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February News
February News
February has been such a busy month for the Infants!
In literacy the infants have been reading lots of stories and doing loads of creative writing. It has been amazing to see how creative this bunch can be. We have tons of ideas of how the dinosaurs could help us do our jobs if they came back. They could help us rescue kites from trees, mow the grass and even give us swimming rides at the beach!
Maths has been busy with everyone learning all about money! We have done some lovely coin rubbings and discovered we have great shopkeepers and customers in Aistear. We have also been learning about capacity and containers and had great fun playing with the water table, funnels, cups and animals in aistear too.
This month was our assembly where we spoke of St. Brigid and her helping hands. Well done to everyone with their amazing performances of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Our hand prayer and When the World Shakes!
In art we have been exploring fabric and fibre and learning all about patterns! We've made some Mini-me self portraits with some funky t-shirts. We're a stylish bunch with our stripes, spots, tartan and cool designs.
Now that the weather has taken a turn, we are looking forward to spending more time outside and exploring springtime.
January News
January News
What a great start to 2026 to get active with football!
The Infants are thoroughly enjoying all the ball games they are learning to help develop their football skills on Mondays. It's a brilliant start to the week and gets everyone moving and having fun together! Every week their listening skills get a score out of 10 from the coach and we are on the up!
To develop this further we have been making friendship promises as we think carefully about 'being a good friend.' We created our very own friendship promises and displayed them for all to see in our classroom. They are a visual reminder to us all about what's important in our friendships.
In Creative writing and SESE it has been so much fun thinking about 'people at work,' in our world and the pupils came up with some super ideas about jobs they might like including a 'potioner,' which is a potion maker!
In line with friendship promises we discussed all that a New Year brings- eg a fresh start, hope and kindness, To mark this we completed a beautiful Big Buddy art activity with 2026 to decorate!
In Art we also looked at dots and made a dotty snowman too to mark the wintry cold and rain in our world in winter!
Finally in Maths there was a lot of finding our way this way and that as we looked closely at Spatial Awareness and learned words like nearer, nearest, further and furthest as well as blind folding Mrs. Lyons and sending her all over the place!
We welcomed Ms, Quinn from DCU into our room for her 8 week placement and the biggest hit has been her homemade playdough!
Happy New Year all!
December News
December News
It has been an absolutely magical month in the Infant room as we prepared for Christmas.
In SPHE we discussed our 'big feelings,' and looked at things in our lives that keep us happy! In Weaving Wellbeing our friends Mo and Ko taught us all about 'slide breathing,' and the power of gratitude.
To help out at Christmas we brought in food, clothing and hygiene products for The Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin and it felt really good to give and support them.
As a treat for our hard work this term we went to The Mill theatre on a special outing to see the panto Hansel and Gretel! It was so funny and the bus ride was noisy as we sang Christmas songs!
We also wore our Christmas Jumpers on the Late Late Toy Show day and were given popcorn to enjoy from our PTA.
We were very busy learning our two songs for the Christmas Carol service and had so much fun singing together for all the school community.
We learned all about penguins in SESE and practised balancing an egg on our feet as they do! Also we learned all about how the tradition of Christmas trees began so long ago and we made our own ones.
In Big Buddy Art we made a lovely name decoration together and all the pupils enjoyed it.
We have become excellent at controlling the ball in PE with our feet only and we now can roll, bowl, do an underarm throw, overarm throw, bounce catch and dribble!
In Aistear our theme was the Post Office so we learned all about what happens in a post office and did role plays as customers and staff.
A wonderful first term has come to a close and wishing all a very Happy Christmas!
November News
November News
The Junior and Senior Infants have enjoyed another activity filled month in school.
In English we have been learning about procedural writing: making lists, following instructions etc and all the Infants enjoyed giving directions to each other to follow!
In maths the pupils had a lot of fun looking and learning about 2D and 3D shapes.
We made towers that can't stand and towers that can and displayed them in the classroom. We continued this theme of shapes in our world with printing with circles in art!
In Gaeilge we have been learning all about bia and all the foods we like and dislike!
We had a super hockey teacher who helped the Infants learn how to hold a hockey stick, control the ball and score goals! The Infants thoroughly enjoyed the 6 week block of hockey classes.
For Anti-bullying week we looked at the 'power of good,' and how each of us is unique-we celebrated and marked this by wearing odd socks and completing beautiful pasta picture frames with our photo in the centre! We sang our kindness song for all the school at assembly!
Our Big Buddies completed a beautiful umbrella art activity with the Infants that was thoroughly enjoyed by all and they make us laugh and smile so much!
Roll on December and our period of Advent as we prepare for Christmas.
October News
October News
We have had a super second month in school with lots of different activities filling our days.
In Religion we completed our learning about autumn and harvest and thanking God for the wonderful meals and times we share together as a family and here in school. We also gave thanks for our Friday treats! We completed looking at our names and how special they are as well as learning some cool new hymns with fun actions!
We got to meet Luna our 4 legged friend as she visited our school for our Reading with Dogs programme and the boys and girls were so calm and kind to her so she felt safe and happy in our classroom.
We have learned all about Fire Safety especially at Halloween through our Be Safe programme and all the pupils made fire safety rules together.
Also in SPHE we have been building up our self esteem through learning all about the wonderful things each of us can do and we met two new characters to help us- Mo and Ko!
Hockey has started on Wednesdays in PE and the improvement already in the Infant sessions is incredible! I am so impressed with their enthusiasm and speed!
We made some cool spooky Mummies and clay pumpkins with our Big Buddies in 5th/6th which was so enjoyable.
The Student Council have arranged a very exciting Halloween quiz for all of us to enjoy and we look very much forward to dressing up for our half term Halloween collection for Temple Street Hospital- happy half term all.
September News
September News
What a wonderfully exciting and happy first month of school we have had in the Infant room!
A big welcome to our 12 new Junior Infants and a big welcome back to our 10 Senior Infants!
The Senior Infants have buddied up with their Junior Infant friends to make Salt and Pepper partners and they have joined forces to complete lots of paired work activities eg Six Bricks pattern and shadow work, during Aistear especially with Junk Art and at iPad time! Thank you Senior Infants.
We have completed a lot of active learning in maths using our Maths Boxes- sorting colours, counting a LOT of objects and enjoying the activities on our IWB.
In phonics we have started our Jolly Phonics programme and the pupils are doing really well with the new letter sounds!
In Gaeilge we have learned 4 new Nath na Seachtaine (phrases) and played Biongó and learned colours and body parts.
We met our Big Buddies and completed factfiles and art with them.
We have enjoyed lovely assemblies in church and are gathering donations for the needy in Dublin for our Harvest Assembly.
Well done all!
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