The Gaeilge topic of the month was 'bia'. 

For art, we looked at the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He drew portraits of people using food items. Have a look at our art inspired by him!

Our Gaeilge topic of the month was 'An Cháisc', check out our display of the vocab we focused on!

For art, the children made Easter baskets using paper plates and painted funky Easter bunnies!

We had an Easter egg hunt in the classroom where the children exchanged a small glitter egg for a homemade mini-egg chocolate nest. It was a great success!

Our SPHE lessons have been focusing on 'Bí Cinéalta', the new procedures to prevent and address bullying behaviour in primary schools. 

Each child was asked for their input into our school's Anti-Bullying policy through the medium of a poster. Have a look at the super work!

Our Gaeilge theme for the last 2 weeks was 'Teilifís' so the children created television scenes for our art lesson. Check them out!

For the month of January, we discussed how we can reduce our carbon footprint on the earth. 

The children created posters to encourage others to do the same!

The countdown to Christmas is on. We started our Advent calendar when there was 15 school days left to the Christmas holidays!

The children wrote a procedural writing piece on how to create a cereal box present to go under the tree. They followed their own instructions and created beautiful presents for our classroom tree!

ART

The children created amazing silhouette paintings with a focus on their Australian city of choice. 

You can see the Sydney Harbour Bridge, kangaroos, surfers, palm trees, mountains, city buildings among other gorgeous designs!

PROJECTS

The children created projects based on various cities in Australia. They completed their own research using the school iPads and focused on what they thought was interesting about the city. 

SUMMARY

For the month of November, we are learning about Australia. 

In Geography, we discussed the main cities in each state. We also looked at pictures of the most famous Australian landmarks.

In Art, we made Australian boomerangs out of clay. Some children were wondering if they could throw them to see if they return!! 

In PE, we are learning the steps to an Australian bush dance.

Halloween Dress Up Day summary

Each pod decided on the face for their pumpkin. They took turns scooping the pulp out, plenty of funny faces during this!! 

Each child did some mindful skull colouring, cut it out and glued it onto coloured card.

Each child stuck their hand into the ‘intestines’ to find a spider! The ‘intestines’ consisted of spaghetti, green jelly, yellow jelly and pumpkin pulp. 

We played ‘Pin the face on the pumpkin’. The children loved watching their friends try to put the face together, plenty of giggles when it went wrong!!

To conclude the day, each pod watched their pumpkin ‘get sick’. This was done using bicarbonate of soda, washing up liquid, food colouring and vinegar. The messier, the better!! 

We focused on persuasive writing in our English lessons for the month of October. For Gaeilge, we focused on 'An Aimsir'. We combined the two topics and the children wrote about their favourite season and gave reasons why to try persuade the reader to agree with them. Have a look at the super work!!

To conclude our October SESE lessons on Italy/Ancient Rome, the children created projects highlighting what they found interesting over the last 4 weeks. 

We are learning about Ancient Rome in our SESE lessons this month. We looked at pictures of Roman mosaic art which was created many, many years ago. The children chose their own colours and created their own mosaic art. Have a look through some pictures of the artistic process!

PROCEDURAL WRITING

For the month of September, we focused on Procedural Writing. We examined various procedural writing texts and then drafted our own. The children picked their own topic, wrote a procedural text and published their work. Have a look!