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.

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!