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Meadhbh O'Connor
In Autism 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!

Maeve
In Autism Classes, Fifth Class, Fourth Class, News, School Trip, Second Class, Third Class

Winter Events 2024

We’ve had a flurry of special days in the senior end of the school. 5th class had back to back  trips to a Peace Proms rehearsal along with 4th class, and also went to Dreamscape in Microsoft for a very cool coding workshop. Then 2nd to 5th class rounded off the term with a magical trip to the cinema, thank you to Tony for organising this and for my big coke which absolutely no children were jealous of 😀

Have a wonderful Winter Break everyone!

 

Tony Walsh
In News, Second Class

Trip to Belgrave Square

This week in 2nd Class we made the most of the beautiful Spring weather and headed off to Belgrave Square. On the way we spotted some signs of Spring such as daffodils that were ready to bloom!

Our favourite part of the park was the playground – check out the pictures below. We’re so lucky to have this amazing resource so close to the school and we hope to return soon!

 

Tony Walsh
In News, Second Class

Healthy Eating Week 2024!

Second Class really enjoyed Healthy Eating Week 2024.

We had a fruit workshop, learned the Irish names for some exotic fruits, drew a selection of green foods to add to our whole school display and learned the importance of ‘eating the rainbow’!

Check out these pictures from our fruit workshop. Delicious!

 

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

Sports Day 2023

What an amazing day we had last Friday for Sports Day. It was a lovely community event and we loved having parents and guardians there to cheer the children on and share in the fun of the day.

It was a day of sunshine, sports, fun, bubbles and ice-cream! Some of our favourite things here at HTETNS!

Check out this video with a selection of pictures from the day showcasing our amazing students in action.

 

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

Creative Schools in HTETNS

We are so lucky at Harcourt Terrace to be partaking in the Creative Schools initiative this year.

We have had a wonderful two weeks enjoying a range of fantastic activities guided by our creative associate Bethan Parkes.

From K-Pop workshops to painting the walls of our school creativity has been flowing all over the school!

We started our Creative Fortnight with a drama workshop with Janine. The children absolutely loved this and so much fun trying out different kinds of drama skills. Each class worked on something different which gave the teachers lots of ideas to share and try out again!

Next we moved on to some visual art with Bethan! We created circles to display in our school lobby, we experimented with types of painting, explored different materials, we worked with geometric shapes, and got to work painting the walls of our school making it bright and beautiful.

The next time you visit our school keep your eyes peeled for some of this beautiful art around the building!

Our next creative activity was a K-pop workshop with Orna. This was something new for a lot of our students and they absolutely loved it. It was so much fun moving to the music and expressing ourselves through dance!

1st, 2nd and 3rd class also got to experiment with different instruments thanks to David who ran a workshop for our students with some of his own musical instruments.

Finally, we worked on our whole school project of creating bunting to display in our school. Each child in our school created their own individual piece which will be all tied together to represent our unique and individual school community. The children really enjoyed working with fabric and decorating their piece however they liked.

We ended the two weeks with a special performance from the Army Band. We got to learn about all the different instruments in the band and listen, sing and dance to some amazing music.

What a wonderful two weeks of music, dance, art and creative expression we have had! We are very thankful to be a part of this initiative and a special thank you to our Creative Associate Bethan and Ronnie and Siobhán who have facilitated and supported the organisation of these amazing experiences.