous fun and learned lots about coding. Huge thanks to Ms Kelly for introducing this to the children who really enjoyed it!

The boys and girls in Ms. Halford’s Junior Infants are delighted to be back in school. Since our return, we have been having lots of fun exploring the fabulous new musical instruments in the school. We have been playing the wide selection of percussion instruments, boomwhackers, chime bars and chime bells. Here are some pictures […]

All the boys and girls in Ms. Walsh’s class did some incredible Winter art work in December. We experimented with different materials such as paint, pencils, oil pastels and markers to create different textures. The children also used cool blue tones to capture a frosty winter night scene and warm tones to make a cosy […]

We had lots of fun exploring the theme of ‘The Polar Regions’ in December. The students enjoyed learning about all of the different animals that live in either the Arctic or Antarctic. Also, we learned all about Tom Crean. He was an Irish explorer and was a member of 3 expeditions to the Antarctic in […]

 Our snowmen were a big favourite.  The boys in Room 1 have been working very hard at home the past few weeks. They are really looking forward to getting back to class very soon. We can’t wait to get back doing some art lessons together in the Lighthouse as it is one of our favourite […]

All the Boys and Girls in Mr Doogue’s 5th Class B are all working very hard from home. Last week the boys and girls learned how to draw portraits using coffee beans and water in Art. The mixture between the coffee beans and water made a brown like colour. The boys and girls learned that […]

In term one we were lucky enough to get to use iPads. We had been studying all about Pompeii and how it was covered by lava from the volcano Mt.Vesuvius. The class were divided into different groups and researched the different aspects of live in Pompeii including ‘The Romans’ , what they eat, how they […]