Class Work

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd & 4th class for their STEM project designed, planned and made a toy using recycled materials.

A puppet theatre: Dan, Archie, Rhys, Ciara, Kayla and Jessica

A fort: Oscar, Liam, Matthew, Lauren, Penny and Sophie

A Castle: Erin, Paige, Clara, James and Greg

Super Stationery holder: Natalie, Maeve, Abigal, Millie, Willow and Grace

A Puppet theatre: Willow, Ellie, Zoe and Roise

A Multi-tasking box: Roisin, Maja, Saoirse and Mia

Ms Ward’s 1st Class made some fabulous houses from paper, cardboard and lollipops.

Ms Brogan’s Junior and Senior Infants have been very busy this year so far, building houses, washing dishes, making furniture, playing in the kitchen and reading stories to do with ‘home’.

Junior/Senior Infants Classes Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs!!!!! (Sept 2021)

Junior /Senior Infants Monster Art

Ms Ariana’s 4th & 5th Class children were interested to learn about Dyslexia. We made a KWL chart to find out what we Know, what we Want to find out and what we have Learned. We watched some videos, did some dyslexia reading and writing simulations and had some great discussions about dyslexia.

Ms Ariana’s 4th 5th Class have been learning about the Renaissance in History. We used linear perspective in our artwork which was a technique discovered by Fillipo Brunelleshi and made famous by Peiro Della Franchesca who wrote books about it. It creates space, depth and an overall ‘3-D’ appearance to artwork.

Ms. Ariana brought her motorbike to school one day and the children enjoyed learning about road safety, bike safety and some basic mechanics of a motorcycle.

Ms Ariana’s 4th & 5th class started the year learning about how our brains work and why we should work on having a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset.

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd & 4th class managed to complete physical and mental challenges to escape from the Zombie Invasion!!!

Ms Ward’s 1st Class made little hedgehogs (Oct 2021)

Ms Flynn’s 2nd Class read the story of Fionn and the Giant in History Class. They then created Fionn’s Castle in Art Class. (Oct 2021)

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd & 4th Pupils created a beautiful Busy Bee Corner!!!! (Oct 2021)

Ms Ward’s 1st Class constructed Autumn leaves and painted lovely self portraits (Sept 2021)

Ms Ward’s 1st Class made beautiful wind chimes!!

Ms Ward’s 1st Class Grass Heads

Our hair is growing. We are lucky the ‘hairdressers’ are open again!!!!!

Ms Ward’s 1st Class produced Amazing Aboriginal Art Work!!

Ms Ward’s 1st Class sowed some grass seed to make Grass Heads.

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd & 4th Classes were busy making some ‘scary’ scarecrows!!!!

Ms Flynn’s 2nd & 3rd Class constructed their own town.

Ms Ward’s 1st Class made beautiful summer Daises.

Ms Ward’s 1st Class were busy designing and writing about the Salmon of Knowledge. They also constructed a sail boat and wrote about saving water.

Mr Potterton’s 5th Class made fabulous Hot Air Balloons!!!

2nd to 6th Classes had great fun during the Bricks4Kidz Workshop learning the principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths through LEGO Technic.

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd and 4th Classes concentrating on their Chess matches.

Ms Ward’s 1st Class were busy completing Science experiments during Science Week!!!!

Ms Brogan’s Junior/Senior Class Science Week

Skittle Rainbow Dissolving

Making Lava Lamps Making Slime

The best part of Science Week – eating the jelly!!!!!

Ms Brogan’s class exploring the Doctors Surgery in Aistear

Ms Noeleen’s class picked Michelangelo as ‘Artist of the Month’

We copied his work of the Sistine Chapel by drawing upside down and lying on our back.

Ms Brogan’s Junior and Senior Infants having fun at Halloween!!!!

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd & 4th Class Halloween Dance Moves!!!!

Ms Ward’s 1st Class were busy making Halloween Masks

Ms Ward’s 1st Class Autumn hedgehogs!!!

Ms Flynn’s 2nd/3rd class Halloween Art!!!

We used a bat stencil and paints to create our spooky pictures. We also made Frankenstein door hangers.

Ms Ward’s 1st class Halloween Art (Oct 2020)

Ms Ward’s 1st class painted lovely self portraits

Ms Brogan’s class playing maths games during Maths Week (Oct 2020)

Ms Ward’s class played Snakes and Ladders during Maths Week!!!

Ms Ward’s class are studying light. Look at our silhouettes against the white board. (Oct 2020)

Ms Brogan’s Juniors made colourful lamps and decorated their classroom with pumpkins for Halloween

Ms Brogan’s Juniors learning about home through Aistear

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants painted Owl Babies (Sept 2020)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants were learning all about clothes (Jan 2020)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants painted baby farm animals and Spring flowers from Spring colours and

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants sowed grass seeds and made grass heads

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants have been learning all about school in Aistear.

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made school bags and spring flowers

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants sowed seeds and painted Spring flowers

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants listened to a story on Internet Safety and learned rules of staying safe online.

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed the Salmon of Knowledge fish and wrote the story

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made School Bags

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made St Bridget’s Day Cloaks

Ms Ward’s senior Infants busy constructing push and pull toys with playdoh

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants busy making and painting their favourite weather vanes

Ms Ward's Senior Infants making and painting their favourite weather vanes

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class researched their family crests. (Dec 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class learned in maths all about the Tangram Square and used this to create a swan and a runner! 6th class enjoyed learning all about co-ordinates!

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th Class to celebrate the arrival of the Book Fair 5th and 6th class worked with Junior Infants to help them write some of their favourite Fairy Tales.

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed making winter art (Nov 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants designed postage stamps for their post office (Nov 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants did experiments with lava lamps for Science Week (Nov 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class explored how to make circuits with electricity during Science Week and created lighthouses!!! They also learned all about genetics and investigated their fingerprints!!! (Nov 2019)

Junior & Senior Infants enjoyed making Hallowee’n art & playing Hallowee’n games. Senior Infants also enjoyed playing maths games (Oct 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th and 6th class explored Cubism a technique used by Picasso and responded by creating their own Cubism Frankensteins. (Oct 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Halloween ghosts and witches masks. (Oct 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed hedgehogs from matchsticks. (Oct 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th and 6th class learned all about Ancient Egypt during their History lessons and created their own Death Masks and wrote their names in hieroglyphics. The enjoyed engaging with Orienteering in PE. (Oct 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were busy this autumn cutting and planting autumn leaves, making hedgehogs and sowing bulbs. They also enjoyed reading their favourite books. (Oct 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class created self portraits. Sept 2019

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class Explored sound in science and made rice dance. sept 2019

School football started back…both teams off to a great start

Ms Murphy’s 5th and 6th are very busy practising for our school production of Aladdin (Sept 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 5th & 6th class were working with maps in PE

To celebrate the Rugby World Cup, 5th and 6th learned all about the different countries taking part in the competition during Geography and History lessons and engaged with Origami in Art! After learning about famous European landmarks the pupils selected their favourite landmark and created their own backgrounds to fit around their image.

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants completed patterns in Maths. (Sept 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants wrote about their first day in Senior Infants and drew self portraits. (Sept 2019)

2019 / 2020 ______________________________________________________________________________________

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made ice-creams and grass heads this month. (June 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made butterflies in Art. (May 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants did finger paintings of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. (May 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed & coloured tractors for the Tractor Run which took place on Easter Sunday.

Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st & 2nd class made some lovely Easter Art (April 2019)

Ms Flynn’s 2nd Class were making letters and words in drama using their bodies. Can you guess what they are? (April 2019)

Ms Flynn’s 2nd class have been learning all about trees. They investigated the trees in the school yard. They had a great bud race. They even got a tree to plant at home and then did a project on trees. (March 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants wrote about The Farmer (March 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants had great fun making scones which they then enjoyed eating at their Teddy Bear’s picnic! (March 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants enjoyed the Aistear theme this month which was food (March 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made shape pictures using chalk. (March 2019)

Ms Noeleen’s 3rd class designed and made Scarecrows as part of the Construction strand of the Art Curriculum. They were made from recycled materials, in keeping with our Green Schools initiative. (March 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed barns and also made St Patrick’s Day masks. (March 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class made St Patrick’s Day art. (March 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed their pancakes on Pancake Tuesday (March 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made fruit smoothies with Mr Martyn (March 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made cows out of toilet roll holders in art. (March 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were busy this month writing about clever fish, making play dough fish, sowing watercress and making pasta fish! (Feb 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class had their Service of Light in Jordanstown Church on February 26th, in preparation for their Confirmation.

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants theme for February Aistear was The Farm. The children enjoyed making animals out of play dough, role playing as vets and playing with “small world” farms.

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants were busy this month making School Bags, Barn Posters and Goats for Art (Feb 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made fish and kites from felt and tinfoil (Feb 2019).

Ms Murphy’s 6th class had great fun making St. Brigid’s Crosses using art straws. They then painted them. (Feb 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class have learned about report writing this term. They used their new knowledge to write a report about The Giant Panda. (Feb 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made St Brigid’s cloaks with felt (Feb 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class began learning about World War 2. Using their new knowledge about propaganda, they designed and created their own WW2 propaganda posters.

Ms Murphy’s 6th class went to Emmaus House on a one day retreat in preparation for Confirmation.(Jan 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class learned how to create bar charts and pie charts using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel (Jan 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class have been playing camogie & hurling during PE time (Jan 2019)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were learning about weather this month. (Jan 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants theme for Aistear this month was “School”. They enjoyed role playing and making school furniture (Jan 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were looking at clothes they wore as when they were babies they also wrote about different suitable clothes (Jan 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made push and pull toys from playdoh when learning about Forces in Science. (Jan 2019)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made Christmas stockings, winter scenes and candles for the Christmas tree in the church (Dec 2018)

Ms Brogans Junior Infants enjoyed role playing with their new hospital set bought by the Parents’ Association (Dec 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class learned all about the rainforest during their literacy lessons and responded by painting fabulous pictures. (Nov 2018)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants enjoyed creating picture story-boards with students from 3rd class. (Nov 2018)

Ms Brogans Junior Infants)

Ms Flynn’s 2nd Class made Castles in Forts. (Nov 2018)

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants made hand x-rays in art. (Nov 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class learned about electricity and how to make circuits during Science Week. Using this knowledge, they designed and created Lighthouses. They also explored the effect acid has on our bones and learned about famous scientists!

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made lollipop stick houses with Ms Keoghan. (Nov 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants did some Floating & Sinking experiments for science week. (Nov 2018)

Ms Flynn’s 2nd class made brown bread in science and discussed school in olden times in history. (Nov 2019)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class explored the change in Materials by making Halloween Slime. Lauren and Leesha are experts in this area and became teachers for the afternoon, as they led their class mates and instructed them on how to make the slime. The whole class had so much fun exploring the different textures until the slime became stretchy!!! They then turned their slime into Pumpkins!

Ms Keogh’s 1st class made Hallowe’en spiders in art and made dressed up as mummies!

Ms Murphy’s 6th class were looking at cubism, a technique used by Pablo Picasso. We responded by creating our own Frankensteins.

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants celebrated maths week with various maths activities. Oct 2018.

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made ghosts for Hallowe’en art and Acorn men for autumn! Oct 2018

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants and Ms Ward’s Senior Infants had fun on their visit to Maynooth Fire Station. Oct 2018.

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants enjoyed the Aistear theme this month which was ‘Home’. Oct 2018

Ms Brogan’s Junior Infants has fun learning during Maths Week. Oct 2018

Ms Murphy’s 6th class learned how to construct triangles during their normal Maths lessons. As well as this, to celebrate Maths Week they learned about Napier’s Bones, an old method of multiplication, The Mayan Number System, Caesar Cipher, a method of encoding messages used by Julius Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man!

Ms Keogh’s 1st Class completed a maths trail around the school as part of maths week. They also worked in groups to complete chalk pictures with number and shape instructions. Oct 2018.

Ms Murphy’s 6th class learned all about Ancient Egypt in history. During their art lessons they designed their own death masks and wrote their name using hieroglyphics. In Geography 6th class learned all about Europe. For their Art lesson they took a hot air balloon to their favourite European Landmark! (Oct 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class enjoyed doing their art work during September. They drew self portraits and their names in bubble letters and made a writing wall where they have been learning about Narrative Writing!!!

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed painting their self portraits, drawing pictures of their pass-times and writing about their first day back to school. [Sept 2018]

Ms Murphy’s 6th class had great fun working with the Parachute during their PE lessons. They really loved playing Sharks and Lifeguards! [Sept 2018]

2018 / 2019

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Ms Brogan’s 2nd class took part in an experiment to see what it is like when a meteorite hits the moons surface and leaves a crack. (June 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made frogs and daisies in art. (May 2018)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class used the water tables to learn about capacity. (May 2018)

Ms O’Keefe’s Junior Infants had fun making a fairy garden. They also planted herbs. (May 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made beautiful summer daisies (May 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed tractors from 2D shapes. (April 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed Farm Barns in art. (April 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed completing a sequencing activity, in their groups, of the story “Farmer Duck”, (April 2018)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th class enjoyed making Easter Art (March 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were delighted to see how the bulbs that they planted in October have turned into daffodils. (March 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Easter chicks and bunnies for art. (March 2018)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class designed their own chocolate bars for Easter (March 2018)

Ms Brogan 2nd Class made rainbows for St Patrick’s Day (March 2018)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class enjoyed learning about the Chinese New Year and making Chinese New Year art. (March 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Mother’s Day flowers. (March 2018)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd and 4th class students have worked hard to create model cities this term using recyclable materials

Ms Keogh’s 3rd and 4th class have been learning about Tanzania this term. Their used their persuasive language to create a brochure. (Feb 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed designing their “Clever Fish” for art. (Feb 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants painted some spring flowers and animals for art (Feb 2018)

All Classes learned about Safer Internet Week (Feb 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made St Brigid’s cloaks for art. (Jan 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class enjoyed making St Brigid’s crosses for Grandparents’ Day and their homes. (Jan 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class went on their confirmation retreat to Emmaus House in Swords. A great day was had by all. (Jan 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class started their basketball league taking on Coole NS. Both teams played out of their skin! Huge thanks to Ms Brogan for all her time given to training. (Jan 2018)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd class worked in groups to create food projects on different food types. (Jan 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants had fun making kites. (Jan 2018)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants drew pictures of their favourite types of weather. They also constructed wind vanes. (Jan 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class created models of their lungs. They then explored how our lungs work. (Jan 2018)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class started gymnastics! (Jan 2018)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd class were learning about 3D shapes in maths. The made simple models of their favourite shapes. (Jan 2018)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th class had great fun on a rock hunt this week. They found different rocks and stones and classified them by their characteristics. Lots of fun was had! (Jan 2018)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd and 4th made Christmas projects where they learned about the animals associated with Christmas (Dec 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd class made some wonderful winter art (Dec 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class made rice snowmen, penguins and Santa Claus for Christmas Art (Dec 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class looked closely at the Rain Forest during english, geography and science lessons. They looked and responded at images of the Amazon. Here are some of their creations. (Dec 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Christmas trees, Winter trees and Rudolph’s in art (Dec 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Rudolph Houses in art. (Dec 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class learned about school life in the old school in Baconstown (Nov 2017)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th learned about sugar and how much sugar is contained in our drinks for science week. Nov 2017

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants learned about melting and boiling water for science week. They enjoyed making jelly to demonstrate this. Nov 2017

Ms Brogan’s 2nd class learned about the science involved in baking brown bread for science week. (Nov 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class took part in Team Hope’s Chrostmas Shoe Box Appeal. They bought all the presents themselves and really enjoyed wrapping and packing their boxes. Nov 2017

Ms Murphy’s 6th class celebrated science week. They had so much fun exploring electricity. they made lots of different circuits. Thanks to Jamie who brought in “Brainbox” and Aran who brought in a doorbell making and a buzz wire kit. (Nov 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed wooden lollipop houses. (Oct 2017)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th Class students have been learning about Norway. They used the Northern Lights as inspiration for their chalk pictures. (Oct 2017)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th Class students have been learning about the Vikings this term. They learned how to draw a scary Viking! (Oct 2017)

Ms Keogh’s 3rd & 4th Class enjoyed a trip to Trim Library to see Juliette Saumande speak about her book `Chop-Chop, Mad Cop!`. This was followed by a trip to Trim playground. A great time was had by all! (Oct 2017)

Ms Keogh’s 4th Class students have been enjoying maths games on Fridays. (Sept / Oct 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class made model castles from recyclable materials. (Oct 2017)

Ms Reddington’s 1st Class created Halloween Silhouettes in art. The also made scary Halloween bats and colourful spider webs with crepe paper spiders. (Oct 2017)

Ms Reddington’s 1st Class created autumn displays. They also worked in groups and recorded different seasonal changes. (Oct 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed making Hallowe’en Art. (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class listened to the poem “Witches’ song from Macbeth”. They responded by drawing what they imagined. (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class designed playground games as part of their oral irish lesson. They decided to teach their games to the Junior Infants. They really enjoyed being teachers! (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class did science experiments showing how our heart rate beats faster when we exercise. (Oct 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants planted daffodil bulbs. (Oct 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Autumn Leaves in art. (Oct 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class were busy doing a maths trail around the school for Maths Week (Oct 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants did some finger painting in Art and drew pictures of their family. (Oct 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class did an experiment in Science to see how materials changed when they added water (Oct 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd Class worked in pairs to research information about spiders and then they made posters with their findings (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class – “Look at how we all fit together” (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class learned about Ancient Egypt and created death masks and wrote their names in hieroglyphics. The class worked in groups and constructed The Great Pyramid and The Sphinx. (Oct 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th Class explored sound during their Science lessons and made rice dance! (Oct 2017)

Ms Flynn’s junior infants made bunting to support Na Fianna in their hurling final on Saturday. (Sept 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants drew self portraits and colour wheels for art. (Sept 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 6th class made bubble names welcoming you into their classroom. They have also started a writing wall. (Sept 2017)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants listened to the story of “The Gingerbread Man” and used paint and pom poms to make their own Gingerbread Man in art. (Sept 2017)

New School Year 2017 – 2018 ____________________________________________________________

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants constructed sailing boats, they wrote about their school tour and about their year in Senior Infants. (June 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants drew pictures of Summer Activities for art, they wrote about sowing crop seeds and they painted Van Gough “Sunflowers” (June 2017)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants learned about the life cycle of the butterfly (June 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd class had fun tracing around shadows! (June 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd class learned about deserts and created a desert in a box. (May 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd class did projects on a European country for geography. (April 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed making Easter art. (April 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd class designed book covers and made cube story books for World Book Day (March 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd classes enjoyed learning about and drawing Picasso art (Feb 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd Class enjoyed playing with little pups that came to visit the school. (March 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd Class

Ms Brogan’s 2nd & 3rd Class were learning about 3D shapes (March 2017)

Ms Flynn’s junior Infants made hearts from clay and painted them pink for Mother’s Day. When they were dry they made a purple finger print on them. (March 2017)

Ms Brogan’s 2nd and 3rd Classes were taste, smell and touch testing food in science. (March 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants planted spring bulbs. (March 2017)

All classes celebrated Green Day on the 15th March 2017

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed making their own musical instruments (March 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made Spring Flowers, Paper Plate Frogs and Clever Fish for art. (March 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior infants enjoyed making St Patrick’s Day art (March 2017)

All classes dressed up as their favourite book character for World Book Day (March 2017)

All classes celebrated Pyjama Day to raise funds for children’s charities (March 2017)

All classes started gymnastic lessons for PE. (March 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class investigated different materials to discover which created the most friction. (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class completed an experiment to see if a balloon can inflate without blowing it up. (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class created “Valentine Rolos” to give to the special people in their lives! (Feb 2017)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants enjoyed learning about Safer Internet Day (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class created lanterns to celebrate the Chinese New Year – the year of the rooster. (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class worked in groups to come up with an Online Code on Safer Internet Day (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class have enjoyed exploring different folk dances for PE (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class have been learning how to play chess with Ms Noeleen (Feb 2017)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class made St Brigid’s Day crosses (Feb 2017)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants drew weather pictures and wrote about the weather. (Feb 2017)

Ms Noeleen’s 5th Class have started to learn how to play chess (Jan 2017)

Ms Noeleen’s 5th Class produced a play – Away With The Manger

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants painted reindeer for Christmas Art. (Dec 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class made Christmas Jumpers! They used a template to cut the shape of the jumpers and then used lots of different materials to decorate them. 6th class also made Christmas jumpers. (Dec 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class warmed up on a cold winters morning doing orienteering for PE. 6th class joined in. (Dec 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class made snowmen! They used a white sock and filled it with rice. Then they decorated them. (Dec 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed doing Christmas Art (Dec 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infant’s constructed lollipop stick houses for art & they wrote about their family (Nov 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class had lots of fun doing stand up comedy..(Nov 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class engaged in “printing” in Art. They brought in lots of things from home to experiment with. (Nov 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class did Science experiments showing how flowers & plants need water to survive. (Nov 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants painted family pictures and created colourful snowmen. (Nov 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants brought in their favourite things for Show and Tell. (Nov 2016)

Ms Noeleen’s 5th Class designed their own costumes for Hallowe’en. They got their ideas from Myths and Legends in history and from current events. Then they designed their costumes. They searched for materials that they could recycle and use, making any changes that were needed to their design at this stage. They then made their costumes using items that they found at home. (October 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed making Hallowe’en art. (Oct 2016)

4th, 5th and 6th Class played basketball during our first term.

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class went to the National Concert hall to see a performance by the RTE Concert Orchestra. (Oct 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class had a trip to Trim Library. They travelled back in time with E.R. Murray and Alan Early. (Oct 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class were busy making Hallowe’en art. (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants loved tasting some Hallowe’en brack and Charlie got the ring…(Oct 2016)

Ms Reddington’s 1st Class were getting ready for Hallowe’en and made Hallowe’en silhouettes, ghosts and bats (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were busy making Hallowe’en witches (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were busy making clay hedgehogs. (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made “Autumn Acorn Men” for Art. (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants enjoyed planting bulbs (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were acting our “The 3 Billy Goats Gruff” for Drama (Oct 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants looked at photographs of themselves as babies and when they were much older. (Sept 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class mixed primary colours to get secondary colours in art. They painted self -portraits. (Sept 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th class celebrated Roald Dahl Day on September 13th. Some of the class dressed up and brought in things from their favourite Roald Dahl book.

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants made ladybirds in art class (Sept 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants were decorating their Art Folders. (Sept 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants drew Self-Portraits in art class. (Sept 2016)

Ms Reddington’s 1st Class drew Autumn scenes in art class. (Sept 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class enjoyed some Yoga to help them to focus and relax. (Sept 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class have started learning “Scratch” programming language. (Sept 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th Class made quadrants to investigate our school habitat. They had so much fun using magnifying glasses and pooters! They found some very interesting creatures! (Sept 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants were sorting colours in Maths class today. They were also making gingerbread men in Art class. (Sept 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants: This year we have 20 Junior Infants and they have all got off to a flying start! (Sept 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants wrote about their first day back to school (Sept 2016)

New School Year Sept 2016

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Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th were experimenting with different materials to see how friction works. (May 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th were busy baking this month. Cormac O’Sullivan made chocolate biscuit cake, Becky made brownies, Tyler baked Top Hats & biscuit cake, TJ baked dark chocolate gateaux and Saoirse baked chocolate cake and chocolate buns. (May 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class completed orienteering in PE. They had to read a map and find clues around the school. (April 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th classes did some more baking this month. Kerrie baked Honeycomb Crunchies and Mars Bar Squares, Killian baked Apple Tarts and TJ baked a Dark Truffle Gateaux…..yum!! (April 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants made a May alter in their class room. (May 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants drew pictures for clowns for art. They also made fish using paper plates, paint and googly eyes. (April 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th were learning a lot about the 1916 Leaders and the signatories of the Proclamation. The sketched and painted pictures of all of the Leaders. Here are the results! (April 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th were busy baking again this month. Cian baked pavlova, Jack baked cup cakes and Patricksed made a chocolate biscuit cake…yum! (April 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th enjoyed Green Day (March 2016)

Senior Infants learned about the 5 senses and Keelin brought in a birds nest to show the class (April 2016)

Senior Infants enjoyed watching their water cress seeds grow very quickly (April 2016)

Senior Infants made Hot Air Balloon collages for art (April 2016)

Senior Infants made Easter bunnies in art class (March 2016)

Senior Infants dressed in green to celebrate Lá Glas (March 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class enjoyed a 6 Star chocolate cake made by Shayne (March 2016)

Ms Ward’s Senior Infants made flags to celebrate Proclamation Day 2016 and dancing shamrocks for St Patrick’s Day (March 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th & Ms Ward’s Senior Infants class celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book character. Other Senior Infant children brought in their favourite book and spoke about their favourite character in it. (March 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th were baking again! This time Conor baked a sponge and Katie Fanning made caramel slices (March 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class made valentine rolos (Feb 2016)

Senior Infants wrote about spring and painted a spring scene (March 2016)

Senior Infants were learning about spring flowers (Feb / March 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants drew houses as part of Irish class. They designed umbrellas using felt to make raindrops and they painted daffodils and created colourful pots in art (Feb 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class were baking again! Chloe baked millionaire shortbread and granola bites, Killian made Nanny Hanley’s brown bread scones and Ruth baked a vegan chocolate cake (Feb 2016)

Senior Infants enjoyed doing valentine’s day art (Feb 2016)

Senior Infants enjoyed watching the bulbs that they planted during the winter grow into flowering bulbs (Feb 2016).

Senior Infants were learning about healthy food. They drew food pyramids, and fruit bowls and wrote about healthy eating (Feb 2016).

Senior Infants enjoyed eating lovely pancakes on Pancake Tuesday (Feb 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants were discussing healthy eating in S.P.H.E and drew pictures of a healthy lunch box. In religion they learned that Jesus is a good shepherd and they made sheep using tissue paper. (Feb 2016)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants were talking about their families in S.E.S.E (Jan 2016)

Senior Infants have been learning about St Brigid. They coloured in St. Brigid’s crosses (Jan 2016)

Senior Infants have been learning all about weather. They wrote about their favourite weather and drew weather pictures and pictures of suitable clothes to wear in warm and cold weather (Jan 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class have been joining in with the Operation Transformation activity in the school giving their thoughts on healthy eating and showing their own healthy lunch boxes (Jan 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th have been enjoying drama lessons with Ms Noeleen and dance lessons during PE (Jan 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class enjoyed the chocolate biscuit cake made by Alex Clavin, a spring themed chocolate cake baked by Claudia Cummins and banana buns baked by Adam Peacock. (Jan 2016)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class: Conor Walsh is pictured here with his parents & with boy’s football coach Mr Potterton. Conor received the “Spirit of the Final” award which was presented to him at a ceremony in Navan following the Baconstown school team win in the Meath Cumann na mBunscol Division 4 final. (Dec 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class enjoyed tasting the rocky road & mars bar squares that Eoin Bright made and the rice krispie squares made by Aaron Quinn. Katie Counihan also baked a fantastic Christmas cake. (Dec 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class finished making their planets. (Dec 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class enjoyed some library time and talented bakers Hannah O’Hara and Hannah Dixon baked Red Velvet cupcakes and queen cakes, which the class enjoyed! Nov 2015

Senior Infants made lollipop stick houses and wrote about animal’s homes (Nov 2015)

Senior Infants made masks for Halloween (Oct 2015)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants were making patterns in maths class today (Nov 2015)

Senior Infants painted their hand prints and drew self-portraits (Sept 2015)

Senior Infants made paper houses and learned about Autumn Leaves (Sept / Oct 2015)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants playing with toys during playtime in their class (Nov 2015)

Ms Flynn’s Junior Infants painted self-portraits which are hanging in the corridor outside their class (Nov 2015).

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class finished reading “Georges Marvellous Medicine” and drew favourite “BIG” farm animals. They also created Gallán Stones with clay and wrote their names in Ogham, then they decorated them… (Nov 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class started class baking again this year. Teacher kicked things off baking buns and then Anna delighted the class with rice krispie buns and bars….yum! (Nov 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class did some Science experiments this month, looking closely to see what metals rust when dampened. They have also been learning about the Solar System and have started to create the planets using papier mache…(Nov 2015)

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class Writing Wall & Welcome Bubble Names (Sept 2015):

Ms Murphy’s 4th & 5th class learned about St. Brendan’s voyage to the promised land of saints and created a replica of his boat (Oct 2015):

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