Meadhbh O'Connor, Author at Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School

Meadhbh O'Connor In News, Senior Infants

Autumn in Senior Infants

Senior Infants have had a very busy first half-term with lots of learning and lots of fun!

In Maths we spent time revising our numbers to 10 and moved on to counting up to 20. We revised our addition skills and making number sentences.

We had a lot of fun during Maths Week making our Figure it Out Posters and going on a Maths Trail!

In English we worked on revising our sounds in phonics. We also worked on Recount in writing and wrote recounts about our trip to the roof and the first floor of the school!

In Aistear we learned about homes and food and had lots of fun playing and learning.

Meadhbh O'Connor In Assisted Learning Classes, Fifth Class, First Class, Fourth Class, Junior Infants, News, Second Class, Senior Infants, Third Class

Sports Day 2025 / Active Week!

This year we held not one but TWO sports days in our new campus for Active Week.

On Thursday, Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First class had a great day filled with lots fun activities in all areas of the school. They ran races, worked as a team and most importantly had a lot of fun!

On Friday, 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class and 5th Class enjoyed senior sports day! They had a lot of fun challenging themselves to new games and races and exhibited great team work skills.

Check out this video of both sports days and all the fun we had including an ice-cream treat on Friday for all classes!

Meadhbh O'Connor In Fifth Class, First Class, Fourth Class, Junior Infants, News, School Programmes, Second Class, Senior Infants, Third Class

Active Slogan

In October we set about coming up with our active slogan!

We were lucky we had so much interest from all classes in the school and it made our decision very difficult.

The committee decided on a slogan that was catchy, easy to remember and summed up our ethos!

Our slogan was created by Asia in 1st Class and goes like this:

“Every Little Bit Can Get us Fit”

It’s a great slogan as it reminds us that we can do a little bit everyday in the journey towards being more active !

Well done Asia!

Meadhbh O'Connor In First Class, Junior Infants, News

A visit to the Mansion House!

Check out the Junior Infants and 1st Class Trip to the Mansion House!

Meadhbh O'Connor In Junior Infants, News

A Year in Review – Junior Infants

A look back at all the hard work, learning and fun we had this year in Junior Infants!

Meadhbh O'Connor In Junior Infants

A Day at Clonfert Farm

Check out this video of our trip to Clonfert Farm!

We had an amazing day and luckily also had amazing weather.

Meadhbh O'Connor In Junior Infants, News, School Trip

Supermarket Sweep!

Junior Infants had a busy morning today heading to our local Lidl in Rathmines!

We have been learning all about the Supermarket in Aistear and role-playing supermarket situations so it was great to put our learning to good use today.

We started the week by writing a list for the Supermarket in our Literacy lesson and using our phonics sounds to sound out the words we needed.

We headed off early this morning and remembered to bring our list and our shopping bags!

When we got to the shop we first had a look at some of the things we had been learning about in class – we spotted the baskets, trolleys, self-checkout, till, cashier and the aisles.

Next we set off in our groups, each group had one thing highlighted on their list to find.

After that came the exciting part, we headed up to the tills to pay for our goods!

We put our items on the belt, gave the money to the cashier and received our change and receipt. We made sure to bag up our items to carry back to school.

Luckily, one of the things on our list was chocolate so we all got to enjoy a chocolate treat for all our hard work when we got back to class! 🙂

Meadhbh O'Connor In Junior Infants, News

January in Junior Infants!

January has been a very busy and very fun month for Junior Infants!

Check out some of the things we have been up to:

In January we started Hurling with Coach Jenny. We have loved building these new skills and we might even have some future Dublin players on our hands!

In January our theme for our Aistear was the supermarket and food! We had a lot of fun playing in the role play area and also used it to inspire our writing we have practiced writing shopping lists and here we are writing labels for the food in the supermarket. Check out our amazing phonics work.

We also experienced healthy week this month and we had a lot of fun trying fruits in class and thinking of words to describe them like squishy, slimy, chewy and delicious! We ate pineapple, mango, melon, kiwi, oranges, apples, bananas, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.

In January we also started a new creative area in Aistear – Junk Art! We have loved used recyclable materials to make our wonderful creations.

This month we also welcomed our first two Mystery Readers! We have absolutely loved the excitement of finding out who will visit to read us a story and we look forward to lots more mystery readers.