Halloween in Junior and Senior Infants

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We have had lots of fun preparing for Halloween this October.

We learned about the history of Halloween and spoke about the different traditions that we have at home at Halloween. We also discussed how to stay safe at Halloween, especially this year! We learned a new Halloween rhyme, ‘Witches Witches!’ and had a Halloween Dance Party outside!

For art we created beautiful pumpkins from clay, have a look at the fun we had in the process!

 

The children also used Halloween themed playdough mats to make their own Halloween creations. Have a look at our spooky names below.

 

Finally, we held a Halloween themed colouring competition. Well done to our winners JJ and Robyn!

 

Wishing you all a safe and happy mid-term break. Well done to our infants on all of their hard work this term!

Halloween 2020

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We had great fun this Halloween in St. Michael’s National School. We took part in ‘Trick or Treat for Temple Street, and raised over €300 for this fantastic cause. Thank you to all for your donations!

We also held a socially-distanced fancy dress parade and fancy dress competition. Congratulations to our winners – Erin, Tiernan, Sophia, Tara, Neasa, Killian, Jamie and Emily.

 

We have an amazing first term here in St. Michael’s National School. We look forward to seeing you all in November!

Summer Reading Challenge 2020

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Congratulations to all students who took part in, and successfully completed, our Summer Reading Challenge 2020. This was the first year of our Summer Reading initiative and it has been wonderful to see the children to eager to take part! Our successful participants were awarded with medals for all of their hard work. Well done boys and girls!

Humpty Dumpty

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The infants had great fun trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again!

Play-dough Fun!

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The children in Ms. Atkinson’s room had lots of fun creating families out of play-dough. Have a look at their beautiful creations below!

Ceann, Gualainn, Glúin is Cos

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Our infants have been working very hard on their Irish vocabulary this month. Follow the link below to see their rendition of “Ceann, Gualainn, Glúin is Cos”.

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Autumn Art in Ms. Atkinson’s Class

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Our Junior and Senior Infants have been learning all about the season of Autumn. Have a look at the beautiful Autumnal trees that they created using paint below.

 

Wellness Wednesday

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During our school closure due to Covid -19, we were very conscious of the impact the virus was causing on our students and whole school community.  As both a Health Promoting School and Active School, we decided to introduce an initiative called Wellness Wednesday to support children and families in maintaining fitness and mental health!

Every Wednesday, children and their families were encouraged to get active by choosing an activity from the list of Wellness Wednesday activities provided or doing something active of their own. See below some of the activities our pupils and families got up to!

We also introduced Zoom P.E. as part of Wellness Wednesday, where staff, pupils and their families got active each Wednesday by partaking in fun games and exercises guided by an online coach! To mark the end of our school year, we even held a Zoom Sports Day – which everyone really enjoyed.

World Book Day 2020

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We were blown away by the effort made by all the children for World Book Day. They really made their favourite stories come to life. We had a parade to show case all the costumes and the children completed some fun activities in each of the classes.

See all the pictures below including our winners from each class who received a prize!

Well done everyone – We appreciate everyone’s effort to make World Book Day so much fun!

The Winners were: Lauren, Caoilte, Oran, Maggie-May, Calum, Cormac, Lucy and Tom – Well done!