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Meadhbh O'Connor

Meadhbh O'Connor
In News, Senior Infants

Term 2 in Senior Infants A

Senior Infants have had a lot of fun in term 2! We have been so lucky to have Marianne with us for 8 weeks on teaching practice doing lots of exciting things every week!

In March, we had World Book Day. We had a lot of fun dressing up as our favourite book characters. We also had visits from 5th class who did buddy reading with us. We loved listening to our friends reading us stories.

We did amazing science work with Marianne and learned all about the conditions plants need to grow. We then got to grow our own Cress plants! We loved watering our plants everyday and checking their progress.

We also had a lot of fun in March learning Irish dances with Katie for the big Lá Glas Ceilí!

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Meadhbh O'Connor
In News, Senior Infants

Winter in Senior Infants

It has been a busy winter in Senior Infants!

Before the winter break we had a lot of fun learning about Narrative writing and turning our knowledge of fairy tales into the magical winter show of Goldilocks.

In Aistear we had a lot of fun playing in the Post Office and writing letters to each other!

In PE we got to try Hurling and Football with coach Jenny and coach Teresa and got to practice some new skills!

We moved on to a new topic of Space in January and we have been loving playing in the rocket and learning all about the Solar System in Science and Geography.

In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and got to go on a shape hunt around our 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 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.

What a great month we have had! 🙂