Welcome to First & Second Classes
SCHOOL YEAR 2023/24:
The Teachers for First Class are: Mr. K. McCormack, Ms. T. Campbell and Ms. M. Hanrahan and Ms. F. Kelly. The teachers for Second Class are: Ms. A. Noonan-Moriarty, Ms. R. Flood, Mr. R. Davis, and Ms. E. Hyland We will endeavour to keep you posted.
First Class 2023/24
May 2024
Maidin Gaelach
February 2024
Maidin Gaelach
December 2023
Santa and Mrs Claus came to visit
October 2023
Mr. McCormack's class has been very busy learning all about Mexico. Their projects look amazing
September 2023
We were learning all about homes and all the different types of rooms in each house.Also, we talked about who makes the houses.
The children designed their own friendship keys and we talked about the importance of being kind to one another.
The children in 1st class made their own astronauts.
The children in 1st Class had great fun designing their strips of paper with different patterns. Also, they did miniature portraits of themselves
June 2024
Last week we enjoyed our school tour in Navan Adventure Centre and we had an ice cream party too!
May 2024
Maidin Gaelach
April 2024
Mrs Campbell's class were busy planting seeds.
March 2024
World Book Day
We had great fun dressing up and getting cosy for World Book Day!
February 2024
Happy St. Valentine's Day!
Maidin Gaelach
January 2024
We are doing Explanation Writing this term. We wrote about why and how popcorn pops! Then we ate the yummy popcorn as a healthy snack!
December 2023
Santa and Mrs Claus came to visit us today! We are on the good list!!
Happy Christmas!
November 2023
We had lots of fun measuring using non standard units!
October 2023
Happy Halloween!!
March 2024
World Book Day 2024
1st class - Ms Hanrahan
December 2023
We had a lovely visitor come to see us today, Santa and all his helpers!!
Today is the national day of Romania and the children told us all about this special day!
The children had great fun guessing what Patrick's late late show jumper would look like!!
October / November 2023
In first class this month we are learning all about trees and the season of Autumn. The children completed some lovely seasonal art!
March 2024
Happy Easter
We were very busy learning about St Patrick this week.
We enjoyed a concert in the hall with Junior Infants, Senior Infatnts and 1st Class. We performed loads of songs that we learned as Gaeilge.
We also had a céilí and danced the "Damhsa Mór" in groups.
We did gorgeous Art too including leprechauns and shamrocks.
We learned how rainbows are formed during explanation writing and did a cool Skittles experiment in Science. Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
World Book Day
We had great fun marking World Book Day.
We dressed up in our favourite book character or cosy costumes.
We enjoyed reading our favourite books and spoke to the class about them.
In Maths, we did word problems based on stories we have read- The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms.
We wrote about our favourite books and went on a tour of the school looking at all the doors decorated for World Book Day.
We did the Little Red Hen in English when learning about the story of wheat in explanation writing. We did it as Gaeilge too and decorated our door with this theme.
We had such a lovely day. Everyone got a book token to use to get a free book or to use towards a buying a new book.
February 2024
We Can Talk
We have been working on developing our sentences and making them more interesting. We have been focusing on number and size words. We take it in turns to say a sentence about the poster. We listen to each other and try and say a different sentence each. We thought of many words about number and size.
Floating Designs
We had great fun completing this experiment. We discussed the difference between whiteboard markers and the sharpie permanent markers that we use in Art.
Everyone then drew a design on a white plate using a whiteboard marker. Ms Kelly very carefully poured water onto the plate. Our designs started to lift off the plate and move...we started screaming!!
This happened as the water was able to lift off the designs and they floated in the water. This would not happen with permanent markers. We had loads of fun
Happy Pancake Tuesday
Love is in the Air:
We have been very busy completing our Valentine's Art. We used toilet roll holders folded into heart shapes to print hearts using a variety of colours. We followed a video on the board and drew the cutest teddies holding hearts. We mounted all onto red or pink card and added sequences and a greeting card. We are delighted how they turned out!
Maidin Gaelach
We had great fun this morning for Maidin Gaelach. We did our Comhrá Líne in where we stand in two lines and talk to each other as Gaeilge. When the bells rings we move and talk to someone new.
We also played Biongó...it was all about Éadaí (clothes). We practised using our phrases: Tá.....agam, níl.....agam, chuir mé cnaipe ar an..... agus Bhuaigh mé an cluiche.
We tried out a new game "Scríobh an tSeomra". Ms Kelly had Irish toy pictures with a word and number ( focal agus uimhir) hidden around the room. I mbeirteanna, we went around, found each card and wrote the answer on our answer sheet. We used as much Gaeilge as we could eg Tá a cúig agam. Tá teidí agam. We enjoyed the morning.
We have been busy learning about explanation writing. This week, we learned how snow forms. We watched a video, sequenced pictures in the correct order and then in groups we wrote an explanation text all about snow. We used the headings: title, introduction, steps and conclusion.
In Art, we looked and responded to pictures of superheroes and discussed what makes them special eg superpowers, capes, eye masks. We then designed our own Food Dudes superheroes. In English, we wrote about them.
January 2024
We have been busy learning all about St Brigid this week. We learned that she was a kind and generous lady who taught people about God. We enjoyed listening to the story St Brigid's Cloak. We also learned that she made a cross from reeds to teach a sick man about God. In Art, we drew lovely pictures of St Brigid and her cloak. At home we made St Brigid crosses. We loved singing along to the song, "We Sing a Song to Brigid". Lá Fhéile Bríde!
We have been very busy since returning from our Christmas holidays. We enjoyed the story , "Lost and Found". We sequenced the story and drew pictures. We made our own penguins in art using black and white paper. We carried out an experiment to see what happens when salt is put on ice. We found out that ice melts quicker with the ice.
December 2023
We had a very special visitor today....Santa!! We got reindeer food and treats. Thank you Santa. Ho ho ho
Christmas has arrived in our classroom!
November 2023
We enjoyed listening to the story "Snowmen at Night" and we drew gorgeous pictures using chalk. We also wrote what the snowmen did at night.
We have our first assembly next Friday. We are working on being respectful to our friends and teacher. We are also trying to do neat handwriting. We have learned the song "Circle of Friends" to sing at assembly.
Second Class 2023/24
May 2024
We had great fun on sports day!
Congratulations to the boys and girls who received their First Holy Communion. Look at our beautiful art.
We have been enjoying some pleasant summer weather outside reading our books!
April 2024
Congratulations to the boys and girls in Ms.Moriarty's class who made their First Confession.
We celebrated April as the month of Autism Awareness. We enjoyed baking and decorating biscuits with Ms.Coyne's class.
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We discovered lots about Africa. Look at our amazing African necklaces and art.
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March 2024
Maidin Gaelach
We celebrated 'Seachtain na Gaeilge' and had great fun on 'Lá Glas'.
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We were busy getting ready for World Book Day this month also!
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February 2024
We really enjoyed developing our GAA skills with Damian this month.
We are learning about the Chinese New Year and we had great fun creating different pieces of art!
We have been making our way through the Mr.Men Books! We are looking forward to reading Mr.Muddle next!
Tá an tEarrach Linn - Look at our beautiful spring art.
We made wonderful St.Brigid's Day Crosses that were woven from special rushes.
We all worked as a team and enjoyed some group art activities.
Lá San Vailintín - Valentine's Day
Maidin Gaelach
January 2024
Happy New Year!
We are learning about time in maths and we made 2024 calendars!
We enjoyed using the tablets to play math games.
We also had fun using bottle caps to learn about fractions.
December 2023
Nollaig Shona - Merry Christmas from Ms.Moriarty's 2nd Class.
Look how excited we are for Christmas!
We created an Airport and had great fun during playtime!
We also got to wear our Christmas jumpers to school and had great fun making jigsaw puzzles
November 2023
Ms. Moriarty’s 2nd class have been busy collecting data with Ms. O’Neill.
We did a tally chart representing the different colours from a packet of Smarties - and then we got to taste them!
We also drew The Eiffel Tower and read all about France.
We enjoyed using the colour wheel and mixing paint colours to try and make a natural leaf colour!
We are looking forward to preparing for Christmas over the next few weeks!
October 2023
Maths Week
We celebrated Maths Week in October!
We all took part in a maths trail which led us all the way around our school!
We have been learning about Place Value and enjoyed our maths stations.
Pablo Picasso
Look at our unique drawings inspired by ‘Pablo Picasso - Cubism’.
Oíche Shamha
We had great fun painting spooky Halloween pictures.
Happy Halloween!
September 2023
Tá an Fomhar Linn!
Ms. Moriarty’s class have been busy collecting autumn leaves. We enjoyed sorting our leaves and discovering what trees they belong to.
Up, Up and Away!
We could have future pilots and engineers in our class!
Art
We had great fun painting and colour mixing. We are learning about primary and secondary colours.
May 2024
Steam Academy visited our class - very exciting talks!
March 2024
Ceolchoirm '24
Maidin Gaelach
World Book Day
February 2024
Maidin Gaelach
January 2024
Winter art is looking bright!
Cé hé? Ag cleachtadh don Maidin Gaelach
December 2023
Ms Flood's class had such fun preparing for Christmas and then a great surprise Santa arrived!!
September / October 2023
Happy Halloween!
Friendship week
Playing conkers
June 2024
Here is Mr. Davis' class with their art for the school art exhibition. The art piece is inspired by our student's voices.
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Mr. Davis' 2nd class created some fantastic flowers using crepe paper and pipe cleaners.
April 2024
This month Mr. Davis created some very interesting sculpture's. We also recorded "Mo Ghile Mear" on the tin whistle.
March 2024
This month we celebrated "Seachtain na Gaeilge" as well as St. Patrick's Day. Here are some photos from the "ceoilchoirm" and " Lá Glas. We also learned the tune "Tell Me Ma" on the tin whistle. We hope you enjoy it.
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February 2024
Mr. Davis' class made some spring art this month despite the less than ideal weather. Have a look at our sunrise or maybe sunset, oil pastel, colour clashing pictures.
We also recorded our tune " Tradoodle Doo" that we have been learning on the tin whistle..
January 2024
Mr. Davis' created a landscape painting using sponges to blend and mix our paint. We also learned to sing "Shotgun" by George Ezera which has proven to be the most popular so far.
December 2023
Mr. Davis's class created some beautiful Christmas art by painting Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. The children also wore their Christmas jumpers for the festive season. To top it off, here is a recording of our class singing Shakin' Stevens " Merry Christmas Everyone".
October 2023
Mr. Davis's class were in the Halloween spirit this month creating some beastly bats and spooky pumpkins. There was a great effort put into the Halloween costumes. We also recorded our rendition of "Black is the Colour" by Christy Moore.
We were reading about schools in Ireland over 100 years ago when children used slates to practice writing. No need for whiteboards today, just call into your local building merchants.
September 2023
Mr. Davis' class wore their colourful clothes for the end of 'Friendship Week'. Here they are with their colour mixing paintings. We also performed the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". Hope you enjoy it!
February 2024
Maidin Gaelach
October 2023
The children have enjoyed some nature trails around the school grounds and found lots of minibeasts!
We enjoyed doing an interactive Halloween art lesson online where the children very carefully listened to the artist's instructions and produced wonderful unique paintings and drawings!
We were also so lucky to have an author visit our classroom, Elliott Owens-Griffiths! The children had loved this author's first 2 books; Creativity and Confidence, that Teacher read aloud and as a big surprise he came and read his newest book to them, Perseverance. The children asked him lots of great questions and as a thank you to Elliott for coming in, they made him a book of their favourite characters!
Spooky season is upon us and the children really got in the mood by making Spooky Skeletons!!
Happy Halloween!!
September 2023
The children have settled in very well back to school! They have been learning lots about nature and have brought in a lovely collection of leaves, seeds and nuts that they have found in the locality. We have made a lovely Autumn display in our classroom.
