It has been such a busy September! Third class have really settled into the new classroom and are working really hard. We learned all about mé féin – myself in Irish. In English, we have started reading The BFG as well as learning about writing to socialise through David Walliams and mindfulness using calming techniques. We’re back up and running in Maths, revising addition, subtraction, problem solving and place value.

We have worked in groups during our STEM sessions creating Marble runs. It was so much fun and great to work together, troubleshooting and problem-solving. We learned about schools decades ago, as well as school founders Nano Nagle and Edmund Rice. We learned about the differences in towns, villages and cities. We looked at Dublin in particular.

We experimented in Science; using a mixture of cornflour and water to create both a solid and a liquid!! We also created our own lava lamps using oil, water, food colouring and a fizzy tablet. We’ve enjoyed playing games together in PE. We’ve listened to and learned about Bible stories and had great fun in Art! We created self portraits based on our inner and outer selves, created Autumn pictures, designed covers for our favourite books and used the colour wheel to create eye art.

All in all it’s been an incredibly busy and successful first month back!