Pancake Tuesday

Junior Infants were bouncing with excitement when the pancakes arrived yesterday. 

Huge thank you to Emma and the Parents Association for organising such a delicious event!

Pancake Tuesday

A poem recited by Ms Thorp/Ms Stafford's class  

After School Club: Debating

Debate Club takes place every Tuesday after school. It is run by Ms. Connolly and Ms. Clarke and is only open to students in 6th Class.

Students in Debate Club learn how to write debates and speeches, and most of all, they learn to do so with confidence. A number of topics or ‘motions’ are covered every year. From ‘Aliens are Real’ to ‘Feminism has been a Success’, the students really enjoy picking are researching topics before presenting their debates to an audience.

This year has been particularly exciting for the Debate Club. Not only have they taken part in a number of in school debates, they have also researched and delivered speeches on the use of plastics in our school. They even presented to the staff at the staff meeting, as pictured below, and will soon be speaking at assemblies. Well done to all members of the Debate Team on their hard work, commitment and dedication!

Our School Community

Ms Smyth’s 4th class in collaboration with Ms Thorp’s 1st class created our school community notice board which is located just outside the principal’s office. We had great fun creating our funny staff portraits especially Ms Smyth’s…!!! We are very proud of all our hard work and we hope you like them too.

Cracking the Code in 5th class!

We were very lucky to have coders come in from Microsoft to teach us about coding. We really enjoyed working together to solve the problems and get to the end of the adventure! Well done to Jack and Evan who were the first to finish the coding adventure!

Healthy Ireland Workshops with 4th class

Aisling worked with both our 4th classes today to share some interesting ideas and tastes of healthy food.

Taste is 90% based on smell- these two 4th class pupils helped Aisling experiment to see if they could tell the difference between the taste of an apple and an onion while they kept their eyes shut and held their nose to avoid smelling the food.

Results: The two pupils confirmed it took them a few seconds to figure out if the food they were tasting was the Apple or the onion. 

Maths for Fun

The children in Junior Infants have had a brilliant few weeks playing our Maths for Fun games in their classrooms with our Parent Volunteers.

A huge thanks to our volunteers who helped make this possible!

Ms Egan's class

Ms Egan's class

Ms Egan's class 

Ms Egan's class

Ms Walsh's class

Ms Walsh's class

Ms Walsh's class

Ms Walsh's class

Ms Clarke's class

Ms Clarke's class

Ms Clarke's class

Ms Clarke's class

Road Safety

Ms Egan's class learned about how to cross the road safely in January

Junior Infant Library Visit

Having loads of fun in our local Ballywaltrim Library and taking some time out to read with our friends 

Fighting Words

On Wednesday, Ms. Kelly’s 3rd class boarded a bus for Cabinteely House. Before getting started on our creative writing workshop, we were given a tour of the house and listened to a story of the supernatural from one of the helpers. 

The children wrote a great story with the help of writers and illustrators. After a quick break and taking in the beautiful scenery, the children headed back to the workshop to get final approval for their story from their editor!  

We had a great day out! 

Be Well Month with Junior Infants!

What an amazing January we have had. We have been focusing on healthy food, healthy mind (through yoga and mindfulness) and a healthy, active body. We’ve absolutely loved it!! 

Be well month- week 3 healthy bodies with hip hop and Sly.

Hip Hop Dancing in 4th class

Today 4th class busted some serious moves on the dance floor with Sly. Great fun was had by all!!!

Be well with yoga and mindfulness. Thanks to Ms Cawley all classes from Junior infants upto 3rd took part in yoga sessions for Be well month.

Visit from Wicklows national park and wildlife services.

Thankyou Eleanor and Gillian for your wonderful presentations on Irish bugs, bats , mammals and habitats.  

5km Operation transformation walk organised by local sport promotion unit.

Well done to all who met at the bandstand at Bray beach for the above walk! Thanks to Ruth , Conor, Mary and Jason for the great leadership. 

Be well month

January is be well month in our school. Nutrition is our topic for this week.

Children from Ms Brady’s Second Class surveyed 14 classes last week about their favourite fruit , drink and sport. Below some of these children present their findings at assembly. 

We found out that apples, water and swimming are our favourites with baton twirling, pears and diluted drinks among our least favourites. 

Next week we will focus on yoga and mindfulness with Ms Cawley.