As part of Maths Week 2024, the school will have a range of fun activities including Maths trails, Maths poster competitions and online zoom Maths Quizzes with schools from around the country. There will be Maths games in Junior Infants to 1st Class with parents invited in to take part. We will also have classes teaming up to work on Maths Problem solving activities together.
Many thanks to Gillian and Tony, two past pupils, who visited 2nd Class to talk to us about the history of the school. We found out lots of interesting facts about the school, how it was different in the past and also how some things have remained similar! We also learned about the history of our local area outside the school.
2nd Class are studying local environments, the seasons and plants and animals in SESE. We went on a nature walk in the Phoenix Park. We had lots of fun trying to identify the different trees and spot local plants and animals. We learned about tree rings telling the ages of trees and the difference between evergreen and deciduous trees. We couldn’t resist a little trip to the playground at the end either 🙂
Senior Infants and 5th Class enjoyed a lovely trip to the Phoenix Park on Thursday. 5th Class were very excited when Ms Buggy accepted their invitation to ‘buddy up’ and go on this adventure.
We collected some Autumn leaves that Senior Infants are going to use in an Art lesson. Then we followed a trail through some trees, past the flowers and down the hill. There was even time for a visit to the playground!
This week 2nd Class have been busy with lots of projects. In Science we learned about the life cycle of the butterfly. We saw their wings are symmetrical and after exploring this idea in maths, we used this in our art work.
We continued using maths and colours in Irish and discovered through carrying out surveys with each other that gorm is the most popular colour in the class! Maith sibh!
In history we have been learning about what our school was like in the past (it is over 100 years old!). Andrew came in to explain an old roll book and some old school photos. We found out some interesting facts about school and life in the past!
