St Stephens NS: Cáirde

Welcome to Cairde Nua

School Year 2023/2024:

The teachers in Cairde Nua this year are: Ms. M. Coyne, Mr. E. Burlingham, Mr. S. Byrne and Ms. A. Smyth. We will keep you up to date on the various events that will be happening throughout the year.

Cairde Nua 2023/24

Ms. M. Coyne

June 2024

Happy Birthday

We had lots fun on our school tour!

3.....2....1.....lift off! To infinity and beyond

May 2024

We were learning how to make ice cream, and of course we were also eating it with Ms. Moriarty’s class!

Celebrating summer time

We love spending time outside, playing and exploring.

Our best part of the week, spending time with Ms. Yore's class.

Practicing 3-D shapes

April 2024

Celebrating April as the month of Autism Awareness.

Sensory play is our favourite

Baking and decorating with Ms. Noonan- Moriarty’s class

Visiting our friends in Ms. Noonan- Moriarty’s class for golden time

When I grow up I would like to be …….

We are learning about different jobs we can do in the future….

March 2024

Have a lovely Easter!

Bake off for St. Patrick’s Day

Playing with colours. Mixing and discovering

Enjoy St. Patrick's Day Everyone

Happy Mother’s Day!

February 2024

Let’s go shopping!

Yummy pancakes

Learning through play!

Celebrating St. Brigid's Day

January 2024

New Year = New Us!

Our adventures with food dudes.

"Be Brave Little Penguin”- story time.

The Antarctica - let’s have a look at our project!

North - South - West - East

Declan’s little helpers.

December 2023

Have a lovely Christmas

Our trip to Costa

Happy Birthday

December fun in our class

Lots of snow play

November 2023

Let’s look what we have done during November.

Water around us …

Rain, rain go away ….

It’s about time to send Christmas cards and a very important letter to Santa Claus.

Happy Birthday to our classmates!!!

We have begun our countdown to Christmas

October 2023

Happy Halloween from all of us!!

The month of October was as colourful as the Autumn leaves on the trees.

All the gifts Autumn brings were assisting our learning journey in Maths, English and Geography.

We were counting up to 10, threading and getting ready for our First Communion during October, the month of the Rosary.

Look at our Halloween preparations too.

Septebmer 2023

Welcome back everyone!

Look at our smiling faces, we are so happy to be back in school and meeting our friends!

In our class, we love to learn and create! Please meet our new friend.

Look at all the art we have done!

There is much more fun ahead of us so please visit our class website regularly so as to not miss anything

Mr. E. Burlingham

June 2024

Sports Day was great fun.

Trip to the church and the barbers

May 2024

We had lots of fun on our school tour

Pizza Time

Assembly on Friday and happy birthday

April 2024

Friends from 3rd class were down to play with us

Gardening and play time. Wellies being used in the classroom

Butterfly wings in Mr Burlingham's Cairde Nua.

March 2024

A great end to Term 2

Green Milkshakes

February 2024

We all took turns going for a sleep this week.

Happy Valentines Day

Pancake Tuesday

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy St. Btigids Day!

5th class came down to help us with St. Brigid's cloak

January 2024

There was a big bang in class today. We were also on a rollercoster. We even played retro console games

PE and Costa

December 2023

Santa's Sleigh ride

Santander paid us a visit

Some crazy presents today in School

We went to Costa

Do you want to build a snowman??

There was a snowstorm, luckily we could go to Mario's Italian Restaurant.

November 2023

It was a frosty day on Friday. It was even snowing in the classroom

Happy Birthday

Rainbow Fun in Mr Burlingham's Class

Assembly and Morning group

We all went to the post office today

Knocking down walls in attention autism this week with our scooter boards

Great shopping by Mr Burlingham's class. Happy birthday Jayne!

Lots of fun today and exercises. It's great to be back after Halloween

October 2023

Bobbing for apples today. Happy Halloween!

Look at our cool Halloween Art. Some very funny names for the skeletons too such as Skeleton Bill and Jack Skeleton. Also we had some lovely chocolate apples on Friday.

We had lots of fun making these spikey playdough monsters

Happy birthday!

More fun this week. We were learning about different shapes and colours.

September 2023

Attention autism. We were learning about the parts of the face this week. We also learnt about mat man and brushing our teeth his week.

It was raining all day on friday. Thankfully Mr Burlingham brought in his umbrella

PE and Art this week. We are learning about the face and practicing our gross motor skills

We are learning about the parts of the face in Science and Art.

Attention Autism. Fish in the pond. We are now on stage 2 of attention autism and having lots of fun!

Mr. S. Byrne

May 2024

Mr. Byrne’s class have been working hard and having lots of fun over the last few weeks!

Ms. A. Smyth

June 2024

And that’s a wrap on 2023/2024! We had the best year ever

Best sports day ever! We had so much fun playing on yard, in the pe hall and on our teddy bear picnic in our garden

The best part was definitely getting to smash eggs on Mr Birmingham’s head!!

Check out our lions!! We had so much fun practicing using our fine motor skills today in a unique way. All our flowers were collected from our local greenway

May 2024

We had the best fun playing in Trim on our school tour!!!

Splish, splash, summer is here!

We have been learning all about growing and changing. Look at the lovely comparisons we made from when we were babies to now!

April 2024

We had so much fun exploring the sensory garden We're so happy we can finally enjoy a little bit of sunshine!

This month, we’re learning about mini-beasts we had a look around for our little friends in the garden!

We also got to ride the school bus!

March 2024

We had an absolutely EGG-cellent time on our Easter egg hunt!!! We hope everybody enjoys their break Happy Easter

Having a great time!

We have had the best time learning all about the farm! We learned all about the animals and what noises they make. We had the best fun playing with the animals in the mud!