In addition to our ceolchoirm, Ms Atkinson’s class also held a Tráth na gCeist to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. Check out the photos below!
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2019
Seachtain na Gaeilge is a national festival that celebrates the Irish language and culture. To promote the Irish language in our school, we held a ceolchoirm on Thursday 15th March as a school. Well done to all participants!
World Book Day in the Infant Classroom
World Book Day was a huge success in the Infant room. The air was filled with excitement as the children dressed up, shared their account of their favourite storybook, listened to the story of the Gruffalo and engaged in various activities based on our chosen storybook of the day such as wordsearches, drawing and colouring activities, using playdough to make parts of the characters or scenes from the story and many more.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Beannachtaí na Féile oraibh go léir ó na Naíonáin Shóisearacha agus na Naíonáin Shinsearacha. We hope you all have an amazing St.Patrick’s Day with lots of lucky green wishes that all come true!!
8 Rhyme Challenge
Congratulations to all the Junior and Senior Infants as they proudly present their third certificate for being able to recite all of their nursery rhymes for the last 8 weeks. Well done everyone!!
Exploring Sound in SESE
The infants have been busy learning lots about sound for SESE. They explored their indoor and outdoor environment for a variety of different sounds and made their very own sound instruments!
Learning about Shapes in Infants
Junior and Senior Infants were working very diligently over the last few weeks learning all that they could about 2D and 3D shapes. They had great fun hunting for the different shapes outside, engaging in a problem solving circuit involving shape in the classroom and they made wonderful shape pictures.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig i Seomra Mrs. Mc Guirk!
This year we celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day by having a Saint Patrick’s themed day in our classroom on Wednesday 13th of March 2019. We learned about the life and legend of Saint Patrick in our religion and history lessons today. We also learned about how Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated here and around the world. In ‘Gaeilge’,we learned lots of vocabulary linked to Saint Patrick’s Day, played some games to practice our vocabulary and made some lovely Saint Patricks’s Day cards. For maths, we completed Saint Patrick’s themed maths challenges and Saint Patrick’s Day symmetry. We sung ‘Hail Glorious Saint Patrick’ and made Saint Patrick’s Men.
Browse our gallery to see some of the activities we participated in!
5K Fundraiser
On Sunday 10th March 2019, all roads led to Donaghmoyne as our annual 5K Walk/Run took place. We would like to say a huge thank you to our Parent’s Association for their efforts in organising the race – it was a huge success and raised some very much needed funds for our school!
Congratulations to all of the winners listed below!
Men’s Winners | ||
| 1st Place | Henry Campbell | 20 minutes 11 seconds |
| 2nd Place | Ryan Duffy | 20 minutes 45 seconds |
| 3rd Place | Declan Martin | 20 minutes 54 seconds |
Women’s Winners | ||
| 1st Place | Orla Hamill | 23 minutes 18 seconds |
| 2nd Place | Erin Smyth | 26 minutes 20 seconds |
| 3rd Place | Deirdre McMahon | 27 minutes 07 seconds |
| Children’s Winners | ||
| Boys – 1st Place | Oran Smyth | |
| Girls – 1st Place | Áine Smyth | 25 minutes 10 seconds |
Maths in Mrs Mc Guirk’s Room
During the month of February, we have been learning about symmetry in class. After learning about what symmetry is, the children experimented with the concept by making some symmetry pictures. Have a look at some of their efforts below!
Next we focused on various 2-D shapes and their properties. During maths time we completed various worksheets on 2-D shape, played 2-D shape dice games, sang 2-D shape songs and for art we made some very interesting shape people using 2-D shapes. See some of our finished pictures below!
We also learned about 3-D shapes and their properties. During Maths time we completed various worksheets on 3-D shape and explored their properties, experimented with 3-D shapes that roll and stack and took part in a 3-D shape search around our school.