3rd & 4th Class

January News

We have packed a lot into January! We eased our way into the new year in Maths learning about 3D shapes before moving on to Fractions, Decimals and Length.

We have been practicing writing about the weather and writing sentences about our 'caitheamh aimsire' (pastimes) in Irish. We have been learning sentence structure and writing about our weekends.

In History and Geography we've been learning about China; the First Emperor of China and the changes he brought. We completed small projects based on what we learned about China.

We started 'Weaving Wellbeing' lessons and we're discussing our feelings and how to promote positive feelings.

We've been doing football and Dodgeball lessons in PE and some of the children have taught PE lessons.

In Art, we drew and designed our own Ming Vases, learned how to draw Giant Pandas, Painted Watercolour Butterflies and Van Gogh inspired Sunflowers.

In RE we learned about Moses and the Ten Commandments. We started working in groups to write our own puppet shows, which has been so much fun!

We have also been practicing our song for the Wesley school's choir competition in March.

December News

Well, December nice and festively started with a panto trip to the Helix to see 'The Snow Queen' with 5th and 6th class. It was so much fun and really got us in the spirit of Christmas.

We performed the Irish plays we wrote in groups, which was good fun.

We learned about the postal service in Ireland and different forms of communication. We also learned about how Christmas is celebrated in France.

In PE we played our favourite games we learned this term.

We made Christmas ornaments out of clay and made Carol singers using collage techniques.

We enjoyed visiting the book fair and buying books at it. We’re looking forward to receiving our class books we have chosen!

We went to a joint ecumenical service with St. Mary's NS and Our Lady of Mercy which was so lovely.

In Art we drew Bears in winter jumpers, made Christmas ornaments out of clay and painted them, and we created a collage of Carol singers.

We practiced for and really enjoyed our own carol service.

We really enjoyed exchanging and opening our Secret Santa gifts! Everyone was so happy with everything they got!

What a lot packed into the weeks coming up to the well-earned Christmas break!

October News

October absolutely flew in and with it came some really fun times and activities.

We worked in groups to create and teach our own games to other groups. We tried out the different games and really enjoyed both teaching them and playing them.

We started learning about Italy and The Romans. It's been fascinating learning about the destruction and discovery of Pompeii, Italy as a country and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the area it covered.

In Art we designed and drew our own superheroes dressed up for Halloween for a Folens' art competition. We learned how to draw a pumpkin and decorated our own. We designed dream jars to go with the story of our dream as part of our work on 'The BFG'.

As well as reading the BFG and our usual English activities, we also held our first debate. The topic was 'Everyone should be a vegetarian'. It was a close call and almost a draw in the end. Excellent points were made on both sides.

Right at the start of the month we visited Author and Illustrator Alan Nolan in Blackrock library. He talked us through his life as an author and illustrator, his writing methods and ideas and he took us through a step by step tutorial of drawing his Yeti character. he also read from his new book 'The Grand Central Cinema Club'. The visit was fun and interesting.

We really enjoyed Harry Potter Book Day. Some of us dressed up as characters in the book or in school clothes. We did some fun Harry Potter-based activities, including drawing Hogwarts.

Catherine did some great Halloween music with us and we really enjoyed the Student Council Scavenger Hunt, as well as dressing up on the last day before mid-term break.

September News

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!

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