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Maths in Action

Maths in Action

Rang a Sé have been busy gathering, analysing and representing data. Rang a Cúig have been experimenting with a variety of Maths manipulatives to help solve long multiplication problems.

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Should homework be a thing of the past?

Should homework be a thing of the past?

Should homework be a thing of the past?Our ranganna cúig agus sé have been busy preparing for our first debate of the academic year. Rang a cúig prepared arguments and speeches and refutes proposing the motion. Meanwhile rang a sé did their preparations on opposing...

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Visit to the Dáil

Visit to the Dáil

Last year’s debating team was very privileged to be invited to Leinster House. The visit was organised by Concern as part of their prize for being finalists in the Concern All Island’s Debating Competition at The Helix in Dublin City University. It was an amazing day....

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Coding in the infant classroom

Coding in the infant classroom

To celebrate EU Code Week, the children in the infant classroom used our iPads to learn about coding and to play some coding games. It was extremely enjoyable and every child got the chance to experience coding for themselves. Some of the bigger girls came to help us...

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Sorting with Junior & Senior Infants

Sorting with Junior & Senior Infants

The children from Junior and Senior Infants were very busy learning about sorting in their Maths this week. We had fun sorting by colour, by size, by shape and some other ways too. It was wonderful to see how many ways we can sort one group of items. We also enjoyed...

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Beep Beep Day in Carrickroe Childcare

Beep Beep Day in Carrickroe Childcare

Our Junior and Senior Infants were delighted to be invited to join the children from Carrickroe Childcare on their Beep Beep Day visit from Garda Caroline and Garda Seamus. We had a wonderful morning and especially liked showing the Gardaí how we cross the road...

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Tree Day

Tree Day

National Tree Day was on Thursday 5th October and we celebrated with some fun, interactive learning in the hall. There were lots of leaves, twigs, fruits and seeds from our native Irish trees that the children had to try to identify using their tree dials. The enjoyed...

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Cluichí Gaeilge 

Cluichí Gaeilge 

Bhain Rang a Trí agus Rang a Ceathar an-taitneamh as cluichí gaeilge sa rang chin ár gcuid Gaeilge a chleachtadh lena chéile trí spraoi. D’imir muid Cé hé Mise?, Biongó and Chuaigh mé go dtí an dochtúir/an t-ospidéal. 3rd and 4th Classes had great fun playing games to...

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Space Week

Space Week

For Space Week we learned about the movement of the moon. We studied the waxing and the waning of the moon, and the different phases that the moon goes through every 28 days. We presented our information to the school at our weekly tionól. 

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Tráth na gCeist

Tráth na gCeist

We joined in with lots of schools from the South-East region of Ireland to take part in a Tráth na gCeist to promote our listening and comprehension through Gaeilge. Bhain na páistí an-sult as agus tá súil againn go mbeidh muid in ann páirt a ghlacadh arís. 

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3rd & 4th Class

3rd & 4th Class

We are working on the Recount genre in English and Myths and Legends in History. We did a recount of the story of Clann Lir in a story strip to bring the story to life. 

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