We packed every theme into our Green School Week of Action this year. We looked at a different theme each day, culminating with this year’s theme of Litter and Waste with Global Awareness.  Monday: No Power Hour On Monday, we had a No Power Hour. We were amazed at the difficulties we encountered while trying to work as normal without any…

  Jimmy Gavin and his wife Ann visited their cousins Eileen and Gerry  on Friday 8th January. With them, they brought the Sam Maguire Cup fulfilling a promise made in the Autumn following Dublin’s victory in the All-Ireland Football Final. (For those who haven’t worked it out Jimmy and Ann are parents of Jim Gavin the…

We have been learning all about homes this month. We looked at different kinds of homes in our locality and around the world. We set up a home corner and an estate agent’s office. We explored the materials that the little pigs used to build their homes and went into role as the big bad…

Healthy eating became all the more tasty when we made our own brown bread in school last week. With Múinteoir Áine’s special recipe for brown bread we followed the  steps carefully. These pictures show our lovely brown bread. We enjoyed making the bread, watching it bake in the oven, patiently waited for it to cool…

We have been constructing imaginative creatures. We sketched out a plan for our creature. We constructed a creature with air dry clay. We had great fun changing and modifying our plans – it can be tricky to make a plan in your head or on a page turn into a 3D creature! We left the clay to…