Classes
ASD Class - Ms. McGuckin
November 2025 - We have had a very fun November in Ms. McGuckin’s class. We have done lots of Christmas art, we have been learning about space and winter, we have been enjoying going outside on our bike when the weather is dry and we decorated our classroom for Christmas. We have especially enjoyed listening to Christmas music for the last week in November!
October 2025 - We have had a great few weeks in our class. We have really been enjoying Playball. We have been learning all about autumn. We looked at The Colour Monster story and Room on the Broom. This week we had our Halloween party, which was great fun. We also received a new bike in the class, which has been great fun in the yard.
September 2025 - We have had a lovely few weeks and we have all settled back to school! We have been learning all about autumn recently. We painted leaves using autumn colours and made wreaths out of them. We have been using our new playground, we have been working on our numbers during circle time and we have been working on our reading and phonics.
Junior and Senior Infants - Ms. Delaney
November 2025 - We have had a fun month. We have had two teachers in our classroom (Ms Delaney and Ms Bolger – student teacher). We were learning all about The Little Red Hen. We planted cress seeds, tasted some bread and did role play based on the story. Ms Bolger has been teaching us all about Homes and Houses. We read the Three Little pigs and have especially enjoyed doing some building during play time. We are so excited for the nativity play. We have been practicing our songs and are looking forward to perform for you all.
October 2025 - We have really enjoyed this month in school. We will tell you some of our highlights from this month. We really enjoyed Playball lessons. We learned new skills and had lots of fun. We enjoyed having Kate from Gaeilge le Cill Dara with us. We learned a new Irish song. We also had our friends from the Gaelscoil visit us. We created some pumpkins with them. We enjoyed Maths Week. We created symmetry art with the older children. We also had to guess how many chocolates were in the jar. Ms Delaney was teaching us the Zippy Friend’s programme. We are learning about different feelings and what to do with these emotions. We enjoyed dressing up in yellow, green and blue for Go Phone Free. We did a colouring compeition too. We have learned all about Autumn. During playtime, we did leaf rubbings and looked at signs of autumn too.
September 2025 - We have had an enjoyable but busy start to our school year. It’s hard to believe we have been back over a month now! We have worked on our fine motor skills by doing threading, playdough and the multi links. We have done matching, counting and combining in Maths. We are having Playball lessons every Friday which have been great. We learned all about the people who work in a school and made “thank you” pictures for the SNAs on SNA appreciation day. We listened to the story about Elmer the elephant and created our very own
version. We hope everyone has had a great month.
November 2025 - First and Second class had a very busy month! We learned new songs as Gaeilge, practiced our jumping and balancing skills in PE, and created beautiful dreamcatchers in Art inspired by a Teddy Bear poem. We also made festive Christmas cards to kick off the season. In English, we spent lots of time reading and enjoying new stories, while in Maths we learned all about place value and practiced our subtraction skills. We are getting very excited for December and cannot wait for the month ahead, especially all the Christmas art and activities we have planned!
October 2025 - It’s been a busy and exciting month in First and Second Class! The children have been getting into the Halloween spirit with some spooky art, creating fantastic skeletons, carving a pumpkin and designing decorations for the classroom. In Irish, we’ve been learning all about Oíche Shamhna and using lots of new seasonal vocabulary. In Maths, the children have been exploring fractions and taking part in fun STEM activities that encourage problem-solving and teamwork. We’ve also been enjoying the last few weeks of Playball, building our coordination and fitness through games. A special highlight this month was joining the Gaelscoil for a shared art activity — everyone had a wonderful time working together and being creative!
September 2025 - First and second class have been working really hard since we came back to school. We have enjoyed playball, practicing pointillism art, learning about recount writing and practicing addition and place value in maths. Here are some pictures of a fun maths game we enjoyed as well as characters that we coloured which we saw come to life using a fun app! We are looking forward to learning lots more in October.
3rd and 4th - Ms. Gillespie
November 2025 - This month in 3rd and 4th class we have been reading our novel The Butterfly Lion. We also read about the Titanic. In Maths we have been looking at 3D shapes and what 2D shapes are in 3D shapes. We have been looking at Italy and we drew Italian landmarks and wrote about famous people, Italian food and towns and cities. In Art we drew Mona Lisa. We also made cute, chubby penguins and gingerbread houses. In Irish we have been learning about food and we made our own menus. We have also been practicing for our nativity play. We are learning about bullying in our KiVa school and what types of bullying there are in our Stay Safe. We are really happy to share this with you – Daksh and Fía (3rd class).
October 2025 - This month we have been busy! At the beginning of the month Tesco Cooks came to our school and our class got to become chefs and cook a vegetarian pasta dish all by ourselves! We had to weigh our ingredients, cut them and then cook them. We then got to eat our delicious food. In Gaeilge we have been doing the theme of Sa Theach (In the house). We know how to describe our house as Gaeilge and name the rooms inside. We can also talk about the area we live in too. In Maths we were looking at data, and transformations, where we learned about tessellation, symmetry and moving shapes. We made some symmetrical gingerbread men. 3rd class worked on subtraction while 4th class began looking at multiplication.
September 2025 - We are so glad to be back at school. We have all been working so hard for the month of September and have been learning lots of new things! We were so excited to have Big Dave back with us for Playball this month. In Science we were doing experiments to try and create boats that would float. We discovered the boats had to have a wide base (and no holes!) to float in the water. It was great fun! We have been learning about Mé Féin (Myself) in Irish and have been listening to Ms Gillespie read aloud The Twits by Roald Dahl as part of our English lessons. We had great fun last week in Maths learning about 2D shapes and we explored around our classroom and the library to find 2D shapes in real life. We have also absolutely loved our new playground and have had great fun playing with it!
5th and 6th - Mr. Grace
November 2025 - This month fifth and sixth class have been learning about green energy and helping the environment. The students created posters promoting environmental protection and ways in which they can support a healthier environment. They have also been learning about Irish history and the Home Rule Crisis. At the time when it was looking like a possibility the first World War broke out, and the students created their own newspaper headlines announcing the start of the war. The students have also been learning about China, the economy and life there and the land there. They have also learned about the historical and geographical features in China and after learning about these they created a poster advertising China as a tourist destination, with some of the children making theirs to look like billboards.
October 2025 - October was a busy month for the 5th and 6th class in our school, beginning with the Tesco Stronger Starts Cooks coming to the school to give a cooking lesson to the students. Here they made a vegetarian pasta dish using ingredients provided by Tesco themselves. The pupils also took part in a tour of the local Tesco Extra, seeing how the company operated behind the scenes and shelves and then partaking a challenge to find the best priced meal for their group. For maths week the students were paired with some of the younger pupils in the school to take part in a symmetry challenge to help the juniors and senior infants in their learning and understanding of symmetrical shapes. The 5th and 6th later took part in a social media talk with an outside speaker where they learned about the algorithms, targeted advertisements and how dopamine is created in the brain through the continued use of social media. Lastly the pupils partook in the creation of some Halloween art where they have created clay monsters and painted their monsters. Here they showed their creative side when given their freedom to express themselves through the medium of art.
September 2025 - During September the pupils of fifth and sixth class learned about Ancient China and Ancient Ruins of Ireland. The children drew pictures of Chinese dragons, maps of Ireland and marked many historic locations around the island. They have also been learning about data, how to collect it and reading the results of data collected. They then collected their own data in groups and made their own graphs which are displayed in their classroom.
