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March & April News
March & April News
March went by in a whirlwind and we’re already preparing for our Easter break! We have covered a lot in each subject area. In English, we started our next novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom. We learned about Jacques Cousteau, and artists such as Jan Vermeer, Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall. In Art, the children learned step by step how to draw ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Jan Vermeer. They also created their own St. Patrick’s Day Gonks, snorkling self-portraits inspired by Jacques Cousteau, we made our Mother’s Day cards.
We did some nice topics in Maths – pattern, money and time. We learned about clothing through the decades in History, weather and climate in Geography – conducting research and completing projects in both. We learned about homes through the ages and how we build homes in History and Geography also. In STEM we worked in groups to design and build our own homes, it was so much fun and everyone worked really well together in their groups. We experimented with magnets, learning how they work and how magnetism works on earth, with the north and south pole.
We enjoyed playing Dodgeball, Football and Basketball in PE; with some of the students teaching lessons as part of their Dojo reward points.
We performed our assembly based on Lent promises. We also started our Stay Safe programme.
April was even faster, as it was split by the Easter holidays. But we covered a lot, we had great fun measuring and doing activities in Weight and Capacity in Maths. We researched artefacts in our AB partners for History. We completed country mini-projects; researching about the different climates of various countries. We completed mini projects, learning how to research, on animals who have had to adapt to survive in their habitats. We also enjoyed planting sunflowers, which are starting to sprout on the window sills. We made 3D hot air balloons out of Papier mache, and they look great!
We’re really enjoying practising for our Open Day summer concert – it’s really coming together!
February News
February News
In English, we’ve read all about the environment, plastics in the ocean and how we can do our bit to help. We learned the names of different plastics and how they can harm the environment. We also learned a lot about Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and other explorers who travelled to Antarctica. It was fascinating how difficult life was there, how cold it gets and how they survived on their treks.
In Irish, we were learning the topics Caitheamh Aimsire (pastimes) and An t-Earrach (The Spring).
We have been revising in Maths, concentrating on multiplication and lines and angles also.
In History we really enjoyed learning all about the Vikings! We enjoyed a nice trip to Dublinia, which took us through the timeline of the arrival of the Vikings through to Medieval times. It was so interesting and interactive. We got to try on armour and hold a really heavy shield. We completed projects based on what we had learned about the Vikings.
In Geography, we learned about Denmark. It is a interesting country with lots of fun
traditions, different to that of Ireland.
As part of STEM, we created our own musical percussion instruments using rice and junk art.
In Drama, we learned a new game called Mafia – we tweaked it a bit, but it was really fun and engaging to play.
In Art we created hearts inspired by Piet Mondrian for Valentine’s. We designed Viking shields on cardboard.
In Music, with Catherine, we have been practicing our choir song for the Interschool’s Music Festival competition.
We have been extremely busy in PE, we have finished our football classes as well as our tag rugby lessons. We also started Dodgeball, which is great fun!
We have started our Stay Safe Programme also. It’s been good to chat and share our thoughts and feelings.
January News
January News
It feels like a long time since Christmas, and we’ve packed a lot into our January in school! We have read all about a trip to Lapland and learned about plastic in our environment in English. We enjoyed investigating 3D shapes, measuring in Length and we also learned about fractions and decimals.
In History, we learned about the Tuatha De Danann (fairies) and Early Christian Ireland. We discovered all about maps – exploring the area around our school through Google Earth and we drew maps of our local area. We did mini projects on animals native to Ireland, which was fun to research and we looked at life cycles and created musical instruments out of junk art to explore sound, in science.
In drama, we played charades and debated whether or not Lapland is the best place on earth. We created pop art images, designed snow globes and made 3D snowmen pictures in art. In music, with Catherine, we learned to use and blend percussion instruments, listened and responded to music and practiced our choir competition song.
We’ve really enjoyed both our football lessons and tag rugby lessons!
December News
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
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
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
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.
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