As Mr Smyth’s 3rd Class are reading the novel “James and the Giant Peach” written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, the children have spent September learning about the artistic drawing style of Quentin Blake.
Today, they completed their own imaginative character based on the style of Blake and painted in the style Blake would use. You can learn more about Quentin Blake here: https://quentinblake.com/
Check out the children’s beautiful artwork below!
Today, as part of the Physical Education strand Orientation and Outdoor and Adventure, the children in 3rd Class followed a mapped route to Grangegorman campus. They carried out two fun scavenger hunts. They also took some time to discuss Living Things in the area as part of our Science topic this month, such as different tree types, potatoes growing in the garden and much more. Check out the lovely picture below!
Using the poem “Accidentially” by Maxine Kumin, the children in 3rd class, with the help of a mirror, made pencil and colouring pencil drawings of themselves yawning. They paid particular attention to the shape of their mouths, eyes, eyebrows and tongue. Check out their work below!
3rd Class had their answers to News2Day’s Question of the Week, on advice for someone starting a new school year or a new school, featured on Friday’s (September 6th) show. Check out the lovely email we received from the programme and our pupil’s answers! You can rewatch the episode on the RTE player.
Today, Lithuania won in the girls final and Hungary won in the boys final in an exciting end to the inter-class intercultural football competition.
Well done to all who took part and we hope you had fantastic time!
Special thanks to all at Aughrim St. Sports Centre and James and Aibhinn at Bohemian FC for their help.
Running alongside our Intercultural Football Competition in the school, children from 1st to 6th Classes worked together in language groups on promotional posters for the competition in both English and other languages such as Polish and Romanian.
It was fantastic to see the children across the school work collaboratively through the various languages on their posters. The posters will be displayed throughout the school for the week.
Well done all! Bravo tuturor! Dobra robota! Maith sibh gach duine!
3rd Class took part in an engineering workshop in TU Dublin recently. They looked at examples of engineering used by the Roman Empire for building bridges and arches. In groups they worked on building their own arches using a keystone. Finally everyone created catapults and competed to see who could launch their pompom the farthest.
