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.

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.

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!