Category Archives: Home School

Easter Closure

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School closes Friday March 26th – half day.

Children will be collected in the following order:

  • 11.30am: Junior Infants, Senior Infants and their siblings
  • 11.45am: Sunshine Class
  • 12.00 noon: 1st Class – 6th Class

School reopens Monday April 12th.

Please remember to complete the Return to School Questionnaire before your child returns to school.

Art Workshop with The Ark!

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Today the children from First Class took part in a virtual art workshop – a unique experience for everyone!  The title of the workshop was Winter Tales and Animal Shadows and we were lucky to be working with artist Lucy Hill and Clara from The Ark.

To begin, the children looked at some beautiful animal paintings that are part of the online Winter Light exhibition (you can have a look at the exhibition here https://ark.ie/projects/details/online-gallery-winter-light).  Each child gave their ideas about what they could see in the paintings and they discussed the shapes and colours with Lucy.

Then it was time for Ms. Fitzpatrick’s class to make their own animal shadow puppets!  Using colour to create the movement and shapes of their own animal, next they cut out the outline of their puppet.  Even as the children were cutting, they were changing their designs and adjusting to what they thought would look best.  Lucy also showed us how to make a shadow box to perform a puppet show at home!

First Class really enjoyed their workshop and are all looking forward to creating more art and stories from the pieces that they created.

 

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Dance with Bernie

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As part of the P.E. curriculum, Junior Infants to 2nd class will take part in Dance lessons for the next number of weeks. We are so lucky here in St. Gabriel’s to have dance teacher Bernie O’Rourke work with our students.

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Bernie has extensive teaching and choreographic experience and has worked on many films, musicals, television and theatre productions. Her modules develop dance, fitness and artistic development in the boys and girls. Dance lessons will run from Thursday 4th of March. All children are asked to wear their school tracksuit and runners to participate.