Different Families Same Love October 2021

In the junior room we looked at posters of various families...some with children, some without, some with 1 parent, some with pets, some with no mum, some with 2 mums, some with step dads some with no parents. We made beautiful individual mobiles of our own families. We made these to celebrate how families can be made up of so many different combinations of people and yet, the love is just the same!

Making Playdough Pizzas October 2021

Osmosis October 2021

We had fun discovering what the big new word 'osmosis' involved. We put jellies into water and they swelled so much over night as they took in the water they were surrounded by. We did experiments with eggs too and used vinegar to dissolve the shell and then tested to see if putting them in water and sugared water would have any effect. It was fun!

Role Play September 2021

Fun role play in the playground being chefs, waiters and customers in pizzerias! Lots of really great oral language development.

Making Pizzerias September 2021

We're very busy in the Junior Room this month learning about the activities that go on in a Pizzeria! Look at these carefully considered designs for pizza restaurants!

Sign Language June 2021

The children learned the song "What the World Needs Now" in sign language and made these posters to illustrate the lyrics.

Junior Class Art Exhibition of Paintings Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe May 2021

The Junior Classroom flower paintings for our Creative Schools Art Exhibition

Georgia O'Keeffe Inspired Paintings May 2021

The Junior Classroom children creating their close up flower paintings for our Creative Schools Art Exhibition

Junior Room Stick Sculptures in the Park March 2021

Next Stage Theatre School March 2021

Our Zoom dance class with Evelyn.

Positive & Negative Space in Artwork March 2021

This week in the Junior Room we used print techniques to work with poisitive and negative space in our artwork. The results were so colourful and beautiful!

Reading Together March 2021

In the past, we partnered with children from the Senior Room for Buddy Reading sessions but with Covid 19 restrictions, we read to each other just in our room now. The children love to take turns in their groups. Sometimes, they read the words and sometimes they read the pictures but always, they share wonderful stories!

Book in a Box March 2021

The children in the Junior Classroom have been busy making their very own Book in a Box.

Creative Schools Workshop December 2020

The Junior Classroom had a wonderful Make and Create workshop with artist, Fiona Harrington. They used their imaginations and all sorts of lovely materials to create beautiful unique artworks. This was part of Creative Schools. We really enjoyed it!

Art in the Junior Classroom November 2020

We have been doing drawings in the Junior Classroom. We used chalk pastels to make colourful autumn scenes. We also drew and painted imaginative animals!

Science Week 2020 November 2020

In the Junior Classroom, we had such fun for Science Week 2020. We did lots of experiments using food dye which meant some very colourful results!

We learned about how rain clouds become saturated with water vapour leading to rain, using shaving foam clouds floating in a jar of water. We made it rain blue food dye! Lots of us liked this experiment best this week.

We also learned about absorption and osmosis, watching the coloured water gradually being soaked up by kitchen paper.

We had fun with colours by squirting food dye into trays of milk and watching the colours move when soap was added. The soap and milk really wanted to get together due to their shared fat molecules so they pushed the dye out of the way. it was so much fun to watch.

We also made fizzy colours by squirting coloured vinegar onto a base of bicarbonate of soda.

We asked lots of questions during the week in order to learn about the world around us and now we know why dogs pant!

We hope you enjoy the pictures of our fun experiments.

Camouflaged Elephants

We had the most fun Art Class in the Junior Room this week. We discovered all about camouflage and made the most wonderful artwork. Click below and see how we did it.....

Easter Egg Hunt

All the children had loads of fun searching the school for their paper Easter eggs. Some of the pupils even solved riddles to help them find their hiding spots! Their reward for finding their egg was a delicious chocolate egg! Many thanks to the Parents’ Association for providing both the paper and chocolate eggs. Do you recognise any chick or bunny below????

Beanstalks

The pupils in the junior room planted broad beans and designed beautiful castles in the clouds for the beans to grow towards. Hopefully with lots of care from their owners, the bean stalks will reach the castles in no time!

Egg Creatures

The junior classroom made tiny creatures to go inside their eggs..we had birds, monsters and all sorts!

Na Muca Beaga

We had great fun this month learning the story of Na Muca Beaga. We told the story with stick puppets and also used masks to make a little film version of the story re-told by us as Gaeilge. See our little snippets here!

Those were the days...

We examined some wonderful objects that people used to use in the past but we no longer use. It’s amazing what people can find in their houses! Some of the children brought in an old bike lamp, an old telephone and an old phone and MP3 player.

The senior room pupils helped the junior room pupils to use the 'I can animate' app on the tablets. Using the rockets and backgrounds that the juniors made themselves, they created fabulous animations.

Our Planets.... in song

We learnt this wonderful song which teaches us about all the planets in the solar system... Do have a listen....

Teddy Bears in SPACE.....

We had a teddy bears' picnic in space! We learned so much about space and the planets throughout January. We made space passports and also helmets to protect us on our journey. We saw the planets and the sun when we went to space and it was wonderful because we knew so much about them!

Lift off................. We've landed.....

Junior Room Bake-off.....

The Junior Room had a wonderful baking afternoon on Thursday, 18th October. They prepared delicious biscuits for baking. Having been baked overnight, they were returned to the school the next morning for decorating. Not too sure how many biscuits made it home for tasting, but I am sure if you didn't happen to try one you would agree they were absolutely delicious!

Step 2 - add the eggs and stir.... hard work....

Step 4 - Cut shapes with cookie cutter...

Finished - some of the most scrumptious cookies!

YUM YUM!!

Step 1 - mix the flour and butter....

Step 3 - Roll it out...

Step 5 - Baked overnight they are ready for decorating the next day...