3rd & 4th Class
December News
Third and Fourth have had a fun and festive December! We finished our class novel ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator’. It was a great, interesting and quirky read!
In Irish, we had great fun performing our ‘Bialann’ plays, in groups for the rest of the class. Everyone worked really hard, writing the script ‘as Gaeilge’ and getting into character. The plays were different, funny and clever.
We had some fun topics in Maths to cover – 2D shapes, Chance and Symmetry.
We learned about the History of farming in History, primary, secondary and service jobs in Geography and we worked in groups to create a space rocket and launch pad, in Science.
We created col/warm pictures, colour trees, Gonks, and did some festive mindfulness colouring in Art.
We finished our yoga and Spanish classes, which we really enjoyed! We loved the hot chocolate and churros, they were delicious – thank you Pilar!
We had a great time exchanging our secret santa gifts, by the Netflix fireplace, playing Christmas music. It really got us in the festive spirit!
3rd to 6th class got together with St. Mary’s boy’s school and Our Lady of Mercy girl’s school for an ecumenical service in the Church of the Assumption on Booterstown Avenue.
Finally, we had our Carol service where we sang ‘Peace. Peace/ Silent night’ medley and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Merry Christmas’.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in 2025!
November News
We have had a very quick and busy month, since returning to school after mid-term! We have done experiments during science week – lots of colour mixing and creating rainbows using a spinner and we had a visit from STEM Superstars where we built Lego. We joined Curious Minds online for a workshop on various elements of Science. It was really fun and engaging.
We have learned all about The Ancient Egyptians and Egypt as a country. We completed small projects on what we learned.
We’ve been playing Unihoc in PE and we’ve really enjoyed our Yoga classes, they’ve been fun and relaxing.
In Art, we’ve created Watercolour Winter-themed pictures, We made clay Egyptian Sarcophaguses and created our own Tree of colours pictures.
We’ve bee rehearsing our Carol Service songs in music, feeling very festive!
We’re half-way through reading our novel ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. We’ve practised recount writing – reporting on the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.
We have been working in groups writing Irish plays based on the theme ‘An Bialann’ – the restaurant. We look forward to performing them in December.
October News
Such a quick October! We can’t believe how much we’ve covered over the month!
We’ve learned all about the Stone Age in Ireland – looking at Newgrange, homes, food – we became hunter-gatherers in the school garden! We searched for things growing – learning what was food and what was poisonous.
English
We have read and learned about extreme weather, the water cycle and inventors. We have created our own inventions, in pairs and groups – it was great fun! We wrote poems about water and peoms about being a scientist with our AB partners
Irish
We did the topic of An scoil – the school and Oíche Shamhna – Hallowe’en. We drew labelled plans of our classroom and enjoyed stories about Hallowe’en.
Maths:
We conducted surveys of traffic, favourite ice-cream flavours and a smarties survey as part of learning about Data. We’ve also been learning multiplication and division in 3rd class – starting learning times tables and learning to use a calculator in 4th class as well as fractions – it’s been a busy month in Maths!
Maths week:
We enjoyed playing Maths games, doing surveys in our groups and the Maths trails with our Reading Buddies for Maths week. There’s always lots of enthusiasm for maths during Maths week!
Geography/ Science:
We learned all about categories of animals – mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, insects, reptiles and categorised the animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. We organised the animals in our groups and completed projects based on Native animals to Ireland.
Art
In Art, we created Autumn themed silhouette collages, oil pastel pictures, we made our Christmas cards and created our own versions of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night,
PE:
In PE, we’ve been using the skills we’ve learned so far and games we’ve played to work in groups to create our own games. It’s been great fun working together and creating our own games and teaching them to the rest of the class.
Drama:
We’ve been enjoying playing fun Drama games and we also put together our own assembly play, which was really fun.
STEM:
In STEM, we worked in groups to create towers out of toilet/ kitchen rolls.
Harry Potter Book Day:
We had such fun on Harry Potter Book Day. We dressed up as characters or in Hogwarts colours, we drew Harry, Some people tried on the Invisibility cloak, we designed our own magical shop
Student council Quiz
We really enjoyed the Quiz we did together with 5th and 6th class. The Student Council put a lot of effort into planning and organising the Quiz! There were treats, a great variety of questions and the hall was nicely decorated for Halloween. Thank you, Student Council!
Dress up day
A great end to the half term! It was so fun to dress up and even the weather didn’t put a damper on our spirits!
September News
Welcome back to school – we have certainly settled back into school life, with a busy September!
We have enjoyed getting to know one another again and catching up over the summer. We enjoy working in AB partners within the class – on subjects like, English, Irish, sometimes Maths, History, Geography and Science. We have worked in groups to create balloon rockets, work on word puzzles, Maths games, and we’re enjoying collaborating.
In English, we learned how to write a letter, we’ve started handwriting and learned about poetic devices and written some poetry. We read about Louis Braille’s story.
In Irish, we learned about Mé féin – myself, we learned to speak and write about ourselves and have started a new spelling programme.
In Art, we have created self portraits; learning how to properly draw a face, made our own pop art creations, done some mindfulness colouring and learnt about Perspective drawing.
In PE, we’ve enjoyed playing some games and learning some new games. We’re looking forward to using some of the skills we’ve learned to create some of our own games in groups next month.
We’re enjoying lots of creative aspects of music with Catherine and Third class have settled really well into choir – we’re learning some great songs already!
In History, we’ve learned the History of ourselves and about Myths and Legends. We have been working on creating our own Myths in our AB partners, which has been so fun.
In Geography, we have learned about Monaghan and we’ve drawn up our own website designs based on the information we’ve gathered. In Science, we have learned some fascinating things about our body, including our senses – this tied really well into the topic in English, which covered the story of Louis Braille, who lost his sight following an unfortunate accident.
In Drama, we have enjoyed having fun together playing games and getting to know one another more through them.
All in all it has been a very busy start to the school year, but there have been many enjoyable activities along the way.
