Next week in St. Gabriel’s NS we will be celebrating Maths Week (Monday 18th – Friday 22nd October). All the children from Junior Infants to 6th Class will be taking part in lots of fun Maths activities throughout the week including Maths Trails, Mental Maths Competitions and fun and games at a Maths Carnival.
For more information about Maths Week Ireland 2021 visit https://www.mathsweek.ie/2021/
2nd and 3rd Class have been busy learning about fire safety. We made Fire Safety Week posters and displayed them around our school. We then practised our fire drill and timed how quickly we could safely exit our classroom and reach our assembly point. It took us 1 minute and 25 seconds! We have been learning about what to do in the event of a fire and how to stay safe at Halloween time.
This month our art lessons are all about paint and colour and in maths we are learning about line and 2-D shapes so Piet Mondrian is the perfect artist of the month for us!
The girls and boys in 3rd and 4th have been learning about Mondrian and his art. Today they tried out making their own Mondrian piece playing with lines (vertical and horizontal) and making both squares and rectangles on their pages. Then using the primary colours only, they had some fun brightening up their pictures. Check out the pictures below!
2nd and 3rd Class had lots of fun visiting our school library today. We picked books to bring home and read for the week. Roald Dahl was a very popular choice in the class! We are really looking forward to visiting our school library every Tuesday.
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Over the last year and a half, we have had to make a number of changes in St. Gabriel’s NS to deal with the challenging times. One part of these changes that the children and staff have really enjoyed has been the chance to celebrate each child’s birthday in school, as birthday parties have been unable to take place as normal. This year we have some new plans for how these school celebrations will work!
* Instead of having a small celebration, each class will have a big party once a month to celebrate every child in that room whose birthday has fallen in that month Continue reading
Today the children in Mr Smyth’s class were very lucky to take part in a zoom interview with famous author David Walliams. Check out the pictures below.
2nd and 3rd Class had lots of fun in art this week. We created 3D illusion art using shapes and lines. We began by drawing different 2D shapes. We made these shapes look 3D by drawing lines from the centre of the paper to the corners and edges of each shape. We then coloured in our shapes using different tones to further create the illusion of 3D.