Senior Infants Classwork 30th March- 3rd April

Hi everyone, How are you all? We hope you are all keeping well and have been working hard on your school work at home. Keep up the good work! We miss you all and hope to see you all again soon. We have set out guidelines below for work to complete next week, 30th March- 3rd April. We hope to begin using Seesaw with the class this week and we will be in contact with more information on this. We understand that you are doing your best at home during this difficult time to provide an educatio...
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Classwork Wednesday 18th to Friday 27th March *updated 27th March*

As this period is ending and another set of work is going up on a separate page, I will fill in the answers for various exercises here and hopefully this will help you to greater understand any problems you may have had. Again please remember any questions you may have. Write them down somewhere and once See Saw is up and running, you will be able to send them to me.   Core work for Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th March. Answers in red Gaeilge: Abair Liom       ...
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Activities and Competitions (February & March 2020)

by Sixth Class March 2020 February and March were very busy months for the Sixth Class children. Over the course of a few short weeks, children from sixth class represented the school at the Credit Union Table Quiz in Naas, a Soccer Blitz in Leixlip, a Basketball Blitz in Newbridge and a Spelling Bee in Kildare. We performed very well in each of these competitions, particularly the soccer blitz where we lost the final in a penalty shootout. The basketball blitz for the girls was meant to b...
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Local Area Maps

by Sixth Class February 2020 In February we spent time looking at Ordnance Survey maps in Geography. We learned about grid references, scales and what various symbols meant on a map. As part of an Art lesson, we created our own local area maps.  First we got into groups and went online to locate each of our houses. We then printed out a map that included each house, before dividing the map into square boxes. We got large sheets of paper and drew bigger boxes so we could scale up th...
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Class work 18th-27th March

Class work 18th - 27th March 2020   Sounds make words: Pages 31,33 Reader: Sea Lion Splash pages 50-56 Core reader 4- Super Smoothie Pages 3-9 Handout: Sea Lion Splash Pg 45 & 47 Super Smoothie Pg 49 Just Handwriting: Pages 45, 46, 47 Maths Book: Page 28 & 29 Word Families: (1st Worksheet) One family per day. Tricky Words: Revise all Tricky Words. Practise writing them and putting them into sentences. Revision Pack: We have ...
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Senior Infants 18th-27th March 2020

Dear Parents, Just a little suggestion of practical activities for the next 8 days during school closure.   Read a book of choice: Draw your favourite part of the story/can you write an alternative ending to the story?/Describe your favourite character/ Illustrate your favourite character. Review Jolly Phonics on Youtube and Geraldine Giraffe Practise practical Maths -counting/sequencing/ using money/patterns/shapes in the environment etc Be active: Practice throwing and...
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Teacher Artist Partnership Project

4th Class have been working with writer Juliette Saumande to develop a creative project based on the Sun, Moon and stars, as part of the Dublin West Education Centre funded Teacher Artist Partnership project. So far we've written sun poetry, explored our galaxy through drama activities, explored locations all over the planet using ICT,  created lunar self-portraits and explored linking colours to emotions.   
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