January has been full steam ahead! We’ve been learning all about the Titanic and showing our creativity through art, including dramatic Titanic silhouettes against sunset backgrounds and detailed Titanic symmetry artwork.

We have been loving the active movement breaks this month as part of the Active Break Every Day Challenge. This four-week challenge helps us build fun movement breaks into our school day. This year’s videos, supported by the GAA, take us behind the scenes at Croke Park, including the dressing rooms, warm-up areas, and team arrival points. We’re staying active while learning some fascinating facts along the way! 🏋️

Our theme for January has been the Titanic, and we’ve been extremely busy exploring its history! We researched fascinating facts on our chromebooks, created posters and slideshows, and even built Titanic models using recyclable materials. 

Working in groups helped us share ideas, cooperate, and bring our projects to life. We then had the exciting opportunity to present our work to each other and to a couple of other classes! Take a look at some of our incredible creations!

For maths, we have been busy examining 2D and 3D shapes in lots of fun ways. We used lollipop sticks, matchsticks and marshmallows to build different shapes, and we also explored them using Polypad on our Chromebooks.

We learned about the properties of shapes and explored how shapes can tessellate, rotate, slide and flip. By the end of our work, we realised that shapes are all around us everywhere we look! 👀🟧⚫️🎲🧻

We learned all about Pop Art and the colourful, exciting work of Andy Warhol. Inspired by his style, we created our own Valentine’s Day art projects.

We designed love heart sweets with bright colours and special messages of love for our family and friends. It was a fun way to be creative, celebrate Valentine’s Day, and spread kindness to the people we care about! 🩷🍬

In history, we have been exploring the life of Christopher Columbus. We learned about his early life, his famous 1492 voyage, and how he treated the native people he met. We also discussed how his journeys changed life in Europe.

We had lots of fun doing group jigsaw activities, sequencing games, and a walking true or false debate to test what we had learned. It was really interesting to see how one person’s journey could have such a big effect on the world! ⛴️

Spring has arrived and we have been busy planting beans and peas in our school polytunnel with the help of Ms Nestor. We feel very lucky to have this amazing space at our school. It was so much fun getting our hands dirty and planting our seeds. Stay tuned to see how they grow over the coming weeks! 🫛🫘